On Arx you can get the Ghostly Morningstar which is really bad. But in the tooltip it states that it scales with strength but sadly it does not. Early game on Fort Joy in Amadias Sanctuary you can also get two items that scale with strength and finesse but the stats are also the same no matter what I do.
Are those items just forgotten items from early development or is it just not working as intended?
I'm going to guess that they're both from early development and not working as intended. They seem really cool, but given that the Ghostly Morningstar does piercing damage, this may be an unstated design decision.