a personal rant, wich alot of people agree with:
hoplites and 2H are overpowered in comparison with pikes (1 or 2 directional polearms)
why? well, i think we all can agree that 2h is very good at facehug distance (aka duels). their swings are fast as fuck, the blocking feels very natural and they have instahits (stab and swing almost never glance). People tend to agree way less when we are talking about shields, but actually they are still pretty damn good in close combat: almost 360 degree magnet shield for autoblock AND instastabbing. yes hoplites can stab while facehugging maybe its harder vs 2handed players but... they also dont suffer a long glance when their stab gets blocked.
so conclusion: 2h and hoplite are very good at close combat. so what?
now we look at pikes (as i am piker i really felt this). We can all agree when a 2h attacks someone with a long spear/pike/long awlpike, he can easily win in a duel by facehugging and spamming. pikes are just slower and have very little directions to attack in. against hoplites, in facehug distance they will surely lose because the hoplite shield gives a huge glance when its hit and because the stabs are so instant.
ok, no problem. dont cry pikes, you suck at duels? so what? your long awlpike has 185 length, just outstab that guy with his pathetic longsword of 106 nab reach or that hoplite with warspear: 150 reach lol, poke at him from a distance. so easy. pike easymode.
WELL NO. this is fucking bullshit. a low length 2h easily outreaches my long awlpike. a warspear with a shield does the same. a ashwood pike does the same with a long spear. their stab has a huge bonus for some retarded reason and when a polearmer chambers his weapon, he stands there: bend forward like a retard his head open for all attacks while twohanders and hoplite just stand straight (wich is also weird because nobody would be able to hold balance like that).
so whats left for us pikes? we should be able to poke from a distance and suck in close combat. but at the moment we suck at both (oh yes, they still want us to suck more and they want the blocking to be removed, because the majority of twohanders wants all the power for themselves.
btw: another thing, the turnspeed nerf. good addition in my opinion, but it sucks. and why? because it only looks at the weapon length on the site, while in fact the actual reach is way longer for the faster twohanders and hoplite weapons. we basically turn slower because our weapons is 'longer' but we dont feel it because we get outstabbed by the faster twohanders and hoplites.
its just gay...