The First Descendant

Piercing Light: How to Get and Stats

Piercing Light is an Ultimate Sniper Rifle that uses High-Power Rounds in The First Descendant. Read on to learn how to get Piercing Light, its stats, and more!

How to Get Piercing Light

Collect Research Materials

Item How to Get
Piercing Light Blueprint ・Intercept Battle: (Common) (Executioner) Amorphous Material Pattern: 019 required
・ Vespers (Hard) - Abyssal Void Fusion Reactor - Vespers Moonlight Lake
・ Fortress (Normal) - Void Fusion Reactor - Fortress Frozen Valley
・ White-night Gulch (Hard) - Abyssal Void Fusion Reactor - White-night Gulch Hatchery
Piercing Light Nano Tube Blueprint ・Intercept Battle: (Hard) (Executioner) Amorphous Material Pattern: 058 required
・ Intercept Battle: (Hard) (Obstructer) Amorphous Material Pattern: 106 required
・ Kingston (Normal) - Void Fusion Reactor - Kingston Grand Square
・ Hagios (Normal) - Void Fusion Reactor - Hagios Dune Base
Piercing Light Polymer Syncytium Blueprint ・Fortress (Hard) - Abyssal Void Fusion Reactor - Fortress Frozen Valley
・ Sterile Land (Normal) - Void Fusion Reactor - Sterile Land Restricted Zone
・ Hagios (Hard) - Abyssal Void Fusion Reactor - Hagios Dune Base
・ Whit-night Gulch (Normal) - Void Fusion Reactor - White-night Gulch Mountaintops
Piercing Light Synthetic Fiber Blueprint ・Intercept Battle: (Common) (Hanged Man) Amorphous Material Pattern: 053 required
・ Intercept Battle: (Hard) (Molten Fortress) Amorphous Material Pattern: 125 required
・ Agna Desert (Hard) - Abyssal Void Fusion Reactor - Agna Desert The Storage
・ Echo Swamp (Normal) - Void Fusion Reactor - Echo Swamp Derelict Covert

Research Cost and Required Mastery Rank

Research Cost 100,000
Required Mastery Rank 10

Go to Anais and Research the Weapon

Once you have the research materials, enough gold, and the required Mastery Rank, talk to Anais at Albion and select “Request Research”.

In the Weapons tab, select the weapon you want to research and select “Research Request” to start researching the weapon.

It will take 4 hours to research one ultimate weapon but you can research up to 5 ultimate weapons simultaneously!

Piercing Light Basic Info & Stats

Basic Info

Piercing Light Basic Info
The First Descendant - Piercing Light.png Piercing Light Tier Ultimate
Type Sniper Rifle
Ammo
The First Descendant -High-Power Rounds.png High-Power Rounds
Unique Ability
Purification of Light: On hitting a Weak Point, inflicts Dispel on the enemy with a set chance.
When two or more enemies are hit by a single shot, there is a high chance to land a Critical Hit on the enemies while also increasing Critical Hit Damage and applying this buff to the attack.

Stats

DPS 238 Firearm ATK 404
Magazine Capacity 6 Rate of Fire 48
Crit Damage 1.2x Crit Rate 40%
Reload Time 2.6s Crush 10%
Attribute Trigger Rate 33.33% Weak Point Damage 2x
Hip Fire Accuracy 20 Aimed Shot Accuracy (Max) 100
Range (Start) 55m Range (End) 85m
Max Range 0.6x ATK Drop-off Modifier 0.6x
Charge Gain Speed - Charge Depletion Speed -
Movement Speed 400 Movement Speed (Firing) 220
Movement Speed (Aiming) 130 Sprint Speed 750

The stats here are only at level 1.

The First Descendant Related Guides

The First Descendant - Weapons

List of All Weapons

Weapon Rounds

General Rounds Weapons Impact Round Weapons
Special Round Weapons High-Power Round Weapons

Weapon Rarities

Ultimate Weapons Rare Weapons
Standard Weapons -

Weapon Types

Machine Guns Assault Rifles SMGs
Beam Rifles Tactical Rifles Hand Cannons
Shotguns Scout Rifles Sniper Rifles
Launchers Handguns

All Weapons Using High-Power Rounds

Starfield -  Gangster
Gangster
Starfield -  Recipient Unknown
Recipient Unknown
Starfield -  Tamed Beast
Tamed Beast
Starfield -  The Last Knight
The Last Knight
Starfield -  In a Blink
In a Blink
Starfield -  Fireworks
Fireworks
Starfield -  Subconsciousness
Subconsciousness
Starfield -  Forest Gaze
Forest Gaze
Starfield -  Supermoon Z-15
Supermoon Z-15
Starfield -  Belief
Belief
Starfield -  Different Dream
Different Dream
Starfield -  Death Roar
Death Roar
Starfield -  Guardian R4
Guardian R4
Starfield -  Lightspeed Barrel
Lightspeed Barrel
Starfield -  Vestigial Organ
Vestigial Organ
Starfield -  Smithereens
Smithereens
Starfield -  Executor
Executor
Starfield -  Afterglow Sword
Afterglow Sword
Starfield -  Piercing Light
Piercing Light
Starfield -  Sigvore
Sigvore's Proof
Starfield -  Restored Relic
Restored Relic

Comment

1 Shaunee3 months

Even factoring Afterglow's ability Piercing Light is still far higher DPS, ignore in game DPS # it's incorrect and doesn't factor in crit correctly or weakpoint. Piercing Light's base damage alone is far too high for Afterglow to catch up once modded then factor in weakpoint multipliers and it's just ridiculous.

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