Guild Wars 2

I have always liked spears on a warrior. I was disappointed by finding out that spears in GW2 were water only weapons. In some loading screens you can see people with spears while on land, and I think that it makes sense. It is actually more useful to have spears on land rather than underwater. It would go good with some classes, too.
I think that Warriors, Rangers (with one attack that allows the spear to be thrown), Mesmers (They seem to have odd weapon choices), and Necromancers (They can use axes, why not spears?) should be able to use spears on land. I would think it to be a 2 handed weapon, but in some cases a shield would fit as an offhand (In which case, Guardians should use one as well). I believe that Paragons in GW1 could use spears.
We can still have water spears, too. Land spears could be names polearms, or javelins. I do like having spears for water combat, but I would make a Warrior as my next character if it had the ability to use a spear.
Any thoughts on why this would be a good thing, or why it would not?

Sure I’m in for polearms but more along the lines of the halebard or pike

if this happens, we will need some weapons to be allowed in the water as well. This is entirely not feasible but the idea is great.

Spears are one of my favorite weapons of all time and are interesting how they evolved in real war. They shouldn’t be ONLY for water, I agree.

On the same note, It doesn’t make sense to keep something like a sword/greatsword only on land when it can essentially do the same thing in water. Not to mention we all have magical abilities in this game. Why are we not able to do things in water as we can on land. Mesmers SHOOT out of their greatsword, but forget how to do this in the water?

All in all, there is a magnitude of directions to go with more weapons/skills that we will likely not see because of balance issues.

Khronus.8370:

if this happens, we will need some weapons to be allowed in the water as well. This is entirely not feasible but the idea is great.

Spears are one of my favorite weapons of all time and are interesting how they evolved in real war. They shouldn’t be ONLY for water, I agree.

On the same note, It doesn’t make sense to keep something like a sword/greatsword only on land when it can essentially do the same thing in water. Not to mention we all have magical abilities in this game. Why are we not able to do things in water as we can on land. Mesmers SHOOT out of their greatsword, but forget how to do this in the water?

All in all, there is a magnitude of directions to go with more weapons/skills that we will likely not see because of balance issues.

Well, you can use magic in water with a trident, and greatswords would realistically be harder to use under water, and same with other weapons. I haven’t played a mesmer, but a guardian with a trident shoots magic balls of light in water. We wouldnt have to have land weapons be for water in the sense that it doesnt make sense like land spears do