The First Descendant

JOESAN21 said:

So quick playthrough question. I'm reading up on all the MODs you do to your descendant and how you need certain ones to increase your MOD count. I dont have any of the "recommended" ones for mine except for just a few. Do you play through the game on EZ mode first and then start grinding stuff on hard mode? OR should you be concentrating on the equipment early in the game?

At level 34 Ive been carried on a few group missions and have gotten some good weapons already. But I've fairly useless compared to the other levels

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Everything is replaceable until ilvl 100, which won't drop until hard mode. Most of your purples will also be replaced by gold ultimate level guns and set gear(this is where the real farming starts to upgrade), so purples will eventually only serve as material for like weapon level transmission.

One thing to note you will have to level up the mastery of weapons in order to level your account mastery, which expands some perks for the account, some areas of the game require a minimum mastery level in order to enter, I believe the lowest is level 15. But leveling descendants and guns gets easy by running the defense missions with xp boosters.

JOESAN21 said:

So quick playthrough question. I'm reading up on all the MODs you do to your descendant and how you need certain ones to increase your MOD count. I dont have any of the "recommended" ones for mine except for just a few. Do you play through the game on EZ mode first and then start grinding stuff on hard mode? OR should you be concentrating on the equipment early in the game?

At level 34 Ive been carried on a few group missions and have gotten some good weapons already. But I've fairly useless compared to the other levels

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What character(s) have you tried out? Do you have the "Boost Path" available?

During the current login event, you'll get a box that lets you select any non Ultimate descendent, and another box that will let you select any of the Ultimate weapons.

By the time you are ready for Hard Mode stuff you -should- have gotten a few copies of Thunder Cage, Gregs Reversed Fate and Fallen Hope for Ultimate weapons. You could also have gotten the descendents: Bunny, Freyna, Sharen and Blair. All of them are superb. Note, I could be misremembering when those guns and characters become farmable, they could all be in HM versions of mission.

Xenrauk said:

leveling descendants and guns gets easy by running the defense missions with xp boosters.

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This has been replaced with running Sigma Sector, public, 5 minutes a run, 5-6 runs without boosters = 1-40. You could try Axion, but you really need a developed character to contribute.

Zindan said:

Bunny, Freyna, Sharen and Blair. All of them are superb ... they could all be in HM versions of mission.

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All of these are farmable in normal. Level them, but do NOT invest in them because all of them have Ultimate versions which are superior.

Harris trailer:



Trailer doesn't showcase her skills though, sadly. She will use her exo arms as melee/range weapons, and the #1 skill will also vacuum mobs in, while her #2 is a leap attack. She could be a lot of fun. She can debuff mobs so they take more dmg from Melee dmg.

Trading system has people mad already. All transactions are taxed at 10%, will only use Caliber with the tax coming off the selling fee (sell an item for 40 caliber, you'll get 36). Limited to only currently dropping Trigger modules, and in December they will add the new Ancestral mods into the mix (a month after those are released). I understand that they want to slow roll this system out to catch any dupe bugs, but I hope they have plans to add more valuable stuff as times go by.

The new "super massive" Dungeon will NOT be in the Void Vessel, rather a large 400% it seems. No gameplay shown for it sadly.

The new Sword looks great, its special is a range attack that vacuums up mobs and damages them for a bit.

The Ancestral mods looks like they could be pretty insane, but you'll have to decide if you want to use one or your Transcendent mod, as they use the same slot.

She looks different without the goggles lol

Good summary video going over the November update:

Update is out, and the stuff it brings are pretty good. The grind for Harris isn't super bad, but the RNG for how much of the secondary material needed to craft her is a bit extreme. You'll need 300, and I've seen a low of 4 and a high of 12 per run.

There are performance issues though. Lots of people are crashing during the Story cutscenes (never happened to me though), and there is noticeable frame lag in Albion, which happens to me. Kinda surprising as the game runs just fine outside of Albion. The Ancestral mods are pretty good, but no need to really rush to farm them. Just playing the content will get you plenty...eventually you'll get one for that is good enough by default or you can try rerolling.

JOESAN21 said:

Right now I'm playing ultimate Luna ( I bought her not knowing better) and Viessa. I've got Bunny and Frenya but have not played them much due to time. Anyone have Ultimate Luna and figured out her stage? Does the stage come later with mods or is it a skill you have to learn? All the vids of her playstyle have the stage activated first which I dont have (It seems like they start at Hard end game mode rather than at nOOb stage 1).
Viessa is a lot of fun so far. Ive just been doing the main story and ship missions so far which are fun. The grind % numbers seem off but the missions are so short its not a big deal. I'm sure it gets worse.

Ive got the gold machine gun and SMG ( I forgot their names) so far I'm just upgrading those, should I target mods at Hard mode?

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Never touched Luna, her gameplay is a giant red flag. Viessa is great. Never had to target grind a mod past the first month, tbh. You'll get them all as you play. Start build a few other guns: Secret Garden, Last Dagger, and Albion Calvary Gun.

JOESAN21 said:

Right now I'm playing ultimate Luna ( I bought her not knowing better) and Viessa. I've got Bunny and Frenya but have not played them much due to time. Anyone have Ultimate Luna and figured out her stage? Does the stage come later with mods or is it a skill you have to learn? All the vids of her playstyle have the stage activated first which I dont have (It seems like they start at Hard end game mode rather than at nOOb stage 1).
Viessa is a lot of fun so far. Ive just been doing the main story and ship missions so far which are fun. The grind % numbers seem off but the missions are so short its not a big deal. I'm sure it gets worse.

Ive got the gold machine gun and SMG ( I forgot their names) so far I'm just upgrading those, should I target mods at Hard mode?

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Use the Battlefield Concert transcendent mod, farm it in axion plains or wall crasher. The first skill you load up the concert disk and you have to time her beats to fill up the bar (there's a lazy build where you don't have to worry about this). Once the bar is full you press the other 3 skills to use her buffs.

Video on how she works.