If you are grinding through your ARC Raiders expeditions, the 100,000 damage requirement is a milestone you need to prioritize. Hitting it permanently unlocks your skill points, shifting your progression into high gear. While 100k is the equivalent of destroying roughly 20 Bastions, utilizing optimal weapon loadouts can easily net you 12,000 to 40,000 damage per round, letting you finish the challenge in just a few sittings.
The Golden Rule: Forget Survival
Stop playing defensively. Unlike traditional extraction runs, damage tracking for this milestone is fully cumulative. It registers instantly and stays with you even if you die or fail to extract. You can aggressively dump your entire stash into ARC targets without fear of losing your progression.
Best Meta Loadouts for Max Damage
Your loadout should maximize high-explosive burst damage and persistent area-of-effect destruction.
Hullcracker Rocket Launcher: The absolute gold standard for farming damage safely. Stock up on 4 to 5 stacks of launcher ammo per run to continuously blast groups of small ARC and chunks of giant bosses.
The Deadline: This high-damage explosive can be safe-pocketed. Plant it directly onto the legs of major ARC units like Bastions or Bombardiers to instantly strip massive amounts of health.
Wolfpack & Seekers: Craft and deploy these autonomous gadgets heavily. Tossing them into incoming ARC drops allows you to accumulate passive damage while navigating the area.
Primary Weapons: Utilize high-tier energy weapons, a Jupiter, or an upgraded Renegade / Bettina with extended barrels and kinetic converters to wear down targets at medium range.
Top Strategic Farming Locations
1. Riven Tides (Stacking Yard & Customs House)
Riven Tides features highly concentrated flying and ground ARC spawns.
The Stacking Yard Strategy: Climb to a high vantage point on top of the Stacking Yard buildings. Deploy Barricades and Pulse Mines at the entrances for defense. From your perch, use a Jupiter or Hullcracker to pull flying ARC (Wasps, Hornets, Fireflies) and ground targets across the map, burning through your weapon durability safely.
Environmental Combat: Kill Wasps or Fireballs, take their dropped Drives, and drop them at your feet to lure in larger ground ARC like Shredders, triggering massive chain-reaction explosions with impact grenades.
2. Buried City (The Red Tower)
If you prefer a structured rotation, Buried City features highly predictable major ARC spawns. Navigate through the map to cycle between guaranteed spawns of Bastions, Rocketeers, Bombardiers, and Leapers. A single loop using a Hullcracker and 5 ammo stacks will consistently net you 12,000+ damage per round.
3. Matriarch and Queen World Events
Boss lobbies are excellent for massive damage spikes if you focus on the correct targets.
Farming the Adds: While dumping ammo directly into the boss yields high points, overcrowding by other raiders can melt the boss too quickly. Instead, use the Matriarch raid to systematically wipe out the waves of Bastions, Bombardiers, and Leapers that continually spawn around her.
Boss Melting: If you find a fresh, under-populated event lobby, deploying multiple Deadlines and spamming a Jupiter directly onto the boss can net you 20,000 to 40,000 damage in a single round.
Key Tips for Fast Progression
Don’t Stress Over Survival: Do not waste time hoarding resources or playing passively. Sit right next to a Raider Hatch, blast ARC until the final seconds of the match, and let yourself die if extraction is compromised.
Burn Your White Coins: Spend your daily white coins to purchase extra Hullcrackers, Deadlines, and launcher ammunition. Keeping your stash clear speeds up the process.
Squad Up: Team damage from your squadmates counts toward your overall challenge progression. Running a duo or trio allows one player to snipe and aggro ARC from afar while the rest of the team unloads heavy ordnance.
