Welcome to The First Descendant Shackles of Mortality Build. This Shackles of Mortality Build is updated for Season 3 Episode 4. A firearm famous for delivering death that no mortal can escape. It is said that every fourth bullet it fires is imbued with the power of certain death.

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This Shackles of Mortality build is focused on debuffing the enemy target.

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Shackles of Mortality Summary

The First Descendant Shackles of Mortality Build

The Shackles of Mortality is an Ultimate Hand Cannon. A firearm famous for delivering death that no mortal can escape. It is said that every fourth bullet it fires is imbued with the power of certain death.

  • Name: Shackles of Mortality
  • Type: Hand Cannon
  • Bullets: Impact Rounds
  • Tier: Ultimate
  • Unique Ability: Circulation Ring

Unique Ability “Circulation Ring”

  • Fires a Resting Bullet every set number of firearm shots.
  • On Resting Bullet hit, inflicts Rest on the target.
  • Rest deals continuous damage to the target and Max Stack Count is determined by the Critical Hit Damage.
  • When landing a Critical Hit with a Resting Bullet on a target inflicted with Rest triggers an Additional Effect based on the number of Rest stacks.

Shackles of Mortality Build for The First Descendant

Next, let us take a look at an optimized Shackles of Mortality Build for The First Descendant.

Here is all the info you need to create a powerful Shackles of Mortality Build:

Note: High-Level Weapon Cores boost your weapons’ damage numbers into insanity. Make sure to get weapon cores as soon as possible!


Shackles of Mortality Modules

 

Modules are an important part of every weapon build in The First Descendant. For the Shackles of Mortality hand cannon we focus on modules that boost our crit rate and crit damage.

Shackles of Mortality Module Configuration Table
Module Slot Module Name
1 Action and Reaction
2 Fire Rate UP
3 Better Insight
4 Better Concentration
5 Payout
6 Fire Enhancement
7 Have Aiming
8 Rifling Reinforcement
9 Weak Point Sight
10 Concentration Priority

Weapon Readjustment

You can use the Weapon Readjustment at the Weapon Workbench in Albion. Here are the best Weapon Readjustments for the Shackles of Mortality:

  • Firearm ATK
  • Fire ATK
  • Firearm Critical Hit Damage
  • Weak Point Damage

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 clearing many stages and will already increase the power of your weapon tremendously.

Best Weapon Cores for the Shackles of Mortality:

  • Free Augmentation Icon TFDFire Rate (Free Augmentation)
  • Firepower Augmentation Icon TFDFirearm ATK (Firearm Augmentation)
  • Attribute Augmentation Icon TFDToxic ATK (Attribute Augmentation)
  • Hit Augmentation Icon tfdFirearm Critical Hit Rate (Hit Augmentation)
  • Hit Augmentation Icon tfdFirearm Critical Hit Damage (Hit Augmentation)

Shackles of Mortality Hand Cannon Lore

 


Related Guides for The First Descendant

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