Vexcalibur Damage Test (& Crafted God Roll) | Destiny 2 Lightfall 

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Fun fact you do not need to use the full shield charge to get overshield. Just quickly block and once you see the overshield start to come up you can get a melee kill and tops the overshield to full.

In case you haven’t noticed, Vexcalibur’s spread pattern is the same as the spread on the guns Wyverns use. It’s not a Warp Lance exactly, but it is a lance.

All exotic glaives should have impulse amplifier intrinsic

Getting kills refreshes the health and duration of the overshield. This thing is incredible for survivability. Shoot once, block until a small bit of overshield is applied, then get a melee kill to get the max overshield. This is the only thing in the game that refreshes the health of existing overshields and just for that reason it's an incredible weapon.

My man, always comin through with the damage tests

The damage is significant higher with barricade probably because the perk specified void overshield as in the buff, and bubble provides an overshield but it’s not called void overshield but called armor of light

I think that first test was acting funny because Ward of Dawn gives you "Armor Of Light" not Void Overshield. So when he dropped the barricade too, the glaive recognized it and buffed damage accordingly

Thanks man. And thanks to the homies who always help you damage test. Really nice to have this info and there's no way I would know half the shit I do without you guys.

Wish Swords and Glaives interacted with the Strand Grapple Melee in some unique way

I think, at the end of the day, this isn't a weapon made to shred bosses with top-tier DPS. It's made for mid-high end content, where glaives are normally too high risk to run in close, and gives you that refreshing overshield to give you the survivability you need to use a glaive in that level of content.

The glaive shoots like a shotgun, so if you one-shot an enemy, only one of the 5 projectiles hit. If you hit a higher health target, you get half your energy in one shot because all pellets hit. The glaive also completely fills your overshield on melee kills. So you can build a small overshield by using a small amount while blocking, then get a melee kill for a full overshield. Pair that with the fragment that heals you after melee kills, and the other for grenade energy on melee kills. It becomes a super powerful combo, getting your grenade insanely fast, and a full overshield every melee kill like the shoulder charge.

knowing how to use the overshield mechanic + synthoceps has kept me alive in some very stressful situations on my campaign rerun! So god damn good!

For his first damage test, I believe he was hitting extremely low because his Synthoceps buff went away for whatever reason and he also didn't have the "Void Overshield" buff. So whoever in chat said he didn't have biotic enhancements was correct. He was literally raw doggin that boss. 2nd one was Syntho+Void Overshield, 3rd was just Synthoceps. Bubble overshield doesn't count as Void Overshield btw.

I think the extra melee damage comes from the Void Overshield buff and on the first damage test against Oracle with Ward, you have an overshield but you don't have the Void Overshield buff, which is probably why it was doing low damage. I think this Glaive is meant to be a support/survivability Exotic, not a boss damage one.

I was going to say, it sounds more like a support because it spreads to allies as well. Thats like 2 or 3 exotics that provide support over dmg

Just soloed the mission! Really cool to see the callback to the old strike on IO. Also this glaive is absolutely amazing. Literally a void subclass in a glaive. Never leaving my inventory

This glaive is a void titans wet dream

Can we all acknowledge that a lot of weapon archetypes have been left in the dust, badly needing a buff? The new 120rpm strand hand cannon cannot even 1 tap a dreg... certain HC, scouts, even pulse, and AR archetypes don't feel good at all (excluding exotics) Hope this gets recognition for a buff from bungie 🙏

It was really really bold of them. Every single boss, and like 1/3 of the enemies all have a "back up" attack/stomp if you get too close.

persistence is one I'll have to look at. I've been digging the fragment that lets me get grenade energy on melee kills to toss them all day.

im love how the spread is just like a wyvern

Again another banger! Was going to say about the wave splitter it really is the best gun this season

Vexcalibur interacts with Necrotic Grips. While the overshield is active, you can spread volatile rounds via Necrotic Grips poison chains. Those chains proc Void Syphons for Orbs of Power and count as melee final blows for stuff like leeching. Necrotic grips also charge the energy bar. Winter's bite also interacts the same way, but the melee and necrotic chains count as stasis. Kelgorath also allows you to chain incandescent through necrotic grips.

For pure damage, I'd go with Winter's Bite. BUT, for utility I'd go with Vexcalibur. Run this with Controlled demolition and Offensive Bulwark. Echoes of persistence, starvation, exchange, and either domineering or cessation depending on how you want to spawn void breaches. This glaive makes it finally viable to remove Bastion on Sentinel Titan.

Came in here to say we need!!!! A damage test on Regnant. This thing has some crazy roll possibilities. Like spike grenades, envious assassin and explosive light or cascade point. Also has disruption break destabilizing rounds for volatile add clear crazyness!!!

