Best Eternal Willpower build in The First Descendant: Readjustment rolls, modules, and more

Modified Aug 25, 2024 22:00 IST

The First Descendant Eternal Willpower build — The First Descendant has some pretty good non-Ultimate weapons (Image via Nexon)

Eternal Willpower is one of The First Descendant's meta General Rounds weapons. It's a tried-and-tested assault rifle that gives you high crit potential, and a solid rate of fire to leverage it. Even though it's not an Ultimate weapon and has no gimmicks attached to it, its stats are robust enough to make it worth sinking an Energy Activator into.

In this Eternal Willpower build guide for The First Descendant beginners, we will explain why this weapon excels, and how to best utilize its natural talents.

How to get Eternal Willpower in The First Descendant

To get the Eternal Willpower, you can farm the Vulgus Strategic Oupost in The Storage, Agna Desert. Clearing this Vulgus Outpost boss has a 50% chance to drop the weapon. Doing it in Hard Mode is recommended to get lvl 100 variants.

Eternal Willpower farming and drop location (Image via Nexon)

If you don't want to bother with Outpost cooldowns, the other Eternal Willpower drop source is the Baggage Transport Base mission in Vermillion Wastes, Agna Desert. This mission takes much longer to complete, but it's relatively easier if you don't have a firepower.

The First Descendant Eternal Willpower stats, explored

Here are all the stats of a lvl 100 Eternal Willpower in The First Descendant:

Stat type	Amount at lvl 100
Damage (Firearm ATK)	21,370
Fire Rate	499
Reload Time	1.9s
Crit Rate	20%
Crit Damage	1.5x
Weak Point Damage	1x
Hip Fire Accuracy	88.88
Aimed Shot Accuracy	91.11
Range	35m - 60m
ATK Drop-off Modifier	0.4x
Attribute Trigger Rate	5.26%

Eternal Willpower stats (Image via Nexon)

Eternal Willpower is very decidedly a crit weapon, as it sports no extra damage on weak point hits. Moreover, its critical damage is still on the lower end of the spectrum. This is compensated by the base damage, which is the highest among the assault rifle class.

Best Readjustment stat rolls for Eternal Willpower in The First Descendant

Here's the priority of stats you're looking for while you Readjust weapon rolls for Eternal Willpower:

Crit Rate
Crit Damage
Fire Rate
Additional Firearm ATK vs Collosi
Weak Point Damage
Elemental bonus ATK
Firearm ATK
Recoil
Other stats

The top item on this list is the highest priority, and vice versa.

The Weak Point damage roll can only go up to 12% for a legendary affix, which is roughly the same as an equivalent Firearm ATK roll. However, you'll be getting a lot of Fireark ATK with your mods, so weak point damage is worth more due to diminishing returns on total DPS.

Best module setup for Eternal Willpower in The First Descendant

Eternal Willpower can easily go above 500k DPS with the right module setup in The First Descendant. A mid-game two-Catalyst build with an Energy Activator would be the following:

Slot Number	Mod Name	Slot Type	Description
1	Action and Reaction	Malachite (Catalyst)	Firearm ATK, increased Recoil
2	Concentration Priority	Almandine (Catalyst)	Crit Damage, increased Reload Time
3	Better Insight	Almandine	Crit Hit Rate
4	Fire Rate UP	Xantic	Fire Rate
5	Rifling Enhancement	Malachite	Firearm ATK
6	Edging Shot	Almandine	Crit Hit Rate, reduced Firearm ATK

The build can be expanded even further, as you have four more slots. However, this will require almost threefold as many Crystallization Catalysts. If you're up for it, here are the other mods we would recommend:

Concentrate Support Ammo
Sharp Precision Shot
Better Concentration
Fixed Shot

The First Descendant Eternal Willpower build (Image via Nexon)

If you're using Freyna, Toxic Conductor is also worth considering. However, other Conductor mods are not worth it due to their low base attribute trigger rate on Eternal Willpower.

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Edited by Abhipsito Das