In the TWAB (04/21) the sandbox team wrote: "A Glaive melee is a [b]basic melee attack, not a weapon attack[/b], doesn't consume ammo and deals Kinetic damage. So, it's more like an unpowered punch than a Sword swing." "Glaive melees [b]should activate perks that trigger off base melee damage or kills[/b] (for example, ammo refill from Grave Robber, weapon damage buff 5x stacks on Swashbuckler, ammo refill from Sealed Ahamkara Grasps)." "Glaive melees [b]should benefit from melee damage buffs[/b] (such as Winter's Guile or Wormgod Caress)." I've tested all of the here mentioned exotic armour and more (e.g. dunemarchers, ACD/0) and nothing works (except Sealed Ahamkara Grasps). [b]So glaives dont activate exotic armour perks and dont benefit from them.[/b] Even if you activate the armour perk with an unpowered melee first and then equip (or swap to) the glaive, they dont benefit. The expectation was, that glaives would work together with things like Dunemarchers, Wormgod Caress etc., but this isnt the case. I'm sad :(