The system is odd, but I think you might be exaggerating a bit. Mostly it's balanced, you really only see it when you get weapons like the AR.
Its funny, I remember in the old EQ days, basically it was the opposite. There was something called "the moss covered twig" put in as something of a joke. But it was so fast (less than I sec I think) per swing (and most melee classes had something called double attack, which gave them an extra attack most swings) that it did tons of damage since there was a general flat out damage add. So with double attack you'd be swinging like 4 times per sec + a flat out base dmg add = a lot of dmg.
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