Glaives had already been nerfed hard, with roaring flames no longer boosting their melee damage, and now synthoceps barely providing any boost at all its caused a lot of backlash. Nobody thinks this nerf was warranted especially since the leading reason was the winterbite exotic glaive.
The payoff for risking being in close quarters with a glaive was doing high damage in short windows of time, before backing off or getting stomp one shot etc.
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The damage had been the same ever since they put synergy between glaive melees and exotics into the game. Damage was actually a lot higher last season,could get up to 67k per hit with the artifact mod but now hitting 40k was deemed as far too much!