Arc

Conduit — Arc Staff (Arc Hunter)

Roaming melee storm / anti-Overload

Centerpiece: Raiden Flux (Chest Armor) · Subclass: Arcstrider · Role: Roaming melee storm / anti-Overload Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Updated 2026-07-03

You are a lightning rod on legs. Dodge into a punch, jolt the pack, then spin up Arc Staff and let the crowd electrocute itself while you carve one target at a time. Every stacked staff hit makes the storm meaner and the Super cheaper to hold, and the Bolt Charge you build turns your roaming Super into its own healing engine.

The exotic

Raiden Flux (Chest Armor) — Synapse Junctions: Quick successive attacks with Arc Staff increase its damage output, duration and jolt targets hit.

Raiden Flux is a stacking engine bolted onto the Arc Staff Super. Landing hits grants stacks of Synapse Junctions (5s, up to x3); each stack ramps staff damage, extends the Super's timer, and widens how many targets each strike jolts. Per Clarity's numbers the damage bonus climbs 27% / 61% / 105% at x1/x2/x3, and — just as important for a roaming Super — passive Super drain drops 20% / 40% / 60% at the same stacks, so a well-fed Arc Staff lasts far longer than a cold one. The play pattern is simple and punishing: open on a cluster, connect fast to reach x3, and from then on every swing is a wide-reaching jolt applicator while the Super refuses to run out. It rewards aggression — the more you keep swinging in a crowd, the harder and longer the storm hits.

Loadout

Slot	Pick	Why
Subclass	Arcstrider	Arc Staff is Arcstrider-native — it is not in the Prismatic pool.
Super	Arc Staff	Roaming staff; deflecting projectiles grants Bolt Charge and heavy combos blind.
Class ability	Gambler's Dodge	Refunds melee energy near enemies — the engine that resets Combination Blow.
Movement	Triple Jump	Extra aerial adjusts for chaining into packs and repositioning mid-Super.
Melee	Combination Blow	Ramping melee that heals on kill; Gambler's Dodge refills it to keep the loop closed.
Grenade	Pulse Grenade	Lingering Arc grenade for jolt support and Ionic Trace pressure; flex slot.
Aspect 1	Lethal Current	After a dodge your next melee jolts, blinds jolted targets, and drops a damaging aftershock.
Aspect 2	Flow State	Defeating a jolted target makes you Amplified — faster dodge, damage resistance, huge reload.
Fragments	Ions / Resistance / Amplitude / Feedback	Trace generation, surrounded DR, Amplified orbs, and melee-retaliation damage.
Exotic armour	Raiden Flux (Chest)	Stacks Arc Staff damage + jolt spread and slashes Super drain the longer you swing.
Weapons	Arc primary with Voltshot + flex energy/power	Voltshot keeps jolt rolling between abilities and feeds Flow State off-Super.

Fragments

Spark of Ions jolt/Bolt-Charge kills → Ionic Trace
Spark of Resistance DR while surrounded
Spark of Amplitude rapid kills while Amplified → Orb of Power
Spark of Feedback taking melee damage buffs your melee

Why it works (the mechanics)

Jolt is damage you never have to aim. A jolted target chain-zaps its neighbours whenever it takes a hit, and Lethal Current plus Raiden Flux turn both your dodge-melee and every stacked staff swing into jolt applicators — so a packed room electrocutes itself while you only need to strike one body.
The Arc circuit closes on itself. Jolt kills trigger Flow State (Amplified: damage resistance, faster dodge, greatly increased reload), Spark of Ions mints Ionic Traces off those same jolted/Bolt-Charge kills, and the Traces pour ability energy back into more dodges and melees. Each verb's output is the next verb's input.
Synapse Junctions makes the Super self-sustaining. Hitting fast stacks the damage bonus to 105% at x3 while cutting passive Super drain by 60%, so a fed Arc Staff both hits far harder and lasts dramatically longer — the roaming Super's biggest weakness (bleeding out on time) is answered by simply staying aggressive.
Gambler's Dodge is the reset button. Dodging near a target refunds melee, which refills Combination Blow (heal-on-kill, ramping damage) and re-arms Lethal Current's jolt-and-blind punch — one dodge rearms the whole neutral-game loop between Super casts.
Voltshot bridges the gaps. Reloading after a kill overcharges your Arc primary to jolt on the next hit, so even when abilities are down you keep applying the debuff that feeds Flow State's Amplified and Spark of Ions' Traces — the loop never fully goes cold.
Amplified is free defence you already live in. Because jolt kills keep you Amplified almost permanently, Spark of Amplitude turns your rapid kills into Orbs (Super energy), Spark of Resistance layers extra DR while surrounded, and you tank the melee range the build wants to fight at.

Stats & mods

Melee 200 → Super → Class. Skirmisher-leaning armour (Melee/Weapons primary) — melee is both the neutral-game core and the Super's uptime lever; Super second to keep Arc Staff on cooldown; Class third to feed Gambler's Dodge.

Mods:

Boots: Invigoration — melee energy from Orbs of Power to top up Combination Blow.
Arms: Heavy Handed (melee kill → Orb) + Melee Kickstart (spend-to-refund on melee).
Chest: Arc/elemental resist mods for the in-melee brawling range.
Class item: Powerful Attraction / Bomber — hoover Orbs on dodge and shave Super cooldown.
Surge: Arc Surge — weapon damage matches the Arc subclass and Voltshot primary.
Anti-Champion: intrinsic — jolt stuns Overload, so no anti-champ weapon mod is spent on that role.

