[Long Version]
...and I go take a look at the season 2 arena maces. Better, hands down, than mine. Mine which took leveling smithing up to 375, took crafting the tier 1 mace (dozens of primals), and took 8 primal nethers. So I look up the tier 3 mace, dragonstrike, which takes 5 nether vortexes (the primal nethers of the 25 man raids). The arena mace is still better than it.
WTH? Does anyone see a possible buffing (again) of the crafted weapons, or is there simply no need to bother going for my tier 3 weapon? I'll have the arena mace within 3 weeks or so, and that just makes me sad.
The only thing that the dragon maces have is the haste proc, which I am not underestimating, but the stats/dps/top-end damage on the arena mace is too much to ignore.
[Short Version]
QQ