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3/30/2022 9:27:50 PM
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What is the purpose of Glaives?
Just as the title said. Where are glaives suppose to be in the meta? I understand they don't have to be top tier and can still be fun, but with the recent nerf to suppressing glaive I have to ask what is the idea behind them? They're a melee weapon that have no melee synergies. They're a ranged weapon with a horrible aiming and projectile time. And they're a protective weapon with a charge that directly conflicts with any other abilities they might have (looking at all the exotic glaives).
Currently as it stands right now it looks like Bungie wants it to be a jack of all trades master of none, which can make it a fun flexible kind of weapon, never top tier but good fun. But with the painful amount of hoops the average player has to go through to lean into any one of the glaive traits makes it far less viable as a flexible weapon.
So I ask again what are glaives suppose to do? Because as it stands right now its a movement tool for stasis hunters and was a tool for lots of invis when mobbed by red bars for hunter.
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What's the purpose of sidearms? What's the purpose of swords? What's the purpose of grenade launchers? What's the purpose of submachine guns? What's the purpose of trace rifles? What's the purpose of linear fusion rifles? What's the purpose of combat bows? If you said "None" to that question each time Bungie has added a new weapon type, we would still be using only the same 9 options that Destiny launched with in 2014.
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7 Replieswhy do they have to be meta for people to use them? that's some elitist behavior bud, glaives are fun especially when you have void rounds, you should try playing for fun maybe, might enjoy the game more when you aren't sweating 24/7
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i dont use supressing glaive, but they are still really fun, they output some great damage and do good ad clear like a sword, but they are also good in pvp if you can hit your shots with them
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A marketing gimmick.
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Agreed they are an annoying topic. It's a void weapon and doesn't count as void using the melee. The melee is sword ended but doesn't work like a heavy sword or void weapon, just a pokey stick and kinetic 🙄. Unrelenting doesn't work on melee attacks with it but triggers suppression 🤔. Melee attacks don't count as melee on bounties or mods . It's kind of a bit tricky and lost in its own uniqueness 🤯😂
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4 RepliesThey are the worst of both worlds untill bungie finally fixes them. Come on bungie...its been 5 weeks...can we fix the main focus point of this season already? You promised this fix weeks ago. Glaives still dont make orbs on melee's. And the melee still does not work with perks.
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1 ReplyIts really just a shovel in disguise, the FOMO and RNG has made our guardian like Wilhelm-7, full of Avarice and Greed, and thats why he takes it with him, to dig for treasure and exotics...
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None with their insistence on nerfing anything fun and enjoyable that could threaten Trials, Raids, or GMs... They attack fun like a certain country in current world events going on ... Now it is just lackluster, another weapon to just use if you enjoy but will become useless in many situations. Using it for.mass suppression was it's main draw and now that it forces you to have to shoot it (because God fing forbid players enjoyed having a legitimate, ammoless melee weapon in the game) to keep energy so it can cause suppression it is a backhanded nerf to Hunters yet a-fing-gain because "tHeY aRe ToO sTrOnG" aka Fun and would ruin their precious golden child game modes.... Bungie is the worst group of developers in the industry these days when it comes to dismantling things their playerbase enjoys.
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1 ReplyTo poke players and enemies where it hurts 😂
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the purpose for me is there fun. I can surpress then go all ham on them. perfect for Unstoppables, Lightbearers and volatile rounds an unique combo of range and in your face, I suggest go for lightmag and anything to increase reload speed as well as projectile rounds when creating one and then learn to hip fire it Many of my friends we're slow to use it but now they use it so much there's are higher in lvl than mine but to each their own.
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Sneaky man package, and that’s about it.
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I have no idea what the purpose is of these, hence why I never use them🤣
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I think they will be a niche weapon type used by players -blam!- get good at the projectile aspect of them and when to shield (PvE and PvP). The melee spam is free and won’t stand up on high end stuff and it should really. They are also good for double secondary loadouts due to them essentially never running out of ammo completely. I already cannot wait for a stasis glaive to pair with a trace rifle.
