The First Descendant – Quick F2P Guide (+ Farming Locations)

F2P New Player Guide

People starting the game. Choose your first character. After that, the grind begins and the grind should look start like this:

All of your “Catalysts” should go into Bunny, weapons are not needed, you’ll run hardmode dungeons later on without shooting at all with the right build.

Bunny is speed and speed means efficiency.

Sharen is a 20% grind able character and she’ll become one of your best friends when you’re not speedrunning with Bunny.

Some materials required for other characters require Sharon due to her stealth skill (Infiltration Missions).

Once you’re here, this character will be able to open certain “Encrypted Lockboxes” easier.

You can open all of these (Encrypted Lockboxes) boxes with all characters, but Enzo makes your life so much easier, and if you’re at this stage, you’ll understand eventually.

Gameplay Tips

  • Hitting jump just before a melee attack does a shorter animation full damage AOE knockdown attack.
  • Rolling while a reload is 80% done cancels the animation and completes the reload. Works for some skills too like Lepic’s ultimate.
  • You can infiltrate outposts without Sharen if you get all the terminals and kill all the enemies until they stop respawning. (though sharen is easier, and easy to obtain.)
  • The Defense stat has diminishing returns, especially after 40k. Elemental resistances are even worse and not worth using.
  • MP regeneration starts about 6 seconds out of combat. And is more than tripled with a component stat. So out of mana? stop taking or dealing damage for atleast 6 seconds!
  • If you use a crystallization catalyst on your melee augment slot, you only get 5 more points, not double. so it might be better used on other high cost mods!
  • DPS numbers are NOT consistent or accurate! Beam rifle DPS doesnt include escalating damage charge as well! (some test videos are on youtube as proof!) (Raw DPS also doesnt factor in bonus damage, and how easy it is to land your shots given the accuracy of your weapons. Or damage falloff of each gun.)
  • Damage falloff is important for DPS! Each weapon type has an optimal range before it does diminishing damage!
  • Battle pass EXP is not limited to Challenges! completing infiltration missions and doing relics also rewards small amounts of battle pass EXP.
  • Grappling onto an enemy can temporarily stun it while attached! You can also hit melee midair to knock them away. Grappling onto the ground even briefly can also cancel out of reload animations as an alternative to rolling!
  • When breaking down duplicate mods at the NPC, deselect your yellow and reds first! They’re more valuable for combining! Combining yellows can turn into Reds! saving you hours of grind!

Strategies for Hard Bosses

Executioner

Just pump him with Damage lmao.

Dead Bride

Destroy Her shield and melt her health.

Devourer

He has a mechanic that makes him heal his self destroy green canisters to stop immunity phase.

Swamp Walker

You have to shoot canisters on his legs to break his immunity phase.

Obstructer

He has a wipe phase u have to shoot floating Purple balls in the air that comes from portals if too many gets to him he will wipe.

Frost Walker

He has a Wipe phase as well you will need a dedicated runner in this boss fight, after destroying his destructible parts he will drop embers on the ground the runner will pick them up you will need 6 to get a buff and with that buff u will have a fire circle around you and can unfreeze your frozen teammates, one more thing is the runner should not be near the boss if you are he will take your embers away.

Molten Fortress

He is the most unique boss in the game, he has a phase that u have to connect poles to line up the electricity to form a pentagon. that will take him out of his immunity phase.

Void Shards Farm

White-Night Gulch

LocationTypingMonomerPolymerInorganicOrganicDifficulty
The MountaintopToxic14Normal Difficulty
The MountaintopToxic213Hard Difficulty
HatcheryFire14Normal Difficulty
HatcheryFire213Hard Difficulty
Shipment BaseToxic41Normal Difficulty
Shipment BaseToxic123Hard Difficulty
ObservatoryChill14Normal Difficulty
ObservatoryChill113Hard Difficulty
Moongrave BaseNon-Attribute1111Normal Difficulty
Moongrave BaseNon-Attribute3343Hard Difficulty

Agna Desert

LocationTypingMonomerPolymerInorganicOrganicDifficulty
The Mining SiteElectric41Normal Difficulty
The Mining SiteElectric141Hard Difficulty
The StorageFire14Normal Difficulty
The StorageFire312Hard Difficulty
MiragestoneNon-Attribute1111Normal Difficulty
MiragestoneNon-Attribute4333Hard Difficulty
Vermillion WasteElectric14Normal Difficulty
Vermillion WasteElectric213Hard Difficulty

Sterile Land

LocationTypingMonomerPolymerInorganicOrganicDifficulty
IronworksChill1111Normal Difficulty
IronworksChill4333Hard Difficulty
RockfallElectric41Normal Difficulty
RockfallElectric114Hard Difficulty
RepositoryElectric41Normal Difficulty
RepositoryElectric123Hard Difficulty
Restricted ZoneFire1111Normal Difficulty
Restricted ZoneFire3433Hard Difficulty