I like how it has the slot for stocks, just like all exotics, even tho its a digital stick.

personally this glaive would be worth using if the melee hits also applied volatile rounds, it would give it so much synergy tbh, especially with hunters using gyrfalcons

Cheers for the testing Boys!

I put together a Void Warlock build with Winter's Guile. I obviously put the new fragment where you get an overshield for killing a target when your shield is depleted, but I also tested and found out that you can just drop your healing rift at the first target's feet and as soon as the overshield starts to build from the rift even a little bit you melee kill the ad and boom there's a full overshield and you're now working on building Winter's Guile stacks with the glaive exotic perk already procced not needing to fire a single shot or block at all (much quicker, far less hassle). I'm leaning into Devour too just in case I want to use the glaive quickly without wasting any time trying to get the overshield procced (just toss grenade and proceed to glaive melee) and glaive melee kills are super easy to chain Devour anyways, even better with overshield. Between Devour and overshield this glaive has tons of survivability and with Winter's Guile and the exotic glaive perk it'll dish out some good ad clearing damage really quickly. Edit: I also tried Stasis overshield and it absolutely works with that too. I did Osmiomancy with Stasis turrets to make Stasis shards for the overshield. All you need is just a tiny bit of overshield from either your healing rift or the Stasis shards and when you melee kill the overshield fills up automatically and it apparently turns into a Void overshield at that point, or so the buff says on the bottom left of the screen. Pretty cool!

Just got into fortnite this season which ended today and Excalibur was 1 of my favorite weapons. To come into d2 and see vexcalibur and its design be so fuego, brings a tear to my eye

The perk refreshing the overshield gives the full timer back as well as giving the entire shield as long as the shield is on you. Essentially, shoot one shot, block with weapon, melee an enemy, get full over shield.

fun fact picking up one stasis shard and getting stasis will turn into a full void overshield on kills just made a great supporter build with this with the new stasis gauntlets for warlock and shadebinder

I definitely can see a build with voidlock for this glaive. immovable catalyst with healing rift will be very tanky. won't even need karnsteins with devour

Huge fan that they gave it high reload speed and grave robber since no overflow

It would be cool if it does like 10-15% extra damage to vex

I don’t need this glaive to deal damage. Woven mail + void overshield is insane. This means after this season when the volatile artifact mod is gone I can still use strand Titan and get void overshields. New favorite weapon.

It has to be a “Void Overshield” buff, so either the barricade overshield, or the overshield acquired from the weapon itself in order the damage to work

I think it’s cool the weapon changes when you do have overshield with the original skin that is

the shield charge is based on the amount of projectiles that hit, hitting all 5 three/four times in a row is a full bar, but hitting 2/5 projectiles this shoots is less. you should save shooting something for a (physically) bigger target like a servitor or any cabal not-psion/dog enemy. The best way to use this by far is get something like 10% from 1 shot, tap the guard, then instantly get a guy with a melee attack, it fully replenishes your overshield. Its like a woven mail effect but on a glaive and void. Lucent Blades are a must on this exotic, because its part shotgun and suffers for it quite frankly. This was built with a fantasy of basically going in ham with a glaive only. outside of that specific fantasy, this exotic is "keep it in my vault and never use it bc its craftable" material.

Good support weapon that helps with surviving while giving good dmg against ADs... perfect for void Titan if your running volatile & offensive bulwark instead of Bastion. Only issue is you lose the melee benefit from Offensive Bulwark... but gets the grenade recharge buff so you can use it to help loop Volatile Rounds + Volatile Flow is back also helping so even more AD clear. Lastly keeping teammates and your self alive is helpful. Plus you could just run void legendary power weapons that aren't exotic. Weapons like Retrofit Escapade (which got more ammo via the Machinegun buff) or even legendary void rockets.

The shot on the glaive is the same shape as a Wyvern shot!

If you get a kill with any overshield, you'll get a void overshield. This includes Void Overshields, Armor of Light and the overshield from a Healing Rift. So it's busted strong on Voidlock.

If you use the same trick with the block and melee its also seems like its faster if u spam jump as well with the combo.

maybe it’s just me but i’ve found that mashing melee + shield performs a faster combo on floating enemies because i notice sometimes that cross raises the shield thus slowing his combo

This will be a niche but very fun gun for combing with devour and the volatile round finisher. You can two Melle majors then finish to make enemies volatile and then fire off the spreads to get kills and the overshield to let you close distance to a boss without having to hide like ab

There is a funny interaction using Vexcalibur with Necrotic Grip. The poison damage from melee registers as 'projectile hit' so it builds up the glaive's shield even if you are to just swing away. Mix this with Devour + weakening grenade fragment + Vortex grenade and your golden lol.

the actual procectile for this glaive shoots like a Wyvern 5 shots in a plus pattern with one in the middle. it took you 9 shots to fully charge it because you weren't hitting all the projectiles.

this is definitely a survivability glave over a damage glaive giving constant overshields to yourself and allies is HUGE

This is a great step for Glaives

thanks for showing us how to swing faster at 5:07

As far as I know, Vex is the only if not one of the only glaives that can refresh its shield duration outside of projectile hits

As an average Necrotic Grip/ Winter’s Guile enjoyer this season is giving me a lot of options to play with and I love it.

