Farming for materials or currency in a game can be monotonous and boring especially if it’s not efficient. That’s why you’ll want to find the most efficient way possible so that you don’t waste your time being suboptimal. In The First Descendant, you’ll need a lot of Kuiper Shards in the game if you want to beat the hardest levels. Farming these shards can be a pain though so you’ll need to know what the best ways are to farm them!
Best Kuiper Shard Farm Guide
In this guide, we’ll show you the best Kuiper Shard farms in the game. We’ll go through one you can do with Normal Difficulty as well as two Hard-difficulty ones that can give you a ton of them! Now let’s start farming for those shards!
You’ll need to get a lot of Kuiper Shards in the mid and late-game if you want to get the best equipment. That’s why you’ll need to farm for these Shards and there are a couple of missions where you can get thousands of them. Here are all of the best spots to farm these shards in the game!
Kuiper Shard Drop Rate Modifiers
Before you go farming, you’ll want to maximize your gear for the activity. Make sure that you have gear that has the “Kuiper Shard Drop Rate Increase” Modifier. This will help you with getting more Kuiper Shards so make sure to equip as much gear that has that modifier.
The number of shards per hour shown below is the base of what you’ll get without any modifiers. So, if you have modifiers on your gear expect to get even more!
Normal Mode Farm – 75,000 Kuiper Shard Per Hour
The first farming area is a normal Mission that you can find on the White-night Gulch map. To the northwestern part of the map is the Fortress Outskirts mission, and you can go here alone or with party. Playing these areas with a party will speed things up.
What makes this mission a great farming spot is that you’ll be defending these nodes where there are a lot of enemies that spawn. Unlike defense missions these waves of enemies drop Kuiper Shards and the mission spawns a lot of them.
Make sure that you and your party have some sort of AOE damage to make clearing these areas easier. You can repeatedly farm this mission for around 15 minutes each run or less with a party.
Hard Mode Farm – 200,000/300,000 Kuiper Shards Per Hour
If you can handle a higher difficulty, then these hard-mode farms will give you even more shards. The first one is the Large Nuclear Reactor Mission to the northwest of Sterile Land. This mission is simple since you’ll just need to stand in a circle and fight waves of enemies.
With the best builds and a good team, you can clear out this mission in around 10 minutes or less, but that’s not the fastest way to farm!
The fastest way to farm for Kuiper Shards is to go to the Sterile Land map and check for the Anticipated Ambush Point mission to the west. This is a mission where you’ll need to fight a mission monster, and you can easily defeat them with a good team.
You can even finish this mission in under 30 seconds with a full team with good gear, so this can pump those shards numbers. Repeatedly do this mission, and you’ll be swimming in Kuiper Shards in no time!
Those are the best ways that you can farm Kuiper Shards in The First Descendant. Now, go out there and try it out yourself! Do you now know how to open Amorphous Materials in the game? Check out our How To Open Amorphous Material Guide to find out how to!
