yeah, if the solution to this is buffing the elegant poleaxe, you are looking at it way wrong
you need to nerf the shit out of the poleaxe, like -3 damage on all swings, probably even more, -5'd id say, and do the same with every other poleaxe too, except maybe only -3 damage on elegant poleaxe, then it MIGHT be fair, but you'd still need to remove polestagger and make them all unbalanced
at least make the poleaxe unbalanced god damn just look at the stats on that thing its a shield busting awlpike with side swings strong as a bardiche