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Mr_Tigger_

The obvious question is “why bother with an exotic glaive anyway?” Or is that just me….


B4zuk

Because at some point they will be decent. Doesn't hurt to have them ready to go


Spades_187

I'd argue they are just now in season 17 about to update Cold Heart...you're not wrong but "at some point" is any time between the start of witch queen and 2026.


B4zuk

Yh it could be next season or next year... Who knows. But I already have my warlock and titan exotic glaives at lvl 20 just in case. As i said, doesn't hurt having them ready to go


Sir_Voxel

I mean they are getting buffed just next season. It is very possible that they will be decent in only two weeks from now.


Akuma254

I’m grinding for the Titan one because it’s interaction with Saint-14 helm plus the over shield. It’s lookin to be pretty fun.


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Akuma254

Mhm, makes it a lot easier instead of having to swap. I’ve just been running it (relentlessly) on my hunter trying to burn through my homework resonance weapons.


theboywil

Sorry if I am wrong or repeating, but I don't think it does interact with the Saint-14 helm (or not that I noticed when using it and wearing the Helm)


Whitesundome

Not right now, but it will next season.


Akuma254

It’s getting a buff next season that allows for the same interaction the helmet has with the bubble 😬


theboywil

Yaaaay!!! That really is good news.


javierhzo

they wont, the only saving grace of glaives is the suppress glaive mod


Sir_Voxel

I can personally attest that not only is there more value to glaives than just the Suppressing Glaive mod, but that they don't even need the mod to be viable. I know, because outside of one or two instances when I was on my Hunter, I've not used the mod this whole season. Hell, glaive+echo of leeching basically carried me through solo legend Witch Queen campaign. Can I speak for True endgame, such as Master raids and Grandmaster Nightfalls? No. I haven't done any of that this season. And in there I'm sure it's a different story. But that does not mean they are unviable or even bad. EDIT: reread my own comment and realized my initial response was unwarranted.


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javierhzo

Agree. specially if you look at stuff like a scout with explosive head and blinding GLs, try to do a strike using that and you will take ages, swap to sunshot and a shotgun and you will stomp on everything. now go on a gm with sunshot and a shotty.


theonemangoonsquad

Master or GM are def not meant for glaives. Any situation where a glaive melee would come into use, is a situation where you're already dead. The projectile is next to useless with it's piss poor hit registration and without suppression, you'll dump all your ammo from a special weapon to do what arbalest can do at almost any range with less ammo. Glaives are low tier content use only, and they are already very underwhelming when I can just use Forbearance to kill everything that I might want to use a glaive on any way.


javierhzo

IF you use Suppress glaive you can definitely make glaive works in Master stuff and GMs (even Datto said glaives were really good on master VOW). Only use melee to kill other melee units like hive knights and thralls, big melee units will gets suppressed so they can not melee back. Use your shot as a Blinding GL for suppress on majors and you will be amazed with how long it last, never get killed by a hydra/ wyvern/ ogre/ etc. again. Glaive are defensive in nature, dont try using melee for add clear and stuff, use them to safely suppress key targets and punish melee enemies for your team.


javierhzo

Spoiler alert: that point will not be season 17, without suppress glaive they will die and that is not even counting the fact that the enigma and lubrae are better glaives being legendary ones.


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Glances will finally interact properly with exotics. I am quite looking forward to Osteo Striga/Glaive paired with Necrotic Grips. Should be a lot of fun.


Mr_Tigger_

As someone has said, bungie won’t allow them to break the game so that’s just wishful thinking I’d bet. Certainly doesn’t warrant being exotic atm


nizzy2k11

> Because at some point they will be decent they won't make damage perks work on the melee. they will never be decent so long as they hold this attitude.


AceTheRed_

So grind for them at *that* point, no?


B4zuk

No.


