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A core component of every build inThe First Descendantis your character’s reactor.
Getting a strong reactor is critical to min-maxing your damage in Hard mode.
Gley is the ultimate boss killer in The First Descendant.
These builds will buff your damage, give you infinite ammo, and more.
Farming for a good reactor is surprisingly easy if you know where to look.
Today, we’ll be showcasing how to farm reactors quickly and efficiently in Hard difficulty.
You’ll also be able to earn Level 100 reactors in Hard mode.
If you haven’t gotten that far in the game yet, don’t even worry about reactors.
Use whichever reactor gives you the highest ability damage and ignore the rest.
After you beat the campaign, set the game’s difficulty to Hard.
it’s possible for you to do this from the map menu.
Drop sources for reactors and external components rotate every Tuesday at 12:30 UTC.
This does not apply to mission rewards or enemy drop tables.
Reactor Tags
Each zone in the game will have a set reactor that drops throughout the week.
These reactors are broken up into three subtypes:
Elementdetermines the reactor’s base damage key in.
If a zone says it drops toxic reactors, then every reactor is going to benefit toxic Descendants.
This hasnobearing on affixes, however.
Potential elements include electric, toxic, chill, fire, and non-attribute.
Ammo typerefers to the reactor’s weapon usage bonus.
For Ultimate Reactors, this will be a specific Ultimate weapon you’re holding.
The ammo throw in determines which Ultimate weapons can roll on the reactor.
Every Descendant skill is tagged as dimensional, singular, fusion, or tech.
This bonus only applies to skills with a matching tag.
you might filter for each tag at the top of the reward menu.
Affixes and the chosen weapon are still random, but everything else is static.
This makes farming for a perfect reactor quite easy, if a little tedious.
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Ideal for Gley
Skill Cost
Additive with modded skill cost modifiers.
Roll magnitudes are quite low (3-5%).
Niche choice for Descendants with unique resources.
Bunny, Kyle
Skill Duration
Additive with your modded Skill Duration.
Valuable stat for damage-over-time skills.
Good for Descendants with many buffs or lingering effects.
Blair, Freyna, Gley, Valby
Skill Effect Range
Additive with your modded Skill Range.
Valuable stat for area-of-effect skills.
Good for Descendants with many AoE abilities.
Bunny, Freyna, Viessa
Skill Critical Hit Rate
Multiplicative with base skill critical chance.
Additive with modules that improve critical chance.
Best for Descendants who scale critical hits.
Blair, Lepic
Skill Critical Hit Multiplier
Multiplicative with base skill critical multiplier.
Additive with modules that improve critical multiplier.
Power Boost Ratio
Multiplicative with other forms of Power Boost; additive with the same damage pop in.
Comes in all damage types, elemental and skill based.
Best in slot for most characters.
Additional Skill ATK
Adds flat Skill Damage against foes of the listed faction jot down.
Rolls for all factions and colossi
Colossus is niche; the rest aren’t worth using.
Sub Attack Damage
Multiplies your melee damage.
Works with modified melee attacks.
