Spears

The spears skill is a combat skill that governs your ability to use spears of all kinds. It becomes relevant only when you are fighting with one of these weapons in hand, at which point your ability to strike your opponent becomes the aggregate of both your spears skill and offense.

Spears in general have a balanced stab speed, and extremely high armor penetrance. Their penetrance is softened somewhat by having relatively slight damage against unarmored targets. This makes them the weapon of choice against heavily armored opponents and wildlife with very thick hides. As you improve with spears, you will begin unlocking additional special weapon attacks that have increasing chance to activate when you attack with spears. Spears are unique weapons in that their weapon attacks typically revolve around making it harder for your opponent to deal with additional attackers, meaning at least one skilled spear user is a force multiplier when fighting in a group. Spears, as in our own antiquity, are therefore weapons commonly favored by professional soldiers and military outfits, and have a classic synergy with shields.

Spears train similarly to base offense, whenever swung at an opponent that has sufficient lethality to be a challenge.

Skill with spears is governed by strength (primary) and wisdom (secondary).