remove the ability to block with lances and pikes?

[ArchonAlarion]

And extreme balance can never exist unless you actually turn the game into a rock paper-scissor simulator.

Too many variables for a ham handed forced "balance". Reality has its own balance anyways.

[Joxer]

Pike & Long spear are the worst dueling weapons in the game. If you lose against them and then come here to ask for nerfs then you need to go die in a lava lake. 

[EponiCo]

They are the most annoying dueling weapons for sure. Downblock, downblock, downblock and follow a backpeddler over the entire map until you get bored and try to spam him and then you get a thrust in the face. It's the same as running after an archer but they at least can't block. Though if they couldn't block they'd be pretty much screwed given you can just jumpthrust them before they can switch weapons.

[Elerion]

If you're too slow to catch up to a backpeddling pikeman, that's a weakness of your build. He's moving at half speed.