Im sorry if this has been suggested, searched and found nothing and went about 5 pages back, but seeing as the type of game this is, any chance of new melee weapons such as axes or spears?
The way I figure it, spears would be straight jabs, yet reach slightly further than the bulky swords and quicker (yet weaker). The charge being an arcing swing.
Axes could be the same in a way but shorter distance (normal sword) and stronger. Charging to do a spin attack hitting all sides.
I like the idea of spears (or something along those lines), they could be the Pierce-damage counterpart of melee weapons, since all that exists now are swords which are based mostly on Normal damage, and in a few rare cases some Shadow and Elemental. Guns cover all types of damage, yet swords don't seem to really do this. It would be nice to have a piercing melee weapon.
When I look into the game folders, I see an icon template for "Lance" (Spiral Knights\rsrc\ui\icon\inventory\icon_lance.png). Does anybody know what this is used for, or if it even is used at all? Perhaps this may be some sort of pierce-damage melee weapon implementation we might see in the future. Or it might just be a misleading Material I have yet to discover...