Arbiter (StarCraft II)

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The Arbiter is a protoss psionic assault warship specializing in providing strategic movement and crowd-controlling support.

Game Unit

Legacy of the Void

Arbiters are playable in the campaign of Legacy of the Void as a choice for an assault ship, along with the void ray and destroyer. The arbiter retains its cloaking field, recall, and stasis field abilities.

• Cloaking field passive ability cloaks all nearby friendly units, but not arbiters themselves. A popular strategy is to attach arbiters and observers to a carrier group. The carriers attack from under the cloak, and ward off attacks on the uncloaked arbiters.
• Stasis ability can cut an enemy attack wave in half, allowing allied forces to eliminate foes in smaller, more manageable groups. A popular strategy is to use stasis to disable high threat units, like siege-tanks or capital ships, while destroying weaker enemies.
• Recall ability offers a powerful means of strategic movement. Arbiters may use recall to teleport allied forces into an enemy base, circumventing any defenses. Recall is of particular importance as the campaign does not allow the player to use warp prisms or other transports, making Recall the only reliable way to remotely move forces around the map.

The arbiter is much more of an offensive-support craft than the void ray and destroyer, but its force-multiplier abilities remain effective when used correctly. While the mothership is also available in the campaign, the player is still limited to only one, but may have multiple arbiters.

Abilities

Recall

Teleports all allied units in area of effect to the user.

Usage
Hotkey R Cost 100

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Stasis Field

Traps enemies in area of effect in stasis for duration. Units in stasis cannot move, attack, be attacked, use abilities, or be affected by abilities.

Usage
Hotkey F Cost 50 Duration 15

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Cloaking Field

Cloaks allied units in range 5 of the user.

Usage
Passive

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Upgrades

Air Armor

Increases protoss air unit armor.

Acquisition
Purchased from Cybernetics Core Hotkey A Level 1 Cost 100 100 129 Level 2 Cost 175 175 154 Required Fleet beacon Level 3 Cost 250 250 179 Required Fleet beacon

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Plasma Shields

• +1 armor to shields per level.

Acquisition
Purchased from Forge Hotkey S Level 1 Cost 150 150 121.6 Level 2 Cost 200 200 144.6 Required Twilight council Level 3 Cost 250 250 167.9 Required Twilight council

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Plasma Shields

• +1 armor to shields per level.

Acquisition
Purchased from Forge Hotkey S Level 1 Cost 150 150 121.6 Level 2 Cost 200 200 144.6 Required Twilight council Level 3 Cost 250 250 167.9 Required Twilight council

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Co-op Missions

Main article: Cybros arbiter

Fenix has a combat suit named the Cybros arbiter that he can deploy in Co-op Missions, which utilizes the base arbiter abilities. Unlike the regular Arbiter, its cloaking field also affects itself, but it must be manually activated and rapidly drains energy to sustain.^[1] The Vanguard of Aiur and Fleet of the Matriarch enemy compositions include Arbiters, albeit they do not utilize their Stasis Field and Mass recall abilities, only the cloaking field. They only appear in tier 6 and 7 waves, the endgame ones.

Quotations

For StarCraft II in-game quotations See: StarCraft II Arbiter Quotations

References