Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-73.150.132.3-20170525135010

Pikes are currently the best weapon for grinding alignment, given their high reach, and mobility. Swords are near useless in every environment, compared to a pike.

I believe there could be a few ways to debuff the pike and make it more balanced:

1.     Give a slowness effect whenever you hold a pike, similar to the effect of blocking with a sword. The problem with this is that players could simply actively switch between holding and not holding a pike, in order to negate this effect.

2.     Make it impossible to use a pike unless you are shifting. I believe this solution would help in restricting the pike's use to certain situations, and that this would have very few bypasses for using it as players do now if it were implimented.

I do not know if some of these effects are possible to impliment. Tell me on how to improve this in the comments! 