Talk:Cerata/@comment-74.249.120.184-20190427185625

Everyone keeps asking "which glaive is best" and everyone keeps responding "everyone asks that" and not answering the damn question. So I'm going to try to answer it.

Cerata is best as a regular melee weapon that you occaisionally throw. It has the best crit chance of all glaives on normal melee hits and second best attack speed, making a Berserker build viable. While low damage, it will at least keep a single enemy stunlocked for a bit.

For throwing, there are two different ways to use all glaives. The first is as expected - you throw it and try to hit as many enemies as you can. For this, I recommend either the Falcor or the Halikar. Both have a slight homing effect where they will curve in-flight in a roughly 15 degree cone to hit enemies near where you threw it, making them both brutally accurate in small hallways. The Falcor is the better of the two for raw damage, while the Halikar's disarm should turn about half the survivors it hits into baton twirlers.

Finally, there's what I call the "pocket grenade" build. This build uses Quick Return, Power Throw, and blast damage to instantly detonate (automatically - you don't need to do it manually) as soon as it hits a solid surface. This effectively gives any warframe infinite grenades. For this, you want the Kestrel. With the syndicate augment, it is the fastest glaive in the game, and the charged throw damage is just as good as any other glaive. When it detonates, the glaive will return automatically, so it'll spend the least time possible out of your hands. The Kestral also has the unique combination of a good knockdown (which all glaives besides the Cerata have) and finisher damage adding a bleed proc. So, you can execute a knockdown, then follow up with a finisher and heavy targets like Bombards will take a ton of bleed damage.

I know a lot of people love Glaive Prime or Orvius, and neither is a bad weapon, but I'd say these are the best for each situation. The Glaive Prime probably makes a better hybrid build than any of these, but if you're using a glaive of any kind, hopefully you have some idea HOW you want to use it, and can choose accordingly.

For what it's worth, I have Cerata on my Ivara, Kestrel on my Khora, and Falcor on my Gara, and I find that each of these complements their respective frames perfectly.