How is rendering a weapon totally useless balancing?
and if so, if you do such gamebreaking changes (and removing attack direction IS gamebreaking change), you should at least make those people that spent looms on the (now) piece of crap weapon get their looms back, this just saddens most of us, and as you can see, we can even feel bad for ONE SINGLE VOULGE using guy, as Bars, face it, is sort of sight on the server. I always recognized him just thanks to the weapon and his playstyle. So, be grands and give him some loom points!
(on the other hand, generally resetting all looms will be bad, many ppl made lots of gold by selling them and they could just do it again, but the people that bought some would be screwed, no looms, no money = bad idea, you would have to revert all them market stuff that happened in order to get some fair result, which would take AGES)