Best Modules for Every Character in The First Descendant (TFD)

Source: The First Descendant; developer: Nexon

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Modules in The First Descendant are essentially upgrades that enhance your character’s abilities or weapon. They come in various rarities and types, offering different benefits. This guide will help you navigate these options and decide which ones to choose to customize your playstyle and become more effective in combat.

• The First Descendant – Types and Rarities of Modules
• The First Descendant – How to Get Modules
• The First Descendant – Module Capacity Limit
• The First Descendant – How to Use Modules
• The First Descendant – Best Modules for Every Character

The First Descendant – Types and Rarities of Modules

Types

1. Skill modules – These modify your character’s skills, changing their functionality or increasing their power.
2. Ultimate Descendant modules – These specifically enhance your character's ultimate ability that provide general buffs to your character, like increased health or defense.
3. Weapon modules – Theses improve your weapons, offering benefits like increased damage or ammo capacity.

Rarity

1. Transcendent – The rarest and most powerful modules.
2. Ultimate – Very strong modules specific to enhancing ultimates.
3. Rare – Less common but still impactful modules.
4. Normal – The most common modules, offering basic stat boosts.

The First Descendant – How to Get Modules

There are several ways to acquire modules in The First Descendant:

1. Completing Missions – Many quests, especially on harder levels, have a chance to rewards modules upon completion. You can always check the acquisition info of any module to check which missions can offer it.
2. Enemy Drops – Some foes, particularly elite and bosses, have a chance to drop modules when defeated.
3. Void Intercept Bosses and Missions – These boss fights are the best source for Transcendent and Ultimate modules.

The First Descendant – Module Capacity Limit

Modules have their own capacity cost, preventing you from equipping all your strongest ones simultaneously to avoid overpowered characters. Both Descendant and Weapon modules have separate capacity limits.

You can increase these limits by raising your Mastery Rank, using Research Requests, and placing modules in matching slots. Modules with an orange glow are your sub modules. These aren't just stat enhancers – they're your key to expanding your Capacity.

The First Descendant – How to Use Modules

Some modules are true multitaskers, offering buffs for both your Descendant and your weapons. While awesome, these versatile modules can eat up your Capacity quickly. Since both Descendant and Weapon modules enhance active skills or weapons in different ways, prioritizing which to upgrade early is crucial.

With a limited Module Capacity in the early stages, it's wise to strategize your upgrades. Focus on a mix of Descendant and Weapon modules to address your immediate needs. This will ensure you can equip some of each type without maxing out your capacity too soon.

Dismantling unwanted modules is a great way to declutter your inventory and gain valuable resources. By visiting Silion in Albion and selecting the ‘Dismantling’ option, you can convert those excess modules into Kuiper Shards.

The First Descendant – Best Modules for Every Character

Picking the perfect modules for your Descendant can be overwhelming. Here’s a list of the best options for each character in the game.

• Bunny
• Blair
• Ajax
• Enzo
• Esiemo
• Gley
• Freyna
• Jayber
• Sharen
• Lepic
• Kyle
• Valby
• Viessa
• Yujin

Bunny

Skills

1. Nimble Fingers: Reduces skill cooldowns, allowing you to spam your abilities more frequently, especially Lightning Emission for constant mobility and damage.
2. Electric Specialist: Boosts your overall electric skill power, significantly increasing the damage of Lightning Emission and other electric attacks.
3. Skill Expansion: Extends the range of your skills, allowing you to zap enemies from a safer distance.

Ultimate

1. Electric Transition (Transcendent): This module alters your Ultimate Bunny to focus on shiels instead of raw damage. While the damage output decreases slightly, it grants continuous shield regeneration during the ultimate, making you incredibly tanky.
2. Strong Mentality (Transcendent): Lowers the resource cost of your ultimate, allowing to activate it more often.

Weapon

1. Electrocution Enhancement: Increases the chance of inflicting electrocution on enemies, boosting overall electric damage output.

Blair

Skills

1. Classic chef: Extends the duration of your ‘Deadly Cuisine’ fire puddles, significantly increasing their damage potential and area of control.
2. Fire Specialist: Boosts your overall fire power.
3. Focus on Fire: Improves your power against burning enemies and slightly reduces skill cooldowns. This synergizes perfectly with Blair’s playstyle of setting enemies ablaze and then unleashing fiery attacks.
4. Skill Expansion: This module can be useful for extending the range of your skills, allowing you to control the battlefield from a safer distance.

