Just give the variant human instead of polearm proficiency and carry weight? The person is not even trying with these fixes.
We know there will be racial locked items ...
Someone probably had to pick weapon fitting for humans, and decided that as they have it, it would feel more "typicaly humanish" if they would be naturaly proficient with it.
Yall are acting like polarm proficiency is nothing. It let's human full casters still do decently in melee. And with all the sorter range spells and builds, it's a really good proficiency to have
Its not and they dont ...
Come on, we allready talked about this. -_-
Its a good proficiency especially on blade locks as it looks like they don't get new proficiency with pact of the blade.
Just because you are unimaginative doesn't mean the proficiency is bad
It's not imagination it's mathematics. Any arcane caster is much better off casting shocking grasp and scarpering rather than wafting a polearm about. Any full caster that can use a shield should probably be using one at all times.
We don't know how the blade pact works yet, it still says you can summon a weapon or make the one equipped magical, but you used to gain proficiency in it automatically. That might be changed, who knows.
I suppose it means Gale can wear light armour, which might make Minthara's armour especially useful, but I'm sure later on they'll have robes specifically for arcane casters that might be hard to resist.
It just makes no logical sense that all humans no matter their background would know this. It would have been so much better to have just given them leather armour and a free skill. Still poor, but definitely better