Blowdart as weapon = OP no matter how you spin it.
Rubbish. Lol. It's just a ranged weapon with faster speed and slower damage. It wasn't OP in Sacred II, even (most disbalanced game ever), and Diablo doesn't even rely on basic weapon damage that much, it's mostly skills, skills, skills, and mods items give you. In case of WD, most skills will not work with the blowpipe, so how is it even remotely OP? It's just something to accompany his dagger, something something that favors a long range build vs a more short range build (necros with poison daggers vs necros with wands if you want to go there).
Giving him a skill that makes him play like an amazon makes him OP simply because it allows him to do too much different things.
So WD using a bow somehow makes him an amazon? The pipe will merely be a placeholder that has potential for cool mods on uniques. Otherwise, it's like an orb - yeah, it deals damage but it's so minor it becomes irrelevant.
Having a blowdart that stuns or slows a single enemy, dealing no damage at all, as a skill instead of a weapon, is okay. In fact, it even fits his playing style, so I'm all for it.
If you ask me, a skill that generates a non-droppable non-usable weapon magically disappearing after use is really weird. I'd rather have a skill attached to the weapon. Such as, for instance, poison/stun effects on-weapon that have effect X if you use a melee weapon and effect X/2 if you use a ranged weapon.
So WD using a bow somehow makes him an amazon? The pipe will merely be a placeholder that has potential for cool mods on uniques. Otherwise, it's like an orb - yeah, it deals damage but it's so minor it becomes irrelevant.
If you ask me, a skill that generates a non-droppable non-usable weapon magically disappearing after use is really weird. I'd rather have a skill attached to the weapon. Such as, for instance, poison/stun effects on-weapon that have effect X if you use a melee weapon and effect X/2 if you use a ranged weapon.
Rapid fire, and maybe have stacking weakening stats so that you don't really deal much damage with it but you can debuff the hell out of monsters...