It is. I say everyone should try this at least once. Be it with your main, alt or STF. It really is fun to be able to pick up any melee weapon (apart from Great Maul) and be able to use it to it's fullest (apart from crushtrough in general), while also have the option of taking any shield or horse too. The looter play-style is really entertaining. Also, you know when you fight someone with a "omfg OP weapon!"? Now you can pick that up after you or your allies kill him and you can see how "OP" it really is. This is why I have stopped complaining about some weapons and start complaining about others. Some weapons just are really too easy to use.
I know this is a necro post (someone else revived the thread).
But that's actually my current build.
I had always done this for level 30:
18/18
2 IF
6 PS
4 Shield
6 Athletics
6 Riding
5 Weapon Master
But my current build this gen:
18/18
6 PS
5 Shield (nice for picking up Huscarl's, especially for strat, even though the 4 skill shields are really nice)
6 Athletics
6 Riding
6 WM
But for both I only put points into 1h and polearms. At 6 WM I have 115 1h, and 122 polearms. And my equipment weight takes away about 15 WPF, so I think it's perfect. 5 WM I would have 110 1h, and 113 polearms...so not a HUGE difference (but I'd be under 100 WPF after armor penalties which I really would try to avoid).