Best Ancient Knight Build for Season 3 – The First Descendant

Welcome to The First Descendant Ancient Knight Build. This Ancient Knight Build is updated for Season 3 Episode 2. The Ancient Knight is an ultimate quality assault rifle used by the early Descendants during the onset of the Apocalypse, created by modifying holy relics guarded by the Knights of Humanity into the form of a firearm.

Table of Contents:

• Ancient Knight Summary
• Ancient Knight Build
  • Modules Setup – Single Target DPS
  • Weapon Readjustment
  • Weapon Cores
• Lore Info

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Ancient Knight Summary

The Ancient Knight is an Ultimate Assault Rifle specifically made for the Descendant Serena. It features an insanely high Multi-Hit Chance and Damage due to its Descending Judgment ability. Therefore, this weapon is best built by maximizing anything related to Multi-Hit and fire rate!

• Name: Ancient Knight
• Type: Assault Rifle
• Tier: Ultimate
• Unique Ability: Descending Judgment

Unique Ability “Descending Judgment”

When reloading in midair, grants Float. When multi-hit triggers in midair, grants Atonement. Float and  Atonement are removed when touching the ground.

Float

Atonement

Base Weapon Stat Info

Ancient Knight Build for The First Descendant

Next, let us take a look at an optimized Ancient Knight Build for The First Descendant. The Ancient Knight is best built with anything related to Multi-Hit because its ability enhances the stat even further.

It is important that you hit the weak point spots of colossus with this build, otherwise you won’t max out the damage potential of Ancient Knight.

Here is all the info you need to build a powerful Ancient Knight:

• Modules
• Weapon Readjustment
• Weapon Cores

Ancient Knight Modules

Modules are an important part of every weapon build in The First Descendant. For the Ancient Knight we want to focus everything on Multi-Hit and Weak Point damage.

Magazine Size: If you want a bigger magazine, swap out Edging Shot for either Expand Weapon Charge or Concentrate Support Ammo.

General Ancient Knight Module Configuration Table

Module Slot	Module Name	Socket Type
1	Multi-Piercing Rifling	Rutile
2	Multi-Percussion Sight	Rutile
3	Multi-Circulation	Rutile
4	Multi-Hit Induction	Rutile
5	Multi-Piercing Support Ammo	Cerulean
6	Charge Amplification	Malachite
7	Have Aiming	Malachite
8	Fire Rate Up	Xantic
9	Weak Point Sight	Malachite
10	Fire Enhancement	Almandine

Weapon Readjustment

You can use the Weapon Readjustment at the Weapon Workbench in Albion. Here are the best Weapon Readjustments for the Ancient Knight:

• Multi-Hit Damage
• Multi-Hit Chance
• Weak Point Damage
• Fire ATK

In any order. Try to upgrade the Weapon Readjustments to at least purple quality.

Weapon Cores

Weapon Cores juice up your damage quite tremendously. However, especially the later-level Weapon Cores are difficult to get. So start with whatever weapon cores you have available. Weapon Cores drop in the Void Erosion Purge endgame activity.

Higher level Weapon Cores drop in the higher level Void Erosion Purge levels in The First Descendant. However, you can gradually work towards the highest level. I recommend trying to get to level six as soon as possible, since it won’t require to clear many stages and will already increase the power of your weapon tremendously.

Best Weapon Cores for the Ancient Knight:

• Fire ATK (Free Augmentation)
• Firearm ATK (Firearm Augmentation)
• Firearm ATK (Firearm Augmentation)
• Fire ATK (Attribute Augmentation)
• Fire Rate (Tactical Augmentation)

Ancient Knight Lore Info

The Ancient Knight is the collective name for a series of assault rifles used by the early Descendants during the onset of the Apocalypse. These iconic weapons were made by disassembling holy relics guarded by the Knights of Humanity and implanting them into firearms.

From among them, the 47th model of the Ancient Knight, with its mechanical simplicity and superb durability, was very helpful to the early Descendants who were learning the firearm weapons system. The relic parts, which had a long history with humanity, also contributed to increasing the Arche synchronization rate. These weapons happened to match tactically with Serena’s Arche, which showed exceptional performance when optimized for aerial assaults. The exclusive winged ornamentation is a badge of honor, symbolizing this optimization.

The design of these relic weapons was an experimental attempt to make technology less intimidating to a humanity that was just beginning to radically modernize. It also helped to boost performance by harnessing the Arche that had accumulated, without their knowledge, in the relics over the years.

However, contrary to the initial intentions as a desperate stopgap measure, the relic implants performed far better than anyone expected and became the ultimate weapon system that could not be mass-produced today, due to the technology involved being lost.

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