This mission was incredibly fun. Almost felt like a dungeon!

17:24 stability is very nice on a glave because when your blocking you take a but load of flinch.

The damage buff seems more like it exists solely to make it easier to get the next melee kill with it to refresh the overshield buff. It's likely a full support weapon for survivability (super easy to proc) much like Divinity being a support weapon but for damage.

the difference for projectile damage is that the Vexcaliber fires at the same rate as the hunter exotic glaive (80 rpm vs the adaptive's 55rpm and the aggressive's 45rpm)

This will definitely helps w the Void champion Assassin build. The peregrines Greave exotic. No more waiting cooldown on barricade. So your mod buildcrafting can focus on grenade or melee build. Damn!

You don't even need to hold down to get the overshield, what i do is have a bit of charge, block and get hit, then melee kill them for full overshield and repeat for timer. Any glaive, but espcecially this and Winterbite get improved by melee exotics.

This is one of the most powerful glaives ive ever used. The survivability potential is insanely high. On titan, you get something both powerful and effective. Can also spec into some super good grenade builds.

its pretty good with woven mail for survivability, and dont sleep on winter's guile, boss dps not the best but i love the weapon

It should honestly hit harder with the melee and over-shield from bubble shield also proc the damage imo. Then I see it worth using

Damage numbers were inconsistent in Templar because the bubble was too low on the stairwell, and not enough of the bosses body was hanging down. This makes some of your hits clip the bubble and miss the boss, therefore resulting in wonky numbers.

I find for low to medium content, where you can chain trash kills without breaking the shield, this glaive takes the cake as it just makes surviving a breeze. As for glaives in general, I feel like the new ammo system just doesn't do it justice as the biggest benifit of a glaive to me is a mix between any seasonal champion stuns and more importantly is the ammo economy it can have in a double special build. But since ALL the glaives are in the energy slot, you can't run another weapon in the energy slot and heavy slot that match in element type. Because the new ammo system rewards matching your heavy and a special as the same energy type, and glaives are all in energy slot, you are forced to use a stasis or strand elemental match to benifit. Of which strand is the only one of those on this seasons list, and there are VERY few options. Until an exotic glaive get a kinetic, stasis, or strand version, I just don't see an exotic glaive being wanted in higher content unless it is very powerful in what it does. That said, this Vexcalibur is fun for medium content and can have a place in high end for a support player if you run blinding primary nade launcher, Vexcal, and an ammo efficient heavy like machinegun or linear. Bubble titan probably being best since you can pre apply shield then have the bubble protect the overshield.

If you just block a bit and get a kill you get a full overshield for just the little bot of blocking energy spent. Also it refresh the overshield on kills.

I think graverobber or the 3rd catalyst is going to be much better than the first. The way I see this thing being played is extremely aggressive and just keeping the ball rolling with the overshields, and the best way to do that is to keep your mag topped up. I'd say Grave Robber is going to be the way to go with it. Less reloading = less downtime on your overshields/damage buff. Get ranged damage -> Get an overshield -> Get melee kills w/ the damage buff -> Refills mags -> More overshields -> Rinse/Repeat. I also think this is a weapon you're going to want the rest of your fireteam running. If you're all playing aggressive near eachother, you'll be providing eachother with overshields when you block, and thus providing eachother with the damage buff. I've been enjoying the hell out of it with synthos and I can't wait to give my void titan build a go in GM's with it to see if it really can work in higher end content.

This with titan and syntheceps constant oversheild 💯💯

During a lot of the tests bionic de-procced, thats why the results were so inconsistent

That's actually a pretty bad ass glaive for a tank build giving your team over shields.

