Bungie's approach of just a 95% DR shield certainly works, but it feels like only Replenishing Aegis can actually make you survive long term in the close range. But still the melee is mostly useless despite doing kinda comparable damage to a sword hit. Maybe synthoceps and triton vice could grant DR while surrounded with a glaive?

I think that would be a good idea for the synthos, but im not sure that i like the idea of having to use a certain exotic to make glaives work. However, titans are a melee class, so they should undo the syntho glaive nerf. It might not he a bad idea to add a new perk that gives 50 percent damage reduction when 2 or more enemies are close. I think if they really hit it home with survivability utility added to the glaives, it would make the melee useful. If the warlock one was able to give restoration 2x, and max solarsurgese that stack with certain perks, it would hit way harder. The issue comes with the fact that glaives are a special option that require no ammo to melee. They can't really allow them to out damage a sword since thats in the heavy slot. But if it doesn't, glaives become worthless. My thought is to make all glaives work like winterbite, making them do considerably more damage if you have ammo.

Bungie has already said after the syntho melee lunge removal that they were walking back some of the nerfs to the glaive combo.

Oh cool, thatll help it alot for titans

Yeah, but every exotic glaive is terrible. its going to take much much much more than a little unnerf on synthos to make them good.

Yeah they need massive reworks to be anywhere near usable. I hope they announce sometime soon their plans for them. Would be nice to get some sense of what they will look like next season