Do people use a Great Lance?

[BADPLAYERold]

great lance aint useless its just not as good as the heavy lance.
but heavy lance requires atleast alittle skill while great lance requires 0

[Trikipum]

You want to buff strongest class in the game, funny.

Edit: Btw. I agree with lance angle but maneuver buff, nooo!

Stronger class ingame is still 2h.

[Vexus]

With non sheathable tag why should I or anyone use great lance or jousting lance when I can use the heavy lance that thrusts and couches?

There's no other way than what I said to buff the couching only lances.

People that pressed negative on my post just want this 1 hit no skill shit on their precious heavy lances.

[Herkkutatti]

I use it ,but only in flat maps.

[Gurnisson]

Great Lance is awesome, seriously. You should never go alone vs. enemy cav with it but for raping the dangerous infantry on the other team it's great. I used one with my 2H cav alt, usually dropping it mid-round after a couple of couch kills, always aiming at those I considered the most dangerous.

[Riddaren]

I tried the great lance with an alt character recently for some days.
It was better than I expected and I actually got a better score with great lance, 6 riding and rouncey than using my +3 bow at lvl 30... on the other hand I'm not really a good archer

No need to buff or nerf imo. It servers it purpose for those with little money, 0 PS and 0 wpf in polearm.

[Lansamur]

I see +3 Great Lances lying around sometimes....

[PhantomZero]

I prefer using the great lance with faster horses, it gives infantry and horsemen less time to react that way.

[WITCHCRAFT]

I haven't played cav in a while but here's my opinion:

Great Lance is something you keep in your inventory but don't include in your default equipment. On some maps, you can take advantage of it. Other times, trying exclusively to couch enemies will just be a waste of time (or maybe not even possible). When the map is right, couching enemies is like shooting stabbing eels peasants in a barrel field.

If your horse dies, the light/normal/heavy lances serve as a mediocre polearm. No side swing, but hey you have more reach than a war spear. If you've got a shield and lance, there's still plenty of fight left in you once you lose the horse. With the great lance, you have to have a second weapon. That means no shield above 1 slot unless your secondary weapon is a sickle or dagger or something. There's probably a decent build with a great lance/1h/shield and no points in polearm wpf, but it is far from optimal.

The "problem" isn't that the great lance is bad. It is good at what it does, but it can't do anything else. Every other lance option is more versatile, and people would rather just heirloom their heavy lance and be done with it.

Light lance/double sided lance are surprisingly fast with high polearm wpf. Feels good to beat down a non horse-haver that killed your mount and ran up to you alone for an easy kill.

[ZEE_BISHOP]

It's pretty predictable and gimped by needing to couch, obviously you can't head on charge most heavy lancers... But I use it on my 1H cav at the start of the round, it has the benefit of being cheaper than the heavy lance while still having a lot of range. Since thrusting with 0 WPF on a horse isn't fantastically useful, its cheaper price price tag makes it a great throw away weapon, but you have to be a bit smarter with it.