Among other things it just makes sense as you can build into doing extra kinetic damage on chilled targets and the glaive does kinetic damage. Glaives aren't awful but being honest they aren't worthy of taking the place of most energy weapons.
I really want to run a glaive.......... But there are just so many better options for that slot.
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I don't doubt its in the works, honestly. Bungie really did us wrong with glaives though. They made them sound great, and then were like [i]"Yo, by the way, good luck using glaives with any build"[/i]. They're a fantastic concept, and I understand not wanting to make them too powerful, but you are correct, literally any other weapon is better to use in the energy slot. If our whole end game is to make builds revolve around things like elemental wells, or light wells to become charged with light, then the only option is to use things that consistently give us those wells as much as possible, because let's face it, those are really the only build options. I can equip a primary elemental and just dump wells all over, same with kinetic. I can wipe groups with one fusion bolt, or using perks like incandescent or firefly, so why is it such a big deal with glaives? They still take a good amount of strikes to kill and there's alot of risk involved just like swords. Yeah they can shoot, but its short range. The only glaive with intrinsic suppression is the void one, so that's not an issue either. I'm very confused about their thought process and 'fixes' behind these though.