Do Glaives work with melee perks?

Do Glaives Work with Melee Perks?

In the world of Destiny, Warlocks and Hunters can benefit greatly from melee perks, as they enhance their combat abilities, allow for more efficient damage-dealing, and provide additional utility. This leaves one question on our minds – do Glaives, these massive, heavy blunt instruments, work with melee perks as well?

Direct Answer for the Question

Glaives don’t fully work with melee perks.

Here’s a breakdown of what our researchers found:

• Benefits Glaives Don’t get:

  • None, Zero, or near Zero benefit from melee damage perks

• Benefits Glaives Do get:

  • Reserves (Shield-duration from reserves)
  • Super refill from melee kills

A word of caution: While these limitations exist, Glaives can still be an effective pick with some careful planning.

Underlying Mechanics

How Do Melee Perks Work Anyway?

• Melee-related Perks (e.g. Super Siphon)
  are based on the player directly melee-injuring enemies; and Glaives don’t apply those melee rules.

Glaives Explained

What a Glaive is:
It is a military two-handed Melee weapon; classified as a heavy-butt or polearm,
similar to a halberd.
This classification means; from the game’s perspective, It might not fully qualify as TRUE MELEE or traditional Melee.

Non-Collaboration with Other Glaive Perks.

For example, the combination Haft: AUXILARY RESERVES
& Magazine: Light Mag won’t allow more effective damage or reloading via Glaive’s auxiliary reserve, as the game defines that it’s not a normal "Melee" attack.

More, this means; applying
Frenzy
Melee attack speed booster
to a Glaive (with no Melee enhancements attached)
will not increase its’ fire rate or damage from being considered a Melee class, despite the Glaive attack type.

Exceptions do Occur

In extremely special circumstances, Glaive interactions can sometimes work around
other Glaive auxiliary reserve mechanics through enemy hits or damage absorbed before or during Glaive strikes. However, these happen at an extremely low-level efficiency.