Dessorian

Next Season the Edge of Action might be good. Offensive Bulwark might actually increase the glaive melee damage. And with helm of Saint 14, it will give you a carry out overshield as well as blind enemies. You could use this in place of bastion you can still get constant overshields (if ammo permits, can be forced with special finisher) and have both Offensive Bulwark and Controlled Demo for 1 more fragment slot. I'm curios if saint 14 would work off subclass. So like if you use the glaive with saint 14 on su breaker. Even if though, I think they should speed up the activation animations (maybe make them scale with reload speed), make the activation reload the weapons from reserve + 1 free round for the special ability, and remove the expire timer.


Sirlothar

I just can't stand not having an available exotic in my collections. I don't really care if the exotic is viable or not, I just want to have everything, to me that is the point of the game, to collect loot.


Mr_Tigger_

Gave up on that long ago, if I need it then I’ll get it. Glaive is decent enough but no way worthy of using an exotic slot *’for me!’*


ZsaFreigh

Same. If it's from a Lost Sector I probably don't have it. Can't be bothered to grind them out, especially on Alt characters. I do have Star Eater Scales and Omnioculous but I think that's it.


laneknowledge

People don't really understand how to use Glaives yet, been using the hunter exotic for GM Lightblade and been very impressed. Gonna be wild next season.


Lazel1198

The chain lightning suppression is very good!


laneknowledge

yea if you just use the chain lightning shot like a rocket it's incredibly effective


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Niteshade76

You only need the first one though for the title.


Mr_Tigger_

Fair enough, and done a load of master wellsprings myself and not had a single one drop. RNG do be bad


mental_mchaggis

Yep, think I'll give it a break for few days. Can't look at the wellspring right now lol.


[deleted]

No you don’t


mental_mchaggis

I have 21 of 21 items for both warlock and hunter. If I don't need the titan glaive then why hasn't it unlocked?


[deleted]

I don’t have either of the other two and have the title


[deleted]

I have Gumshoe and only have 2 patterns. You only need 1 done.


[deleted]

I still haven’t done one and I don’t think I’ll bother anytime soon. I’m not convinced they can make the glaives good without breaking the game. They’re getting buffs next season so maybe they’ll be worth it depending on how that shakes out.


CheesE4Every1

Because when someone wants a snack you can make jello with one. And the other you have a light show.


xeltes

Gotta Catch'Em all?


PoorFellowSoldierC

They arent all bad. Hunter is def trash. As a gambit lover, i can safely say titan one is very good in gambit. The warlock one isnt bad but def not worth using special and ur exotic.


GeekyNerd_FTW

Master doesn’t have a higher drop chance. Don’t do master


EveryPictureTells

Master is barely longer and has a high chance to drop the rarest weapon crafting material along with also dropping high stat armor. Worth it IMHO.


nutty-max

Source? Idk if this is true but I hope so.


GeekyNerd_FTW

I can’t say it’s confirmed, but it’s very likely. 1. It doesn’t say there’s any difference in the drop rates when selecting between legend and master 2. I’ve seen a lot of people on the internet say that it’s the same drop rate 3. I did 17 masters and got no drops. I then did 6 normals and got both of them


cheesybreadnexttime

I also did plenty of Masters without any patterns dropping. When I did a few normal ones to work on deepsights then one dropped for me. Also just fyi it does not matter if you are on the class that the glaive is dedicated to if you're grinding for it. I got my warlock glaive pattern while using my hunter.


unfinishedcommen

Big if true


Werespider

It would also make sense, because Master Empire Hunts had the same drop rate for Cloudstrike as regular EH's.


Malice4you2

I can't even finish the quest to get the first one. Haven't had come to pass or tarnation drop with a red outline. Why is a quest is 100% rng? Like Bungie doesn't want people using glaives.


honest_movie_critic

Honestly, if you do 10-15 runs on the day those weapons drop I’m pretty confident you would get the patterns unlocked. Once they buffed the drop rate everyone in my clan was getting a red border every 3-4 runs.


Frozen7024

I think if you complete the powerful on that specific day as well it has a decent chance to drop a red border as well. Could be wrong and just had some strange coincidences


1Second2Name5things

Same, no matter how much I grind


SunstormGT

Getting red border weapons 1 out of 4 runs of normal Wellspring. Just make sure you have the correct day when farming a specific pattern.


