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Unless you're 1) Shooting against a lot of ambient light, or 2) Freezing a very fast-moving subject, high speed sync is not important.
Flash duration is arguably more important that a faster shutter speed for freezing action. The only time I can think of that not being able to shoot over the x sync of the camera would be detrimental is if you're shooting into a really bright ambient. Using a low ISO and a higher f/ stop, you can kill the ambient enough in most situations where any motion blur that occurs will be the result of a longer flash duration than a slower shutter speed.
That's why I went with the Alien Bee B800 for my first "studio strobe". It's flash duration is 1/3300 at full power where as the Elinchrom D-lites I was looking at is only 1/800.