If the glaive melee is not going to get any benefits from melee-buffing perks, it should AT LEAST be considered an elemental attack when it comes to breaking shields or triggering elemental related effects like elemental armaments or path of burning steps, even if the damage buffs only apply to the ranged attack.
As it stands, performing a glaive melee is worse than a regular uncharged melee, which is really kinda silly.
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1 ReplyIn pvp yes, it is weaker than normal melee. In pve, it's something like 20% stronger per hit. Also I just found out today that 2 of the void fragments do synergize with glave melee. 3 -4 if you play around with the artifact mod suppressing glave. I forget the fragments names but one let's glave kills generate grenade energy and the other triggers health regen for you an your allys.