Ultimate

1. Spicy Surprise (Transcendent): Enhances your ultimate ‘Blazing Banquet’, by increasing its damage and causing enemies caught in the flames to explode, potentially creating chain reactions.

Weapon

1. Burning Enhancement: Increases the chance of inflicting burning damage on enemies with your weapon attacks.
2. Fire Damage Up.
3. Life Steal: Provides a small amount of health regeneration whenever you damage enemies with your weapon.
4. Area of Effect Enhancement: Expands the area of your weapon’s explosions and burning outcome.

Ajax

Skills

1. Combo Master: Enhances your overall combo damage, rewarding your aggressive playstyle with increased punch as your chain attacks.
2. Overwhelming Force: A great offensive pick. It increases the damage dealt by your ‘Overwhelming Stroke’, making it an even more devastating combo finisher.
3. Close Combat Specialist: Focuses on boosting your damage against enemies at close range.
4. Increased Skill Efficiency: Shortens the cooldown timers of your skills.

Ultimate

1. Unyielding Guardian (Transcendent): Enhances your ultimate ‘Guardian’s Might’ by granting bonus damage and making you unstoppable for its duration.

Weapon

1. Critical Hit Up.
2. Stagger Enhancement: Increases the chance of staggering enemies with your weapon attacks, interrupting their attacks and giving you an opening to unleash a powerful combo.
3. Attack Speed Up: Increases the speed of your weapon attacks, allowing you to deal more damage in a shorter timeframe and potentially staggering enemies more frequently.
4. Close Combat Up: Increases your overall melee weapon damage.

Enzo

Skills

1. Reinforce Front Line: It transforms your "Combat Armor" skill into a deployable device that boosts the attack power of all allies within range.
2. Skill Cost Optimize: Reduces the cooldown timers of all your skills, allowing you to provide more frequent support and buffs to your team.
3. Improved Supply: Enhances the effects of your ‘Supply Firearm’ and ‘Supply Tactical Armor’ skills, providing stronger buffs or more potent defensive effects for your allies.

Ultimate

1. Improved Support (Transcendent): Enhances your ultimate ‘Perfect Support’ by increasing its duration and the buff it provides to allies. This extends the window of opportunity for your team to unleash maximum damage.

Weapon

1. Marksman: Increases your weapon's critical hit chance, allowing you to deal more damage and potentially proc on-hit effects from other weapon modules more frequently.
2. Rifle Reinforcement: Specifically beneficial for Enzo who utilizes rifles, this module increases your overall rifle damage, making your weapon attacks more impactful.
3. Heat Incinerator: If you prefer a more offensive playstyle while supporting, this module adds a chance to inflict burning damage on enemies with your weapon attacks, contributing to overall team DPS.

Esiemo

Skills

1. Cluster Bomb: It transforms your ‘Sticky Grenade’ skill into a cluster grenade that explodes into multiple smaller grenades, significantly increasing its area of effect and damage potential.
2. Tech Specialist: Boosts your overall Tech skill power, which benefits all your bomb and mine-related skills, including ‘Blast’, ‘Guided Landmine’, and the upgraded ‘Sticky Grenade’ from Cluster Bomb.
3. Focus on Fire: Increases skill power against burning enemies (synergizes with burning mines/bombs) and slightly reduces skill cooldowns.

Ultimate

1. Battlefield Control (Transcendent): Grants a temporary slow effect to enemies caught in the ultimate's blast radius, giving your team an additional window to unleash damage.
2. Overclock (Transcendent): Increases the overall damage output of your ultimate.

Weapon

1. Impact Rounds: enhances the damage dealt by your weapon's projectiles, making your regular attacks more impactful, especially against enemies caught in the blast radius of your explosions.
2. Improved Cooldown Reduction: Allows you to use your explosive skills more frequently, creating a constant stream of destruction.

Gley

Skills

1. Blood and Iron: It transforms ‘Bloodsucker’ skill into ‘Iron Will’, granting a temporary shield based on the damage dealt by your weapon during its duration. This allows for aggressive play while enhancing survivability.
2. Predator Instinct: Enhances your firearm damage while Gley is in a Frenzy state (activated by using ‘Bloodsucker’ or ‘Iron Will’). Since Gley relies heavily on her weapon for damage, this is a key module for maximizing her offensive potential.
3. Super Senses: Increases your critical hit chance and critical hit damage. This synergizes well with Gley's focus on weapon damage and can significantly boost her overall DPS.

