The First Descendant: How to get Ion Accelerator and Enhance Reactors

In The First Descendant, you will need Reactors and Ion Accelerators to upgrade and customize your characters. Reactors are minor buffs that improve certain abilities of characters and give a boost to damage. The Reactors can be further improved using, Ion Accelerators. You can use the Accelerators at the workbench to enhance the Reactors.

In this article, we have shared a step-by-step guide for getting Ion Accelerators and how to enhance Reactors in the First Descendant.

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How to get Ion Accelerators In First Descendant

Where to get Ion Accelerators in TFD (Image via NEXON)

Ion Accelerators are mainly gained by research. You can research bulks of Ion Accelerators to enhance Reactors in the First Descendant. To start researching Ion Accelerators, follow these steps:

Start Research

• Go find Anais at Albion
• Select "Research Requests"
• Choose "Enhancement Material"

Create Ion accelerators

• You have options to make 1, 5, 25, and 125 at a time
• Materials needed: Solenoid and Superconductive core

How to get the materials for Ion Accelerators

• Dismantle old reactors that you aren’t using. This will give you Solenoid and Superconductive cores

Keep in mind that other than researching, you can also get Ion Accelerators by completing certain missions, reaching new levels, and defeating certain bosses. In the end-game, reactor enhancement costs get very high so you will be needing a lot of Ion Accelerators then.

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How to enhance Reactor with Ion Accelerator in TFD

The Reactor Enhancer is at the Workbench (Image via NEXON)

Go to the Reactor enhancement section in the workbench which is located in the main town. Select the Reactor you want to enhance. Once you have the Ion Accelerators apply them to upgrade your chosen Reactor. The amount of Ion Accelerator needed for each Reactor upgrade depends on the Reactor’s rarity and level.

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Basic Tips for Reactors in The First Descendant

Some basic tips (Image via NEXON)

Match the reactor's skill power boost with your character's class and skills:

• Check your character's skills in the Descendants screen
• Look for the symbol above each skill (e.g., Tech, Singular, etc.)
• Choose a reactor that boosts the same attributes as your skill

Keep in mind that matching the Reactor type to your skills is crucial:

• It can boost your skill power by up to 140% when properly matched
• Mismatched reactors only provide 100% skill power boost

That’s all for the Reactor enhancements and Ion Accelerators in The First Descendant. We that with this guide you will be able to improve your character further.

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Check out our other guides on The First Descendant

• The First Descendant tier list
• How to get Kuiper Shards
• How to increase Mastery Rank
• All Pre-Season Battle Pass rewards
• All Currencies in The First Descendant, explained