Best Fast Boost Guide for Arc Raiders: Safest Ways To Beat Rocketeers, Bombardiers, Leapers, and Bastions

How to Drop Rocketeers, Bombardiers, Leapers, and Bastions Without Burning Through Gear

If you are new to Arc Raiders, big Ark units can feel like brick walls. They hit hard, they punish bad angles, and they drain ammo if you try to brute force your way through them. The guide you found is actually solid, but it leaves a lot between the lines. Here is a cleaned-up explanation of why those tactics work and how to use them without wasting time or resources.

Rocketeer

The Osprey Method

Rocketeers punish players who get close. The Osprey solves that by slowing them mid-air and letting you deal damage from a distance without spending many Arc Raiders coins on crafting or repairs.

The Osprey works well because of two things that matter more after the recent patch:

1. High projectile speed.
   Rocketeers float forward on thrusters. Fast hits interrupt that forward movement, which slows their momentum every time you land a shot.
2. Low damage dropoff at range.
   You can engage far earlier than with other weapons and still deal full value.

How to do it right:

• Shoot the thrusters as soon as you spot the Rocketeer.
• Keep firing at a steady rhythm. You are not aiming to burst it down. You’re aiming to keep it slowed so it never gets close enough to fire.
• Once a thruster breaks, it will fall. Finish the body on the ground.

Is this the fastest method?
It is not the absolute fastest, but it is by far the safest for new players and one of the most ammo-efficient long-range options in the current patch. Risk-free kills matter more than raw speed when you are learning routes.

Bombardier

Renegade 4 Leg Break

Bombardiers are built like walking bunkers, so hitting the armored plates directly wastes ammo. Their legs, however, expose a weak yellow section that melts under focused fire.

Why it works:

• Bombardiers stagger when you damage their legs.
• If you get close enough, they use pulse waves instead of their missile artillery, which keeps the fight predictable.
• Renegade 4 has high stability and fires quickly, which lines up well with small targets like legs.

How to do it:

• Stay near cover but not too far, so it stays in pulse range.
• Aim only for the yellow joint on the legs.
• Keep pressure until one leg breaks.
• Maintain position. The Bombardier will collapse quickly once the first joint goes.

Efficiency:
Renegade is cheap to craft and easy to control. If you’re short on gear or running light PMCs, this is one of the best “cost-to-kill” ratios in the game.

Leaper

The Grenade Window Trick

Grenades are the budget king when it comes to Leapers. Leapers take large burst damage to the eye, and grenades are cheap to craft on the fly.

Why it works:

• Leapers lock onto you aggressively but struggle with interior angles.
• Their eye is a sensitive, weak point that grenades reliably damage.
• Grenades cost almost nothing to field-craft mid-raid.

How to pull it off:

• Bring around 12 to 15 grenades.
• Lure the Leaper toward a small house with a clean window or doorway.
• Get inside and stay off the walls.
• As soon as the Leaper jumps to your position, throw grenades directly at the eye.
• Keep a distance from the windows so you have throwing room.

Notes:
This is one of the fastest and cheapest ways to clear Leapers, but it depends heavily on having the right building. Avoid awkward windows, as the narrator experienced.

Bastion

Renegade Core Exposure

Bastions are slow, tanky, and annoying to attack the wrong way. Their armor shrugs off stray hits, so you need to target the joints to expose the red core.

The logic behind the method:

• Breaking the outer legs reduces the Bastion’s stability and opens angles.
• A small crack near the bottom exposes a red glowing core.
• Hitting that core deals significantly more serious damage than shooting armor.

How to do it:

1. Focus on the outer back leg while staying behind cover.
2. Break it or get it near breaking, then reload fully.
3. Move to the other back leg and continue the same pattern.
4. Once you see a glowing opening under the body, unload directly into the core.
5. If you lose the angle, go back to leg pressure and reset the stagger.

Why Renegade again?
It is cheap, fast, steady, and accurate enough to hold a tight crit zone. Other weapons can beat a Bastion faster, but most require expensive ammo or riskier positions.

Best balance of speed, safety, and cost for new players.

This guide is not about killing Ark units in the absolute minimum number of seconds. It is about:

• killing them with low risk
• spending little to no premium ammo
• avoiding messy close-range fights
• making repeat kills easy for fast progression

If you are boosting progress in Arc Raiders, that combination matters more than raw DPS. These methods let you farm safely even with lower-tier gear.

Final Tips for New Players

• Always fight Ark units from cover angles that let you break line-of-sight fast.
• Prioritize weak points. Random body shots waste time and ammo.
• Stay patient. Most Ark units punish rushed peeks.
• Craft grenades often. They are one of the best values in the game.
• Keep a Renegade in your stash. It is the workhorse of the current patch.