The First Descendant: How To Level Up Fast (Best XP Farming Methods)

With over 40 levels per character in The First Descendant, you'll want to level up fast to unlock better abilities for your favorite Descendants by using XP farming methods. While some ways to gain experience are straightforward, the process can still feel tedious. Using some tricks and sticking to reliable sources of great XP will help you quickly increase character levels in the early and late stages of the game.

You gain XP by defeating enemies and completing various quests in The First Descendant, with amounts of experience varying based on the missions or foes themselves. Even when playing with friends in multiplayer, you can gain XP from the creatures they take down. Finishing a quest with a group will give you more XP since you can add the XP gained by others to your character as you clear objectives.

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How To Gain More XP Through Items

Equip Or Spend Certain Materials To Raise Experience Gained

Some items allow you to boost your character's XP gain during a mission. A Descendant XP Boost increases the experience you gain by 30%, making it a great item to spend before embarking on a mission for XP farming. This XP Boost lasts for three in-game days, so make use of the limited time you have to complete missions that are easy to get through to maximize the rewards offered from this item's consumption.

Descendant XP Boosts are usually offered in the Shop, available for 175-575 Caliber premium currency, which you can earn as rewards through the game's premium Battle Pass or by spending real-world money.

Sometimes, Descendant XP Boosts are given to your account for free as a tie-in to special events within the game. However, you shouldn't rely on these items alone to inflate your character's experience earned through missions. Similar to Gold in The First Descendant, you can find other items that passively boost the XP you collect from enemies and quests as you harvest them from rare drops.

Some External Components you can equip raise experience gain, but these are hard to find. Due to the random nature of item drops, you may need to farm for Components with the XP-boosting effect you want from enemies you take out during a mission. Try to equip these items as soon as possible to a character you want to level up the most once you find one.

Best Farming Missions For XP (Early Game)

Select Specific Quests Once Areas Are Unlocked

The best farming missions for early game characters are "Kingston Albion Resource Defense" and "Sterile Land Kuiper Mine Blockade." According to the above video by YouTube creator NothingbutSkillz, both quests have some of the best rewards alongside XP to farm. The simple nature of these defense missions pits you against tons of enemies too, making it a playground for constant experience gain.

The amount of time a mission takes to complete does not affect how good it is for XP farming. If a quest has simple objectives and a lot of enemies, it is more valuable for gaining experience than a fast mission with complicated goals.

Other items like Amorphous Materials in The First Descendant can come from these missions, making them worth pursuing during the early game. While the Kingston mission has you simply defending an area from enemy waves, the Sterile Land quest has you actively attacking foes near drilling mines. The Sterile Land quest has you fight enemy waves as well, but also multiple mini-bosses that offer extra XP for their defeat.

By repeating these missions over and over, you can maximize the XP you gain from both over a short time. Keep in mind that you can't participate in either quest unless you have their wider areas unlocked through progression in the main story. Thankfully, both the Sterile Lands and Kingston are early-game regions that don't require much attention to The First Descendant's campaign to open up.

Best Farming Mission For XP (Late Game)

Don't Be Afraid To Try Out Hard Mode

Once you unlock regions later in the game, you'll find that there is more XP to be gained from missions like "Fallen Ark Void Fragment" rather than the ones from Kingston or the Sterile Lands. This quest is best done in Hard Mode in The First Descendant to give you the maximum amount of experience possible. Like all Void missions, you need a Descendant character with a specific Attribute to initiate this quest.

The only way to activate the Void Fragment quest in Fallen Ark is to use a character with the Electric Attribute. This could include Bunny, her Ultimate variant, or Sharen, but you have to be aware of these characters' abilities to complete the mission successfully. While faster than the early game XP farming quests, this mission has greater threats for you to face, especially in Hard Mode.

Don't forget to flesh out character builds to be extremely strong at taking out enemies fast for XP farming missions. Use the right weapons and upgrade Modules to max out your character's potential before starting missions.

While this mission is excellent for farming XP for Electric Attribute characters, it may seem impossible to gain experience for other Descendants this way. The solution to this is joining a multiplayer session with a Descendant capable of activating the quest to jump in as another character. This allows you to gain XP for a separate character without the Electric Attribute alongside others tackling the mission's objectives.

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This strategy can be applied to other Void Fragment missions since many appear throughout the areas you unlock. Be careful not to create an unbalanced team for this quest simply because you want to farm XP as a priority. Failing to complete a mission or having others abandon the quest could cause you to lose out on XP, so make sure to contribute to multiplayer efforts in the best way you can.

Leveling up with enough experience will raise your character's stats and unlock new skills for them to use. You have a max Level of 40 with each Descendant you unlock, which makes it important to become incredibly familiar with certain missions. Every farming method you use to level up fast in The First Descendant will help you gain greater rewards as you grow strong enough to tackle new challenges.

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