How to farm Gold fast in The First Descendant

There’s plenty to collect in The First Descendant, but you won’t get far without huge amounts of Gold. Research and upgrades are costly, but we’ll tell you how to farm Gold quickly so that your bank account is never in the red.

What’s good about The First Descendant is that you can farm most things by doing any activity in the game. If you need Cores, play Void Erosion Purge; if you want a new Descendant, farm its Amorphous Materials, and you’ll get some Gold, too. But if you want to target Gold, there are a few activities you can do.

Here are the best Gold farms in The First Descendant.

Best Gold farm in The First Descendant

Invasions

Invasions are the best source of Gold in The First Descendant. They are easy to complete and grant 1,250,000 Gold per run. The caveat is that you can only do four Invasions per day. There are two dungeons marked with the Vulgus invasion (the same as 400 percent dungeons), and you can do each twice.

Still, it’s five million Gold per day within minutes, and as long as you do them every day, you’ll have more than enough Gold for upgrades and research. Then, you can shift your focus to farming Kuiper Shards or other materials.

Special Operations

After you do the daily Invasions, the next best Gold farm is the Special Operations on Hard difficulty. You can access Special Operations via the terminal in the central area of Albion. There are two Special Operations that rotate. You can play whichever you want, but Albion Resource Defense missions are usually faster and easier to do.

Special Operations are wave-based missions, and apart from the Gold dropped by enemies, they give rewards every set number of waves. The rewards include huge amounts of Gold, but are RNG-based (for example, 20 percent chance in Albion Resource Defense missions).

Here are the rewards you can expect in Albion Resource Defense Special Operations (all with a 20 percent chance):

• Second wave: 100,000 Gold
• Fourth wave: 200,000 Gold
• Sixth wave: 300,000 Gold
• Eighth wave: 500,000 Gold
• 10th wave: 1,000,000 Gold

If you get lucky, you can earn over two million Gold per Special Operation. On average, expect to earn around 1.5 million per completed Special Operation.