I dunno with all the spellcraft/alchemy if it really matters what ya think whereas thrust doing more damage to chain,.....etc., etc. I use pole/crush because most of the upper lvling is against skellies, trees(witherwoods), and other PvE which gives bonus to crush damage. If I'm a
Mid wearin chain, knowin I'm weak against thrust, I'm gonna have thrust resist put into my crafted armor. Same with slash, if I'm an enemy wearin lower than chain. So the bonus gets nullified anyway with resists as far as RvR goes. Thx to the lvl 40 respec, and double respecs several months ago, I was able to check them out pretty
well. Crush did very well indeed, in both pve and pvp. I'll take the lvling route with crush, and as far as RvR, SC armor changes all the rest, ya dont know really how the enemy is spec'd. As for plate being susceptable to crush? Huh, not with my SC'd armor its not! :)