ARC Raiders Coins are your core currency—earn them by extracting and selling loot, then spend on stash upgrades, crafting, and top-tier gear; smart routes and quick exfils beat risky fights.
ARC Raiders teaches you a nasty lesson fast: kills don't pay the bills. Your wallet only grows when you drag stuff out alive, not when you rack up machine bodies. If you're short on time and just want to gear up for a few solid runs, some players top off essentials through EZNPC, then use in-game extracts to keep the loop going. Either way, you're playing a scavenger with a gun, and every slot in your bag has to earn its keep.
What to pick up (and what to ignore)
You'll see a ton of "maybe" loot, and that's where most people mess up. Hover items and check value before you get sentimental. Anything marked like a pure sellable trinket—stuff you can't craft with—tends to be your best coin-per-weight. Grab those first. The low-tier clutter. Break it down for mats if you need room, or leave it. Early on, stash space is the real choke point, so don't hoard weird junk "just in case." Also, crafting your own ammo and healing is usually cheaper than buying it, and it stops you from bleeding coins between raids.
Routes that actually make money
If you want bigger payouts, you've gotta aim higher than random sheds and quiet lanes. Head for high-traffic POIs with industrial containers and tech spawns—places where you can hit a cluster of boxes, then bounce. Red or high-tier zones are usually worth the heat if you move like you mean it: zip up, loot fast, drop down, rotate. Events can be huge too. Locked doors, weird fire/flicker encounters, anything that screams "special." Blueprints and rare tech aren't just nice finds, they're cash flow for your next stash upgrade and loadout.
Speed beats greed
The cleanest profits come from repeatable loops, not hero runs. Pick an area with multiple pods or containers near sensible extraction paths, then run it until you know every angle. Fifteen minutes in and out is better than a "perfect" backpack you never extract. If you're squadded up, don't all loot at once. One person watches lanes, one cracks containers, one keeps an ear out for footsteps and drones. And if you're solo, set a hard rule: once the bag hits the value you came for, you leave.
Keeping the economy from owning you
Coins vanish quicker than people admit—repairs, meds, ammo, stash upgrades, one bad death streak. So build habits that protect you: sell high-value tech when you're ahead, keep a cheap "recovery kit" loadout, and don't take your best gear into a run you're not confident about. When you do want to push your kit higher, it helps to know what's worth chasing and what's just heavy, and a lot of folks browse ARC Raiders items before planning their next grind so they're not guessing mid-raid.
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