Two-handed Piercing Melee Weapons?

[Missing_Minds]

Spears would be so easy for them to implinent. They could use shortspears for one handers and longspears for two handers. Q staff animations could be used for the longspears. 1d6 & 3d4 would be great respectively for damage.

What? That's it? I grade that.... F.

Spears are also meant to be thrown. Now what? This is why there are no 'real spears' in game. "Oh... well we just won't throw them." Someone WILL complain about that.

Now.. why we don't have scythes I don't know. Polearms like halberds and the like probably go back to how they are being held, aka perpendicular to the ground vs. parallel.

[Talias006]

Spear animation should be ridiculously easy to implement.

Don't the Sahuagin use spears almost to the exclusion of any other weapon?
Besides magic or some odd occurrence.

As to throwing weapons, could we not have Throwing Spears and Javelins, and each would also have returning variants?

[WangoFett]

What? That's it? I grade that.... F.

Spears are also meant to be thrown. Now what? This is why there are no 'real spears' in game. "Oh... well we just won't throw them." Someone WILL complain about that.

We already have daggers that can't be thrown, so there is a precedent at least.

[Battlehawke]

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What? That's it? I grade that.... F.

Spears are also meant to be thrown. Now what? This is why there are no 'real spears' in game. "Oh... well we just won't throw them." Someone WILL complain about that.

Now.. why we don't have scythes I don't know. Polearms like halberds and the like probably go back to how they are being held, aka perpendicular to the ground vs. parallel.

You debate apples and oranges. While your point is valid, if you have done any study of ancient weapons you will note that in some societies daggers, hammers, swords and the like were also thrown weapons. That did not stop DDO from making those things into melee weapons. Also, if you must be exact. Javelins were intended to be thrown weapons. Spears were intended to be extended ranged melee weapons. Once you throw your spear, you might not have a weapon left....... I would like to see a whole lot more than spears added to the game... including sythes and polearms of all types....