With the right abilities, every raid becomes a success. Here’s which skills in ARC Raiders really matter—and which ones to skip.
Your skill allocation in ARC Raiders determines how you play a raid: as a tireless loot runner, agile flanker, or support player. Spend your first points wisely, and you’ll feel the difference — better stamina, improved supply use, and fewer detections. This guide breaks down the three skill trees Conditioning, Mobility, and Survival, highlights the most effective abilities, and gives you a clear plan plus example builds for different playstyles.
ARC Raiders: The Three Skill Trees at a Glance
Conditioning, Mobility, and Survival are your three available skill trees. Each one serves a distinct purpose:
- Conditioning: Toughness, weight management, and noise reduction.
- Mobility: Stamina, movement efficiency, and parkour options.
- Survival: In-raid crafting, loot efficiency, and carrying capacity.
You’ll progress from basic upgrades to more powerful, game-changing abilities. Distribute your points for early, noticeable advantages—then specialize later for your preferred playstyle.
Conditioning – Tougher and Stronger
Conditioning makes you less noticeable and lets you carry more without slowing down. You’ll make less noise when moving, gain better resistance, and reduce penalties from heavy loads.
Especially useful skills:
- Survivor’s Stamina: After a critical injury, your stamina regenerates faster.
- Downed but Determined: Gives you more time to crawl to safety when downed.
- Turtle Crawl: You take less damage while downed.
- Back on Your Feet: Gradually regenerates health after a critical injury up to a certain point.
These abilities help you survive critical moments or even escape under fire at extraction points. Other Conditioning skills improve your melee damage or grant bonuses for breaking open doors and containers.
Mobility – Movement Is Survival
Mobility determines whether you can escape danger. More stamina, lower sprint/dodge costs, and better vault options make you faster, more agile, and far more effective in both combat and retreat.
Especially useful skills:
- Marathon Runner: Reduces stamina cost when moving.
- Youthful Lungs: Increases your maximum stamina.
- Slip and Slide: Slide faster and cover more distance.
- Vaults on Vaults on Vaults: Vaulting no longer consumes stamina.
The Mobility tree is all about speed, endurance, and freedom of movement. Other abilities extend your dodge-roll window, let you jump at the end of a vault, or speed you up while crawling.
Survival – Loot and Hide
The Survival tree is perfect for players who love to scavenge and stay in the raid longer. It boosts how much and how fast you loot, increases carry weight, and unlocks in-raid crafting so you can make bandages, shield cells, and impact grenades on the spot. It also shortens and silences your loot interactions, cutting risk while saving time.
Especially useful skills:
- In-Raid Crafting: Lets you craft bandages, shield cells, impact grenades, and more during raids.
- Traveling Tinkerer: Expands your in-raid crafting options.
- Looter’s Instincts/Silent Scavenger: Faster, quieter looting that saves time and lowers exposure.
- Looter’s Luck/One Raider’s Scraps: Increases loot yield, especially from Raider Caches.
- Security Breach: Allows you to crack special containers for high-value loot.
Grab the In-Raid Crafting skill early, then decide whether to focus on loot or switch toward mobility or durability. Survival is ideal for scavengers—but note that it offers fewer direct combat benefits.
How to Spend Your First 15 Skill Points in ARC Raiders
- Points 1–3: Grab the two skills leading to In-Raid Crafting and level them up as soon as possible.
- Points 4–14: Unlock the Mobility tree and max out the left path for better stamina use and recovery.
- Point 15: Use your last point to boost loot detection speed in the Survival tree.
This setup gives you early access to in-raid crafting while improving stamina management—useful for any playstyle, whether you’re chasing PvP fights or racing to the best loot first.
ARC Raiders offers tons of ways to shape your playstyle—skills, augments, and gear all work together to create unique roles. This guide should give you a solid foundation, clear direction, and the confidence to tackle your first raids without guesswork. Good luck out there—and may your loot be legendary!
