It's just bad game design. 2H weapons have no bonuses to compensate the lack of possibilities they face. Since this game revolves around energy-swapping they have no real counterbalance to outmatch the loss. The basic attack is too freaking slow and does no damage, there is also no node in the passive tree to empower the 2h build.

Pointless stuff at the moment, let's hope they bring them up to par of all the other stuff.
Especially Staves are really SH:IT, the basic animation is really slow and you're locked into the animation way beyond what you can see, it generates poor willpower, the base damages are PHYSICAL (really?) and it doesn't help scaling the spells... You have to roll spell damages on it and guess what ? It has the same base roll as catalyst... :D

So yeah no point playing that.

Well, bows and staves suck, we know that and it has been voiced over and over again. The only 2-handed weapons that are good (almost too good since most skills ignore the -25% attack speed) are the 2-handed melee types.

2H Melee Weapon is okay because skills like Bladestorm don't rely on attack speed (which also makes Agility a pretty useless stats to rank up).

I like Staff Basica attack build but the damage is just too low. Not to mention 25% of the time the projectile misses.

I remember during alpha or something they promised different weapon has different features, they were remove along with A LOT OF other game feature :(