5 Best Weapons From Season One in the First Descendant

Season One has arrived in the First Descendant, and the meta has stabilized; we share the top 5 best weapons you must collect!

Weapons in the First Descendant come in various types, including ammunition, rarity, base stats, and more. The most important aspect of what makes a weapon good or bad is its applicability to a wide variety of content. In the First Descendant, players will complete many different game modes like Operations, Void Intercept Battles, and questing. Many guns perform well in specific instances but suffer in other content designed for boss fights or mob clearing. In this guide, we answer the question what are the 5 best guns in the First Descendant Season One, and why?

Top 5 Best Weapons in Season 1 of TFD

Thunder Cage submachine gun is the best weapon in the First Descendant Season One because it is effective in every type of content. Once you upgrade the weapon with Catalyst Sockets, you can swap in your favorite mods for boss encounters or mob clearing and use only one weapon throughout the entire game. Additionally, Thunder Cage is easy to obtain, and upgrading its unique ability can dramatically impact the weapon’s performance. If you were to only collect and upgrade one weapon to its maximum potential, it should be the Thunder Cage due to its damage, available mods, and unique effect.

Below are the top 5 weapons in the First Descedant Season One ranked from best to worst:

1. Thunder Cage Submachine Gun
2. Enduring Legacy Machine Gun
3. Greg’s Reversed Fate Tactical Rifle
4. Nazeistra’s Devotion Hand Cannon
5. Afterglow Sword Sniper Rifle

5 Afterglow Sword

The Afterglow Sword is a long-distance sniper rifle that uses high-impact rounds. The Afterglow Sword’s range, weak point damage, and unique ability make it effective. Typical weapon load-outs include a general ammo weapon as your primary, impact, or special rounds as a secondary weapon. This strategy ensures a well-balanced weapon kit designed for multiple ammunition sources and ranges. This strategy is what Afterglow Sword excels at as the limited ammunition headshot/weak point killer in the First Descednat.

Afterglow revolves around weak point damage with a unique effect of Death Propagation. As you land weak point shots on enemies, you gain stacks of Death Propagation, boosting your weak point damage and reload speed. Therefore, when uninterrupted at max range, players will want to spam headshots on bosses for quick kills.

The downside to the Afterglow sword is that it is limited to long-range fights and High-Impact Rounds. Therefore, it’s a specific boss killer and not applicable to every other type of content. However, its base stats, range, and unique ability make it one of the 5 best weapons in the First Descendant for season one.

4 Nazeistra’s Devotion

The fourth best weapon to collect in Season One is Nazeistra’s Devotion Hand Cannon. This weapon uses Impact rounds and is a versatile weapon with high burst damage and a nice debuff. The strength of the Hand Cannon weapon type is its great burst stats, and it’s applicable as a secondary weapon regardless of your content. Moreover, Nazeistra’s Devotion is easy to get and max out its unique effect with 5 copies of the weapon.

Nazeistra’s Devotion unique ability, Fanaticism, debuffs enemies DEF when hitting a weak point. Lower DEF equals more damage for you and your teammates. With this unique group application, Nazeistra’s Devotion aids everyone in your party and is especially nice in Void Intercept battles. If you run out of High-Impact Rounds or General, quickly swap to your Hand Cannon and hit weak points to keep your overall party DPS high.

What holds Nazeistra’s Devotion back from being higher on the list is the overall damage compared to Greg’s Reversed Fate. Currently, that weapon AOE damage and proc produces much more damage and is a boss melter with good range.

3 Greg’s Reversed Fate

What makes Greg’s Reversed Fate powerful is the Bombardment’s unique ability and chance to critical strike. This was buffed after the game’s launch and is now a meta weapon combining powerful proc effect with maximum range. Tactical Rifles are powerful because they shoot three-round bursts. With Greg’s Reversed Fate, players will want to use the Spray and Pray mod to eliminate ammunition consumption after landing a critical hit. Greg’s is all about critical, giving you one stat to build into for maximum damage.

The weakness of Greg’s Reversed Fate is the bombardment procs are designed for specific encounters. Moreover, if enemies are highly mobile, you will likely not hit them because of a slight delay. Additionally, the extra range with tactical rifles lowers the overall damage, and the three-round burst can give a lot of recoil. However, Greg’s is worth collecting and upgrading for a medium-range boss killer that doesn’t require High-Impact Rounds.

2 Enduring Legacy

What makes Enduring Legacy the second-best weapon in the First Descendant Season One is its unique ability to increase status effects and base damage. While the Tamer Machinegun was powerful at mid-game, players quickly discovered a better boss killer using Enduring Legacy. Machine guns have a massive ammo capacity, allowing you to hold the trigger and crank up DPS. The trick to optimal DPS using machine guns is the Mental Focus mod, which gives you increased Firearm ATK for every shot. Therefore, you build into high round capacity and fire rate to generate max stacks quickly.

Enduring Legacy’s unique ability, Quenching, triggers status effects more frequently. This is not only useful for you, but anyone on your team. Especially if you’re using weapon mods like Electric ATK or similar elements. Any element-based build like Bunny, Viessa, or Lepic will benefit from this status effect. Debuff and fire, in particular, benefit the player. Even if you don’t build for status effects, the damage will outperform the Tamer and is a big upgrade to end-game progression Void Intercept boss battles.

1 Thunder Cage

The best weapon in the First Descendant is the Thunder Cage Submachine gun due to its versatility, damage, unique effect, and ease of access. The Thunder Cage is the one gun you can take into a Void Intercept Battle, mobbing, questing, or Special Operations. While its medium range is weak, the fire rate, base damage, and high criticalness make it the best overall. The unique effect also explodes multiple enemies, giving you multi-kill potential.

Another aspect of the Thunder Cage’s power is the availability of its weapon mods. You can use Defense Master to boost survivability or Firing Fiesta to increase DPS with no ammo consumption after a reload. Additionally, you can swap in Sweeping Squad for mobbing or questing, giving you total flexibility. Before season one, it was impossible to have multiple socket types, but now you can swap setups and have a boss killer, mobbing, and survivability setup all with one gun. Sure, it may take a bunch of catalysts, but with the availability of the Thunder Cage and the ease of upgrading its unique effect, it’s well worth it.

Oddly, the best of the top 5 weapons in the First Descendant is one of the first you acquire, and we recommend that everyone collect and optimize Thunder Cage in season one.

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