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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Edited by ReticentHope417: 4/9/2022 9:20:49 AMUpdate on some testing I did between glaives and melees Recursive “rpm” of melees: 60 Recursive “rpm” of glaives: 112.5 Glaive to melee (damage) ratio against red bars: 3:1 Glaive to melee ratio (damage) against not red: 1.66:1 Even if against stronger enemies, the effective dps of a glaive is over 3 times the damage of normal melees. Keep in mind this relates to pve only.