Polearm school

Polearms Combat: Halberds and Spears. Crowd Control with roots, knockdowns and knockbacks. Good against most armor

Wilhelm of Jaanaford is truly a master of the halberd. Seek him out there.

-Adventuring Trainer

Polearm Skill Tree

Active

Leg Sweep	Attack that has chance to knockdown
Pull	An extended melee range attack that pulls target into polearm melee range. This has a longer range than most other melee attacks but only deal damage if the target is within normal weapon range. This also knocks the target offbalance and applies a dodge debuff. Specialization also increases the dodge debuff duration.
Puncture	Melee attack that ignores armor, adds a small dame over time bleed and applies a debuff that makes it more difficult for targets to heal. Polearm Specialization increases the duration of the damage over time effect and the healing debuff.
Push	Melee attack with a chance of knockback. Affects two targets. Polearm Specialization adds additional damage and range.
Skewer	Melee attack with a chance to root. Polearm Specialization increases the damage of the attack and the duration of the root.
Spinning Attack	Spinning attack that hits multiple targets around player. Also creates significant aggro from all targets. Polearm Specialization adds a chance to apply an additional bleed effect to all targets. This also adds a damage avoidance debuff. Specialization also increases the duration of the debuff.

Innate

Bec de Faucon	Increases critical hit damage when a polearm is equipped
Defensive Positions	Increases damage resistance when a polearm is equipped
Polearm Combat	Base polearm combat skill
Polearm Specialization	Polearm Specialization is the devotion of one's self tot he study of long hafted weapons. It increases the power of and flexibility of all other active skills in the Polearm tree. NOTE: Only one Specialization skill may be trained and one additional skill maintained at any given time or two may be set to maintain. Enabling training for a different specialization skill may set a specialization skill currently set to maintain to unlearn.
Reach	Increases range of polearms

External Reference

• This is extremely old and outdated information only for historical purposes: Magic, Combat, and Crafting Skills on the Shroud of the Avatar Forums