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The Thunder Cage in The First Descendant
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The Best Thunder Cage Build in The First Descendant

The Thunder Cage is proving to be a very popular weapon in The First Descendant, and for good reason. Here’s the best Thunder Cage build in The First Descendant.

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The Best Thunder Cage Build

The Thunder Cage has one of the best early game builds in The First Descendant. One of the reasons why this weapon is so popular is that upon killing an enemy, it can proc an electrical surge that damages nearby enemies, giving it great synergy with Bunny. This can also set off a chain across enemies.

As such, the aim of the game here is to build something to ensure quick kills, leaning into solid base damage and critical stats that cover both the chance of a crit happening and the damage that occurs when it does. This is also a fantastic weapon for taking out mobs, but if you invest in it, you will find it very useful for boss fights, too.

Best Modules to Use for Thunder Cage

The mods are arranged in what I feel is the best investment order. You will need to farm Kuiper to rank these up, and improving the base damage state of all your similar weapons by investing in the Reinforcement mod is just the best way to go. Then, on the critical stats, and so on.

ModMod Description
Rifling ReinforcementIncreases overall Firearm ATK. This Firearm ATK stat is also the basis of the damage done by the electrical procs for the Thunder Cage.
Better Concentration increases Critical Hit Damage
Better Insightincrease Critical Rate
Action and Reactionincrease firearm ATK at the cost of some Recoil
Weak Point Insight increase both weak point Damage and Critical Rate
Weak Point Detection increase both weak point Damage and Firearm ATK
Any Element Modswill give additional elemental damage, which is nice but not worth early investment as it’s situationally beneficial

Weapon Bonus Stats

Now, the stats to aim for from the four randomly rolled bonuses you can adjust in Weapon Readjustment:

  • Firearm ATK
  • Firearm Critical Hit Damage
  • Any additional Element Damage
  • Weakpoint Damage

Important Notes on Building Weapons

There are two main things we need to worry about when building weapons in The First Descendant. The main area most people will think about is the mods that they use, but there are also the affix bonuses that can be changed through the Weapon Readjustment option at a workbench.

It’s best to rank the weapon to Level 100 and only then think about doing the affix readjustments. The ranges the bonuses can have are bigger at Level 100. If you try to upgrade these as you go, then it will take a lot of resources. So, the process goes like this:

  • Use Weapon Level Transmission to increase the weapon level as you play through the game and rank up.
  • At level 100, begin using Weapon Readjustment to rank up and change the rolled bonuses.

You can also increase the effectiveness of the Thunder Cage’s unique ability. To do this, farm up multiple drops of the weapon, go to the Workbench and use the Upgrade Unique Ability option. Doing so will make it proc more often, in a wider radius, and do more damage.

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Aidan O'Brien
Aidan has been into movies, games, tv, and tabletop since the 80s. Rather than get bogged down in pointless nostalgia, he remains excited for all the amazing art that has yet to come. When not scribbling articles for sites like Escapist, Destructoid, or Dot Esports, he is making Youtube videos about interesting lore, or how to paint little plastic models.