Back when we had the Elemental Well system, there was a mod called Well of Ions, which increased your melee damage for a short time when you picked up an Arc elemental orb. They should bring that back, and merge it with Amplified. It would give Amplified a more offensive function, and synergize better with the Arc subclasses' close range abilities.
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Amplification is a pretty lack lustre buff. It’s a flat handling buff, grants 50 mobility and slide distance and has the ability to access speed booster. Speed booster gives DR, but only while sprinting, and it’s only 15%. It’s quite good on arc hunter with flow state, but it’s quite niche, and Arc as a whole is probably the weakest subclass apart from arc warlock. Amplification needs to have a generic DR/Heal/Defensive verb like every other class has. -Stasis has a 25/36% DR frost armor and healing from shards -Strand has Woven mail and sever -Void has Overshield/Devour/Invis -Solar has Restoration x1/2 and Cure x1/2/3. Arc has blind, but it’s not a consistent survival tool, since it’s only effective vs non-boss combatants, and its sources aren’t very spammable apart from Queenbreaker(my goat) in comparison to other Subclass verbs. Would love to see it grant 20% DR while amplified, and an additional 15% with speed booster.