It's related to the fact that we're playing at 60. All legendaries are rolling with base weapons around level 55-60 when they use to roll with 61-63. This makes the biggest difference on 2h weapons and wizard and WD off-hands.
So can we roughly know when will the 2 hander be fixed? 2.0.2? 2.0.3? or ROS?
The answer to this is twofold.
1) If you purchase RoS there isn't much to fix because 61+ everything is already fixed based on all the datamined information.
2) If you don't purchase RoS then there is no timetable to fix the "curve" for the various weapon types. I'm sure it's on their radar, as they did have feedback on it during PTR/Beta, but they almost assuredly have a lot of higher-priority things that will come into play once RoS goes live.
They're not broken. You are just getting level 60 items, where we used to get 63. The same thing happened to Wizard/WD offhands rolling pathetic average damage ranges.
But who cares, none of this gear matters in 4 days.
However you justify it how can you say it is not broken when regardless of the fact that they are rolling lower Ilvl than before, the 1handers are not rolling lower damage than before. On the contrary in 2.0 I'm seeing higher dps on 1handers than ever before and on 2handers I see lower damage than most of the 1handers. Atleast when it comes to comparing Legendary drops.
If one is not going to buy the expansion pack then that person has to suffer a broken gear system? it's not as if the AH is still there for them to be able to buy a decent 2hand weapon from pre 2.0! This should be fixed.
I don't understand why people go to the DPS argument. Yes it is the BIGGEST FONT on an item but it is NOT what is used to calculate skill damage. that is the actual weapon damage. Of which a lot of 2 handers are higher then one handers. The DPS SHOULD be around equal otherwise it would be unfair to 1 handers since 2 hand would be the obvious option. However that being said. DPS/Damage is hardly the issue. It is the fact that except for crusader most classes can either have an offhand or dual wield giving them double sockets/defense/and afixes. THIS is what needs to change to make 2 handers competitive outside of slow tick/resource low/high burst damage builds. Note I am not saying nerf the benefits of offhand/dual wield I am saying buff 2 hand afixes in either quantity or size range of affixes and give them a chance to roll two sockets.
It is not an issue at level 70.
1) If you purchase RoS there isn't much to fix because 61+ everything is already fixed based on all the datamined information.
2) If you don't purchase RoS then there is no timetable to fix the "curve" for the various weapon types. I'm sure it's on their radar, as they did have feedback on it during PTR/Beta, but they almost assuredly have a lot of higher-priority things that will come into play once RoS goes live.
But who cares, none of this gear matters in 4 days.
If one is not going to buy the expansion pack then that person has to suffer a broken gear system? it's not as if the AH is still there for them to be able to buy a decent 2hand weapon from pre 2.0! This should be fixed.