Best weapons in The First Descendant
Jul. 25, 2024The best weapons in The First Descendant are all listed here
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Want the best First Descendant weapons? Picking out the right guns will depend on your build, but there’s five outstanding weapons that have emerged that will be high on anybody’s tier list, with options like the Thunder Cage and Eternal Willpower doing massive damage in a skilled player’s hands. Not only that, but these weapons then can become the foundational point for builds, choosing Reactors and the right Descendants to play off them for maximum effect.
Ultimately though, while any gun can be deadly in the right hands, it’s these five S-Tier weapons that we consider to be among the best in The First Descendant. We’ve got them all outlined below, as well as what makes them the best weapons, and - more importantly - how you can get them for yourself, whether through playing The First Descendant or by completing certain research projects. Mostly the latter.
The First Descendant’s best weapons
Below we’ve listed the top five best weapons in The First Descendant - all of which but one, it turns out, are Ultimate Weapons that will have to be researched, not ones that can be found in the world.
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It’s worth clarifying that as most of these weapons are Ultimates, obtaining them without spending large amounts ofThe First Descendant Calibercurrency is going to take time, and the playing of odds. Obtaining an Ultimate weapon in-game requires finding rare drops from openingAmorphous Materialor completing certain missions (which usually have about a 20% chance of appearing at most), then using those drops to research the individual components, then researching the weapon itself with the components you now own.
Not only that, but players will have to ensure that they can getThe First Descendant Mastery Rank upto a decent level, as some of these have a level requirement on research - 10 or even 15 total. Other components require you to unlockThe First Descendant Hard Modedifficulty to access the missions that can drop them… basically, for most players these weapons are firmly in the “endgame/post-game” phase, but there are two exceptions - the Thunder Cage and the Eternal Willpower.
A high DPS SMG that creates electrical explosions in slain enemies, damaging all those around them. Obtained as part of the game’s early campaign to introduce you to the idea of Ultimate Weapons, but still powerful nonetheless.How to get the Thunder Cage:Researched at Anais with the following components:
A machine gun that has high crit stats and increasingly high chance to inflict status effects on each successive hit that strikes a target. The researching from this point on will start getting expensive, so you might want to try our favoured method forThe First Descendant gold farm.How to get the Enduring Legacy:Researched at Anais at Mastery Level 15 or higher with the following components:
A sniper rifle that deletes enemy enhanced effects, has the best per-shot damage in all of The First Descendant, and goes through enemies to hit those behind them.How to get the Piercing Light:Researched at Anais at Mastery Level 10 or higher with the following components:
A hand cannon pistol that specializes in targeted shots, dealing high damage against shields, weak points and headshots.
How to get the Perforator:Researched at Anais at Mastery Level 15 or higher with the following components:
The only non-ultimate weapon on this list, the Eternal Willpower is an Assault Rifle that simply has weirdly high stats in comparison to other ARs in the game, to the point where it almost feels anomalous or like some error soon to be patched out. Still, until it is patched out, it’s a phenomenal - and comparatively easy - weapon to add to any Descendant’s arsenal.
How to get the Eternal Willpower: This Assault Rifle has a 50% chance to be dropped from the Baggage Transport Base mission in Agna Desert’s Vermillion Waste region. You can also get the same odds by completing the Red Sphere mission in Agna Desert’s Miragestone region.
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