http://www.thesteelwarrior.org/forum...hp/t-7134.html
http://www.thesteelwarrior.org/forum...hp/t-1173.html
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0023353/
Seems pretty conclusive to me, which means we'll never see the final pike. I think the pike is a decently better than the epic anyway (stun up to L61?? 15AC?) although Iksar warriors could certainly use a bone.
A much more legitimate case IMO is for the Iksar planes armor. It's obvious that Verant intended for Iksar to have planes armor like everyone else, it was just low priority until people actually levelled up Iksar characters to 50+, which happened around the same time as Velious, and when they finally fixed their mistake the new armor was worthless compared to the Velious quest stuff. So I think there is an extremely good case to be made that the correct timeline for the iksar armor is 11 months from the release of Kunark, not 4 months after Velious.