I'm a decent melee fighter and with a long spear I just lulz at it's speed. For it's lenght and trust damage + capacity to overhead, it is indeed too fast. Often if I manage to stab a guy in the back or while he's fighting a teamate, with the stunlock of polearm, I'm able to spam him with 1-2 more stabs and kill him before he can even block me.
Huh ?
Are you telling me you manage to stunlock someone with a longspear ?
Excuse me, but i thought the stunlock is what happens when you use a heavy polearm (poleaxe for example) against a light weapon (1h sword), and when the 1hsword blocks, it gets stunned a bit. No such thing as a polearm stunlock when you "hit" someone. That's the "normal" stun when succesfully hitting someone, and not bouncing off him.
If you loose to a pike in 1v1, you were doing it very wrong.
If you loose to a longspear in 1v1, you were doing it wrong.
If you loose to a spear/awlpike in 1v1, means your opponent was just better than you, like in other duels.
If you loose vs 2 of thoses aboves, it's normal. Teamworking with long pointy sticks means a big win.
Thoses polearms are support weapon. Anticav, small poking and overhead assist. That's all.