In recent patches, we update the 3D and 2D art of several weapon groups and added powerful implicit affixes to support a wide variety of builds. In the next patch, we are updating more weapon groups such as the polearms. Were also making a couple of changes to item type names in 0.8.4. Polearms are being renamed to Spears and maces are no longer sometimes referred to as blunt weapons instead of maces. This changes from polearms and blunt weapons to spears and maces is being made for a couple of reasons.

• When we originally named these item categories, we went with names that had wide scopes that clearly encompassed all their individual base types. However this resulted in the names themselves feeling quite dry and technical, especially blunt weapons, so when choosing the new names we instead decided to prioritize compelling names with a strong fantasy attached.
• The second reason is that the intentionally wide scope of the original names resulted in ambiguity where they could arguably refer to base types that did not belong to them. In the case of polearms, we have items like the Imperial Halberd and Lucerne, which are an axe and mace respectively (they work better with those animations), but in a real-world sense they are polearms and many other games categorize them as such. Meanwhile, blunt weapons could be understood as also including sceptres and staves, especially as the name is stylistically different to something like swords or axes and so could easily be misconstrued as referring to a larger category of items. For both new names, there will be more cases where the item type doesnt perfectly describe an individual base type, such as Spear for Trident or Mace for Pick Hammer. However we believe that this style of naming convention for these item types is common enough in RPGs that this wont trip many people up, and if someone is unsure about an items item type it is better if that confusion is just not knowing what it is (e.g. what is a club? Is it a mace or something else?), than mistakenly believing that its the wrong item type (e.g. Im guessing that Lucerne is a Polearm).

Sun Spear

Trident

Ice Spear

Coiled Bident

Dragonslayer Glavie

Deicide Lance