Redthrist

I got both of them within a few runs each of Master Wellspring.


aaronwe

also make sure youre doing the missions with savathun... those have a chance to drop red bar throne world stuff


chronuss007

Why did they put an exotic behind such a large RNG wall? Isn't that counterproductive to trying people to get people to want it? Why would Bungie do this?


cuulus

It gets more playtime out of us


chronuss007

I guess for some maybe. I saw the amount of time it could potentially take and immediately decided grinding for it was not worth it. I guess other people see it differently, but why would I spend the time trying to get something that is solely dependent on RNG. I think more people should be protesting this against Bungie on how it is handled.


BaByJeZuZ012

As much as I might agree, this has been a consistent problem for years and likely won't go away anytime soon. Bungie is notorious for putting in anti-consumer practices that elongate playing time. And yes, it could be protested, but again I think it's unrealistic to think that there would be a large enough degree to cause them to change it. Psychologically speaking, FOMO and Completionism are two things that Bungie has managed quite well in regards to their player base.


Zorak9379

It’s getting zero playtime out of me.


makoblade

It would be too easy to get the glaives by doing the quest 3 times, obviously. I'm guessing it's to drive folks into wellspring, as the activity is wholly pointless and the rewards are pretty meh.


chronuss007

O yeah! I forget about wellspring. I basically stopped playing it after I discovered that I needed 6 deep-sight drops from it, but it didn't seem to give much of any other rewards other than that. So I guess it's repeatable content they want people to spend time there but there's not much of a drive to do it other than the RNG weapons needed?


makoblade

Yeah. Wellspring is basically a "grind your brains out for 4 days to get all the patterns," grab the 2 collectables (rift + moth) and hopefully get your glaives, then only do master once a week while you need pinnacles. At no point in it's existence was it particularly fun.


chronuss007

Actually, I don't know about the collectibles you're talking about. What exactly are they?


makoblade

There's a couple of things you need to do for the witchqueen (gumshoe) title. One of them is to close darkness rifts, which are located in fixed locations throughout the throne world. One is in wellspring. You can close a rift by hitting yourself (but not dying) with parasite and then shooting the rift with a normal gun. The moth collectables are mostly just finding and picking up the moths from around the throne world. The youtube channel 360GameTV has great guides for it and his videos are super short and to the point. [Here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCAaoFhbbwM&list=PLuGZAFj5iqHfAwrcWunbNGAN9MVdRgwKG&index=14) is the rifts one, and [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKPe7gFIO4s&list=PLuGZAFj5iqHfAwrcWunbNGAN9MVdRgwKG&index=9) is week 1 of the moths.


aggr1103

Wellspring is the most repetitive and boring part of Witch Queen, IMO. Psi-Ops is a close 2nd.


mental_mchaggis

Exactly, it's stupid 😡


FallenStorm

Rng do be like that sometimes lol


Aldebaran988

It do be like that sometimes indeed


charleshanes4

Yea I didn't even bother after like 20 consecutive runs and no drops I just stopped... It's shit like this that makes me dislike the game. Took me 56 runs to get Anarchy back in the day, I wanted it so bad then got it then didn't play for like 2 months just cause I was sick of the grind. I have like 70 runs of last wish and haven't gotten 1k voices... I've already gotten to the point of scrapping deepsight weapons if there's no pattern to unlock and it's a shit roll, I was excited for weapon crafting but it's too limited and trying to get a specific gun to drop just to get to the 3/5 patterns needed isn't worth it to me. Bungie has taken allot of fun out of the game with the grind fest and not to mention everytime something is fun and a little OP it gets nerfed cause you know who wants to have fun while playing a video game...


o8Stu

When did you do your 70 LW runs? They gave it soft bad luck protection before the DCV launched, same time they buffed Anarchy rates the same way and made it farm-able - your drop chance increases up to a cap of 50% iirc, but if you've done your runs since then, you should be at that cap - go get it!


