Tell me about it I was about to heirloom my daodao for the 3rd time and it would be +5 damage/+2 speed total, but the masterwork is +1/+1 of that. So i heirloomed my great long axe for +.5 weight, +3 cut damage, +1 blunt damage. I think chadz just hasnt gotten around to rebalancing the heirlooms, because the swords are the worst for it, should only heirlooom twice as masterwork not worth it and the benefits are lesss then other weapons. My axe with 1 heirloom gets over half the damage bonus that the sword gets in 3 and gets more wight so less likely to get block stunned by heavier weapon and to block stun lighter weapons.