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Edited by Ghostfire239:
12/22/2017 12:54:37 AM
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I'm Not Very Good With Arcstrider. Any Tips on using Arc-Staff in PvP?
I'm going to be straight up here, I don't like Arc-Staff (Or Arcstrider as a whole) in PvP. It's great in PvE, it does crowd control far better than Bladedancer did. But when it comes to PvP, I think if we put a Year 3 Destiny 1 Bladedancer and an Arcstrider in the same series of PvP situations the Bladedancer would be more successful in all of them. That being said, we have Arcstrider in D2 and Bladedancer isn't coming back so I want to try and get better with it and hopefully I'll begin to like it.
I've been using the bottom tree, and using dodges to get close to enemies (and occasionally the slam attack) but I never really see any success in this.
At least one of these 3 things always happen to me when I use Arc-Staff:
1. I kill a person and get teamshot to death before I can dodge again
2. The team just backs up and teamshot me to death (or run if it's just 1 person)
3. I use my arc-staff as a way to distract the enemy team so my team can get the drop on them.
I was also wondering how to challenge a FoH when you're both using your supers. Every time I challenge one I die before I can either hit the again or back off because of the aftershock.
If anyone has some tips to best use the Arc-staff super then please let me know.
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It requires the most skill out of all the subclasses, you have to use your dodge as well as your attacks selectively to make you hard to hit. You should never use this if your not at full or close to full health. The blast combo can one shot any super so you have to time that perfectly. Against the striker try to set them up so that they are running straight to you then perform the blast combo to hit him with the blast as they run into range. It’s not meant to roam the map for multiple kills. The subclass itself is built around aggressive play style, so when your opponent tries to play aggressively against you to counter your aggressiveness you pop the super as a trump card.
