Skill Reveal: Lancing Steel and Shattering Steel

How are these new skills positioned? What playstyle should they cover? What are these skill better at than existing skills?

How do you want to make skills focusing on pure physical damage comparable to skill supporting elemental conversion and elemental penetration?

These skills look nice but I have a feeling they will either be grossly over-tuned to attract players, and we will see a nerf later, or they will be quickly abandoned because they under-perform compared to existing skills.

These new skills and its accompanying impale mechanic seems to be a feeble attempt to address current imbalance between elemental conversion friendly skills and the rest of the skills. GGG refuses to address the root cause--physical damage being simply inferior and harder to scale than elemental damage.

I do not hold my breath for these new skills to become new staples of PoE. GGG's track record with new skills is abysmal and nothing shared so far convinced me it would be different this time.

I agree 100% with previous poster. I'm playing poe for 4th league and what i noticed near instantly (i'm also/i was also d3 player) is that one click clear screen mechanic that i don't really like.
It would be nice to see some skills that actually change gameplay in some ways or maybe build some synergies that would require to use some kind of rotation.
For example skill support that grants temporary weakness on mobs for next 5 seconds - this would lead to use 2 skills in combination to achieve most damage potential - but that would also require mobs to not die from one hit.

These look nice.

Shattering Steel:
Ice Spear meets Ice Shot. Or Ethereal Knives meets Frost Blades, if that's your thing.
Now available for Melee™!

Lancing Steel:
You get a Barrage, and you get a Barrage... EVERYBODY GETS A BARRAGE!

:)

The skills do look nice and interesting, but I would have preferred them to be "melee" based.

nice skills you got there :)

if lancing steel wont get the debuff it will be forgotten before the league started...at least it sounded like it doesnt
you have been warned ggg

Looks nice, would like to try it out asap.

- Hey, I like playing on distance, but the bows sucks. Bows are for idiots (kappa). Could you create a distance skill, that I can use with a melee weapon?

Chris Wilson:
- Hold my beer.

;)

why only sword or axe? i dont get it