2 Handed Spears? where?

parry is a cool idea and all. (or not, nice to try but parry will be a tough one to feel good no matter what you do in an arpg, noone wants to wait to get power, specially if the mob attacks super slow too)

but... why is the huntress 1h only. 2 hand spears PLZ PLZ PLZ. its like the one thing i really wanted mechanically.
no other class feels that pushed into a certain way to play

Just get the passive that gives you more damage for 1handing spear without the shield lol

bros got a point we would love twohanded spears but you would not be able to throw it or smth

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nOObOFEpicProportions#7233 wrote:

Just get the passive that gives you more damage for 1handing spear without the shield lol

no, not good enough, 2 handed spears/polearms.
if they gonna be obvious enough to make this class like the amazon in d2, at least do the 2hand options aswell.

Parry should be 1 of a few options, not the only one

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TheDeamonV#1073 wrote:

bros got a point we would love twohanded spears but you would not be able to throw it or smth

not a fan of being called bro, but eh its fine, what you said exactly. or like every other weapon, sword, axe, hammer, like.... they all have 2 handed variants.

i really wanted a female based melee character, not a range/melee character. i would have preferred it more aligned with str. with whats left my hopes of that are basicly dead

i had hoped huntress would be that. and it could have, with 2 handed spear options that pushed more to melee then ranged. right now, the huntress feels the most forced into a particular niche of all the characters.

In poe1 all melee weapons have two-hand versions ( except claw and dagger, but who uses those two hand). Maybe the third huntress ascendency will have two hand. They just do not have enough time to do it yet

There is no 2h version of spears because the entire archetype is balanced around parry bonus damage. It adds 3-4 physical damage to your attacks per 5 evasion on your shield, which basically turns the spear into a two-hander. (This is bad btw)

There's nothing stopping you from using a staff on a huntress, guys. It's pretty damn good, in fact.

You could also use a 2h Mace I guess, but why would anyone do that to themselves lmao

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ARealLifeCaribbeanPirate#2605 wrote:

There's nothing stopping you from using a staff on a huntress, guys. It's pretty damn good, in fact.

You could also use a 2h Mace I guess, but why would anyone do that to themselves lmao

Ok can I use spear skills with a mace

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Kashou#2868 wrote:

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ARealLifeCaribbeanPirate#2605 wrote:

There's nothing stopping you from using a staff on a huntress, guys. It's pretty damn good, in fact.

You could also use a 2h Mace I guess, but why would anyone do that to themselves lmao

Ok can I use spear skills with a mace

No, but none of the spear skills would really make sense with a pike either because they're all designed around the short spear concept. OP and others were talking about wanting to make a badass melee fighter valkyrie-type character, which right now means staves. 2h swords would probably work even better once the Duelist is in the game, but we ain't got those yet. Early Access, and all that.