How to Farm Reactors in The First Descendant

Farming Reactors in The First Descendant is important for obtaining your desired stats and optimizing your build for your playstyle.

Reactors in The First Descendant are key items that enhance and optimize your Descendant’s abilities. Farming Reactors is critical because these items boost specific skills, providing stat increases and other additional effects. According to the game’s lore, Reactors are key components that help channel the Arche Abilities of the Descendants. As a result, picking the right Reactors significantly impacts your gameplay style and can help create a specialized build.

Farming Reactors allows you to experiment with different builds and optimize each character’s strength based on your playstyle. Overall, this greatly increases the overall power and effectiveness in combat. This guide explains everything about farming Reactors in The First Descendant. We will explore how you can farm them and which ones you are best equipped for specific builds.

How to Grind Reactors in The First Descendant

The best way to farm reactors in the First Descendant is by using the map and difficulty level rewards, finding the area with the descendant attribute, secondary attribute, and ammunition type. This method allows you to find and complete missions with ultimate reactor drops matching your primary weapon like Afterglow Sword Sniper Rifle, for instance.

Getting the desired attributes or stats on a Reactor (often called “god rolls”) is often a painstakingly long process. However, players chase this perfection and it ends up being a driving factor behind farming Reactors to get the perfect attributes to go with their build.

Types of Reactors to Farm in The First Descendant

Understanding the types of Reactors in The First Descendant is important before you get down to farming them. This bit can be tricky, as we can classify Reactors in two ways – based on their rarity and how they are equipped.

Types of Reactors based on rarity

There are three types of Reactors in The First Descendant based on their rarity:

• Basic Reactors: These are denoted by blue color, and they offer simple boosts. These can be obtained easily.
• Epic Reactors: These are a more powerful classification and are denoted by a purple color. They provide a considerable amount of boost and are also privy to modifiers.
• Ultimate Reactors: The highest class of Reactors, these are golden in color and provide really powerful improvements, although you will need to meet some specific conditions to use them.

Although Ultimate or gold-tier Reactors might be the most powerful and provide the maximum bonuses, you should not completely dismiss the purple-tier Epic Reactors. If you frequently swap weapons, an Epic Reactor with a versatile ability might be more beneficial than an Ultimate Reactor with a specific focus.

Types of Reactors based on how they are equipped

Two types of Reactors exist in The First Descendant, based on how or where they are equipped:

• Mounted Reactors: These are Reactors that you can equip into one of your character’s three equipment slots. They provide bonuses that are always active.
• Equipped Reactors: These are essentially Reactors that you need to equip to your character directly. You can manually trigger these abilities.

How to find the best Reactor to farm in The First Descendant?

The best reactor compliments your build’s Descendant Attribute, primary weapon, and bonuses. With so many build combinations, it’s hard to have only one Reactor since weapons, bosses, and environments changed. However, here are the factors you need to consider when farming reactors in The First Descendant:

• Element: This determines the Reactor’s damage type.
• Ammunition type: The ammunition type determines the Reactor’s weapon bonus. General will only boost General ammo weapons, and Special will only boost Special ammo weapons.
• Bonus type: Every character in The First Descendant has a skill type (dimensional, singular, fusion, tech). If your character and the Reactor have a matching skill type, then it will receive a significant bonus when using a skill of that particular type.

Next, you need to decide which Reactor affixes are the best for your playstyle. Here are some of the best affixes that work well in almost every scenario:

• Power Boost Ratio: Usually one of the BiS (Best-in-slot) choices for all characters, it increases the damage of your skills.
• Skill critical hit rate and damage: building towards burst if you use skills frequently vs gunplay.
• Skill Cooldown: This affix greatly reduces cooldown for skills and is beneficial to almost every build.
• Skill Duration: helpful if you are more defensive like Ajax, who relies on long-duration skills for projection.

How to effectively farm Reactors in The First Descendant

The First Descendant’s in-game tool provides a helpful tool that makes farming Reactors efficient and easy. It also pinpoints the optimal farming location based on your preferred Reactor. Here is how you can use it:

• Access the Difficulty Level Rewards Menu: This is in the game’s menu.
• Filter by Reactor Type: Use the available filters to specify the element, ammunition type, and bonus you’re looking for.
• Identify Farming Locations: The game will highlight the specific locations where the desired reactor has a higher drop chance.

Note that the Reactor combinations change every seven days, so keep an eye on the rewards table regularly. In some cases, your desired Reactor type might not appear in the filter. This indicates that the Reactor that you are searching for is not in the current week’s rotation. In such a case, you need to wait for the next rotation.

Tips to farm Reactors in The First Descendant

Before you can farm Reactors, you must finish the story and unlock Hard mode. Once you have done that, here are some tips that can make it easier to farm Reactors in The First Descendant:

• Prioritize Hard Difficulty: Higher difficulty levels yield better loot, including higher-tier reactors.
• Complete Challenges: Challenges often reward additional loot, increasing your chances of finding the Reactor you need.

Reactor Combos and Builds

For the best results, a Reactor’s two descendant attributes should align with those of its equipped character. However, Descendants also have three possible descendant attributes sometimes. 

For example, Lepic has the following skills and attributes associated with him:

• Grenade (Damage Skill) – Tech and Fire
• Overclock (Utility Skill) – Singular and Fire
• Traction Grenade (Utility Skill) – Singular and Fire
• Overkill (Damage Skill) – Tech and Fire

Lepic’s Grenade and Overkill skills both have the Tech and Fire attributes, thereby benefitting from the Burning Mechanics Reactor.

Weapon choice also influences Reactor selection. Characters like Bunny primarily using the Thunder Cage can maximize damage output with an Ultimate reactor focused on Singular and Electric attributes, as these amplify her Lightning Emission damage and compensate for the weapon’s longer range.

Transcendent Modules

It’s crucial to remember that equipping Transcendent Modules can alter both skill functionality and descendant attributes. This dynamic nature allows flexible reactor choices. For example, Valby’s Plop Plop skill changes when using the Supply Moisture Transcendent Module, potentially requiring a different Reactor based on her primary damage source.

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