Can you imagine Craftybadger being pretty much the only one who was a pure piker (longspear) over a year back? Back then it was way faster, sheathable, had fast turnrate, had floorstabbing, more damage, had an overhead and wasn't unbalanced. Yet I looked at him piking and I thought, wow that is amazingly hard to pull off. How can the longspear be way more popular now while being so much more shit? Metagame is a strange thing.
Oh they are pretty well balanced now.