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Learning how to level attention will improve your raid experience through increased looting speed while also meeting hideout upgrade requirements. Most attention skill levels are earned passively by looting items in raid but players can optimise this by focusing on larger containers with the strategies below.
Table of Contents:
– How To Level Attention
– Attention Requirements (Hideout)
– Benefits Of Attention Levels
How To Level Attention
Earning skill points in attention requires:
- Uncovering loot in containers
- Completing specific quests (Farming Part 4: +3 levels)
Attention experience is earned for each item that players find within a container such as filing cabinet drawers, supply crates, jackets, computers, safes, duffle bags, toolboxes and weapon boxes. A small optimisation players can use to generate additional attention experience per loot container is to focus on aidrops, hidden stashes/caches and supply crates as these have a high number of items in each container. Players can also reduce their focus on loot locations that predominately have loose loot as this rewards no attention experience.
Attention Requirements (Hideout)
Attention in Tarkov is used for:
- Level 3 attention to construct the level 2 intelligence centre and the level 2 water collector in the hideout.
While these hideout upgrades are later in the hideout upgrade path experienced players that rush hideout upgrades may find themselves stuck on the level requirement. This is particularly the case where players do limited container looting compared to loose loot spawns or PMC/Scav kills.
Benefits Of Attention Levels
The attention skill provides the following PMC benefits:
- Increases looting speed
- Increases the examination speed
- Chance of instantly finding an item in a container (Elite)
- Doubles your looting experience (Elite)
Loot speed is the main advantage of higher attention skill levels as players can quickly check the inventory of any PMC or Scav for items and move on which reduces the time you are exposed. While the increased examination speed is not useful given most items will already be examined by the time you reach notable attention levels.
The elite benefit chance to instantly reveal items results in another significant jump in looting speed while the double looting experience helps you reach higher PMC levels although is still a small portion of your overall experience gained.
If you want to learn more about levelling skills in Tarkov visit our other guides on endurance, strength, vitality, search, health, metabolism, stress resistance and sniper rifles.
