chief ur a noob and everything you posted was false, why don't you go ingame and actually play
polearms own now, u still haves the not unbalanced great loong axe killing everything, then the ridiculous thrust of the long spear should be toned down, I mean a guy can basically thrust into from 1 meter away its ridiculous a 2her IRL would have cut your spears shaft and yes you'd be dead upclose
as it stands polearms are way to go
Horse rear, its BS to say that 2h's are as good against horses as polearms are, we don't have horse rear(I.e. you know the horse stops when it gets hit)
all block crush 2h weapons were removed(oh yes the amazingly slow gimic great maul exists but seriously it sucks)
and YES the best shield bashing weapons are all in the top tier of Polearms
2h has had enough nerfs, leave it alone already my 17p on my masterwork katana(give me a break) can't even pierce mail at 9 powerstrike(wtf!)
and only a retard would say that weapons without bonus to shield over 40 damage can break shields(they can't, not in the time a good 1h will finish u because he gets omnidirectional block)
the only useful bonus to shields weapons 2h's have are in the mid tier, all unbalanced and slower than anything 1h uses(almost all "used" 1hers are in 99+ speed category, good luck killing someone with a 91-94 speed 2h axe of some kind(with unbalanced)
2h is the weakest way to go now, no shield vs ranged or omnidirectional block, many unbalanced weapons, shit thrusts on swords and even weakened cuts on so called "great" swords, no horse rear, bar mace got nerfed into oblivion
anyway thats the actual truth of the game, go play and get long speared
Ok I have highlighted a few points I would like to address (starting from the top going down)
1) you want the great long axe to be unbalanced why? it has 125 reach (1 more the the danish great) 46 cut (its an axe it was designed for cutting) 90 speed which to me seems fair, since it weight is 3.5 and you use two hands to hold it and not just holding it at the bottom, so to me great long axe is fine atm
2) A two handed weapon IRL would probably not chop a spear in half since the wood was very thick, you would need quite a bit of power to do that with a sword.
3) Yes for me some 2h's are just as good against cavalry as polearms I have seen people kill horse's with one stab with the german and danish great's and then seen people stab horse's with the pike and it not die so that seems fine to me even chance, yes polearms are longer two handed weapons we're not made for such long reach.
4) The reason most of the 2h crushthrough weapons were taken out was because there were to many and they were just OP with their speed and damage personally I think it should just be hammers that crushthrough, it seems balanced low speed for high power.
5) Polearms are best against shields since their mostly axes which are built specifically to break shields so stop whining 2h have axes to.
6) Yes 2h did get quite a nerf but so did nearly every class, but they didn't get nerfed enough so the lol stab was taken out, to me that its quite fair to keep lol stab in exchanging it for a few cut or precise since it add allot of reach when its done (can easily out range my great long axe and when done by the right person sometimes my great long Bardiche!) yes the katana probably did get the heaviest nerf out of 2h weapons but pre-patch it was the ultimate spamming weapon that actually hurt not it still hurts and its still f**king fast but just does less damage.
7) 2h are not the weakest class now they can still beat polearms and every other class don't blame the weapon blame the man/woman using it, if you don't know how to doge or use cover then quite simply don't go for archers let a shielder do it. But yes to many weapons in 2h are unbalanced that should be reworked.
8) You don't have crappy thrusts you have the LOL stab need I say more?
9) The barmace was just OP good speed damage and crushthrough was totally unfair for every one who didn't use it people just spammed over head with it so it just crushed through every thing so yes it deserved the nerf!
This is just my opinion on the matter nothing more, Yes allot of people would disagree but no one agrees with every thing in the world its how we make progress.
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