[Fern]

Go for it. The Spear talent is honestly so negligible I never grab it, but I almost always grab the Sword & Axe ones if I can afford them, and I actually worry about not being able to snatch them sometimes.

This buffs Mutated Hold Upper and Mutated Spirit Hunter's general damage by a smidge, but it doesn't really matter considering both of those proc parry effects such as Eviter/Stalemate/Ice Point Guard, so nothing that'd really get out of hand. And in practice, their numbers don't turn out all that amazing anyway. Just "good."