FYI, this footage doesn't even use artifact mods and arc surge isn't active, and it's solo GM.

I feel like no one's really talked about arc staff hunter, but I've been using it for months now and am pretty confident in saying it's the best subclass for hunter in 99% of content (for raid and dungeon bosses, you would want to use something with a damage super.)

In terms of neutral game, you have a melee that blinds, makes you amplified, and gives bolt charge. A grenade that blinds and jolts. If you run flow state and 50 mobility, you can get your dodge back in 10 seconds while amplified, letting you loop ascension, plus lightning fast reload speed while amplified. 

And then the best part, the arc staff super. Since roaming supers get 3x super regen from damage, weapons like machine guns, area denials, and certain exotics like Choir and Lord of Wolves give you so much super energy for just dealing damage.  I can get 5-6 supers in one 11 12 minute GM, and I could get more, but you do kinda want to use it strategically.  

Then while in the super, because of raiden flux, it does a ton of damage and lasts a long time. You can take out all 3 champion types with arc staff. Overload from jolting (via Ascension or grenade), unstoppable from blind (heavy slam or grenade), and barrier just from raw damage from the super (you deal enough damage before it puts it's shield up). If you run 3x heavy handed, every kill in the super will make an orb. Running the recuperation mod means these orbs heal you. I often finish GMs with upwards of 200 orbs. I remember completing an onslaught and I was near 1000 orbs I think.

If we compare this to prismatic, yes prismatic has much more damage resist, but this has access to blind, 100% amp uptime, and the arc staff super. It does also have healing from picking up orbs while outside of super, with siphon mods and such.

I use this build to solo farm the opening encounter of GOTD Ultimatum, and it works perfectly. I have the super ready for every time I go back to the middle, making dunking the symbol really easy. I was also using it in court of blades and it worked great there, consistently getting top damage numbers on the team. 

Am I wrong in saying that this is the best hunter build? Like I've compared it with Prism hunter and I just find this to be better most of the time. 

Raiden Flux Arc Staff is the best hunter build for 99% of content, yes, even better than prismatic