Finding the best weapons in The First Descendant becomes more of a priority as you get further into the game, with level becoming less important and giving way to questions of build and specific buffs. With dozens of weapons and guns to be found, and thousands of variations on each one depending on what buffs and modifiers they roll, it's hard to judge each of these guns in a vacuum. Ultimately what's more important in The First Descendant isn't just your guns, that's one piece of a far larger build that all interconnects and plays off each other.
Still, the weapon is arguably the most important bit - it is your main source of damage, putting aside the individual skills of Descendants - and most builds generally lean towards using a specific weapon. With that in mind, we've assembled all the best weapons in The First Descendant at time of writing that players should absolutely consider making the primary focus of those builds, and where you can get them. The 5 best weapons in The First Descendant 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.
It's worth clarifying that as most of these weapons are Ultimates, obtaining them without spending large amounts of The First Descendant Caliber currency is going to take time, and the playing of odds. Obtaining an Ultimate weapon in-game requires finding rare drops from opening Amorphous Material or 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 get The First Descendant Mastery Rank up to a decent level, as some of these have a level requirement on research - 10 or even 15 total.
Other components require you to unlock The First Descendant Hard Mode difficulty 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. Thunder Cage 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: Enduring Legacy A machine gun that has high crit stats and increasingly high chance to inflict status effects on each successive hit that strikes a target. How to get the Enduring Legacy: Researched at Anais at Mastery Level 15 or higher with the following components: Piercing Light 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: Perforator 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: Eternal Willpower 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. © GamesRadar+. Not to be reproduced without permission.
