Arc

Blink Reaper — Storm's Edge (Arc Hunter)

Frequent burst / aggressive roam

Centerpiece: Gifted Conviction (Chest) · Subclass: Arcstrider · Role: Frequent burst / aggressive roam Sandbox: 9.7.0 · Updated 2026-07-03

Throw the dagger, blink to it, detonate in a whirling blade-storm — then do it again, and again. Renegades gave Storm's Edge a big passive-regen bump so the Super comes back per-room, and Gifted Conviction turns the whole in-between into a jolting, damage-resistant mess where diving into the crowd makes you tankier, not squishier.

The exotic

The Gift of Certainty: Activating Ascension or Tempest Strike throws bouncing explosives at nearby targets that jolt and damage them. Jolting nearby targets grants you damage resistance.

Gifted Conviction welds your two Arcstrider movement verbs — Ascension (the airborne class-ability move) and Tempest Strike (the sliding uppercut) — into on-demand AoE jolt bombs. The community database resolves the exotic as three tracking Arc projectiles per cast that jolt on hit, and the damage-resistance return is real and stacking: jolting targets within roughly 15 metres grants a Damage Resist buff for 10 seconds that stacks 3 times, worth about 25% / 40% / 50% in PvE at one/two/three applications. Because you are always jolting the pack you are standing in, the DR is near-permanent in a crowd, and every jolt feeds Bolt Charge through the rest of the kit. Aggression is the survival plan.

Loadout

Slot	Pick	Why
Subclass	Arcstrider	Arc's jolt/amplify/Bolt-Charge economy is what Gifted Conviction plugs into.
Super	Storm's Edge	Triple blink-and-detonate roaming burst that skips travel time and line-of-sight.
Class ability	Gambler's Dodge	Refunds melee energy, feeding the Tempest Strike / Lethal Current loop.
Movement	Triple Jump	Extra air time to line up Ascension's airborne activation.
Melee	Tempest Strike	Sliding uppercut lightning wave — one of the two Gifted Conviction triggers.
Grenade	Pulse / Flux Grenade	Flex Arc jolt damage while abilities recharge.
Aspect 1	Ascension	Airborne jolt burst + Amplified; consumes class-ability energy (so Class stat fuels its uptime) and is the other Gifted Conviction trigger.
Aspect 2	Lethal Current	Post-dodge melee jolts, blinds jolted targets, and adds a damaging aftershock.
Fragments	Ions / Resistance / Frequency / Amplitude	Ionic Trace generation, crowd DR, reload uptime, and Orb generation while amplified.
Exotic armour	Gifted Conviction (Chest)	Turns both movement abilities into jolting AoE bombs and makes DR near-permanent in a pack.
Weapons	Arc primary w/ Voltshot + Trace Rifle + flex Power	Voltshot jolts to feed Bolt Charge; Trace Rifle pairs with Harsh Refraction on jolted targets.

Fragments

Spark of Ions jolted/Bolt-Charge kill → Ionic Trace
Spark of Resistance surrounded → damage resist, +10 Melee
Spark of Frequency melee hits → reload speed + stability
Spark of Amplitude rapid kills while amplified → Orb of Power

Why it works (the mechanics)

Storm's Edge is burst that ignores geometry. The dagger-blink-detonate sequence skips travel time and line-of-sight, so it deletes entrenched clusters — snipers on ledges, shielded pockets — that roaming Supers waste duration walking toward. Renegades' passive-regen bump makes it a per-room tool rather than a once-a-fight ult, so you are casting it constantly rather than hoarding it.
Gifted Conviction inverts the melee-range risk. Jolting nearby targets grants a stacking Damage Resist buff (25/40/50% in PvE, 10 s, up to x3), so diving into the crowd with Tempest Strike or Ascension makes you tankier, not squishier. Your survivability scales with how aggressive you are, which is exactly the tempo Storm's Edge wants.
Everything jolts, so Overload is answered passively. Tempest Strike, Ascension, Lethal Current, Voltshot, and the Conviction explosives all apply Jolt, and Jolt stuns Overload champions. You never spend a dedicated button on champion coverage — it falls out of the normal rotation.
Bolt Charge accrues from the whole kit. Tempest Strike's own aspect grants Bolt Charge on jolted-target kills, and the Dielectric artifact mod tops it up on any Arc-debuffed kill. Flashover then cashes maximum Bolt Charge as Amplified plus bigger lightning — a damage loop with no button spent maintaining it.
Ionic Traces close the Super loop. Spark of Ions mints an Ionic Trace on every jolted or Bolt-Charge kill, and Elemental Siphon adds an Arc pickup on Super-matching kills; both funnel ability energy back so Ascension, Tempest Strike, and Storm's Edge all recharge faster than you spend them.