Ultimate

1. Bloodlust (Transcendent): Enhances your ultimate, ‘Crimson Rain’. It increases the damage dealt and grants Gley Lifesteal effect (healing based on weapon damage) while the ultimate is active. This allows for even more sustained damage and survivability during your ultimate.

Weapon

1. Max HP: Since ‘Iron Will’ scales off weapon damage dealt during its duration, having a larger HP pool allows for a stronger temporary shield.
2. Focus Fire: Increases your overall weapon damage, boosting your output regardless of Frenzy state.
3. Improved Magazine Size.

Freyna

Skills

1. Contagion: It transforms ‘Room 0 Trauma’ skill, causing it to spread poison to nearby enemies when they take damage. This maximizes the potential for AoE poison damage.
2. Toxic Specialist: Directly boosts your overall Toxic skill power, significantly increasing the damage dealt by your poison-based abilities.
3. Skill Expansion: This module can be valuable for extending the range of your skills, allowing you to control the battlefield from a safer distance and spread your toxins more effectively.

Ultimate

1. Toxic Cloud Up (Transcendent): Enhances your ultimate ‘Blightstorm’ by increasing the duration of the toxic cloud it creates and the damage it deals. This maximizes the zone control and damage potential of your ultimate.

Weapon

1. Toxic Enhancement: Increases the chance of inflicting toxic damage on enemies with your weapon attacks, turning them into walking poison clouds and amplifying your overall toxic damage potential.
2. Focus Fire: A solid choice for boosting overall weapon damage, making every shot more impactful, even if it doesn't directly inflict poison.
3. Improved Cooldown Reduction: For a more ability-focused playstyle, this allows you to use your toxic skills more frequently, creating a constant stream of poisonous attacks.

Jayber

Skills

1. Turret Engineering: Modifies your multi-purpose gun. Instead of granting a temporary buff to turrets, it extends their lifespan and heals them over time. This is particularly useful for maintaining two active turrets simultaneously, allowing you to take full advantage of your passive skill.
2. Skill Cost Optimize: Reduces the cooldown timers of all your skills, allowing you to deploy your turrets more frequently and maintain control of the battlefield.
3. Dual Claw: Increases the damage dealt by your turrets, significantly amplifying their suppressive capabilities.

Ultimate

1. Overclock (Transcendent): Enhances your ultimate, ‘Orbital Barrage’, by increasing its damage output and firing rate. This unleashes a devastating hail of bullets that can significantly weaken or eliminate enemies caught in the barrage.

Weapon

1. Improved Magazine Size.
2. Focus Fire: Increases your overall weapon damage, boosting your output regardless of whether you're directly attacking or activating turrets.
3. Marksman: Increases your critical hit chance, allowing you to deal more damage with your weapon and potentially activate your turrets faster.

Sharen

Skills

1. Release Cutting Force: Transforms your ‘Cutoff Beam’ skill into a wider beam with increased damage, making it a more potent AoE attack.
2. Electric Specialist: Boosts your overall Electric skill power, significantly increasing the damage of your attacks like ‘Cutoff Beam’ and ‘Lightning Emission’.
3. Nimble Fingers: Reduces the cooldown timers of all your skills, allowing you to spam your abilities more frequently. This is crucial for Sharen's mobility-focused playstyle that relies on constant skill usage.

Ultimate

1. Electric Transition (Transcendent): Reduces Electricity Charge amount during Speed of Light, but continuously regenerates Shield based on the distance travelled.

Weapon

1. Electric Enhancement: Increases the chance of inflicting electric damage on enemies with your weapon attacks.
2. Focus Fire: Increases your overall weapon damage, boosting your output regardless of whether you're directly attacking or using skills.

Lepic

Skills

1. Increased Gain: Transforms your ‘Overkill’ skill, removing the MP drain while active and instead costing MP upon hitting a target. This allows for more sustained fire explosions and significantly boosts his damage potential.
2. Non-Attribute Master: Provides a flat bonus to all your skill power, regardless of the element.
3. Technician: Focuses on reducing the cooldowns of your skills, allowing you to unleash your fiery abilities more frequently and maintain control of the battlefield.

