Joram, as for bows, I'm not sure that those bow skills are necessarily a good thing, because (I believe) they overwrite the damage and effects of whatever bow you're using; with a good bow, it'd be better just to shoot.
I guess I won't go into frost and poison weapon...
Also, I seem to remember magical effect slots sometimes being used to increase the physical dmg of a weapon (like a Rank 5 only having 2 effects, but doing unusually high dmg), so this mace thing might be foolish. Still, 50% more...
