The glaives base crit chance and status chance make it quite hard to build around, espcially status since its status chance is so damn low. Thankfully the best modes to fill out damage are elemental mods so we pick them just for damage... but it would be nice if it did proc mentality.

Unfortuntely we need to talk about the elephant in the room, the "essential" mods that help ALL glaives shine.
As of 12/6/2023 Corrupt charge is 15-20 Plat, Volatile Quick Return is 5-10 (drops from Deimos infested) and Plat and Astral Twilight is 10-15 Plat. the funds needed to start the basic build is 45 Plat.

So lets talk about what each mod does fro importance to lowest.

Corrupt charge: +20 initial combo is needed to get 1 combo count, this gives 25/100% more damage to basic/heavy atks. Heavy atks consume the combo but u still get 100% dmg on a seprate multiplier for that throw that shares no fimishing returns with any other multipliers.

[Volatile Quick Return]: [Glaive] has 6m radius if you use ur heavy attack a 2nd time to explode the throw. +3 range makes it 9m, 50% larger blast radius. Other radius mods for weapons like [Primed Fulmination] is only 44% and costs 30k+ endo among higher mod capacity, this mod is a steal for its cost in capacity or endo.

[Killing Blow] is sharging the same modifer as [Pressure Point] but you get mind up speed. Both tied for the 2nd highest dmg boost even while shared not relying on any other mods. Very high drop chance from the mars boss Lieutenant Lech Kril with a 22.92% chance to drop the loot table but it being the only item on that loot table means the drop chance is also the chance to obtain it (wiki stats). Although it drops almost everywhere if u do need it, farm it here.

Gladiators might should be the 2nd largers dmg boost but it is reliant on [True Steel] to get the crit chance. That said the calc cant factor in combo crit chance so it's actually slighty better but is useless alone unlike the mods above. Farmed from Earth bounties.

Next we have [Fever Strike] and [North Wind], any elemental mods work here hower these 2 combine to be the best combination element, viral. The strongest single element is slash but it's usually hard to build around, thankgully the [Glaive] is primary slash so you can pick up [Carnis Mandible] from demois bounties for the strongest status with a bit more status chance. Otherwise pickup [Heated Charge] for the 2nd strongest single element.

The future upgrades are quite simple as well.

True steal to Sacrifical steel (from quest)"
Dropping [North Wind] for [Amalgam Organ Shatter] for wind up speed and [Fever Strike] to [Carnis Mandible] or a heat mod.