Phalanx — Triton Vice + Vexcalibur (Void Hunter)

Centerpiece: Triton Vice (Gauntlets) · Subclass: Nightstalker (Void) · Role: Glaive line-infantry — block for a self-and-team Void overshield, stab to overflow ammo, projectiles detonate on kill, and the artifact makes the glaive suppress champions Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Updated 2026-07-03

A glaive is a shield and a spear in one. Vexcalibur's block bleeds Void overshield onto you and everyone near you; Triton Vice makes the spear half self-feeding — melee kills overflow your magazine and projectile kills explode. Hold the line: block to tank and shield the team, stab to refill, fire to clear. Add suppression from the artifact and the wall becomes anti-champion too.

The exotic

Triton Vice (Gauntlets) — Halberdier's Reach: Increases Glaive reload speed and melee damage when surrounded. Glaive melee final blows overflow a round to the magazine. Glaive projectile final blows detonate in an explosion.

Vexcalibur (Glaive) — M1R Distribution Matrix: Fires a spread. Equipped with a quick-draining shield. Blocking damage with your shield gradually bestows Void overshields to yourself and nearby allies.

Triton Vice fixes the two things that hold glaives back. The overflow-on-melee-kill keeps the notoriously small magazine topped without leaving the fight to reload, and the projectile-detonation gives a glaive real add-clear from a gun that normally fires two rounds. The surrounded clause — faster reload and higher melee damage while enemies crowd you — rewards standing in the pack, which is exactly where Vexcalibur's block wants you to be. Vexcalibur supplies that glaive: a Void Special glaive whose held block soaks damage and drips Void overshields onto you and nearby allies, turning the defensive stance into fireteam support rather than a personal panic button. The two meet on one rhythm — block to tank and shield, drop guard to stab (overflow a round) and fire (detonate the pack), block again.

Loadout

Slot	Pick	Why
Subclass	Nightstalker (Void)	The weaken/invis/overshield toolkit Triton and Vexcalibur both feed off.
Super	Shadowshot: Deadfall	Tether weakens and suppresses a whole pack — weakened targets feed Stylish/Harvest, amp glaive damage, and the orb engine fuels the team you are already shielding.
Class ability	Gambler's Dodge	Refunds Snare Bomb (your weaken/Stylish trigger) near enemies and repositions the wall.
Movement	Triple Jump	Extra mid-air adjust to hold or relocate the frontline; the air-move also arms Trapper's Ambush.
Melee	Snare Bomb	The ability melee (separate from the glaive's) that weakens a cluster — the Stylish/Harvest trigger and a damage amp for the spear.
Grenade	Vortex Grenade	Lingering Void AoE; with Echo of Undermining it weakens the zone, softening targets for glaive kills and feeding Harvest.
Aspect 1	Trapper's Ambush	Quickfall dive that damages on impact (greatly amplified with a Void status active) — closes distance into the pack Triton rewards. 2 fragment slots.
Aspect 2	Stylish Executioner	Defeating a debuffed target grants invisibility and Truesight; glaive kills on weakened targets are the trigger, so the block-stab loop self-cloaks. 2 fragment slots.
Fragments	4 Echoes (below)	Weaken → Orb/Breach → Devour, with Void buffs stretched — the sustain layer under the overshield.
Exotic armour	Triton Vice (Gauntlets)	Overflow keeps the two-round mag fed, projectile kills detonate for add-clear, surrounded bonuses reward the frontline.
Weapons	Vexcalibur (Void Special glaive) + Void primary + Void Heavy	Vexcalibur is the block-shield and spear; a Void primary covers the ranges the glaive can't and keeps surges/economy live; a Void Heavy for bosses.

Why it works (the mechanics)

