Complete Guide to Arc Raiders Skill Tree and Skill Points

Arc Raiders is an extraction shooter that integrates a skill tree system allowing players to customize their playstyle. Understanding how to earn and invest skill points efficiently can significantly impact your success in the game.

How to earn and spend skill points in Arc Raiders

You gain skill points by leveling up your character, with one point awarded at each level. The maximum level is 75, so you can earn up to 75 skill points. Each skill node requires spending skill points to unlock or upgrade it, typically needing multiple points at tiered levels. After gaining a skill point, you allocate it in the skill tree via your profile menu by selecting the desired skill.

There is no simple way to respec skill points on demand; resetting requires participating in the Expeditions system, which involves completing tasks and results in wiping your character, including levels, items, and skill points, on an eight-week schedule.

What the Arc Raiders skill tree branches offer

Arc Raiders' skill tree is split into three branches:

Survival (Red): Focuses on looting efficiency, crafting during raids, and safer breaching of locked containers. This tree is essential for players who want to maximize their looting and successfully extract rare materials and gear.
Conditioning (Green): Enhances healing abilities, shield handling, and reduces combat stamina consumption, making it valuable for combat survivability.
Mobility (Yellow): Improves stamina, sprinting efficiency, and reduces fall damage. Useful for quick movement, escaping danger, and stamina management.

What skills to invest in based on player experience

For new players or those focusing on looting and survival, prioritizing the Survival tree is advised:

In-Round Crafting: Allows crafting health and ammo items during the run, crucial for sustained survival.
Traveling Tinkerer: Expands crafting options on the topside.
Security Breach: Key for unlocking high-value loot in Security Lockers.

Conditioning skills like Used to the Weight (speed with shield) and Mobility skills such as Marathon Runner (reduced sprint stamina cost) and Youthful Lungs (increased max stamina) complement survival skills well to improve overall performance.

How to plan your skill point investment strategically

Due to the slow leveling and limited skill points, it’s important to plan your build carefully:

Focus initially on essential movement and stamina skills to improve your survivability.
Invest in Survival tree skills that enable crafting and looting right after the early tiers.
Spread points to unlock key skills in other trees based on your preferred playstyle: aggressive combat, stealth, or mobility.
Consider the final skills in each tree which often require significant investment but grant powerful advantages.

How to reset your skill points in Arc Raiders

Skill reset requires completing an Expedition, a major in-game event on an eight-week cycle. This involves gathering resources and completing tasks, after which your character resets:

Character level returns to zero.
Skill points and upgrades are wiped.
Cosmetic items and achievements remain intact.
Buffs like increased XP gain and expanded stash are granted for the new character.

This reset is necessary to respec your skills but comes with the cost of losing progress, so plan carefully.

Major Skills to know and which Tree they are in

Skill tree	Details
Survival	Major skills: In-Round Crafting – craft healing, ammo, and other items during a raid. Security Breach – unlock high-value locked Security Lockers. Looter’s Instincts – reveal loot faster when searching containers. Stubborn Mule – reduce stamina penalties when carrying heavy loads. Broad Shoulders – increase maximum carry weight. Looter’s Luck – chance to reveal double loot while looting. Three Deep Breaths – faster stamina recovery after depletion.
Mobility	Major skills: Marathon Runner – reduce stamina drain while sprinting, vaulting, and dodging. Youthful Lungs – increase maximum stamina pool. Sturdy Ankles – reduce fall damage. Calming Stroll – stamina regenerates while walking. Revitalizing Squat – boost stamina recovery while crouching. Carry the Momentum – allows free sprinting after dodge rolls. Effortless Roll – reduce stamina cost for dodging.
Conditioning	Major skills: Used to the Weight – increase movement speed while carrying a shield. Good as New – improve stamina regeneration during healing. Suffer in Silence – make movement quieter when critically hurt. Other skills – improve healing, shield handling, and stamina efficiency in combat.

Tips for investing skill points in Arc Raiders skill tree

Plan your build early

Since you earn only one skill point per level (max 75), plan which skills suit your playstyle—whether it’s looting (Survival), combat/endurance (Conditioning), or mobility/stamina (Mobility).

Prioritize mobility skills first

Skills like Marathon Runner and Youthful Lungs greatly improve stamina and movement, helping you survive longer in raids.

Unlock Survival skills for looting

Investing in In-Round Crafting and Looter’s Instincts lets you craft healing and ammo during raids and find loot faster, essential for extending raids and gaining better rewards.

Add Conditioning skills

If you use shields or want better healing: Used to the Weight improves movement with a shield, while Good as New helps regenerate stamina during healing.