Weapon balance is indeed in need of work, but there are multiple false claims here.
This is not true, the Sword of Crom used to be a player-only weapon, but this was changed in Age of War Chapter 4:
The Sword of Crom’s stamina was also changed. It currently costs slightly less stamina than most other two-handed swords.
Most of those cost more stamina to use per swing, with the only exceptions being the other two-handed swords:
- Sword of Crom = 26
- Hanuman’s Gada = 50
- Momentum = 33
- Misplaced Guardian’s Will Breaker = 33
- Scythe of Thag = 30
- Mastodon Killer = 26
- Legacy of the Reaver = 26
The Sword of Crom has higher damage, but lower pen than Annihilator.
The odds of getting a Sword of Crom drop from the bosses that can drop it is 4.35%. The odds of getting a Momentum from a legendary chest is 2.13%.
The odds of Thag dropping the Scythe of Thag is 6.25%, but considering there is only one Thag and he takes an hour to respawn, farming him is much more time consuming.