Glaive Prime

The Glaive Prime is an improved version of the Glaive. The Glaive Prime was added into the game in Update 11.0. If thrown, this weapon will bounce three times before returning to its owner or after reaching 30m away from its owner.

This weapon can be sold for.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages:
 * Due to its fast attack speed and short range, the Glaive Prime is good for Zoren Coptering.
 * When a thrown Glaive impacts a solid object, it causes damage equivalent to charge damage in a 4M area (Requires power throw).


 * Can be thrown using the charge attack function, utilizing regular damage mods as the charge mechanic was changed in U13.
 * Silent when thrown (Ideal for stealth gameplay).
 * Can hit enemies on the way back to the thrower.
 * Can hit headshots and other weak spots for damage multipliers on its throw (with more ease than a standard melee swing which does not always land where you aim).
 * Can be aimed around corners and used to score up to whole group of enemies in one bounce.
 * Regular attacks have momentum, like some heavy weapons (stagger resist).
 * Actions can be performed once the Glaive Prime is thrown.
 * After releasing the Glaive Prime, you can fire or reload your weapon.
 * Catching the Glaive Prime is considered a one-handed action, therefore it will not interrupt a reload in progress.

Disadvantages:
 * Short melee attack range.
 * Using the charge attack (throw) prevents the use of all melee attacks until the weapon has returned to the thrower, effectively preventing it from being used in as rapid succession as conventional charge attacks.
 * When it bounces off the wall, it has very low chance to hit an enemy, but can be angled to do so.
 * Due to being a thrown weapon, it has significant travel time, making it hard to hit moving targets at range.
 * Low critical chance.

Comparisons:
 * Glaive Prime, compared to Glaive:
 * Faster attack speed (1.2 vs. 1.0).
 * Faster flight speed (40.0 m/s vs. 20.0 m/s).
 * Faster return speed.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

 * Catching the Glaive is considered a one-handed action. As such, it will not interrupt reloads.
 * This is useful if you throw the Glaive before reloading allowing you to perform a long range attack even as you reload.
 * Glaive will always return in a straight path toward the player. It will ignore all obstacles and punch through anything in its path on return.
 * A player without Power Throw can use this to emulate Power throw by bouncing the Glaive off the floor between the legs of enemies and have the Glaive hit them all on return.
 * As for the regular Glaive, when using the slide attack, it is possible to chain a second slide attack, for even more slide range and speed.
 * Can be thrown with and without stance mods.
 * When equipping the Glaive Prime, the player can throw it and then press the channeling button to detonate the Glaive Prime, dealing high AoE damage and returns to the player immediately. This is true for all thrown melee weapons.

Trivia

 * Added in Update 11.
 * It could be seen in Ember Prime's left hand during the artwork show of Livestream 18. It was also seen in the splash screen in Update 11.
 * The Glaive Prime shares the same sheath style with the other thrown melee weapons, where they retract and attach under the right arm.
 * The word "Glaive" historically has referred to many different weapons, none of which refer to a returning throwing disk but more to a polearm or a sword. An exception to this can be found in the movie, Krull, in which a five-bladed throwing weapon which returns to the thrower is called a "Glaive" which is quested for and used by the protagonist.
 * Update 11 teasers showed an Ember Prime wielding Glaive Prime, along with a Sicarus Prime.
 * Oddly enough, though the Glaive Prime has 3 blades, only two are requested in the crafting process. It's possible that the disc has an in-built blade to begin with.
 * Up until Update 12, the Glaive Prime only required 1 blade to construct, in spite of the blueprint needing 2.
 * Like the Glaive, the Glaive Prime has a much smaller model when retracted under the arm.
 * Unlike most prime weapons, the Glaive Prime does not deal any more damage than its unprimed variant.

Bugs

 * On very rare occasions after throwing the Glaive, it can get stuck somewhere and never come back. When this happens, the Glaive will shortly reappear in the player's hands but the player will be unable throw the Glaive again or perform any melee attacks therefore making it be the worst weapon in that one match until it starts working again..