Ultimate

1. Cataclysm Up (Transcendent): Enhances your ultimate ‘Volcanic Eruption’ by increasing the damage dealt and the AoE.

Weapon

1. Burning Enhancement: Increases the chance of inflicting burning damage on enemies with your weapon attacks.
2. Area of Effect Enhancement: Expands the AoE for your weapon's explosions and burning effects, allowing you to set fire to a larger group of enemies with each shot.
3. Improved Magazine Size.

Kyle

Skills

1. Self-Directed Eruption: transforms his ‘Spurt’ skill, causing it to not only dash forward but also suck in nearby enemies, allowing you to group them up for a devastating AoE melee attack.
2. Increased HP.
3. Skill Simplification: Reduces the complexity of your skills, making them easier to execute and potentially opening more combo opportunities.

Ultimate

1. Materialized Phase (Transcendent): Enhances your ultimate ‘Aerial Manoeuvre’ by granting bonus damage reduction and allowing you to fire your weapon while in the air. This extends your offensive capabilities during your ultimate and provides some defensive benefits.

Weapon

1. Close Combat Up: Increasing overall melee weapon damage.
2. Life Steal: Provides a small health regeneration effect whenever you damage enemies with your weapon.

Valby

Skills

1. Skill Power Up: Increases the overall power of your skills, boosting the damage of your illusions and spatial attacks.
2. Improved Skill Efficiency: Shortens the cooldown timers of your skills, allowing you to manipulate the battlefield and unleash your deceptive attacks more frequently.

Ultimate

1. Dimensional Domination (Transcendent): Enhances your ultimate, "Phantom Onslaught." It increases the duration of the ultimate and the damage dealt by your attacks while in the transformed state.

Weapon

1. Marksman: Increases critical hit chance.
2. Water Play (Sub Module): Allows your weapon attacks to inflict a Wet status effect on enemies. It pairs well with Valby's ‘Dimensional Ripper’ skill, which deals bonus damage to enemies afflicted with Wet. This module can significantly increase your overall damage potential.
3. Elemental Enhancement: Increases the damage dealt by your weapon if it has the Water element.

Viessa

Skills

1. Absolute Zero: Transforms your ‘Frostbite’ skill, instantly freezing enemies in place and dealing significant damage. This provides excellent crowd control and burst damage potential.
2. Chill Specialist: Boosts your overall Chill skill power, significantly increasing the damage dealt by your frost-based attacks like ‘Frost Shards’ and the upgraded ‘Frostbite’ from Absolute Zero.
3. Improved Skill Range: Allows you to cast your skills from a safer distance, keeping you out of harm's way while still controlling the battlefield with your chilling effects.

Ultimate

1. Avalanche Up (Transcendent): Enhances your ultimate ‘Glacial Prison’. It increases the area of effect of the ultimate and the damage dealt by the falling ice shards. This maximizes the zone control and damage potential of your ultimate.

Weapon

1. Frost Enhancement: Increases the chance of inflicting Chill on enemies with your weapon attacks, amplifying the effectiveness of your element-based skills.
2. Focus Fire: Boosts overall weapon damage.

Yujin

Skills

1. Duty and Sacrifice: Transforms your ‘Guardian Field’ skill, creating a stationary healing field that not only heals allies but also cleanses them of negative status effects.
2. Proliferating Allergy: Grants you a chance to inflict the ‘Explosive Allergy’ status effect on enemies healed by his skills. When these enemies take damage, they explode, dealing damage to nearby enemies.
3. Conditional Recharge: Reduces the cooldown timers of your skills based on your HP. The lower your HP, the faster your skills recharge.

Ultimate

1. Hyperreactive Healing Ground (Transcendent): Enhances your ultimate ‘Salvation Field’. It increases the area of effect of the healing field and grants allies immunity to debuffs while they stand within it.

Weapon

1. Improved Cooldown Reduction: If you prefer to focus purely on supporting and don't plan to utilize Divine Punishment's offensive capabilities, this module is a solid choice. It directly reduces the cooldowns of all your skills, allowing you to provide a constant stream of heals and buffs for your team.
2. Support Specialist: Increases the potency of your healing effects, making your heals more impactful.