Stats & mods

Class 200 → Super → Melee. Class drives Ascension and Gambler's Dodge uptime (both spend class-ability energy), then Super for Storm's Edge frequency and Melee for the Tempest Strike / Lethal Current cadence. Archetype lean: Reaver (Class/Melee) or Demolitionist (Grenade/Class).

Mods:

Boots: Bomber (dodge → grenade energy) + Innervation for ability churn.
Arms: Heavy Handed / Momentum Transfer to refund melee off ability damage.
Chest: Arc resist mods for the melee-range dives.
Class item: Outreach + Bomber to keep dodge and melee online.
Surge: Arc surge to match the Super and Voltshot damage.
Anti-Champion: Jolt covers Overload intrinsically; lean on Voltshot uptime.

Artifact — Tablet of Ruin

Picks (2/3/2):

Tier 1: Dielectric · Elemental Siphon
Tier 2: Flashover · Harsh Refraction · Gold From Lead
Tier 3: Defibrillating Blast · Limit Break

Dielectric turns every Arc-debuffed kill into Bolt Charge (and rapid ones into an Orb plus a heal) — the engine, since this entire kit jolts.
Elemental Siphon mints an Arc Elemental pickup on Kinetic or Super-matching final blows, speeding Storm's Edge and abilities back.
Flashover cashes maximum Bolt Charge into Amplified plus stronger lightning bolts, the payoff for all that Bolt Charge generation.
Harsh Refraction gives Trace Rifles bonus damage against your jolted targets, so the secondary weapon leans on the same debuff the kit spreads.
Defibrillating Blast grants max Bolt Charge on champion stun and heals you off Bolt-Charge bolts, chaining champion play back into the damage loop.
Limit Break cashes the Amplified you live in — an Arc buff matching your Arc Super — into bonus Storm's Edge damage on each cast.

Where it shines

Add-dense roam content (strikes, Onslaught, patrol, lost sectors) where the crowd keeps DR stacked and Storm's Edge recharges per room.
Master/GM survivability via the crowd Damage Resist buff — the more targets, the tankier the dives.
Champion coverage: Jolt (Tempest Strike, Ascension, Lethal Current, Voltshot, Conviction explosives, Defibrillating Blast) stuns Overload intrinsically. Bring Barrier via a Barrier-piercing primary and Unstoppable via a High-Impact/Aggressive frame or artifact stun, since the kit does not break those two on its own.

Verify notes

Gifted Conviction intrinsic ("The Gift of Certainty") quoted verbatim from `docs/encyclopedia/exotics.md`; the 3-projectile / jolt-on-hit detail and the Damage Resist values (25% / 40% / 50% PvE at x1/x2/x3, 10 s, ~15 m) are from `docs/encyclopedia/clarity_build_numbers.md` — this resolves the old "verify DR value in manifest" flag.
Storm's Edge Super text (summon/throw dagger → blink → whirling strike → reactivate) quoted from `docs/encyclopedia/perks.md`.
Ascension (airborne class-ability jolt burst + Amplify), Tempest Strike (Bolt-Charge on jolted-target kills), and Lethal Current (damaging aftershock + blinds jolted targets on melee) aspect text from `docs/encyclopedia/aspects.md`.
Flagged (unconfirmed): Ascension "damage scaling at Class 100+" is not in the frozen aspects/clarity dumps — Ascension consumes class-ability energy, so Class stat helps its uptime, but treat any direct damage-per-Class scaling as unconfirmed.
Fragment effects (Ions, Resistance, Frequency, Amplitude) from `docs/encyclopedia/fragments.md`; Spark of Resistance carries +10 Melee.
Tablet of Ruin 2/3/2 picks all confirmed real mods in the correct tiers per `docs/encyclopedia/artifacts_structured.md` (Dielectric/Elemental Siphon T1; Flashover/Harsh Refraction/Gold From Lead T2; Defibrillating Blast/Limit Break T3).
Flagged (tuning/patch-note): Renegades' "+25% passive Super regen" for Storm's Edge is a patch-note number not present in the frozen 9.7.0 encyclopedia dumps — the interaction (Renegades buffed Storm's Edge passive regen) holds, but treat the exact percentage as unconfirmed.

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.
	Ashes to Assets 3e fill	Gain bonus Super energy on grenade kills.
	Heavy Ammo Finder 1e fill	Increases the effect of all contributions towards the Heavy ammo meter.
Arms (8/10)	Heavy Handed 3e	Your powered melee final blows create Orbs of Power.
	Momentum Transfer 2e	Causing damage with a grenade reduces your melee cooldown.
	Utility Kickstart 3e fill	When your class ability energy is fully expended, your Armor Charge is consumed and you gain class ability energy for each Armor Charge used.
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)	Innervation 1e	Reduces grenade 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 (3/10)	Outreach 1e	Reduces melee cooldown when using your class ability.
	Bomber 1e	Reduces grenade cooldown when using 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 damage. - **Anti-Champion:** Jolt covers Overload intrinsically; lean on Voltshot uptime.