Does anyone know if there will be 2h and 1h spears in this game? Even runescape has them.

How difficult can it be to put in a long pointy stick in the game?

Given pretty much every game's complete lack of them, it must be rather difficult...

I too would love to see polearms, but I doubt it will happen.

Gods i wish there were!

The one build i've wanted in TES for quite a bit now, spear and shield.

There probably wont be, and there wasn't in any of the beta clients.

There are reasons for it, mostly visual clipping and difficult animations.

Much easier to animate someone swinging a sword in a way that would get them disarmed or killed (all games do this) then it is to animate proper combat forms and stances.

Spears don't have the room to breath with the animations that swords, axes, ect do though, is why they were removed from ES games after Morrowind, difficult to animate them in a good visual style and near impossible to do so with out clipping.

Runescape has them cos its not a FPV or 3PV game, its birds eye and the graphics are.. well its a browser game made in the late 90s, dog turds look better then Runescape.

Much easier to animate when graphics, and animations are simplistic.

Oh I guess you work in the gaming industry. You seem to know exactly what you're talking about!

Yes, that would be fun .

Templar's use magic spears sometimes... I know it's not the same, but that's about as good as it gets at the moment it seems.