Spears and Polearms

I've heard that the devs are considering adding in new weapon types along with the additional acts in future. I hope a spear-class/polearm-class of weapon is included then

I would really like to see scythes so I could create my scythe wielding necromancer, would be awesome!

Spears, tridents and halbierds and stuff like that would be nice.

I can easily imagine a full armored tank with a shield holding a spear

I concur with this. I'm a personal fan of polearms. The only issue is that most games that do polearms only do the two handed variety. If they are implemented, I would love to see some one handed shorter spears.
Also on that note; Javelins, and other throwing weapons would be excellent.

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Gibbevex wrote:

I concur with this. I'm a personal fan of polearms. The only issue is that most games that do polearms only do the two handed variety. If they are implemented, I would love to see some one handed shorter spears.
Also on that note; Javelins, and other throwing weapons would be excellent.

exactly, when i speak of spears, im not talking about only being 2 handed, by the contrary they should be one handed, however for this to happen, there has to be a serious revamp of the combat system, when you equip a one handed spear, you shouldn't be able to equip another weapon besides a shield.
And spears/polearms alone would show an animation of holding it with both hands, and they should have high stats of evasion or block/parry, offering more choice if your not looking to use a shield.

Perhaps spears could be considered 2-handed but you can use a shield, or something like that...

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DoubleSmiggins wrote:

Perhaps spears could be considered 2-handed but you can use a shield, or something like that...

Or you could go the logical route and have spears be 1h (any game that forces spears to be used alone is stupid. Spears are designed to be used with shields) and polearms 2h.

Why shouldn't you be able to equip a 1H spear with another non-spear weapon? Plenty of cultures used a mix of armaments beyond just long spear or short spear plus shield. Spear + net is a combination made popular due to gladiator tropes, but I'm fairly sure there were more combinations tried and practiced throughout history.

Something I can see being pretty interesting is a choice to wield a spear with one or two hands, making adjustments according to which is chosen. This in conjunction with the ability to disable your main/off hand item with a mouse/key bind could help breed some interesting builds. Otherwise, keeping them in separate categories for one hand and two hands would work.

By the way, in an unannounced Q&A Chris had on Kripparian's stream he mentioned that they plan to add throwing weapons in an expansion. If anything that probably means javelins, which would likely be added as a subtype of one handed spears like how scepters are for maces. Or maybe he meant just being able to throw your weapon in general?

Oh, the latter would be nice :) I'd run a 2H Axe build if I could throw the beast :D