There are 22 Ultimate Weapons in The First Descendant, below, you’ll learn all their stats, how to get them, and recommended characters.
In The First Descendant, every character can equip three weapons in their arsenal, allowing for a versatile and strategic approach. That allows players to be prepared for every scenario and opponent. Alongside these primary weapons, Descendants have access to sub-weapons and other equipment, providing various options to enhance combat effectiveness.
However, not all weapons will work optimally with every character; matching weapons with the best-suited characters is crucial based on their role, abilities, and stats. Each weapon falls under a specific rarity category—Common (White), Standard (Blue), Rare (Purple), and Ultimate, also called legendary (Yellow/Gold). These weapons can be upgraded at the Workbench in Albion through different enhancements such as Weapon Level Transmissions, Unique Ability Enhancements, Reactor Enhancements, and Weapon Adjustments.
Here is a detailed look at some of the Ultimate (Yellow/Gold) weapons, their stats, special abilities, pros and cons, and the best Descendants to wield them.
This guide has been updated forHotfix 1.0.5of The First Descendant.
How to Get Ultimate Weapons?
In The First Descendant, ultimate weapons offer powerful abilities and can greatly enhance your character’s performance. Here’s how you can get them:
Drops from Bosses and Dungeons:You can obtain ultimate weapons by defeating bosses or completing dungeons. These activities often reward you with loot, and sometimes, you’ll get an ultimate weapon.
Missions: Completing specific missions can also provide you with ultimate weapons. Keep an eye on mission rewards to see if an ultimate weapon is up for grabs.
Crafting in Albion:You can craft ultimate weapons at the Workbench in Albion (check the map above for reference). To research and craft weapons, you need:
you may get all research materials and fragments through quests, drops, RNG, 4-player activities, etc. Moreover, to research weapons, you must have a specific mastery rank that is essentially an account-wide level of your progress. You gain it naturally as you play and can swap guns/characters. It still applies Mastery Rank bonuses. Mastery ranks also unlock mods, slots, and much more, making them essential for progression in The First Descendant.
Best Method to Farm Ultimate Weapons in The First Descendant
The best way to farm research fragments and get ultimate weapons is through Void Intercept Battles in The First Descendant. You can join those four-player activities anytime, and the game will auto-group you. Void Intercept Battles are quick and easy to do. The individual bosses give you a heads-up before you jump in and join so you can target specific ones with some random chance of obtaining the items you need. You can select an RNG column at the end of the activity to get what you are after.
All Ultimate Weapons List and Stats for The First Descendant
Here’s a list of all 22 ultimate weapons in The First Descendant, along with their abilities and the best characters to use them with:
Afterglow Sword(Sniper Rifle)
Ultimate Afterglow Sword – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Afterglow Sword is a powerful sniper rifle tailored for taking down tough enemies. Gley benefits greatly from its enhanced critical hit rate and weak point damage, making it deadly in skilled hands. You’ll want to use a Sniper to take down bosses, and it is more single-target oriented, whereas your other weapons are geared for AOE add clear.
Albion Cavalry (Machine Gun)
Ultimate Albion Cavalry – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Albion Cavalry excels in maximizing damage against stunned enemies, making it perfect for Ajax or Sharen. Its ability to reapply stun on critical hits creates a powerful cycle of control and damage. Sharen has an on demand stun skill which can radically boost your damage and is a perfect combination when using this character.
Blue Beetle (Scout Rifle)
Ultimate Blue Beetle – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Blue Beetle enhances critical hit rate and debuff removal through its buffs, making it versatile forBunnyorValby, who can utilize these skills frequently. However, you can also use this weapon for Viessa, Gley or Jayber. Offers a mix of offense and defense, making it a solid choice for versatile characters. Moreover, any character using Fusion or SIngular skills will benefit from this as their main weapon.
Clairvoyance (Beam Rifle)
Ultimate Clairvoyance – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Ideal for players who can maintain precision, this beam rifle becomes more powerful the longer it is used on a single target. This is ideal for Viessa with ice damage and burns on bosses where you can rapidly hold down the trigger. Only use this weapon when you can consistently hold the trigger for a few seconds without interruption.
Divine Punishment(Assault Rifle)
Ultimate Divine Punishment – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Divine Punishment is perfect for utility builds and supportive roles. Granting buffs to yourself when aiding allies increases your defense, reduces skill cooldown, and boosts firearm attack. Yujin and Enzo will benefit from his weapon, in particular to buff resources. This is your “healer” best in slot gun to collect.
Enduring Legacy (Machine Gun)
Ultimate Enduring Legacy – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Enduring Legacy boosts status effect triggers and reduces opponent fire resistance. Blair wants this weapon for fire resistance debuff, but also any character using other elements like toxic with Freyna, Bunny with Electric, or Viessa with Chill. In group content, your tank can use this to debuff a boss with Ajax or Kyle—overall one of the strongest versatile weapons.
Executor (Shotgun)
Ultimate Executor – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Executor is a powerful shotgun that rewards accuracy, increasing your attack power and inflicting electrocution on targets. It’s perfect for Bunny and Sharen, enhancing their damage output. You’ll need to hit all bullets to gain the benefit, and Sharen is the best use of this shotgun because she can cloak and get the full spread in one shot. Moreover, electrocuting will fit her build and help debuff enemies.