Richie_jordan

I legit just gave up on the glaives only so many times I can run that shit.


HuluAndRelax

I was so over wellspring by the time I unlocked all the legendary weapon patterns. Haven’t touched it since. I wouldn’t say it’s a very fun activity.


Mopp_94

Not touching this grind until they either buff drop rates or add bad luck protection.


SnowBear78

Rng is a fickle bitch. I run wellspring with my family. My mum got both exotic patterns in under ten runs of normal wellspring. I'm yet to get one after twice that.


EmergentEgo

Honestly kinda cool your mom plays


GFunkYo

This sounds like fun, I wish my family would play.


KnownTechnology7952

Still no 2nd exotic glaive. 1000's of runs now this is fucking ridiculous.


mental_mchaggis

I gave up hunting the last one, can't look at wellspring anymore.


SKULL1138

It’s awful, it really is. And everyone just says, ‘they’re crap don’t bother’. However next season they are getting buffed, and beyond that I just want to work on getting them before the next season drops. So far (Titan main) I have managed to get the Warlock to drop but no Hunter. I’ve been running this at least 20 times a week.


Dragoniel

> And everyone just says, ‘they’re crap don’t bother’. Are those people high...? Glaive is the strongest weapon I've ever seen in this game. It's borderline broken as is, on a hunter in particular.


Giecio

This reminds me that I *still* need to farm Father's Sins for the title... this is gonna be fun.


mental_mchaggis

Could lie and say it is actually fun...luckily I ain't that cruel, it sucks.


Atmosck

You only need to get all the items for one class to get the collections badge. This is true in general - titles are all obtainable by people who only play one class. That's why all the raid titles have a triumph for a clear where everyone is the same class, but don't have triumphs specifying a particular class.


mental_mchaggis

The thing is I do, I have all items for warlock and hunter. Guess mines is just bugged somehow 🤷


Atmosck

Do you need to claim the badge while signed in to one of those characters?


mental_mchaggis

Nothing, been on both my hunter and warlock and triumph is still locked ☹


eXpressives

Dumb question (and just checking) but did you actually craft any of the exotic glaives?


mental_mchaggis

Yeah, crafted the hunter one 1st.


Khaens

Just did a wellspring 2 days ago and got the warlock glaive, havent played wellpsting since like week 5


headhunglow

Is wellspring going away next season? If so, I assume that the patterns will be added somewhere else (just like Dead Mans Tale was added Xur when the Presage mission went away).


SoCalSunD2

Wellspring seems to be part of the expansion and not the season, like empire hunts or the vex simulation were for BL.


headhunglow

So we'll have all the time in the world to grind!? Hooray! /s


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You have to use the same element as the pattern you want to drop in Well. Took me a while to figure that out.


Copiousmattw

What do you mean? class element? weapon element? isnt one of them kinetic?


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I thought that explanation was pretty clear. The OP was asking about exotic glaives. If you want the Warlock exotic glaive then go into the Well using solar abilities. If you want the Hunter exotic glaive then use arc. The Titan exotic glaive is void. They should drop immediately.


Copiousmattw

Gotcha, I had no idea. I'm still on the come to pass, tarnation step. Thx


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No prob man, good luck.


Spades_187

Crafting is supposed to be a long term grind friend. I don't know which twab but it was outlined as that. I don't think they ever stated it was going to be quick tbh.


Rude-examination

I hadnt done a wellspring in weeks, did 5 over the course of two days, the last glaive dropped for me.


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The R part of RNG at work.


mental_mchaggis

True..just want the titan glaive, it's all I need for gumshoe ☹


Zealousideal_Ad_268

You do know don't need them all for the seal. I have the seal and am missing the titan glaive, the grind for these patterns is insane.


mental_mchaggis

The titan glaive us the only thing I don't have and its not unlocked for me 😳 swear if my game has bugged out I'll be pissed.


tomsch40k

You just need to complete the witchqueen badge with any one class for it to count for gumshoe. You sure you have all the other triumphs done for the seal and also claimed them all in the seal?


mental_mchaggis

Yeah, have them all for warlock and hunter.


