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When I use Polearm Lunge 1 it puts them on their knees but rarely do they stay down long enough for this to be any good. But here is the problem. If they stay down long enough for you to hit them again than a polearm user can effectively keep someone on their knees until they run out of action and health. Polearm Lunge is useless unless you are fighting in a group where you put them on their knees while the other guy attacks.

The real point is to simply keep them from fleeing. It's not meant to keep an enemy immobilized so you can kill it with little or no damage suffered.

Yeah, lunge isn't meant to hurt the enemy. If you PvPed, you might understand its significance more. And by the way, there is no problem with lunge. = )

Have you actually pvp'd with lunge?It doesn't sound like it because if you had, you would know that the player will get up and keep running before you get in rangeto use anyof your other attacks while you are still getting hit from range for more than 4 pts of damage. Lunge is most useless in pvp. Go to the Corbantis galaxy message boards for a very lengthy discussion on this point.

Vergi, I do PvP a lot, and I usually start off the duel with 2 lunges followed by a sweep, and I have the opponent set on follow also.

Or two lunges followed by a spinattack2 to dizzy them.

Then you have pvp the worst people ever, polearm lunge can be undone by smashing a movement key and getting up far faster than you can ever swing. And after 2 lunges and a sweep you have killed about 1/4 of your ham bar.

Silly silly fellow pikeman, why would you be lunging and sweeping with your weapon that has high HAM costs? Am I the only one that carries a reinforced combat staff with total HAM in the 40s to do my lunges and sweeps and then switch off to my VIbro Lance and Long Vibro Axe for my spinattack2 and polearmhit2?