As far as polearms, we just need a new craft style / motif, really. And as far as dedicated Single Hand sword and unarmed, simply fancy'ing up the current animations would suffice.
While I do like the idea of giving some "guild mastery" options for those who max a guild skill line, I would keep those guild specific instead - and also, make them in an "choose one" kind of way - a
Aaanywayz. yea. spears / polearms / pointy sticks. Hooray. yes. please add them to teh list, Zeni.... but take ur time, poor zeni already has too much in it's plate.
There's just nothing about this that screams thematically sound at all. Spears are not known to pierce armor. Very to the contrary. It seeks weaknesses in weaker armor at best, but polearm fighting ha