ARC Raiders Trials Guide

Trials are an activity that becomes available on character level 15. They are weekly tasks that refresh on Monday. Performing them moves you up the rank. It’s an interesting and unusual approach to ranking. Growing in rank doesn’t require you to extract or “win”. Instead, it measures your effectiveness at tackling tough and not-so-tough challenges. In this article, we will share some important things to know about ARC Raiders Trials. We will also tell you how to handle this week’s trials efficiently.

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Read our other ARC Raiders guides:

• Leveling Guide
• Blueprints Farm Guide
• Matriarch Boss Guide
• Best Loot Guide

ARC Raiders Trials Ranks

Let’s talk about the ranking system in ARC Raiders. You start from Rookie I and then climb the ranks by completing the weekly challenges. In each rank, you're placed in a leaderboard of 100 people. Here are all the ARC Raiders Trials ranks:

1. Rookie I-III
2. Tryhard I-III
3. Wildcard I-III
4. Daredevil I-III
5. Hotshot
6. Cantina Legend (Top 100 players)

Climbing to the highest rank takes serious time and effort. Mind you, that completing the challenges doesn’t stop you from gaining score. You can continue racking up points to climb to the number 1 spot. There are numerous benefits to doing that. Let’s discuss them in the following section.

How to Access Trials in ARC Raiders

Let us explain how to access Trials in ARC Raiders. The only prerequisite is to reach the 15th level. To speed it up, do the daily tasks, stay in the raid for as long as possible, and damage ARCs. The highest XP gain can be achieved by looting the boss’s remains and looting the dead raiders. Another XP income is looting everything you see, as you get +200 XP for searching any object. Getting the first 15 levels is quite fast, so if you are new, try to speedrun it.

ARC Raiders Trials Explained and Rewards

So, let’s have ARC Raiders’ Trials explained. There is a total of 14 ranks. In order to grow to the next rank, you have to get to the top 60 of your current rank. There's a catch to that! If you climb to the top 30 of your rank, you'll get 2X Promotion. That means if you're Rookie I, you'll jump straight to Rookie III. If you don't hit the top 60, don't worry, you're not going to get demoted. You'll just be left on the same rank you started on. To gain ranks, you have to reach 4000 points on a card, thus getting a 3-star rating. One cool thing is that if you do the Trials in a party, all players earn the score. If you can do the Trials in a group of 3, you'll be able to do them much, much faster. This is especially useful for Trials that include boss ARCs damage. ARC Raiders Trials rewards you with Uncommon, Rare, and Epic quality loot. There are unique rewards, like skins, items, blueprints, and more. In order to access the highest tier of rewards, you'll have to max out this week’s Trials. There is important advice we can give you. Do the trials on major map modifiers, such as Night Raid, EM Storm, etc. Doing the Trials on such maps doubles the points gained. If you don't do the trials on modified maps, you will not climb to the top of the rank before the season ends.

ARC Raiders This Week Trials

The Trials we got this week are pretty challenging. Most of them involve directly engaging the most dangerous ARCs. You will also need to harvest plants, which can be more difficult for some than for others. Here’s a list of this week’s Trials in ARC Raiders:

• Throw snowballs at Rocketeers
• Deal damage to Shredders
• Damage flying ARC enemies
• Open ARC Probes
• Destroy Fireballs

Yes, your eyes do not deceive you. In order to climb higher, even on the lowest rank, you’ll have to deal damage to the most dangerous bosses in the game. Luckily for you, there are ways you can handle these tasks more easily. Let’s talk about them. BLOG20

Throw Snowballs at Rocketeers

A new task, connected to the Cold Snap event. The devs really outdid themselves with it. To finish it, you need to find Snowballs, which can easily be found anywhere around the map. Then go to any of the maps, except for Stella Montis, and throw the Snowballs at one of the hardest-to-deal enemies in the game. Each Snowball gives 250 points per hit. That means you need to land 16 of them. Here's the best strategy to deal with this task:

1. Go in with a Free Kit and gather a full inventory of Snowballs.
2. Find a Rocketeer on an open map. We recommend doing it in the Buried City. One of the best places to do it is in Hospital.

