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ARC Raiders features a skill tree with three main branches: Conditioning, Mobility, and Survival, allowing players to specialize their Raider. Players earn skill points by gaining XP through various in-game activities like completing quests, defeating enemies, and looting. Strategic allocation of these points enhances aspects like survivability, movement, and looting efficiency, with a maximum of 76 skill points obtainable by level 75, and options to reset and prestige.

◈ Navigation Index ▼
  • 01 Introduction to the Skill Tree
  • 02 Earning Skill Points and Leveling Up
  • 03 Skill Tree Branches: Conditioning, Mobility, and Survival
  • 04 Key Skills and Strategic Allocation
  • 05 Resetting Your Skill Tree
  • 06 End-Game and Prestige Progression

Comprehensive Guide to the ARC Raiders Skill Tree

In ARC Raiders, your Raider's effectiveness in the Rust Belt is significantly influenced by their progression through the game's skill tree. This system allows for character specialization across three distinct branches: Conditioning, Mobility, and Survival, enabling players to tailor their gameplay experience.

Earning Skill Points and Leveling Up

Players gain experience points (XP) through a variety of in-raid actions and activities. These include completing quests, defeating enemies, looting containers, surviving in the field, downing other raiders, and successfully extracting from raids. Accumulating XP leads to leveling up, with each new level granting a skill point to spend in the skill tree.

Tips for faster leveling include keeping an eye out for Major Map Modifiers like Night Raid or Electromagnetic Storm, which offer double the normal Trial points, increased loot value, and buffed enemies. Looting every container you come across also adds up XP quickly, as experience is granted upon breaching the container, even if items aren't taken. Playing in a squad can also make XP farming easier.

Skill Tree Branches: Conditioning, Mobility, and Survival

The ARC Raiders skill tree is divided into three core categories, each offering unique benefits to your Raider's capabilities:

Conditioning

This branch focuses on enhancing your Raider's resilience and interaction with the environment and gear. Skills here can drastically increase survivability. Examples of Conditioning Skills:
  • Used to the Weight: Reduces the movement speed penalty when wearing a shield.
  • Blast-Born: Decreases the effect of nearby explosions on your hearing.
  • Gentle Pressure: Makes less noise when breaching.
  • Fight or Flight: Regains stamina when hurt in combat (with a cooldown).
  • Proficient Pryer: Reduces the time it takes to breach doors and containers.
  • Survivor's Stamina: Increases stamina regeneration when critically hurt.
  • Unburdened Roll: Your first dodge roll after your shield breaks costs no stamina.
  • Downed But Determined: Increases the time before you collapse when downed.
  • A Little Extra: Breaching an object generates resources.
  • Loaded Arms: Reduces the impact of your equipped weapon on encumbrance.
  • Back on Your Feet: Health regenerates to a certain limit when critically hurt.

    • Mobility

    Focuses on improving your Raider's movement and agility, allowing for faster traversal and evasion. Examples of Mobility Skills:
  • Nimble Climber: Increases climbing and vaulting speed.
  • Marathon Runner: Reduces stamina cost for moving.
  • Slip and Slide: Allows for longer and faster slides.
  • Youthful Lungs: Increases maximum stamina.
  • Sturdy Ankles: Reduces fall damage from non-lethal heights.
  • Carry the Momentum: Provides a short period of free sprinting after a Sprint Dodge Roll.
  • Calming Stroll: Regenerates stamina while walking as if standing still.
  • Effortless Roll: Reduces stamina cost for Dodge Rolls.

    • Survival

    Enhances your Raider's ability to scavenge, manage inventory, and endure in hostile environments. Examples of Survival Skills:
  • Agile Croucher: Increases movement speed while crouching.
  • Looter's Instincts: Reveals loot faster when searching containers.
  • Revitalizing Squat: Increases stamina regeneration while crouched.
  • Silent Scavenger: Reduces noise made while looting.
  • In-Round Crafting: Unlocks the ability to field-craft items while topside.
  • Broad Shoulders: Increases maximum carry weight.
  • Looter's Luck: Provides a chance to reveal twice as many items at once while looting.
  • Security Breach: Unlocks the ability to breach Security Lockers on any map, offering high-value materials, blueprints, and weaponry.

    • Key Skills and Strategic Allocation

    Ideally, players should focus on one branch at a time rather than alternating between the three every time they level up. General strategies often prioritize stamina, movement speed, survivability, and looting speed. For instance, getting 'In-Round Crafting' early can significantly increase your chances of survival by allowing you to craft bandages and shield rechargers during a raid.

    'Security Breach' is considered a powerful tool for looting, providing access to high-value items, though it requires a significant investment in the Survival tree. Other important skills mentioned include 'Survivor's Stamina' for extended combat, and 'Carry the Momentum' for aggressive playstyles.

    Resetting Your Skill Tree

    If you wish to reallocate your skill points, ARC Raiders allows you to reset your skill tree. This flexibility enables players to experiment with different builds and adapt their Raider to various playstyles or meta changes.

    End-Game and Prestige Progression

    ARC Raiders' progression system currently offers 75 skill points out of a total of 135 available, with a default maximum of 76 skill points obtainable from levels 0-75. Beyond level 75, a

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