Destiny 2 Hunter BuildOptimal DPS Star-Eater Scales Day One Challenge Hunter
Grenades stick to surfaces and chain Arc bolts to other mines.
You gain additional Super energy from Orbs of Power you pick up. While your Super energy is full, picking up an Orb of Power overcharges your Super, causing you to gain a burst of healing when cast and a bonus to your Super damage. At maximum overcharge, you also gain an overshield.
strengths
- High Damage Super
- Improved Crowd Control
- Bonus Resistance
weaknesses
- Lacks Health Regeneration
- Need ORBS!
Build Details
Using the Star-Eater Scales exotic boots with the Arcstrider subclass on a Hunter in Destiny 2 offers massive damage potential, faster Super regeneration, and survivability boosts. Here’s a detailed breakdown of the synergy between Star-Eater Scales and Arcstrider:
Star-Eater Scales Exotic Perk: Feast of Light Feast of Light: The key perk of Star-Eater Scales allows you to overcharge your Super by collecting Orbs of Power. The more Orbs you collect before activating your Super, the greater the damage output and healing benefits. Collecting 4 Orbs of Power allows you to increase your Super damage by up to 70% when fully charged. Additionally, you heal upon casting your Super, making it more forgiving and easier to survive when in the heat of combat. Benefits of Using Star-Eater Scales with Arcstrider 1. Massive Super Damage Boost Enhanced Damage Output: Star-Eater Scales’ primary advantage lies in its ability to greatly boost the damage of your Arcstrider Super. For Arc Staff, this means you can deal significantly more damage to bosses or high-value targets. The damage increase, up to 70% with Feast of Light x4, turns your Arc Staff into a powerful single-target DPS tool. Boss Melting Potential: With this combination, Arcstriders can output enough damage to melt raid bosses or dungeon bosses, making Star-Eater Scales a valuable choice for high-end PvE activities. 2. Faster Super Regeneration Quicker Super Charge: Star-Eater Scales increases the Super energy gained from Orbs of Power. This means you can build up your Super much faster than usual. Arcstriders using mods and fragments to generate Orbs from melee or grenade kills can benefit from this faster Super charge rate, ensuring they have their Super ready more often. Synergy with Orb-Generating Builds: Pairing this with Arcstrider's ability to generate Orbs via melee kills or grenade kills ensures that you’re frequently overcharging your Super. The synergy with Flow State (which grants enhanced Super regeneration when amplified) means you’re continuously in a cycle of fast Super generation and high burst damage. 3. Healing Upon Super Activation Survivability Boost: One of the underrated aspects of Star-Eater Scales is the healing effect when you cast your Super with Feast of Light stacks. This extra health regeneration ensures you remain in the fight longer and can safely use your Arc Staff in the middle of tough engagements without worrying about getting overwhelmed by enemies. 4. Synergy with Arcstrider Aspects Flow State Aspect: Flow State enhances your survivability and damage output when you defeat jolted enemies, allowing you to become Amplified. When Amplified, your dodge and ability regeneration speeds are faster, which helps in quickly getting your melee and grenades back. This speeds up the process of generating Orbs for Star-Eater Scales and allows you to maintain constant momentum in combat. Tempest Strike Aspect: Tempest Strike provides an arc wave attack when you perform a sliding melee, which can jolt and damage enemies. This works exceptionally well with Arcstrider, giving you additional crowd control and helping to generate Orbs of Power quickly to stack Feast of Light. 5. Enhanced Crowd Control Arc Staff and Crowd Control: Arc Staff excels at crowd control, sweeping through groups of enemies with ease. With Star-Eater Scales, your enhanced Super damage not only makes it easier to clear large groups of enemies but also allows you to maintain control over the battlefield while dealing high DPS. Jolt and Amplified Synergy: The jolt effect from abilities combined with Amplified status further increases your effectiveness in controlling the flow of battle, allowing you to keep enemies at bay while collecting Orbs to charge up your Super. 6. PvE and PvP Versatility PvE Super Burst: In PvE, the combination of Arcstrider and Star-Eater Scales turns you into a boss-killing machine. The boosted damage from a fully stacked Feast of Light Super means you can deal significant burst damage to raid bosses or dungeon bosses. Additionally, being able to heal upon Super activation ensures that you stay alive during these high-risk engagements. PvP Super Power: In PvP, while the utility of Star-Eater Scales is more limited, the damage boost can be helpful in modes like Trials of Osiris or Control where your Arc Staff can be used to quickly eliminate multiple Guardians. The healing effect upon Super activation gives you a slight edge in survival during aggressive Super engagements.
Step 1: Engage Enemies with Storm Grenades Step 2: Strike up-close enemies with melee Step 3: Dodge to regain melee Step 4: Follow up with Combination Blows. Step 5: Use Weapons with Voltshot. Step 6: Collect Orbs to build up Star-Eater Scales. Step 7: Use Super on High Ranking Enemies or Dense Ads.
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