Fortress

LocationTypingMonomerPolymerInorganicOrganicDifficulty
Defense LineChill14Normal Difficulty
Defense LineChill411Hard Difficulty
Frozen ValleyChill41Normal Difficulty
Frozen ValleyChill132Hard Difficulty
Fallen ArkElectric41Normal Difficulty
Fallen ArkElectric123Hard Difficulty

Hagios

LocationTypingMonomerPolymerInorganicOrganicDifficulty
The Corrupted ZoneFire14Normal Difficulty
The Corrupted ZoneFire411Hard Difficulty
Fractured MonolithNon-Attribute1111Normal Difficulty
Fractured MonolithNon-Attribute3334Hard Difficulty
Dune BaseFire14Normal Difficulty
Dune BaseFire312Hard Difficulty

Vespers

LocationTypingMonomerPolymerInorganicOrganicDifficulty
TimberfallNon-Attribute1111Normal Difficulty
TimberfallNon-Attribute3433Hard Difficulty
Moonlight LakeNon-Attribute1111Normal Difficulty
Moonlight LakeNon-Attribute3334Hard Difficulty
Lost Supply DepotFire41Normal Difficulty
Lost Supply DepotFire132Hard Difficulty
The RuinsChill14Normal Difficulty
The RuinsChill411Hard Difficulty

Kingston

LocationTypingMonomerPolymerInorganicOrganicDifficulty
Grand SquareNon-Attribute1111Normal Difficulty
Grand SquareNon-Attribute3334Hard Difficulty

Echo Swamp

LocationTypingMonomerPolymerInorganicOrganicDifficulty
Muskeg SwampFire14Normal Difficulty
Muskeg SwampFire114Hard Difficulty
Derelict CovertToxic41Normal Difficulty
Derelict CovertToxic132Hard Difficulty
Abandoned ZoneToxic14Normal Difficulty
Abandoned ZoneToxic411Hard Difficulty

Ultimate Parts Farm

Ultimate Gley

PartPatternPart %Best Farm LocationPattern %Encrytpted Vault MaterialStealth Required
Catalyst726%Vespers [Hard] – Lost Supply Depot Outpost25%NoNo
Cells1226%Fortress [Hard] – Defense Line Outpost25%YesNo
Code586%Kingston [Hard] – Slumber Valley25% – 100%NoNo
Stabilizer926%Agna Desert [Hard] – Mirage Stone Outpost25%YesNo

Ultimate Bunny

PartPatternPart %Best Farm LocationPattern %Encrytpted Vault MaterialStealth Required
Catalyst12320%Fortress [Hard] – Defense Line Outpost5% – 25%YesYes
Cells7310%Vespers [Hard] – Lost Supply Depot Outpost5% – 25%NoYes
Code826%Echo Swamp [Hard] – Derelict Covert25%NoNo
Stabilizer9910%White-night Gulch [Hard] – The Mountiantops Outpost5% – 25%NoYes

Ultimate Viessa

PartPatternPart %Best Farm LocationPattern %Encrytpted Vault MaterialStealth Required
Catalyst706%Vespers [Hard] – Lumber Yard Outpost25%NoNo
Cells566%Kingston [Hard] – Magister Lab25% – 100%NoNo
Code7510%Vesper [Hard] – Moonlight Lake Outpost5% – 25%NoYes
Stabilizer9110%Agna Desert [Hard] – The Storage Outpost5% – 25%NoYes

Ultimate Lepic

PartPatternPart %Best Farm LocationPattern %Encrytpted Vault MaterialStealth Required
Catalyst66%Sterile land [Normal] – Rockfall Outpost20%NoNo
Cells7432%Vespers [Hard] – Moonlight Lake Outpost25%NoNo
Code8910%Agna Desert [Hard] – Vermilion Waste Outpost5% – 25%NoYes
Stabilizer5920%Kingston [Hard] – Slumber Valley25% – 100%NoNo

Ultimate Ajax

PartPatternPart %Best Farm LocationPattern %Encrytpted Vault MaterialStealth Required
Catalyst986%White-night Gulch [Hard] – The Mountiantops Outpost25%NoNo
Cells5710%Kingston [Hard] – Magister Lab25% – 100%NoNo
Code886%Agna Desert [Hard] – Vermilion Waste Outpost25%NoNo
Stabilizer626%Sterile land [Hard] – Repository Outpost25%NoNo

I hope you found this useful. Wishing you luck!

Volodymyr Azimoff
About Volodymyr Azimoff 7932 Articles
I love games and I live games. Video games are my passion, my hobby and my job. My experience with games started back in 1994 with the Metal Mutant game on ZX Spectrum computer. And since then, I’ve been playing on anything from consoles, to mobile devices. My first official job in the game industry started back in 2005, and I'm still doing what I love to do.

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