Best Early Skills in ARC Raiders: Beginner Starter Build

Skill Tree Investment Priorities

Early skill points should focus on enhancing your non-combat survival and resource gathering abilities. Prioritize quality of life and time-saving skills.

ARC Raiders is not just your typical extraction shooter; you also have a sizable skill tree to work with. Skills play a crucial role in surviving, so you want to get the best skills to get every advantage you can.

Skills in ARC Raiders are useful in various ways, but they mostly revolve around different playstyles, making it a bit subjective depending on what you want to do. There are builds for those who want to play tactically and slowly, and those who want to run & gun and loot as fast as possible.

Since all skills are categorized into Survival, Conditioning, and Mobility, here are the best skills you can get from each tree, and you can find what suits your playstyle the best.

Best Survival Skills

In-Round Crafting

Unlocks the ability to field-craft items while topside. This is one of the most useful skills in the game. With all the things you may run out of, crafting those bandages and shield rechargers while in a raid is too useful to pass up. The skill is accessible with just three skill points in the Survival tree, so everyone should have it.

Traveling Tinkerer

Unlocks Additional Items for field craft. Traveling Tinkerer improves on In-Round Crafting even more by adding more craftable items.

Broad Shoulders

Increases the maximum weight you can carry. This is essential for carrying more loot back to extraction.

Security Breach

Lets you breach Security Lockers. Security Breach is at the end of the Survival tree, which will take a long while before you can get it. It just helps you access Security Lockers for better high-value loot.

Best Mobility Skills

Marathon Runner

Moving around costs less stamina. Getting to the most high-value areas at the start of a match gives a big advantage to the looter, and having the extra mobility for maximum sprints will get you to places faster than others who didn’t invest in Mobility.

Youthful Lungs

Increases your max stamina. More stamina means more sprinting and more dodging in combat situations.

Calming Stroll

While walking, your stamina regenerates as if you were standing still. This is excellent for maintaining stamina while exploring or positioning.

Effortless Roll

Dodge Rolls cost less stamina. Essential for combat evasion and maneuvering.

Heroic Leap

You can Sprint Dodge Roll further. This skill enhances your mobility even further, allowing for quick escapes or repositioning.

Mobility is one of the most useful trees just because it allows you to leave the enemies in the dust or get to places quicker at the start of the match.

Best Conditioning Skills

A Little Extra

Breaching an object generates resources. This is great for those fast loot runs when you just need to farm credits and progress.

Proficient Pryer

Breaching doors and containers takes less time. Skills that reduce the time spent looting containers are valuable time-savers, especially in contested zones.

Effortless Swing

Melee abilities cost less stamina. Since shooting weapons without a Silencer always gives the position away, you can always use melee to be quieter and conserve useful ammo for stronger ARC enemies or other players.

Sky-Clearing Swing

You deal more melee damage to drones. The melee damage increase to drones helps you in stealthily clearing out buildings.

Flyswatter

Wasps and Turrets can now be destroyed with a single melee attack. This is excellent for quickly dealing with common threats without wasting ammunition.

Back On Your Feet

When you’re critically hurt, your health regenerates until a certain limit. This provides additional survivability in dangerous situations.

Conditioning skills pair well with mobility skills, especially when conserving stamina. The melee damage increase to drones and reduced stamina cost for melee attacks help you in stealthily clearing out buildings.

Skill Investment Strategy

Focusing early points on skills from each tree will set your character up for a more efficient mid-game crafting pipeline. If you don’t want to invest heavily in the Mobility tree, at least go for the Marathon Runner and Youthful Lungs, which is available early.

Use a combination of these amazing skills for each tree and curate a build for your playstyle. The best approach is to identify your preferred playstyle and invest accordingly:

• For the tactical player: Focus on Survival and Conditioning skills
• For the aggressive looter: Invest in Mobility and selected Survival skills
• For the balanced approach: Spread points across all three trees

Remember that skill points are limited, so choose wisely based on how you prefer to play ARC Raiders.

Source: This content is officially summarized and adapted from Prima Games.