If you are willing to go on a raid with a full kit, the strategy changes a bit.

1. Jump into the raid with a paid kit. You can farm Snowballs preemptively and then go in with a full inventory.
2. Take Showstoppers and go to the Hospital rooftop. Find the closest Rocketeer and aggro it.
3. When it comes near you, throw Showstoppers at it until it flips and lands on the roof.

This way, you can get far more than 4000 points, but we recommend doing it in a squad.

Deal Damage to Shredders

Another challenging Trial. Dealing with Shredders is already quite tough, but doing it on a map famous for its PvP activity makes it all the more tough. Here's how we recommend doing it:

1. Bring three Trigger Nades. You can bring a bit more just to be safe.
2. Go into the Lobby area and start aggroing all Shredders on the first floor.
3. Find any safe place on the floor above, where Shredders can't reach.
4. Let them gather beneath you or your group and throw all Trigger Nades at them.
5. Explode them all at the same time. Usually, it's enough to finish all of them. If it's not enough, you can finish them off with any weapon, just shoot their underbelly.

It's a fast and relatively safe way to finish them off. We recommend taking a Raider Hatch Key to extract safely, without the risk of attracting unwanted attention.

Damage Flying ARC Enemies

This one is quite easy as you can find flying ARCs anywhere. You get 0.8 per damage dealt. Obviously, damaging bigger ARCs makes it faster. Don't forget that doing it at any timed map event doubles your points. Here are a few pieces of advice to deal with this Trial faster:

• Take Wolfpacks and Seeker Grenades: If you want to deal with the task super fast, just take a few Wolfpacks and two stacks of Seeker Grenades. They'll help you destroy ARCs extremely fast, especially Wolfpack.
• Bring Anvil or Hullcracker: Anvil lets you ignore the armor on Hornet's frontal engines, and Hullcracker just lets you blow up most weaker ARCs in one or two shots. Hullcracker also deals decent damage to Rocketeers.
• Let Snitches Trigger the Alarms: Damage the Snitch until it starts burning, but don't kill it. Instead, let it summon other ARCs and then destroy it. This way, you won't have to wander around the map looking for them, and this will speed up your progression significantly. One of the best places to do it is Pilgrim's Peak on Blue Gate.

With these simple ideas, you'll deal with the Trial quickly. You can potentially do the task on a Free Kit as well, but it's unreliable.

Open ARC Probes

Another simple task that can easily be done solo. ARC Probes are these rockets that randomly land around the map. You can identify them by the droning signal they make. Each open Probe awards 667 points, so opening 6 will finish the task. Jump into any night version of the map except for Stella Montis, and look around. Chances are you'll see a couple of these nearby. If you don't see them, you'll definitely hear them. Please note that when you open them, they'll switch from a droning noise to an alarm sound. This will signal to nearby raiders that someone is breaking into the Probe. We recommend bringing Smoke Grenades in case the Probe lands in the middle of an open area. Nevertheless, this task shouldn't create any difficulty for you.

Destroy Fireballs

These little critters have a tendency to sneak up on you and wash you with napalm when you least expect them. Luckily, it's one of the easiest tasks this week. Here, we have just one recommendation: Buried City. This map is well populated with Fireballs. Nearly every inside of the building has two or three of them. Just traversing through the map and doing your own thing will make you finish the task quickly. If you really want to focus on doing it, go to Grandioso Apartments. After that, make your way North-East through all the tall buildings, towards the Marano Park. We can guarantee that doing it will make you complete the task in one run.

Conclusion

That's it for this weekly dose of Trials. Good luck on your climb, Raider! Remember to do all of these on specialized raids, such as a Night Raid or an EM Storm. This way, you'll be able to earn twice as many points on your leaderboard. See you next week when the Trials reset. This article updates weekly, so be sure to favorite it in your browser and return soon! We've got more ARC Raiders guides to come.

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