Actually Zlisch, I have been longspear abusing the past week.
Those arguments are just retarded; pike is far more superior support weapon than great sword. I hope I dont' have to tell you Teeth reasons for that...
Ofcourse it is. But the longspear has 86 speed, no overhead and is unbalanced as a trade off for being awesome in support. It's rather crap in a 1 vs 1. The German greatsword on the other hand. Gets a stab comparable to 170-180 length polearms, while having 4 excellent attack directions, 92 speed, it's not unbalanced and has awesome sideswing animations. It's arguably the best 1 vs 1 weapon and is pretty good in support aswell.
My main problem with the new 2h stab, is that it hits fast aswell as being fucking long range. Yes the polearm one hits fast aswell, but is not at all long range. 2h stab used to be slow, but long. Polearm stab used to be fast but short. Now 2h stab has it all. And I probably don't have to tell you how awesome having one attack that has +60 range is in team situations. Or even in a duel its amazing. You can always just chamber the stab and force your opponent to get in range as long as he has a below 160 range polearm or 1h.
Yeah I'm 2h user but you are long spear user and you approved last post acclaiming that long spear sucks. Probably most reason you can't chamber is your weapon (pike and long spear have some glitches like stabbing through people) because I don't have problems with it. I also have to deal with stabs like everyone else and some are better at it than others so yes I have to block them.
Nah, this experience comes from playing as a onehander aswell as playing with a german poleaxe. The chamber window of all stabs are pretty funky. You can't just rely on exactly meeting the incoming stab with t he chamber animation, cause the actual hit is way off when compared to the animation hit. Moreover, when I chamber a stab with a German Poleaxe overhead, they aren't actually stunned long enough most of the time and can just block.
Polearms can get almost instastab if they know what they are doing but it doesn't apply to longspears and pikes. Also swing length from sides (especially right swing) is huge and they have great damage. So yeah polearm is viable class.
And reasons why flamberge is not so popular is: Huge repair costs, slow, get stuck in crowds really easy, easy tk + swinging inside is almost impossible.
You need a polearm with about 135-140 range to have the same reach as a Danish and that is only with your rightswing and overhead. While he has that range with 3 of his attacks and ofcourse the almighty super ranged 2h stab. Not fantastic.
Another one of my issues with polearm/2h balance. Polearms get stuck much easier on objects and teammates. That makes a huge difference. Still I don't think polearms are that UP, its just that the 2h stab should not be able to hit that fast while having that range. It makes it way too strong, making every duel into a full on stabfest.
Greatswords have very little disadvantages, be honest.