Fallen Hope(Assault Rifle)
Ultimate Fallen Hope – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Fallen Hope is a devastating weapon for crowd control, spreading poison and causing explosive damage. This is the best in slot weapon for Freyna, with her toxic abilities, can maximize its potential.
Final Masterpiece (Handgun)
Ultimate Final Masterpiece – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Final Masterpiece is a versatile handgun that provides different buffs with each reload, including increased weak point damage, critical hit rate, and fire rate. Ideal for any character due to its adaptable nature.
Greg’s Reversed Fate(Tactical Rifle)
Ultimate Greg’s Reversed Fate – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Great for characters who can leverage burn effects and deal consistent damage, applying burn damage through Bombardment. Blair can capitalize on this weapon’s special ability, despite its accuracy penalties. Moreover, anyone that wants extra AOE damage to compliment their build. Enzo and Yujin have little AOE damage and this weapon can be a nice addition when cleaning multiple enemies.
King’s Guard Lance (Beam Rifle)
Ultimate King’s Guard Lance – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
King’s Guard Lance is a unique beam rifle that deals ongoing damage through its deployed Guardian Lance. It’s useful for area control and sustained damage, making it versatile for any character. Somewhats similar to Jayber turrets, a useful way to add a guardian in combat.
Nazeistra’s Devotion(Hand Cannon)
Ultimate Nazeistra’s Devotion – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Nazeistra’s Devotion is tailored for support characters, reducing opponent defense and restoring ally shields. It’s a great fit for Jaber or Yujin, enhancing their supportive capabilities.
Peace Maker (Hand Cannon)
Ultimate Peace Maker – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Peace Maker is a potentially fun ultimate for players who aren’t concerned about aiming skill, but just want to shot as quickly as possible. Moreover, it’s a weapon that could help highly mobile characters like Bunny from slowing down too much while shooting. It’s not likely to replace the general meta, however, as it isn’t as strong against Colossus bosses as other hand cannons like Nazeistra’s Devotion.
Perforator (Hand Cannon)
Ultimate Perforator – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Penetrator excels at breaking opponent shields and stunning them, making it easier to switch to a more powerful weapon for finishing off foes. Suitable for any character due to its utility. You want to use this when your character doesn’t have a knockback or stun built in, and this can augment a build weakness.
Piercing Light (Sniper Rifle)
Ultimate Piercing Light – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Piercing Light excels at precision and debuffing, making it effective for any character. Its ability to remove foe buffs and enhance critical damage is invaluable in combat.
Python(Submachine Gun)
Ultimate Python – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Python is ideal for toxic builds, reducing foe resistance and defense. Freyna benefits most from this weapon, enhancing her toxic damage capabilities. Morover, any tank like Ajax or Kyle can use this weapon because the Prey debuff also reduces DEF stats. Therefore, everyone can gain increase DPS when debuffed with Python.
Restored Relic (Launcher)
Ultimate Restored Relic – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Restored Relic is a powerful grenade launcher effective for any character, providing large AOE damage and applying a damaging fire effect over time. A powerful launcher with high damage potential, useful for crowd control and dealing with tough enemies. The Ancient Fire bonus does great damage over time and is a good weapon when your build doesn’t have AOE grenades or other add clear skills.
Secret Garden (Tactical Rifle)
Ultimate Secret Garden – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Secret Garden is ideal for characters who frequently use Dimension or Tech skills. Ajax, Blair, and Kyle can make the most out of its resource recovery and attack buffs, enhancing their overall performance in battle. Look in your Descendant character screen for your Descendant attribute to learn about your character.
Sigvore’s Proof(Launcher)
Ultimate Sigvore’s Proof – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Sigvore’s Proof is a versatile launcher perfect for any character. Its ability to stick and detonate bombs with strategic timing, along with its burn effect, makes it a powerful addition to any arsenal, providing both immediate and sustained damage. It’s a weapon you may get in The First Descendant season pass.
Smithereens(Shotgun)
Ultimate Smithereens – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Smithereens is ideal for characters focused on critical builds. Its ability to increase critical hit rate and damage makes it powerful for Sharen or Bunny, who can leverage the high fire rate and crit boosts effectively. Moreover, characters that use skills in close will benefit and it won’t be as effective for ranged characters or low survivability builds.
The Last Dagger (Handgun)
Ultimate The Last Dagger – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
The Last Dagger is a powerful handgun that rewards aggressive play. Its stacking buffs and enhanced rounds make it effective for any character seeking to increase their critical hit rate and damage output. Another good weapon to complement a build that doesn’t have a built-in stun.
Thunder Cage(Submachine Gun)
Ultimate Thunder Cage – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Thunder Cage is ideal for fast-paced combat, with electric shock waves that damage nearby foes upon defeating enemies. Bunny can utilize its electric properties to great effect and you gain access to this weapon very early in the game. It’s helpful for AOD clear due to Overcharge and should be used leveling up or if your reactor requires sub machine gun.
Wave of Light (Submachine Gun)
Ultimate Wave of Light – Weapon Stats, Special Ability, Research, Descendant, Pros and Cons for The First Descendant:
Wave of Light is a versatile and powerful weapon with abilities that benefit solo players and any character. Its dual halos boost critical rate, reduce recoil, and cut down opponent regeneration.
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