Really hope they will eventually give us some options to use spears/staves as a one/two-handed weapon skin, crossbow as a bow skin, and melee weapons as a staff skin (shooting fireballs from a greatsword, yes please)
Bleh, there are plenty of unique staves, like Sanguine Rose, Wabbajack, Staff of Magnus, Crosier of St. Llothis, etc.
Why waste pretty much the only unique spear artifact like this. If the plan is to appease the people who want spears then I think this will have the opposite effect actually, just *** them off.