Just like the other similar games that came before it (hello Warframe), The First Descendant has all sorts of components that you need to craft in order to unlock various characters or weapons. This process requires a wide range of materials that can be gathered through different forms of content in the game, and the highly-concentrated energy residue is an example of this. Here’s how to get some!
How to Get Highly-Concentrated Energy Residue
Highly-Concentrated Energy Residue is a material used for researching various things, such as components of weapons like the Afterglow Sword or the Enduring Legacy. Even one of Lepic’s components requires a lot of this resource.
There are actually various ways to get it, and you can check this by either opening the Access Info menu or hovering over the material itself and pressing F. This will bring up the Acquisition Info list, which shows you all of the possible sources of that item.
From here, you can pick whichever bit of content you’re the most comfortable with. If it is a particular mission, you can click on it from the list and it will take you to the map, which will highlight where it is.
This list will also tell you if you require a specific character for that bit of content. If it says “Mission Monster”, on the other hand, it means that you can get it from enemies in that particular mission.
For this resource in particular, one way you can get some is by opening encrypted storage boxes and vaults within the Hagios region. This is a viable method if you have the means to keep opening them, though you might want to do missions instead.
Unfortunately, as of writing this, there does not seem to be any missions that list it as a potential completion reward. However, you can still get it as drops from monsters within the Hagios region as well.
Because of this, you will also have to grind for code analyzers or whatever equivalent is required by the type of vault you run into. This adds yet another layer of grinding, in addition to having to search for the vaults themselves.
These are typically found from mission monsters in various regions. Our advice is to just passively collect them while you continue on with your other ingame goals, as you’ll just likely burnout otherwise. Once you have a lot of analyzers, go on a quick vault searching and opening run.
One bonus tip is to keep your analyzers until you can unlock Enzo, assuming you ever planned on getting him and have him take up one of your descendant slots.
His Fire Supporter passive ability will buff the drops of these encrypted vaults and makes the minigame so much easier.
Keep in mind that Enzo isn’t particularly easy to unlock, at least compared so characters like Freyna. There is also a bit of irony in the idea that you should grind for a whole darn descendant to start farming another one. However, using him is the most efficient way to farm these vaults.
And that is pretty much everything you need to know in order to start painstakingly farming this material for whatever you plan on crafting with it. While you’re here, check out our guide on how to get compound carbon activators in The First Descendant as well, so you can go on a slightly less painful grind. Emphasis on “slightly”.
