TL;DR Spears should be added to the game as a 2H weapon that grants critical chance (similar to dual daggers) to help bridge the gap between DW and 2H in endgame PvE viability.
For endgame PvE content, the vast majority of builds prefer dual wield over 2 handed weapons because they offer higher dps. A large part of this is because dual wielding daggers gives you a bonus to critical chance.
Currently, there is no 2H weapon that grants you a similar bonus to critical chance.
Adding a 2H weapon that grants a bonus to critical chance would only help to bridge the gap between these two weapon types and make the 2H skill tree more competitive for endgame PvE content.
Given the abundance of NPC characters that use spears in this game, I feel it would be quite fitting to introduce this weapon as an option for the player base to use under the 2H skill tree that grants a bonus to critical chance.
The introduction of spears would require very little effort on ZOS's part, as it would not require a new skill tree or moveset. They already have animations for spear use too, as evidenced by the NPC characters that use it. It would simply require the addition of a new type of item under the existing 2H skill line, and a slight alteration to the "heavy weapons" passive skill (the likes of which is already available to be copy pasted from the DW skill line). That's it.
Edited by twing1_ on February 23, 2019 4:58PM