I think maybe the OP is more about keeping the HW weapon as a cool item that hard work was done for. I get that, I dont want to give up my Mixlors even though the UW is better.
I can understand that...I have always wanted to have the look of having the Epic 2.0 on each toon (primarily paladin) as I think that is one of the coolest looking weapons in game...I just don't look at the HW weapon as being "hard to obtain"....the zone is really trivial at this point.