The First Descendant Weekly Best Loot Guide (Updated)

Game: The First Descendant
Time: 2024-08-16
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Welcome to the Weekly Loot Cave Guide Update, this article will guide players each week to find the most efficient farming methods, maximize loot collection, and optimize gameplay.

Components Available This Week - Aug 14 ~ 21

Memory Farm

Location: Zone Recon Mission in the Sterile Lands, The Repository: Vulgus Strategic Outpost

In this mission, you need to destroy all power units, and as you go around in circles, you can gather a significant amount of loot within a 3-minute window. Utilize the Valby Laundry skill, which does not damage the boss, allowing you to maximize loot collection without worrying about ending the mission prematurely, making this farm particularly efficient.

Valby Farm Mod Builds make your farming more efficient.

God Rolls for Memory 
- Defense and MP Recovéry Mod: Ideal for general use, focusing on defense. 
- Gold Drop Rate and Firearm Proficiency: Optimal for farming runs, boosting gold drop rates and proficiency with firearms.

This farm is highlighted as being very efficient for gathering the Memory component, especially with the Valby Method making it easier to sustain the farm over multiple runs.

Processor Farm

Location: Battlefield Mission in the Sterile Lands, Anticipated Ambush Point

Anticipated Ambush Point Farm 
This mission is known for being exceptionally efficient, often referred to as an S-tier farm. The mission involves quickly dispatching enemies in a specific area, Use Bunny to farm quickly, Bunny's Unlimited MP Build allows the Lightning Emission skill to have no cooldown, making it ideal for rapid farming. It takes only about 30 seconds to complete the mission, allowing you to farm the Processor component quickly and repeatedly. 

Alongside Processors, you’ll also gather other valuable resources like Code Breakers, Kyper, and a significant amount of gold.

God Rolls for Processor
- Max Shield and Shield Recovery: Ideal for general use, focusing on enhancing your shield capacity and recovery. 
- Equipment Drop Rate and Item Acquisition Distance: Optimal for farming runs, boosting the rate at which equipment drops and the distance from which items can be acquired.

This farm is recommended for its efficiency and high yield, particularly if you’re looking to gather Processor components quickly. The Anticipated Ambush Point Mission is highlighted as a key spot for this week’s farming activities.

Mobbing Impact Reactor for Viessa

- Location: White-night Gulch
- Battlefield Mission: Order's Veit

This is a barrier deactivation mission with a decent number of elites. To farm impact reactors, you’ll want to focus on high mob density and efficiency, Continue farming with Bunny, May get blue brains.

Recommended Rolls
- Fusion Damage: Boosts the damage of fusion-based skills.
- Crit Chance: Increases the likelihood of critical hits.
- Damage: Enhances overall damage output.
- Skill Cost: Reduces the cost of using skills.

Tips:
- The Blue Beetle weapon synergizes well with fusion skills by providing a stacking crit buff each time a fusion skill is used. This makes it a solid choice for this reactor type.

General Reactor for Viessa

- Location: White Knight Gulch 
- Normal Mission: Fortress Outskirts

This mission is an S-tier farm, similar to the Anticipated Ambush Point. Aiming for quick completion times and high efficiency. This also cannot be separated from Bunny

Recommended Rolls:
- Fusion Damage: Increases damage for fusion-based skills. 
- Crit Chance: Enhances the chance of landing critical hits. 
- Crit Damage: Boosts the damage of critical hits. 
- Skill Cost: Reduces skill usage costs.

Both of these reactors are highly effective for farming-specific needs related to Viessa. The Mobbing Impact Reactor focuses on impact damage and fusion skills, while the General Reactor provides a more versatile option for various builds.

General Rounds Reactor for Enzo and Yujin

- Location: Restricted Zone in the Sterile Lands 
- Battlefield Mission: The Barracks

It’s an extermination mission with a decent number of mobs, although not the most efficient farm overall.

Recommended Rolls:
- Duration: Increases the duration of skills and effects, which is beneficial for both Enzo. 
- Non-Attribute and Singular Damage: Focuses on boosting damage output regardless of the enemy’s attribute, making it versatile across different encounters.

Singular Impact Reactor for Enzo and Yujin

- Location: Valby Farm in the Fortress (Defense Line Zone) 
- Zone Recon Mission Mission: Vulgus Strategic Outpost

This mission is known as an S-tier farm and is highly efficient for farming Singular Impact Reactors, involves fast-paced combat in a highly concentrated area, making it ideal for farming.

Recommended Rolls:
- Skill Duration: Increases the duration of skills, enhancing overall effectiveness in combat. 
- Non-Attribute and Singular Damage: These rolls focus on maximizing the damage of non-attribute and singular damage types, which are crucial for Enzo and Eugen.

Tips:
- The Valby Farm method is highly efficient and provides good gold drops alongside the reactor farming. Despite recent nerfs, it remains one of the best farms available. 
- General Rounds Reactor: Best farmed in the Restricted Zone, focusing on versatility and duration. 
- Singular Impact Reactor: Best farmed in Valby Farm, with a focus on maximizing skill duration and impact damage for Enzo and Eugen.

Freyna Reactor

The Freyna Reactor is available from Floodplain in Vespers this week.
Location: Vespers
Battlefield Mission: Floodplain

This mission is described as being highly efficient for farming due to the quick respawn of mobs after each kill, especially when using Bunny, a character known for rapid movement and quick farming. The mission area is small, which makes it easy to navigate and farm effectively.

Recommended Rolls
- Tech Damage: Increases the damage output of tech-based abilities and weapons, which is crucial for maximizing your effectiveness with Vesper.
- Toxic Damage: Amplifies the damage of toxic-based skills and weapons, synergizing well with Vesper’s abilities.
- Skill Duration: Enhances the duration of Vesper’s abilities, making them more effective over a longer period.
- Range: Increasing range can be beneficial for Vesper’s abilities, especially if you want to cover more area or hit enemies from a greater distance.

Weapon Synergy
- Enduring Legacy: Recommended to be mounted with the FR Atech Reactor. This weapon enhances the number of bullets in her toxic machine gun, making it a powerful choice.
- Fallen Hope: That can be mixed with Enduring Legacy for added synergy.
- Python: While not as highly recommended as the others, Python can still be a decent choice depending on your build preferences.

Lepic Farming Reactor

Location: Echo Swamp
Battlefield Mission: Hazy Swamp

The mission area is relatively small, allowing for quick mob elimination and fast completion times. The mobs respawn quickly after being killed, which makes it ideal for rapid farming.

Recommended Rolls
Secret Garden: 
- This is described as a must-have roll for the Lepic Farming Build Reactor. Secret Garden enhances the build significantly, making it more enjoyable and effective for farming.

Faction Damage: 
- Min-maxing faction damage is highly recommended. This increases the damage output against specific enemy types, making Lepic even more powerful during farming runs.

Crit Damage: 
- Critical damage is another key stat to focus on, as it increases the damage output of critical hits, which Lepic can frequently trigger.

Range: 
- While not the highest priority, range can be considered as an alternative roll, especially if you need to increase the effective range of Lepic's abilities.