This is why debate is a good thing.
We just went from:
it's very much inferior to both things I mentioned and more annoying.
to:
So its going to roughly tie at 20 necro against a high AC, pain vulnerable target against a +6 great sword of slicing?
We went from saying a 3k gold sword was FAR SUPERIOR to the alternative of a less powerful weapon with spectral.
The "experienced players" repeatedly say that's true, and you'd be a moron to think any differently.
Then test data shows actually, they're pretty close to equal, and really with the high gold cost, the practical advice was the first advice given,
It's a great weapon, although it's also annoying because casting buffs means hitting ' a lot more often.
I'd just keep playing as I intended to; judge it by the time you have 3k gold (and don't overlook anything immediately useful to buy in the meantime).
This is what I keep talking about. These "experienced" players need to stop exaggerating so much. We get this echo chamber result, where "ever so slightly better, in the right circumstances" becomes "You're an idiot if you don't think this is the best thing ever"
Just because the guy disagreeing with your is rather... caustic... doesn't mean you should have the knee jerk reaction of just taking the far opposite viewpoint of his. Otherwise it makes you look less reliable.
I keep putting "experienced" in quotes only because that's the title being given to a certain group of players, not because I doubt their experience, by the way. I didn't mean that to be sarcastic.