+1 for the leverage argument. Didn't know the first 1/3 was unsharpened. Seems strange they'd do that.
I think for the longer weapons it was so you could grab the blade safely and stab with it. Swords were AMAZING weapons in that almost every part of it that stuck out could be used to hurt the other person. (blade, Hand guard, and the pommel itself)
I think the point dread was making, hi dread <3, was that you rarely miss with the side swing of long weapons and it does full damage almost always while also having it's ridiculous range. Why the long spears you can't swing them side to side because it would be too long and do too much damage to be fair (not realism sake cause that games lost that fact on it's creation)
you also mentioned that it would make spears s key heros and frankly yes. Spearmen are not usually Chinese kung fu masters that spin their weapon around and beat their enemies to a pulp. They poke, and poke, and drop the weapon to pull out a sword at close range. And they could still do massive damage to the shield if you set it so the stab does that, unless it's a massively long axe fuck that ridiculous thing.
I feel those are the main points of all these arguments going on. You can't balance this game it's impossible for the way people play it. They all want to be heroes and use their weapon to it's fullest killing hundreds. If a weapon doesn't do that then they don't use it, unless they being cute about using a un-used weapon. Rarely do people want to be support classes and thats why there is so much archer whine that they nerfed bows or didn't nerf them enough. I like bows and think they are at a good place. If you are lightly armored and I shoot you in the eye, you die. If you have armor I am gonna make you a pin cushion then run away cause you are really really pissed off at me for pumping a dozen arrows in you, I'm adding like 6 arrows but it's for effect.
But further more...I... Don't know where I was going with this. Can anyone see a point in what I typed? Shucks I can't remember where I was headed and this is too much work to delete. For the sake of getting +1 cause I'm a whore like that
But not so rude as to ruin it for those who don't know yet