• Block is tank plus team support. Guarding with Vexcalibur soaks incoming damage and gradually bestows Void overshields to you and nearby allies. You become a mobile cover point that makes the whole fireteam tankier while you hold the choke — the defensive stance pays out for everyone, not just you.
• The spear never runs dry. Triton overflows a round to the magazine on every glaive melee final blow and detonates on projectile final blows. That turns a two-round gun into a self-feeding stab-shoot cadence with genuine add-clear — you kill in melee to reload and kill at range to explode, so you never leave the fight to reload.
• Suppression makes it anti-champion. The artifact's Suppressing Glaive makes glaive hits suppress combatants, locking them out of abilities — that is your Overload answer and a team-protecting stun. Deadfall suppresses too, and Passive Aggressive Guard cuts incoming damage while the glaive is wielded, so the wall is both the champion-breaker and the tankiest stance.
• The Void economy layers underneath. Snare Bomb and Vortex weaken; glaive kills on weakened targets trigger Stylish invisibility and Echo of Harvest, which spits an Orb and a Void Breach; Echo of Starvation turns those pickups into Devour. Full heal-on-kill sits on top of the overshield, with Echo of Persistence stretching all three Void buffs — very hard to drop.
• Void Weapon Channeling compounds a full kit. A Void-weapon kill while at least one Void ability is fully charged ramps Void weapon damage, scaling with how many abilities are charged. The fuller your grenade/melee/class energy, the harder the glaive and Void primary hit — the build rewards holding charge, not dumping it.
• It is a support frontline. Overshields (Vexcalibur plus Protective Breach), weaken (Snare/Deadfall) and invisibility (Trapper's) all extend to the team. You do not just survive the push — you buff everyone standing behind the wall.

Stats & mods

Weapons 200 → Health → Class. Weapons drives glaive projectile damage and the Void primary; Health is the floor under the overshield and Devour since you stand in the pack by design; Class keeps Gambler's/Trapper's/Snare uptime — the weaken and invis triggers — flowing.

Archetype lean: Gunner / Powerhouse (Weapons), Bulwark (Health), Specialist (Class).

Mods:

• Boots: Glaive Reserves / Recuperation (reserves for the overflow loop; orb pickups top health).
• Arms: Glaive Loader / Impact Induction (faster ready; melee feeds grenade energy for the weaken loop).
• Chest: Void resist / Concussive Dampener (you eat the damage the fireteam doesn't).
• Class item: Bomber + Reaper (grenade energy on dodge; dodge makes an Orb to feed Starvation).
• Surge: Void Weapon Surge ×2 (glaive + Void primary).
• Anti-Champion: Overload from Suppressing Glaive (and Overload Grenades); Barrier/Unstoppable via artifact frame mods on the Void primary/Heavy.

Artifact — NPA Repulsion Regulator

Picks (2/3/2):

• Tier 1: Volatile Flow · Unto The Breach
• Tier 2: Suppressing Glaive · Protective Breach · Overload Grenades
• Tier 3: Passive Aggressive Guard · Void Weapon Channeling

• Suppressing Glaive makes glaive hits suppress combatants, preventing ability use — the headline pick, and your intrinsic Overload answer plus a team-protecting lockout on the frontline.
• Passive Aggressive Guard gives less damage from nearby combatants while wielding a glaive, stacking with the block to make the wall genuinely tanky where you fight.
• Protective Breach turns Void Breach pickups into an overshield (or refreshes it), stacking with Vexcalibur's block into near-permanent overshield uptime.
• Volatile Flow grants Volatile Rounds to your Void weapons on Orb pickup, adding chained Void detonations across the glaive and primary.
• Unto The Breach creates a Void Breach when you defeat a Void-debuffed target — the feedstock that Protective Breach and Echo of Starvation both consume.
• Overload Grenades makes Vortex disrupt and stun, a second Overload answer for when the glaive is holstered.
• Void Weapon Channeling ramps Void weapon damage after a Void kill with a Void ability charged — the glaive hits harder the fuller your kit.

Where it shines

• Held content and chokes — anywhere a fireteam benefits from a mobile cover point: you plant the wall, shield the team, and clear the pack that pushes it.
• Endgame add-density (Nightfalls, dungeons, GM chokes) — Devour plus overshield plus Passive Aggressive Guard keeps you alive standing where a glaive wants to be, and projectile detonations clear the swarm.
• Team play over solo speed — overshield, weaken and invis all extend to allies, so the build's value scales with a fireteam behind it.
• Champion coverage: breaks Overload intrinsically (Suppressing Glaive, backed by Overload Grenades). Bring Barrier and Unstoppable via artifact frame mods on your Void primary/Heavy — the glaive does not answer those two.

Mod selection (masterworked — full allocation)

All 15 sockets used, 10 energy per masterworked piece; costs from the manifest. Core mods are the build's engine; fill mods are strong defaults — swap freely (chest resists should match the activity's damage types).