Best Fallen Hope Build for Season 3 – The First Descendant

by JFFK · September 25, 2025

Welcome to The First Descendant Fallen Hope Build. This Fallen Hope Build is updated for Season 3. Fallen Hope is a firearm with a poison effect so potent, it can crush all the enemy’s remaining hope. Fortunately, it does not affect the wielder.

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You can also view our All Ultimate Weapons in The First Descendant list.

Fallen Hope Summary

The Fallen Hope is an Ultimate Assault Rifle. Fallen Hope is best built with a Multi-Hit focus because the base stat of it is so high on the weapon.

Name: Fallen Hope
Type: Assault Rifle
Tier: Ultimate
Unique Ability: Perdition

Unique Ability “Perdition”

On hitting a Poisoned enemy, increase Firearm ATK and apply this buff to the attack. On defeating a Poisoned enemy, the defeated enemy will trigger an Explosion with a certain chance, inflicting additional damage to nearby enemies. Inflicts Poison on enemies damaged by this explosion.

On hitting a Poisoned enemy

Firearm ATK 65%

Basic Information

Hip Fire Accuracy -20%
Aimed Shot Accuracy -20%

Poison

Duration 5s
Damage Interval 0.5s
Additional Damage 15%

Explosion

Damage Range Radius 6.0m
Trigger Rate 40%
Additional Damage 75%

Fallen Hope Build for The First Descendant

Next, let us take a look at an optimized Fallen Hope Build for The First Descendant. We want to build into the Multi-Hit stat.

It is important that you hit the weak point spots of colossus with this build, otherwise you won’t max out the damage potential of Fallen Hope.

Here is all the info you need to build a powerful Fallen Hope:

Fallen Hope Modules

Modules are an important part of every weapon build in The First Descendant. For the Fallen Hope we want to focus everything on Multi-Hit.

General Fallen Hope Module Configuration Table
Module Slot	Module Name
1	Action and Reaction
2	Toxic Enhancement
3	Multi-Hit Induction
4	Multi-Piercing Support Ammo
5	Multi-Piercing Sights
6	Multi-Percussion Sight
7	Fire Rate Up
8	Charge Amplification
9	Weak Point Sight
10	Have Aiming

Weapon Readjustment

You can use the Weapon Readjustment at the Weapon Workbench in Albion. Here are the best Weapon Readjustments for the Fallen Hope:

Multi-Hit Damage
Multi-Hit Chance
Firearm ATK
Toxic ATK

In any order. 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 to clear many stages and will already increase the power of your weapon tremendously.

Best Weapon Cores for the Fallen Hope:

Fire Rate (Free Augmentation)
Firearm ATK (Firearm Augmentation)
Toxic ATK (Attribute Augmentation)
Fire Rate (Tactical Augmentation)
Sprint Speed (Precision Augmentation)

Fallen Hope Lore Info

When a once proud knight was relegated to a soldier after the Apocalypse and was eventually reborn as a Descendant, he made a promise to himself. He would never forget the past that plunged him into a bleak, hopeless perdition.

In order to remember his true identity, he inscribed the tenet of the Order of Knights into his firearm, called it “Fallen Hope”, and traveled from battlefield to battlefield. Due to the many victories it earned, even after its owner’s death, the weapon made its way back to the Magisters and was studied for any special abilities.

Upon analysis, it was discovered that this firearm had been modified several times using Vulgus ammunition and technology. The Magisters were surprised that an individual who could modify a weapon to this degree even existed. They optimized the crude modification components so other Descendants could use them as well.