Best Gear in Arc Raiders, by Situation

What to bring for a map, a playstyle or a fight.

• Best Items and Loadouts for Beginners

  Starter picks for new Arc Raiders players: which weapons and shields to begin with, what to craft first, which quests to do early and how to survive a raid.

• Best Loadouts for Team Raids

  Optimal team raid loadouts for Arc Raiders. Best weapon combos, role specific gear, and squad compositions for dominating group raids.

• Best Items and Routes for Farming

  Maximize your farming efficiency in Arc Raiders. Best items to farm, optimal routes, recycling targets, and the fastest ways to accumulate materials.

• Best Endgame Gear and Strategies

  Top tier endgame gear for Arc Raiders. Best legendary weapons, the Heavy Shield, rare materials, and advanced strategies for peak performance.

• Best Items and Materials for Crafting

  Optimize your crafting in Arc Raiders. Best recipes, material priorities, station upgrades, and efficient crafting workflows for maximum output.

• Best PvE Loadouts and Strategies

  Crush PvE content in Arc Raiders with optimized loadouts. Best weapons, shields, and tactics for fighting AI enemies, clearing zones, and boss encounters.

• Best Gear for Exploration

  Equip for exploration in Arc Raiders. Best tools, light gear, navigation tips, and how to discover hidden areas, secrets, and rare loot locations.

• Best Loadouts for Duo Squads

  Optimize your duo squad in Arc Raiders. Best weapon pairings, role splits, and tactics for two player teams that want to dominate raids together.

• Best Loadouts for Dam Battlegrounds

  Dominate Dam Battlegrounds in Arc Raiders. Best weapons, shields, and strategies specifically tailored for this map's unique terrain and enemy composition.

• Best Loadouts for Buried City

  Conquer Buried City in Arc Raiders. Optimal weapons, shields, and strategies for navigating this dense urban map with underground sections and CQC encounters.

• Best Loadouts for Spaceport

  Dominate Spaceport in Arc Raiders. Best long range weapons, positioning strategies, and loadout tips for this open map with high value military loot.

• Best Loadouts for Blue Gate

  Recommended weapons, shields, and strategies for Blue Gate in Arc Raiders, a balanced map with mixed terrain and varied enemy encounters.

• Best Loadouts for Stella Montis

  Conquer Stella Montis in Arc Raiders. Best loadouts, navigation tips, and strategies for this mountain terrain map and its challenging enemies.

• Best Long Range Loadouts

  Dominate at distance in Arc Raiders. Best sniper rifles, battle rifles, scopes, and positioning strategies for long range combat superiority.

• Best Close Quarters Combat Loadouts

  Dominate close range fights in Arc Raiders. Best SMGs, shotguns, tactics, and loadouts for aggressive players who thrive in tight spaces.

• Best Stealth Loadouts and Strategies

  The best suppressed weapons, the Light Shield, movement techniques, and tactics for completing Arc Raiders raids without being detected.

• Best Aggressive Playstyle Loadouts

  Crush raids with an aggressive playstyle in Arc Raiders. High damage weapons, push tactics, and loadouts for players who dominate through offensive pressure.

• Best Setup for Legendary Hunting

  How the legendary weapons in Arc Raiders are actually obtained, the gear to bring to the raids that hold their blueprints, and how to manage the risk.

• Recycling for Materials, Not Coins

  What recycling in Arc Raiders actually pays: materials, not coins. How to pick items for the materials you need, and when selling whole is the better call.

• Best Setup for Quest Completion

  The best loadouts for Arc Raiders quest runs, with objective strategies, quest chain planning, and reward optimization for finishing quests efficiently.

• Best Loadouts for Boss Fights

  Arc Raiders boss fights: weapons, the Heavy Shield, consumables, team composition, and the plates-then-core counter for the Queen and the Matriarch.

• Best Gear for the Flashpoint Update

  Gear for the Arc Raiders Flashpoint Update: weapons for Close Scrutiny, the Medium Shield, the Surge Coil, consumables for operations and a budget loadout.

• Best Strategies for Surviving Vaporizer Encounters

  The gear and habits that keep you alive against the Vaporizer in Arc Raiders: cover first, the weapons that punch through its plating, and its shield.