Talk:Glaive Prime/@comment-72.68.20.143-20170923221130

Alright, I've been using this thing for a while. This is what I've figured out.

1) Condition Overload affects all attacks of the Glaive, including the Glaive Thrown attack. This means that if you want to maximize your Glaive thrown and discharge damage, run a CO build.

2) Bloodrush doesn't seem to affect this weapon's thrown attack in Duel Wield mode. True steel does, however. Effectively, this means that this weapon can crit on it's thrown attack, however, it is very inconsistent.

3) The "discharge" in dual wield mode is identical to the channeled blast in melee only mode. However, pefectly timed throws in dual wield mode have a discharge that does more damage than a normally charged throw, with a higher crit and status chance. It also retains the unique aspects of all Glaive Prime thrown attacks: Forced AOE impact and slash procs. (The Slash procs scale of crit, base damage mods, AND condition overload).

4) This thing's throw attack staggers everything it goes through (perfectly charged throw only) and has a blast proc on the channeled discharge.

5) The thrown attack's discharge procs status. This thing's massive status chance and high base damage on thrown attacks make this an effective weapon for gas procs.

6) Relentless Combination will proc on the forced Slash dots from this thing's AOE discharge.

7) Attack speed mods affect both the charge up speed of the thrown attack, and the speed of the normal attacks.

8) Powerthrow is useless when dual wielding this thing, you already have a way of proccing the discharge by pressing melee once you throw it.

9) The discharge in dual wield mode, while it has the properties of a channeled blast, IS NOT a channeled blast. It is not affected by channeling mods, including life strike, and doesn't cost any energy. However, it still retains all the properties of a glaive channeled blast, with the Glaive Prime's unique ability to proc forced impact and slash procs. Perfectly thrown dual wield throw attacks proc blast, knocking everything in range down. (It's also worth noting that blast procs themselves count as two statuses for the calculation of CO's bonus damage).

TD:LR) This is an effective thrown weapon in both dual wield and power throw/quick return builds. However, it is best on dual wield builds, and if you want to maximize your throw damage, then run a CO build. However, you can also run a crit build using the relentless combination mod if you like to melee things.

This is an endgame weapon btw. It's slash procs kill things through armor, and it's status chance and many status procs on discharge attacks allow it to stack ridiculous damage through CO.