Destiny 2 Arc Titan PvE Build

This guide gives weapons, exotics, and armor mods for a Destiny 2 Arc Titan PvE Build, intended for end-game PvE players!

Updated for Episode Heresy and Update 8.2.0.2. This build is designed to be used without seasonal artifact mods but will have a section where any relevant artifact mods will be mentioned if they improve the build.

Arc Titan PvE Build Guide

This Destiny 2 Arc Titan PvE Build is for those players who are looking to put out some crazy damage numbers. Do you enjoy spamming abilities? Do you want to make Shaxx proud and throw as many grenades as titanly possible? Then look no further than this build. Your damage output will be so high that your teammates may tell you to slow down so they can make sure to get those finishers on champions. This has a very aggressive playstyle that just is the ultimate Titan power fantasy. Find out all the details on how to craft, create, and optimize our Arc Titan PvE Build.

How to Play the Arc Titan PvE Build in Destiny 2

This Arc Titan PvE build is based around the Bolt Charge ability and getting it to discharge a lighting bolt as many times as possible. Throw your rally barricade out as much as possible to generate Bolt Charge. Afterward, fire your Psychopomp or Thunderlord to discharge the lightning bolts from it as much as possible. That’s all it takes to deal out a lot of damage with this Arc Titan build. Make sure to remain behind your barricade as much as possible, but don’t get so fixated on it that you don’t leave a potentially dangerous situation.

Below are some general tips for playing Arc Titan in Destiny 2 PvE content:

• Check Everything: All your loot may seem excessive, but you never know when you are gonna get the perfectly rolled weapon or armor.
• Crafting: If you can craft a weapon that you need, do it. Then you can easily have the perfect version of the weapon you need.
• Exotics: Acquire as many exotic weapons and armor as possible even if they aren’t pertinent to your build. You never know what you may need in the future.
• Ghost Mods: Make sure you focus your armor to right stats and get as much experience as possible by setting your ghost mods up.
• Catalyst: Make sure you complete the exotic catalyst for your exotic weapons as they drastically increase the weapons power.
• Surges: Pay attention to surges as they may change what the best build or loadout is for that piece of content.
• Be Flexible: Sometimes you have to change your loadout for the situation at hand. Don’t lock into one build and suffer for it.

Destiny 2 Arc Titan PvE Features

The following list presents all the essential Arc Titan PvE Mechanics and Features in Destiny 2:

Category	Selection
Class	Titan
Subclass	Striker
Super	Thundercrash
Class Ability	Rally Barricade
Grenade	Pulse Grenade
Melee	Thunderclap
Aspects	Knockout Storm’s Keep
Fragments (Sparks)	Frequency Discharge Resistance Ions
Stat Distribution	Mobility: 20 Resilience: 100 Recovery: 30 Discipline: 100 Intellect: 30 Strength: 80

Super

Thundercrash is the best super choice for an Arc Titan PvE Build because of its high burst damage output. Since PvE is typically about putting out as much damage as possible in short amount of time, you can cast this super and then go back to dealing damage with your weapons almost immediately. In content where it is allowed, you can also swap to the Cuirass of the Falling Star exotic chest piece before casting it to do even more damage. Remember that you aren’t locked into your super choice except in certain content so switch it out according to the situation you are in.

Here is the best super choice for an Arc Titan PvE Build in Destiny 2:

Thundercrash	Fist of Havoc
Huge burst damage	Great for clearing minor enemies
One and done	More effective for content without bosses
Excellent for Boss Phases	Can last for awhile

Class, Melee, & Grenade Abilities

Rally Barricade is the best class ability for an Arc Titan PvE Build because it can generate bolt charge and increase weapon stats. While combined with the Storm’s Keep aspect, anytime you are near your rally barricade you will generate charges of Bolt Charge. Furthermore, you can discharge the Bolt Charge by shooting your enemies with any weapon while near the barricade as well. Finally, the rally barricade also offers some cover to protect you from enemy fire.

Pulse Grenade is the best grenade ability for an Arc Titan PvE Build because it can deal with a large amount of damage and lock down an area for a short duration. Additionally, grenades discharge your Bolt Charge when it is available. They deal decent damage to larger targets and can outright take out several minor combatants with a single grenade.

Thunderclap is the best melee ability for an Arc Titan PvE build because it can deal a quick burst of damage to several enemies at once. Like all Titan abilities that deal damage, the Thunderclap can also discharge your Bolt Charge when its full. This makes the Thunderclap a powerful choice when dealing with a large group of enemies right in front of you. Additionally, anyone who survives the initial attack will most likely die to the Bolt Charge after the fact.

Aspects & Fragments

Storm’s Keep and Knockout are the best aspects to use with an Arc Titan PvE build because they feed into generating Bolt Charge and causing you to become amplified. Storm’s Keep is the newest Titan aspect and it generates stacks of Bolt Charge just by standing by a Titan barricade. Furthermore, the aspect allows the discharge of Bolt Charge by firing weapons near the barricade, something that can normally only be done with ability damage and not weapon damage. The Knockout aspect heals you and makes you amplified for getting melee kills. The healing is especially important as Arc subclasses typically lack a lot of healing sources.

The best fragments to use with an Arc Titan PvE build are the Sparks of Frequency, Discharge, Resistance, and Ions. Spark of Frequency increase our ability to gain Bolt Charge stacks while we are amplified, further building into the main part of our build. Additionally, the Spark of Discharge has Arc weapon final blows creating Ionic Traces and those Ionic Traces increase our Bolt Charge stacks. Furthermore, you get increased damage resistance while surrounded by combatants with the Spark of Resistance. Finally, the Spark of Ions will cause any combatants killed by our Bolt Charge to generate Ionic Traces.