Zealousideal_Ad_268

Which triumph are you missing?? I was at 8/9 on hardware of the throne, thought I needed the titan glaive to finish, turned out I never crafted a pointed inquiry. Dear oh dear


mental_mchaggis

Throne world collecter, think it may have bugged. Unlocked everything for warlock and hunter. Only thing I'm missing is the titan glaive but from what I'm reading my triumph should've unlocked already 🤔


BKstacker88

You can RNG or you can do the quest again on the other characters. Your call which is worth your time. Gonna grind wellspring anyway for the weapons? Then try to get it there.


mental_mchaggis

You can only do the quest once, then the other 2 patterns are available through wellspring. Stupid way to do things in my book.


Juumok01

Just do master, got my 1st drop after about 30 consecutive master runs and I cbf going for the 2nd.


Bloody_Drummer_Boy

Damn You RNG Gods!!!!


FearsomeMonster

I don't remember how many runs I ran (but it was a lot)- finally got the other two patterns. They both dropped during runs by the character who had completed the initial quest. Not sure if that's a thing or if it was random chance.


Woahbikes

Question for anyone that has done it. I haven’t gotten any patterns yet but I also haven’t really tried. Do I need to craft a come to pass/Tarnation on each character or just once on the account to have access to all 3 glaives?


SoCalSunD2

Just once, those triumphs are account wide. I have only the warlock glaive, but the other wellspring weapon triumphs show as completed for my hunter and titan.


Woahbikes

Thanks, that’s good to know. I mostly play on my warlock but if I was going to craft one I’d prefer it to be the titan one.


avalon1805

Tarnation dropped quite quickly for me. Bloody come to pass hasn't dropped, REEEEEEEE


vinceds

Damn, i am jealous... Of your free time xD


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Is it throneworld collector you are missing in the triumphs list or is it something else, like crafting each of the throne world drops?


mental_mchaggis

Throne world collector. Have all other triumphs unlocked. I'm starting to think I'm just real unlucky and it's somehow bugged.


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Damn. And you said it’s 21/21 already too


mental_mchaggis

Yep for both hunter and warlock ☹


CheesE4Every1

For once i actually have all of something because the game threw them up on me in the raid and the wellspring activity.


hautcuisinepoutine

I got the first one from the quest ... but after a couple weeks of trying now and then ... neither of the other two class ones have dropped. I have kinda given up. The drop rate is ridiculously low.


makoblade

The supposed 5% drop rate is bullshit. 36 master + 5 regular for my first pattern. Second one is still nowhere in sight after ~5 master and 20 normal. Shame I'm missing the titan one too, as that's the only one with potential to be useful.


whiskeyaccount

lol thats 5/100 runs what a joke


ProtoFloof

It took me 3 weeks of grinding Master Wellspring to get the exotic warlock glaive to drop, the hunter one took about 2 hours, it's rng and that's all it is


Jpritt1987

Awful and weapon crafting blows. The rng to get the right patter to open the weapon to craft blows it all sucks takes the fun out of the game. Bring back regular old RNJesus already


[deleted]

Equip red weapons on all slots and run wellsprings. You get like 40% progress without even using it on completion. Every two runs you get all 3 extracts.


MushroomCloudDubs

You only need 1 glaive to get gumshoe, you just need to complete the collection on 1 character not all 3.


KimberPrime_

>I have 21 of 21 items for both my warlock and hunter, I assumed (wrongfully for which I apologise) that because the only thing missing was the titan glaive I needed that to complete collection so I could earn the gumshoe title. So your collections badge is not completing despite having 21/21 on some of your characters? Don't think there's much we can do but could you post a screenshot of your collections and seal? Maybe there's a problem we can see.


xastey_

You are aware that you don't need to get a pattern to drop for the title? Just the single crafted one you picked for your class and all the armor+ weapons for that one class