Extraction shooters usually revolve around weapon loadouts, but Arc Raiders treats it differently. Here, a raider’s skills are just as important as their arsenal. Players invest experience points into a full skill tree to shape their playstyle and build the strongest possible raider. In this guide, we break down the Arc Raiders skill tree, explaining every skill, its effects, and how to upgrade them efficiently.
Complete Arc Raiders Skill Tree
Unlike the Arc Raiders weapons, the skill tree is permanent. The Arc Raiders skill tree is divided into three specific categories: Conditioning, Survival, and Mobility. Each category focuses on improving attributes such as maximum stamina, movement speed, or other key aspects.
Keep in mind that you cannot directly assign points to random skills. You start upgrading skills from the bottom and unlock the major skills after certain points are achieved in different categories. Below, we have listed every skill available in Arc Raiders to help you learn about them.
Arc Raiders Conditioning Skills
| Skill Name | Description | Impacted Skill / Stat |
|---|---|---|
| Used To The Weight | Wearing a shield doesn’t slow you down as much | Movement Speed |
| Blast-Born | Your hearing is less affected by nearby explosions | Hearing Enhancement |
| Gentle Pressure | You make less noise when breaching | Noise Reduction |
| Fight Or Flight | When you’re hurt in combat, regain a fixed amount of stamina. 15s cooldown | Stamina Regeneration |
| Proficient Pryer | Breaching doors and containers takes less time | Breach Time Reduction |
| Survivor’s Stamina | When you’re critically hurt, your stamina regenerates faster | Stamina Regeneration |
| Unburdened Roll | If your shield breaks, your first dodge roll soon after costs no stamina | Stamina Cost Reduction |
| Downed But Determined | When you’re downed, it takes longer before you collapse | Max Downtime |
| A Little Extra | Breaching an object generates resources | Loot Find Chance |
| Effortless Swing | Melee abilities cost less stamina | Stamina Cost Reduction |
| Turtle Crawl | While downed, you take less damage | Downtime Damage Reduction |
| Loaded Arms | Your equipped weapon has less impact on your encumbrance | Encumbrance Reduction |
| Sky-Clearing Swing | You deal more melee damage to drones | Melee Damage |
| Back On Your Feet | When you’re critically hurt, your health regenerates to a certain limit | Health Regeneration |
| Flyswatter | A single melee attack destroys a Tick, Pop, Wasp, and Turret | Melee Damage |
Arc Raiders Mobility Skills
| Skill Name | Description | Impacted Skill / Stat |
|---|---|---|
| Nimble Climber | You can climb and vault more quickly | Climb and Vault Speed |
| Marathon Runner | Moving around costs less stamina | Stamina Cost Reduction |
| Slip and Slide | You can slide further and faster | Movement Speed |
| Youthful Lungs | Increase your max stamina | Max Stamina |
| Sturdy Ankles | You take less fall damage when falling from a non-lethal height | Fall Damage Reduction |
| Carry The Momentum | After a Sprint Dodge Roll, sprinting does not consume stamina briefly | Stamina Cost Reduction |
| Calming Stroll | While walking, your stamina regenerates as if you were standing still | Stamina Regeneration |
| Effortless Roll | Dodge Rolls cost less stamina | Stamina Cost Reduction |
| Off The Wall | You can Wall Leap further | Wall Leap Distance |
| Heroic Leap | You can Dodge Roll further | Roll Distance |
| Vigorous Vaulter | Vaulting is no longer slowed down while exhausted | Climb and Vault Speed |
| Ready To Roll | When falling, timing window for a Recovery Roll is increased | Recover Roll Window |
| Vaults on Vaults on Vaults | Vaulting no longer costs stamina | Stamina Cost Reduction |
| Vault Spring | Lets you jump at the end of a vault | Vault Jump |
Arc Raiders Survival Skills
| Skill Name | Description | Impacted Skill / Stat |
|---|---|---|
| Agile Croucher | Your movement speed while crouching is increased | Movement Speed |
| Looter’s Instincts | When searching a container, loot is revealed faster | Loot Speed |
| Revitalizing Squat | Stamina regeneration when crouching is increased | Stamina Regeneration |
| Silent Scavenger | You make less noise when looting | Noise Reduction |
| In-Round Crafting | Enables crafting items when on the topside | Crafting in-game |
| Suffer In Silence | While critically hurt, your movement makes less noise | Noise Reduction |
| Good As New | While under a healing effect, stamina regeneration is increased | Stamina Regeneration |
| Broad Shoulders | Increases the maximum weight you can carry | Max Encumbrance |
| Traveling Tinkerer | Unlocks additional items to field craft | Field Crafting |
| Stubborn Mule | Your stamina regeneration is less affected by being overencumbered | Stamina Regeneration |
| Looter’s Luck | While looting, there’s a chance to reveal twice as many items at once | Loot Find Chance |
| One Raider’s Scraps | When looting Raider containers, chance of finding extra crafted items | Loot Find Chance |
| Three Deep Breaths | After an ability drains your stamina, you recover more quickly | Stamina Regeneration |
| Security Breach | Lets you breach Security Lockers | Loot Option |
| Minesweeper | Mines and explosive deployables can be defused when in close proximity | Explosive Defuse |
How to Upgrade Arc Raiders Skill Tree
To upgrade skills in Arc Raiders to complete the skill tree, players must gather experience points. The majority of the skills require 5 skill points to complete their acquiring. However, to acquire the major skills, 1 skill point is enough. Unfortunately, you unlock them right away. New skills are available only when you unlock one of the skills below in the tree. That’s not all.
Some major skills also require specific skill points in that category to be available. Once you have completed a level, you get a skill point. Go to your profile, click on a skill, and spend 1 skill point to acquire the skill in Arc Raiders. Moreover, players can reset their skills through the voluntary Arc Raiders wipe every eight weeks through the Expedition Project.
That is everything you need to know about the Arc Raiders skill tree. Which skills are you acquiring first in the game? Let us know in the comments.
In-round crafting is one of the most valuable skills in Arc Raiders as it lets players craft ammo or healing items while on the topside. The Marathon runner is also a valuable skill that lowers stamina cost while sprinting.
All categories in the Arc Raiders skill tree in equally important. However, Mobility is more useful for late-game raids.
