Spears. Spears are still awful, which makes no sense. They were a staple of melee combat for a very long time for reasons beyond them simply being affordable. Looking at the regular spear, it does a d6, online with the shortsword, you can throw it 20 feet, and that's it. That is the only dex based attack you get with your poking stick. The rapier, a metal poking stick, gets the same damage die, and you can apply your dex to the attack. The shortsword is the same deal. I get that they're both martial weapons, and for some reason the spear isn't, but the one handed spear can and should be a lot better than it is.
The longspear is eclipsed by the ranseur. Like if you're going to go with a spear build based on a two handed weapon without taking a martial class, you might as well burn a feat for martial proficiency to get it. Honestly rolling them into each other would work well.
