“Market forces dictate that you need to evolve or die.”
Glaive Prime is Vaulted.
The Void Relics for this item have been removed from the drop tables and do not drop during missions at this time. Check the current Prime Resurgence rotation to see if Varzia offers relics for this item. Vaulted Void Relics already contained in player inventories are not affected and can still be either opened or traded between players.
The Glaive Prime is a Primed version of the 
Glaive, sporting higher attack speed in exchange for damage.
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000.
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 10 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) | |
Rush:  50
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Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Slash damage.
Advantages:
- High
Slash damage – effective against health and shields (although Puncture and Impact is much better against the respective damage classes). - Highest attack speed of all glaives.
- Silent.
- Heavy Attack throws the glaive, which can bounce up three times or travels up to 30 meters before returning to the user, damaging anyone in its path.
- Thrown glaive has innate Blast damage – effective against health and shields.
- Primary and secondary weapons can be fired and reloaded can be used normally with a thrown glaive, and retrieving the glaive does not interrupt these actions.
- Glaive can explode mid-flight via blocking and forces a return. Explosion inflicts a guaranteed Blast proc.
- Thrown glaive has innate
- Can be wielded in-tandem with a single-handed secondary weapon.
- Innate and polarities.
Disadvantages:
- Second lowest base damage of all glaives, behind Cerata.
- Low Impact and Puncture damage – less effective against shields and health.
- Short melee range.
- Cannot use melee attacks while the glaive is in mid-flight.
- Exploding glaive inflicts self-damage.
Comparisons:
- Glaive Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Glaive (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (39.10 vs. 44.00)
- Lower total damage (39.1 vs. 44)
- Higher attack speed (1.25x animation speed vs. 1.00x animation speed)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (10 vs. 1)
Notes[]
- Thrown attack bounces off of enemy targets and can hit a theoretical infinite amount of targets on the way back to the user.
- Flies faster and thus farther than its original counterpart.
- Summoned weapons are not affected by whether thrown weapons are held or not. For example, Warframe abilities such as Slash Dash or Exalted Blade can still be used even if the Glaive has not returned to the user.
- Range is around 30 in-game meters.
- Airborne Glaives will ricochet off Frost's Snow Globe.
- Cannot travel through Volt's Electric Shield and become electrically buffed.
- Saryn's Toxic Lash is applied on charge attacks as well, as of Hotfix 10.3.4 (2013-10-12).[1]
- If you are under the effect of Magnetize or similar abilities, the Glaive cannot be thrown; it instantly returns to your hand without harming you.
- When U13 was first released, the throwing attack was changed to match the throwing attack in the stance. This was a bug, and has since been reverted to Hold+E.
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.
- 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 whether stance mods are equipped or not.
- When equipping the Glaive Prime, the player can throw it and then press the channeling button to detonate the Glaive Prime on punch through or impact with a solid surface, dealing high AoE damage. The Glaive Prime then returns to the player immediately. This is true for all thrown melee weapons.
- It can explode in this manner when not equipped and thrown, but the explosion timing cannot be controlled and will often damage the user in close quarters.
- It should be however noted that finisher attacks can still be executed while the weapon is in the air.
Trivia[]
- Added in Update 11.0 (2013-11-20).
- 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 11.0 (2013-11-20).
- 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.
- The Glaive Prime actually more closely resembles a Chakram, an Indian throwing disc.
- 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 12.0 (2014-02-05), 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.
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.
- As of Update 18.0 (2015-12-03) the Glaive now has a significant increase to charge time, and it is unclear if this is intended or not.
Media[]
Glaive Prime
Glaive Prime sheathed on the arm
Glaive Prime Foundry Building
Warframe Glaive Prime
WARFRAME - Thrown Melee Buff Highlights Glaive Prime Charged Throw Navigator
WARFRAME - Thrown Melee Buff Highlights Zakti Glaive Prime
Warframe 11 ♠ Glaive Prime
Explosive Glaive Prime on Narcissus (U13.0.3)
Warframe Glaive Prime Pro Builds AOE Explosion Update 13.1.2-0
Glaive Prime Skins
Boomie
Waverider Supporter Pack Exclusive
Waverider Supporter Pack Exclusive
Vaultings[]
- On September 29, 2015, it was announced that Glaive Prime would enter the Prime Vault and be retired from the reward tables on October 6, 2015. Any preexisting components or fully-built frames will remain as is.
- Glaive Prime was available from December 6, 2016 to January 3, 2017 as part of the Fire and Ice Prime Vault.
- Glaive Prime (along with Sicarus Prime, Ember Prime, Frost Prime, Latron Prime, Reaper Prime, Loki Prime, Bo Prime, and Wyrm Prime) were available from Cetus Bounties from February 6, 2018 to April 10, 2018.
Patch History[]
Update 22.4 (2017-11-23)
- Fixed a loss of functionality if you equip Whirlwind, Power Throw and Quick Return on your Glaive Prime and cause self damage.
Update 21.0 (2017-06-29)
- Increased status chance from 20% to 30% for Melee hits and projectiles
- Increased critical chance from 5% to 15% for Melee hits and projectiles
- Increased Crit Multiplier from 1.5 to 2
- Increased damage from 45 to 50
- Knockdown added to recall discharge
- Increased Mastery Rank requirement from 0 to 10
See also[]
- Glaive, the original counterpart of this weapon.
