Knowing how to level up weapons is essential to your survival in The First Descendant (TFD). Read on and learn how to level up weapons and see the different methods for upgrading your weapons!

How to Level Up Weapons

Use the Weapon Level Transmission to Level Up Weapons

To level up weapons, simply access any Workbench and select Weapon Level Transmission. This allows you to transfer the level of a high-level weapon to a lower-level weapon of your choice.

Leveling up a weapon to a higher level will use Phase Exchangers, which can be acquired through research and the Battle Pass, resulting in a increase to the weapon's DPS.

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How to Upgrade Weapons

How to Upgrade Weapons
Increase Weapon Proficiency Equip Modules Readjust the Weapon's Substats Enhancing a Weapon's Unique Ability

Increase Weapon Proficiency

Increasing a weapon's proficiency will increase its module capacity, allowing you to equip more modules to strengthen it. Getting the weapon's proficiency to level 40, the maximum level it can reach, will allow you to assign a module socket type to a module slot on the weapon.

Putting a module in the slot that matches the socket type will halve the capacity cost, making room for an additional module or two, given that you have slots left.

Weapon Proficiency Explained

Equip Modules

Choosing the right modules for the weapons you're using will significantly increase their performance, allowing you to effectively destroy hordes of enemies and take down elites and bosses.

Weapon Modules

Readjust the Weapon's Substats

Readjusting a weapon's substat can also be done via the Workbench. Readjusting essentially means rerolling the weapon's substat into a random stat, with the value being randomly selected between a set minimum and maximum.

You can lock a substat to prevent it from being rerolled. The more substat you lock (up to 3), the higher the cost and materials required. Rerolling substats require Adjustment Control Axis, which are acquired through research and the Battle Pass, like Phase Exchangers.

Enhancing a Weapon's Unique Ability

This feature can also be found in the Workbench and is only available for Ultimate Weapons. You can increase the level of the unique ability by using an extra copy of the Ultimate Weapon you're tying to enhance.

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