Artifact — Tablet of Ruin

Picks (2/3/2): Dielectric + Elemental Siphon — Flashover + Harsh Refraction + Gold From Lead — Defibrillating Blast + Limit Break

Flashover — gaining maximum Bolt Charge makes you Amplified and boosts lightning-bolt damage, converting Arc Staff's Bolt-Charge generation straight into more DR/speed and bigger bolts.
Defibrillating Blast — stunning a Champion grants max Bolt Charge, and Bolt Charge bolts jolt targets and heal you: your anti-Overload jolt becomes a self-healing burst.
Dielectric — defeating Arc-debuffed (jolted) targets grants Bolt Charge, and rapid kills spawn an Orb and heal — this extends the Bolt-Charge loop into your neutral game, not just the Super.
Elemental Siphon — Kinetic or Arc-matching-Super final blows mint an Arc Elemental pickup (Ionic Trace), keeping the ability economy fed between jolt kills.
Limit Break — casting a Super while holding an element-matching buff grants bonus Super damage; the Amplified you live in is an Arc buff, so Arc Staff casts land harder.
Harsh Refraction + Gold From Lead round out the pool — trace-rifle debuff scaling and Special→Heavy ammo economy for the flex weapon slots.

Where it shines

Add-dense majors content — Vanguard, Onslaught, seasonal activities where a roaming Super chews through packs that chain-jolt each other for free.
Sustained brawls — the Amplified/Flow State DR plus Combination Blow's heal-on-kill and Bolt Charge's healing let you hold melee range against a crowd instead of poking from cover.
Champion coverage: jolt stuns Overload intrinsically (staff, Lethal Current, Voltshot all apply it). Bring Unstoppable and Barrier options — an Aggressive/High-Impact frame and a Precision/Adaptive frame, or the season's anti-champ weapon perks — for the other two.

Verify notes

Raiden Flux intrinsic (Synapse Junctions) quoted verbatim from `encyclopedia/exotics.md`; slot corrected to Chest Armor (the prior file said "Gauntlets" — `exotics.md` and `exotic_intrinsics.md` both list it under Chest Armor).
Synapse Junctions stack values — 27%/61%/105% damage and 20%/40%/60% Super-drain reduction at x1/x2/x3, 5s / max 3 stacks — from `encyclopedia/clarity_build_numbers.md`.
Arc Staff super text ("Deflecting a projectile grants you a stack of Bolt Charge", heavy combos blind) from `encyclopedia/perks.md`. The prior file's "Arc Staff kills generate Bolt Charge" and the "1.5× critical combo-finisher palm blast / every staff hit jolts" 9.7.0-rework claims are not in the encyclopedia — flagged as tuning/unconfirmed; the sourced intrinsic only states damage/duration/jolt-target scaling.
Aspects Lethal Current and Flow State quoted from `encyclopedia/aspects.md`; fragments (Ions, Resistance, Amplitude, Feedback) from `encyclopedia/fragments.md`; Voltshot and Pulse Grenade from `encyclopedia/perks.md`.
Artifact Tablet of Ruin 2/3/2 unchanged; all seven mods (Dielectric, Elemental Siphon, Flashover, Harsh Refraction, Gold From Lead, Defibrillating Blast, Limit Break) verified against `encyclopedia/artifacts_structured.md`.
Combination Blow has no entry in the encyclopedia dumps; its heal-on-kill / ramping-damage / dodge-reset behaviour is described from established Arcstrider design and flagged unconfirmed against the manifest here. Movement (Triple Jump) is a flex pick, not a fixed part of the build.

Mod selection (masterworked — full allocation)

Piece	Mod · cost	What it does
Helmet (7/10)	Arc Siphon 3e fill	Rapid Arc weapon final blows create an Orb of Power.
	Hands-On 3e fill	Gain bonus Super energy on melee kills.
	Heavy Ammo Finder 1e fill	Increases the effect of all contributions towards the Heavy ammo meter.
Arms (6/10)	Heavy Handed 3e	Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.
	Melee Kickstart 1e	When your melee energy is fully expended, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain melee energy for each Armor Charge used.
	Momentum Transfer 2e fill	Causing damage with a grenade reduces your melee cooldown.
Chest (5/10)	Arc Resistance 1e fill	Reduces incoming Arc damage from combatants.
	Concussive Dampener 3e fill	Reduces incoming area-of-effect damage from combatants.
	Sniper Damage Resistance 1e fill	Reduces incoming damage from combatants that are at long range.
Legs (3/10)	Invigoration 1e	Reduces melee cooldown each time you pick up an Orb of Power.
	Arc Weapon Surge 1e	Your Arc weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.
	Arc Weapon Surge 1e fill	Your Arc weapons gain a small bonus to damage while you have any Armor Charge. Your Armor Charge now decays over time.
Class Item (4/10)	Bomber 1e	Reduces grenade cooldown when using your class ability.
	Powerful Attraction 2e	Automatically collects nearby Orbs of Power when you activate your class ability.
	Reaper 1e fill	Shortly after using your class ability, your next weapon final blow spawns an Orb of Power.

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). Flex/loadout-dependent: Voltshot primary. - **Anti-Champion:** intrinsic — jolt stuns Overload; so no anti-champ weapon mod is spent on that role.