Can't wait to test and see if this interacts with gyrfalcons because melee I believe turns to void when you have an overshield

That “The hell?” was the funniest shit

The fact that Helm of Saint-14 was not tested makes it clear Aztecross is not a Titan main

Since this doesnt get any stat bumps with the higher teirs of the perk i wonder if the damage boost or shield duration will increase each time

put it on a void warlock with winter's guile, overshield buff + winter's x5 melee buff bumps the damage up to 86k per swing, granted the winter buff only lasts for 5 seconds but if you can keep the buff up then the vexcalibur becomes one hell of a weapon for everything you can use it on

11:01 it may not last long but a mele kill will fully refresh to like 12 seconds making it infinite along as you keep getting mele kills

You can literally put the smallest bit of overshield on then get a kill with it and in instantly goes to full and will continue to restock to full overshield after each kill

Warlock build I had before armor rework was void glaive with void subclass devour focused with Necrotic Grip. I wonder how this glaive will fit into that build with overshields and how the new armor rework will boost/nerf the build.

if they made offensive bulwark work with glaives thats all I would be running, i dont understand why glaives are so limited. The class glaives should work like revision zero too where you fill a bar on the side to use their abilities and still have access to the block.

They fumbled it with the first set of craftable exotic glaives, and this is a great improvement. The exotic Trait is a park of the intrinsic Trait, even! It's not a single perk on the weapon! I really really really really REALLY want to have a legitimate reason to craft and level those weapons for harder content, but as they are now the only viable one to use is Edge of Action. Here's hoping they get updated sometime soon...

Vexcaliber doesn’t take 10 shots to get a full bar the problem is it’s a shotgun so it give you an ammount per pellet and minors die in only one or two pellets so it doesn’t give you much energy also keep in mind though this is an 80 rpm so the ranged fire dps is actually pretty good

I really wish there was a way to generate orbs with glaive melees. I might actually run strand if I could pair woven mail with an on demand void overshield

This glaive with gyrfalcons would be the ultimate team overshield build if played correctly

I'm glad someone else is questioning the verbiage that applies to glaives.

it actually refreshes regular void shields you put on yourself without blocking

This on a void hunter with the chest exotic, witherhoard and a good funnelweb……… theters , constant volatile, invis, overshields AND devour.. I think with tether plus witherhoard shots combined with the damage tested here you should hit at least 800k consistently on Bosses, so great dps, support for fireteams, and the best solo build in the game atm.. no need to use anything else

Been wating 💯💯

From what I have tested myself, the Hunter armor Sealed Aramkara graspes works with this glave to refill the mag on a single melee hit so the mk3 and 4 really just aren't worth it as a Hunter

Ok it may not be meta shifting, but I love the aesthetic and I can synergize it with Lucent Blades and my crafted Other Half, once Winterbite is reenabled I may change my tune but right now I'm here for this thing.

Keep in mind this thing is shooting a spread, so the total shield energy gained is spread throughout each projectile.

I feel like Aztecross missed the point of the exotic a little bit. This probably won't be a boss damage weapon. Likely more of an ad clear option. For that, I'd recommend robber refit. This would work really well with the exotic perk, as any melee kills you get with even a partial overshield will give you a *new full overshield.* So, every time you get a melee kill, you get a full overshield with a fresh timer, which gives you bonus damage for the next kill, which gives you a new overshield, and so on. When ad clearing, you won't be standing still, so immovable refit wouldn't really benefit too much. It looks pretty fun if you like glaives and need some survivability, but definitely not good for boss damage.

Overkill damage does not contribute to shield energy, you can get full energy in 2-3 shots on a target that can take the full damage.

i can see a couple of builds just by reading its perks alone

The damage might not be great. But the overshield ability/refreshing the shield is nuts. Plus it's an easy way to keep your friends budded up

This glaive is so damn pretty. Outside of that it's base stats are really good. Such better than basically any other glaive

12:26 I don’t think the amount of shots is what gives you more energy, it’s the amount of pellets that hit the target. You’re killing minor enemies with one pellet while enemies with more health give u more because of the amount of pellets it took to kill. I’ve filled the energy gauge with 3 whole shots by hitting a target with all or most pellets.

So after the first boss room (circular room with the pit you jump into)... to continue the mission you have to traverse two large structures, as you jump between the 1st and 2nd of these, theres one of the security puzzle diamonds on the 2nd structure, its purple, and its above where you land (i cant recall if it was visible from the first structure though). Im thinking thats where the 2nd hidden chest will be.

Fun fact, you can proc offensive bulwark with the overshield on titan.

Dont need to hold block for glaive, just tap block and get a kill for full overshield, then can periodically tap block to refresh full shield timer Also please try with Witherhorde and Karnsteins, its god like

Does it work the same way as the exotic from last season? You run it once on legendary and then you can run it normally after for the rest?

if you grant yourself an overshield for a split second ( say 10 to 25%) , then kill a minor enemy, would that top off the overshield ? since it just needs you to have an os. then the damage loop of the weapon does not require you to have full energy always. hell that could be a better rework for the class glaives, where they work as siphons ( like devils ruin charge) . this is truly a great exotic glaive. its set a new standard for exotic glaives if ya ask me.