There was a quest where u had to use a 2hb with craptacular ratio to kill skels & loot certain bones to put in a bag kinda long drawn out penance for losing/destroying your weapon. Idk when that was on timeline tho - i just remember doing it for similar reason as OP many years back
::edit:: I knew I wasn't crazy, lol
http://everquest.allakhazam.com/db/npc.html?id=4789