Thoughts About The Glaive: How Coolness Can Be Improved.

[Namacyst]

I won't start ranting about stupid ricochet mechanics, damage and hit problems when not being the host an yaddyaddyadda. I merely want to share my thoughts about some cool stuff De could do with the Glaive...like:

 

How cool would it be to have a Dual Glaive? Gameplay would stay the same.. only difference would be that you can normal melee with one Glaive while the other one is in the air or throw both in quick succession. As a result for having 2 more lightweight variants of the Glaive the damage would shift from 25 normal and 150 charge to 35 normal and 125 charge damage.

 

or...

 

How cool would it be to implement a timed rethrow mechanic for the Glaive meaning the moment the Glaive returns to you and is catched you press melee attack at the right timing to instantly throw the glaive again. Your Warframe would just use the momentum of the Glaive, do a 360 Spin and up-up and away with the Glaive not only saving the very short by itself charge time but also increasing damage by 10% per successfull timed rethrow. That way when doing mostly gunplay you have something extra to do an time instead of holding down left mouse and it would be a nice way to deal with bosses when you time it right and stack up damage.

 

and last but not least...

 

How cool would it be if the Glaive charged throw would only occur when you release the charge attack at that moment the Glaive is throwing itself right now and if you hold charge a second longer your Gaive would enter some kind of enhanced melee mode, staying in your hand and start spinning like a sawblade (much like the grineer melee dudes do it with theirs). In that mode you would do either an additonal 25% normal melee damage or you get 3-target multihit. It can be canceled by holding down melee button as you would do a charge attack and Glaive would be put back on your wrist and then you can use it again for a throw or weak melee or go spinning sawblade of awesomeness again.

 

What do you think?

Edited May 2, 2013 by Namacyst

[SabreUr]

How cool would it be to implement a timed rethrow mechanic for the Glaive meaning the moment the Glaive returns to you and is catched you press melee attack at the right timing to instantly throw the glaive again. You Warframe would just use the momentum of the Glaive, do a 360 Spin and up-up and away with the Glaive only saving the very short by itself charge time. That way when doing mostly gunplay you have something extra to do an time instead of holding down left mouse.

 

This one sounds cool, but I'm afraid that it would require almost "lag-less" connection.

 

Overall, nice ideas.

[Ninjaman999]

This one sounds cool, but I'm afraid that it would require almost "lag-less" connection.

 

Overall, nice ideas.

Agreed!

[Depar]

All this ideas sound great in my opinion, glaive would get 20% cooler

[Namacyst]

Only 20%? Meh -.-

[Depar]

ya know awesomeness is endless so its 20% more endless

make no sense? remember, the spoon is a lie !

[FriedAlbacore]

Two words: Glaive Vandal. That's it, end of discussion. Lol, but in seriousness, I think having a few different skins that change base stats would be kind of cool.  A Shuriken or Chakram would look sweet all Tenno'd out

[TehJumpingJawa]

Just gave the glaive a try for the first time..... interesting.... but utterly useless on laggy hosts.

Seems like the spawning & updating of the projectile is done server-side, so it becomes almost impossible to hit anything if the game is lagging at all =(

 

Fun when you're the host, and usable on responsive hosts, but if ever a tool was needed to demonstrate the problems this game has with handling lag.....the glaive is it.