No shit, it’s a fucking spear. A long ass stick that is wielded at an angle to literally make it as long as possible to poke with. Why should swinging an axe lunge you farther than a literal lunge attack with a pole?
As someone who used to play Gaxe, it never does seem to favor it. I get lagged two steps back and my hit even though it goes through the target does not land and I’m sent back to my previous position before the light attack lunge . Hence why I quit playing melee, the dysnc absolutely ruins melee.
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Been saying this for a while. GA doesn’t even have a lunge really. So many attacks that don’t register unless I’m on top of an enemy.
Amen, it gets even worse if the servers laggy.
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Your ping said 3m and it still didnt lunge. What happened to 3.5
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I mean technically speaking, the spear should have a bigger lunge, no? 
current lunges as of ptr
if it is in between two numbers it will be put as X.5
light max range for damage
GA-3.5 3.5
HA-4 4
WH-5 5
SnS-4 4
Spear-4.5 5
Rapier-4 4
VG-4 4
heavy
GA-5 5
HA-4 4
WH-5.5 5.5
SnS-5.5 5.5
Spear-6 6
Rapier-4 4
VG-6.5 6.5
ranking
light
1-WH
2-Spear
3-HA/SnS/Rapier/VG
4-GA
Heavy
1-VG
2-spear
3-WH/SnS
4-GA
5-Rapier/HA
Test were done by placing a marker at the base of a test dummy and clicking once
(the light combos that have different swings only had the first swing tested)
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Or it was thought of as a counter to ranged dex builds where you could close the distance with charge and prevent them from escaping with reap and gravwell…
We all saw what happend after GA nerf… 80% of the population went ranged dex…
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Do you have a video? I’ve seen videos of Gaxe being tested and only having 2m lunge on live servers and was hoping that was fixed in the ptr
if you scroll up there is a video that was on live servers where i did WH and GA for this topic and thought to test the others but i don’t got the other ones on video as it would be too long.
I don’t know if your goal is to revert the GA nerfs or just shit on the spear, but comparing weapons on lunge alone is not a very good argument.
Spear has a single attack poke, which is really easy to miss on a moving target, regardless of the lunge. GA has a wide swing, which is easier to land.
Also spear does not have any “chasing” capabilities other than maybe the javelin, which is a knockdown if you land it, but not a gap closer.
spears abilities move the spear forwards and i just posted a topic with more testing and my goal is not to revert or shit on spear just show that GA got hit too hard.
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We dont want only left click. But now any players move we dont hit him. i used wh/ga but 2 week ago i changed spear hatchet. Spear lunge better than ga. is this logical ? if say that you are idiot.
Skewer and light attacks lunge distance + the amount of CC you can have on spear with sweep and vault kick absolutely make it a better chase weapon than Gaxe currently. We just want a fair amount of lunge so people can’t just walk out of the Gaxe light swings range. Reap doing horrible damage + the lack of lunge makes Gaxe more of a group fight aoe weapon now with maelstrom and gravwell. And the nerf to gravwell by making it not crit really lowers our burst damage.
Maybe increase lunge by armor type, where light armor has the old Gaxe lunge.
I havent tested this myself but to me it seems spear has faster animation and longer range on top of lunge.
Greataxe swing is so slow and thats why it needed the lunge to hit. Thats why players can just walk away from ga attacks now.
I’d like to see the difference between void gauntlet and greataxe, they can literally stay glued to people.
I mean it is virtually impossible to hit a light user because they can iframe all of your attacks (GA) and get out a Warhammer stun so easily. The only thing you can do is hope to get a good gravity well, which doesn’t even always hit them on burst and/or they simply attack once or twice and get out of it.
Not both. We choose a right one. Please participating us…
so what other weapon has 4/6 abilites designed to pull targets, stop people from running away and locking them down? oh right none…so don’t even try to argue that the shorter lunge is a problem 
Yeahh i wait this answer. Reap sometimes work sometimes not work. Please play ga then write this topic.if use charge sometimes teleport back. Stop stop let me guess you play only ranged
oh shit you must be some magic mindreader to just assume i’m ranged just because i don’t agree with you. Well sorry to tell you but you’re horrible at your job because no i’m not ranged 
and the problems you just said aren’t even GA problems it’s the current shitty servers and desync that’s making all melee experience worse not just GA