This specific situation yes.

I agree with you. I do not think things that have a chance to make you unable to move period should be added to an AP weapon. Even if it does not do it often, it is very OP. The rest of the effects I have no problem with. It is not that I do not mind fighting an AP with a cool prog'd whip. It is that the prog can make you not move at all for multiple rounds with no easy way to defend against the morale drop other than run screaming. If it just did some extra damage, or poison, or plague even. I would not care. With its effect is was almost like having a transmuter neuroing your opponent every once in a while.

But Cool rewards in general are a different story. This whip is the exception not the rule. And it sounds like Daevryn already toned it down a bit.

I still believe that a character that is reasonably long loved we are talking 300, 350, 400 hours should be eligible for such a reward. Anything sub 200 can still get rewards, just not these type of rewards. I am all for characters getting tattoos when that Imm feels they are ready/get the religion/do something cool. There are a whole bunch of rewards that can be given out before then like