AE weaps are fine if you have tons of room and feel very comfortable in not getting adds. It would be good if you are farming tons of low level mobs where adds wouldn't matter. But in situations where I would really need or want a pet weap are generally situations where I'm not 100% comfortable with my surroundings. So I would have little use for AE weaps generally.
Oh and the SHFD was pure ownage for a pet weap on live when I could get my hands on it. The good thing about it is that it is ranger only, and most rangers simply didn't want it because of the poor ratio, didn't want to deal with the INSANE agro it generated and didn't want to rely upon a proc for doing most of the damage. So I could often find this thing for cheap on live, dunno how it will play out here.
The only problem I can think of is that it does not proc till level 50, and according to the P99 wiki, kunark mage pets top out at level 49. So it may not proc ever proc for pets on this server. Although I distinctly remember using this on my shaman on live, and I doubt that it was level 50 until PoP. And I believe that I was using the SHFD well before then. Eh, my memory sucks though.
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