Welcome to The First Descendant Unleashed Instinct Build. This Unleashed Instinct Build is updated for Season 4 Episode 1.

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Unleashed Instinct Summary

The First descendant Unleashed Instinct Build Basics

The Unleashed Instinct is a Shotgun. A firearm designed to reverse the function of Gley’s Ultimate Equipment, causing energy to be released from within the enemy’s body. In particular, it incorporates a unique technology that induces the release of blood from the enemy’s body and then tracks or detonates it.

  • Name: Unleashed Instinct
  • Type: Shotgun
  • Tier: Transcendent
  • Unique Ability: Bloody Hunt

Unique Ability: “Bloody Hunt”

As the Reload Time Modifier increases, increases Fire Rate. Dealing Damage inflicts Excessive Bleeding on the enemy per Shotgun shot. When defeating or damaging an enemy inflicted with Excessive Bleeding or Bleed, deals Explosion Damage around that enemy. Inflicting Excessive Bleeding grants Hunting Instinct to self. Hunting Instinct increases Movement Speed and deals Additional Damage when attacking with a Shotgun. When an enemy inflicted with Excessive Bleeding is nearby, refreshes the duration of Hunting Instinct.

Unleashed Instinct Build for The First Descendant

Next, let us take a look at an optimized Unleashed Instinct Build for The First Descendant.

Here is all the info you need to build a powerful Unleashed Instinct:

Unleashed Instinct Modules

The First descendant Unleashed Instinct Build Modules

With this Unleashed Instinct build, we are going for a multi-hit setup.

Unleashed Instinct Module Configuration Table
Module Slot Module Name
1 Rifling Reinforcement
2 Action and Reaction
3 Fire Rate Up
4 Shell Up
5 Fire Enhancement
6 Fire Priority
7 Multi-Piercing Sights
8 Multi-Percussion Sight
9 Multi-Sights
10 Unstoppable Smasher

Transcendent Ability – Unleashed Instinct

Transcendent weapons with quality range 4 get to spend up to 150 points on the three perks of the weapon.

  • Excessive Bleeding Damage – 25 points.
  • Excessive Bleeding Explosion Damage – 100 points.
  • Hunting Instinct Shotgun Additional Damage – 25 points.

Sub Ability Perks

Getting good Sub Abilities is a gamble, so don’t worry too much about it if you don’t get good rolls. Here are the best perks that you can roll:

  1. Chain Smite
  2. Chain Strikes
  3. Multi-Enhancement
  4. Amplified Shot
  5. Chain Shot

Basically, anything that boosts your damage further is good.

Unleashed Instinct Lore Info

TFD Unleashed Instinct Icon lore

The Ultimate Project for the Descendants was undoubtedly a phenomenal achievement, but it was ultimately a result that relied heavily on the wisdom of the Magisters. However, the engineering team at Albion Headquarters was not satisfied with this. By reverse-engineering countless pieces of Ultimate equipment, they accumulated a vast amount of engineering data and finally succeeded in creating a new class of weaponry that completely shattered the existing standards for Ultimate Weapons. Albion Headquarters bestowed the name Transcendent Weapons upon these advanced instruments of destruction.

The core technology underlying Transcendent Weapons lies in the “Forced Collapse of the Arche Critical Point.” Drawing inspiration from the mechanism of Ultimate Equipment, which pushes each Descendant’s potential to the extreme, the engineering team succeeded in integrating a specialized power circulation system capable of transcending physical limits internally to the firearms. Miniaturizing a massive power reactor to the size of a personal firearm was considered nearly impossible, but the relentless determination of Albion’s engineers had finally broken through the limits.

“If it was the Magisters’ wisdom that led the Descendants to the Ultimate, it was the sweat and tenacity of Albion that ‘transcended’ their weapons.”

Unleashed Instinct was born from inspiration drawn from a ridiculous mistake that occurred during the Ultimate Project. During the development of the Death Watcher, intended to be Gley’s Ultimate Equipment, the circulatory system accidentally operated in reverse. It was then discovered that its unique energy absorption mechanism functioned in the opposite direction.

This meant that if a bullet equipped with this mechanism embedded into an enemy’s body could be controlled, it is possible to manipulate energy to be released from within the enemy’s body. Focusing on that idea, this firearm incorporates a unique technology that induces the release of blood from the enemy’s body and then tracks or detonates it.

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