Best Gear for Destiny 2 Arc Titan PvE Build

While your subclass choices definitely contribute to your overall power in Destiny 2, the loot is really what defines your character’s build and power. You will gather powerful weapons and armor which directly effect your statistics and ability to deal damage in the game. In fact, the weapons are your primary means of dealing with your enemies both in PvE and PvP. Make sure to check your weapons for the right traits and your armor for the right stats that you will need to get this build and others up to their maximum potential.

Weapons

The best weapons for a PvE Arc Titan build are Tinasha’s Mastery, Psychopomp, and Thunderlord. Tinasha’s Mastery is the current best-in-slot pick for rocket sidearms for its power and utility function. Additionally, Psychopomp is a powerful area denial frame grenade launcher that pairs really well with our Bolt Charge build. Finally, Thunderlord is a great exotic machine gun option that does decently at both dealing with minor combatants and doing boss damage.

Here’s a list of the best weapon loadouts for our build:

Weapon Slot	Best Weapon	Best Traits
Kinetic	Tinasha’s Mastery	Air Trigger, Chill Clip
Energy	Psychopomp	Ambitious Assassin, Rolling Thunder
Heavy Weapon	Thunderlord	Reign Havoc

Exotic Armor

The best exotic to use with this Arc Titan PvE Build is the Eternal Warrior Exotic helmet because of its passive benefit to arc damage. The main purpose of our use of the Eternal Warrior is to get the Arc Weapon Boost that the Resolute exotic trait provides. While it does grant additional benefits for using the Fist of Havoc super, we will rarely be using that aspect of the exotic. In fact, your choice of exotic really doesn’t matter much as most of the heavy lifting on this build is from the aspects. Nevertheless, the Eternal Warrior does provide a nice easy-to-use passive benefit that will essentially always be active.

Armor Stats

The best stats to focus on for our Arc Titan PvE build are Resilience, Discipline, and Strength. These provide us with both the offense and defense needed to survive end-game content and also all directly feed into our ability uptime.

• Mobility: 20
• Resilience: 100
• Recovery: 30
• Discipline: 100
• Intellect: 30
• Strength: 80

Armor Mods

The best armor mods for the Heart of Inmost Light Arc Titan build are Harmonic Siphon, Bolstering Detonation, Recuperation, and Arc Weapon Surge. All of our damage will be coming from Bolt Charge and our Arc weapons, so naturally we will want to get the damage of both up as much as possible. Arc Siphon and Arc Weapon Surge will feed into each other by generating orbs to further increase the power of our weapons. Furthermore, our other mods are all designed to keep our Rally Barricade up as much as possible to be able to keep Bolt Charge constantly going off.

Slot	Mod	Mod	Mod
Head	Harmonic Siphon	Stasis Siphon	Heavy Ammo Finder
Arms	Firepower	Bolstering Detonation	Harmonic Loader
Chest	Resist Mods*	Resist Mods*	Resist Mods*
Legs	Recuperation	Arc Weapon Surge	Arc Weapon Surge
Class	Bomber	Outreach	Time Dilation

Your chest mods will change depending on the damage types you are facing based on the content you are doing. Furthermore, remember that using the same mod more than once has diminishing returns. Generally, utilize any stat-boosting mods as you see fit to max out any of your priority stats.

Artifact Mods

The best artifact mods to use with a Arc Titan PvE build are Flashover, Overclock and Load, and Dielectric. The Tablet of Ruin artifact for Episode Heresy has several great mods for Arc subclasses that was introduced during Act 1. Additionally, most of these mods feed directly into bolt charge and amplify, making this Arc Titan PvE build even stronger than it would be normally. While the build functions without these mods, they improve it drastically.

Here is a list of all of the artifact mods that help the Arc Titan PvE Build in Destiny 2:

• Overclock and Load: Arc Weapons have increased handling and reload while amplified or have Bolt Charge.
• Volatile Marksman: While a Void mod, this weapon works with Bolt Charge just like Volatile.
• Hold the Line: Machine guns have increased stats when surrounded. Also, final blows heal you.
• Dielectric: Defeating Arc Debuffed Targets grants Bolt Charge stacks.
• Photonic Flare: Blinds combatants around defeated enemies that were suffering from Exhaustion or Severed.
• Flashover: Become amplified when you get maximum Bolt Charge. Lightning bolts deal more damage.
• Defribulating Blast: Stunning a Champion grants maximum bolt charge, heals you, and jolts nearby combatants.

Arc Titan PvE Changes in Episode Heresy for Destiny 2

The release of Episode Heresy brought quite a few changes to the sandbox for Arc subclasses in general and even more the Striker Titan. Firstly, Episode Heresy introduced the new Arc key word Bolt Charge, which builds up stacks and then can be discharged once 10 stacks are built up. Once the stacks are built up, any ability damage will cause the stacks to discharge which generates a powerful bolt of lighting at the target’s location. Additionally for Titans, the new Storm’s Keep aspect was introduced which allows for easy Bolt Charge accumulation and discharge with the use of barricade abilities. Consequently, these changes have made Arc a much more viable build option for PvE in several scenarios and created several new ways to build into the Striker subclass.

Destiny 2 Arc Titan PvE Build Summary

Below is a complete summary of stats, weapons, mods, abilities, and fragments for the Arc Titan PvE build for Destiny 2:

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