The Skill Tree in ARC Raiders is fundamental to improve yourselves, but which talents should you choose first? We took a closer look at the system and provide you with important tips so that you are ready for the release.
How does the Skill Tree work? Those who collect enough XP in ARC Raiders will be able to accumulate Skill Points over time. With these points, you then activate various nodes on your Skill Tree to benefit from permanent bonuses. These include increased movement speed while sneaking or stamina regeneration while walking.
Equipment is not everything in ARC Raiders, so it’s important to know how to spend your points optimally. With a strong build, you can accordingly outplay your enemies more easily. Therefore, we show you where you should focus while leveling.
Skill Tree in Detail – How you should level up
Those who want to optimally level their Skill Tree need to know how it is structured at first. You have three areas available to equip independently with Skill Points. Each of these areas offers its own bonuses, which are as follows:
- Conditioning (green)
- This focuses on your health and stamina – basically your will to survive.
- Mobility (yellow)
- Everything related to movement and your speed as well as stamina can be found here,
- Survival (red)
- Here you will find everything related to looting, your carrying capacity, and breaking containers.

Now it is important to find out what is important to you. Do you prefer to play alone and have no backup? Then you should increase your speed while looting and breaking items. If you are in a squad, you should prioritize your movement speed and climbing instead. Mobility and Survival are your main areas that you should focus on.
Conditioning is a branch of the three that you can fill sporadically, but do not have to. The green bonuses simply do not hold up well compared to yellow and red. If you want to experiment a bit, feel free to use arcraiders.build. There you can also find other builds that might interest you.
How to reset the Skill Tree for a Respec
How can you reset the Skill Tree? Only by participating in an Expedition Project. These expeditions appear every 8 weeks and offer new rewards, but you must first be level 20. Once you have completed the expedition, you can completely reset your progress and the loot you have accumulated (account level and collected cosmetic items are excluded from this).
This expedition represents the seasonal wipe; however, it is completely optional. If you don’t want to participate, you can safely ignore it and keep your leveled Raider. But if you want to reset your Raider and try out a new build, there is no way around the expedition.
That was all the information about the Skill Tree in ARC Raiders. Do you already have a build in mind that you would like to try out now? Luckily, the release is today, so you won’t have to wait too long. You can find more about the release here: ARC Raiders Release: Everything you need to know about launch time, early access, and preload