The First Descendant: Ultimate Starter Guide

Overview

Comprehensive guide to help players hit the ground running in The First Descendant game.
Covers character options, gameplay mechanics, equipment, and more.
Aim to provide essential tips and insights for both beginners and advanced players.

Lepic: Soldier character; specializes in grenades, arm launcher, and has a life-saving passive with a long cooldown.
Ajax: Tank; creates shields, accumulates void energy, enhances skills after taking damage.
Viesa: Frost mage; controls battlefield, summons ice spheres for damage.

Frina: Poison caster; high damage, low shields and health, with a castable shield and poison damage increase passive.
Bunny: High-mobility character; generates electricity while moving, discharges on landing, requires complex gameplay.
Sharen: Assassin; specializes in camouflage and ambush, deals high damage when enemies are distracted.
Jabber: Turret specialist; summons healing and damage turrets with a passive damage boost when both are deployed.
Blair: Fire-based chef; excels in damage over time, increases crit damage to burned enemies.
Glay: Berserker; siphons health from enemies, requires strategic usage of berserk mode.
Valby: Water-based AOE damage dealer; uses puddles for teleportation, has a debuff skill, reduced mana consumption in water.
Kyle: Magneto-like character; uses magnetic fields, builds magnetic force, can fly.
Unreleased Descendants (Speculated): Asimov (brawler), Enzo (potential engineer), Yugin (support/healer).

Central town hub; vendors, story progression, side missions, group activities, mail, and vault storage.
Eight biomes each with unique appearance, enemies, and content.

World missions: Similar to patrols, can be joined by others anytime, offer rewards and story progression.
Special side quests: Unlock certain weapons, descendants, or rare materials.
Group content: Encourages team play, available matchmaking, join in progress feature.

Specialized missions, 2 per zone (16 total), available in normal and hard difficulty.
Rewards cycle through different missions, includes rare weapons, components, and mods.
Modifiers: Enhance difficulty for increased points and better rewards.

Eight types, covering three different activities: Kyper Mining (wave combat), Resource Defense (protect objective), Neutralize Void Experiments (eliminate running bombers).
Increase in difficulty and rewards until failure.

Four tiers: Common (gray), Rare (purple), Ultimate (yellow), Transcendent (red).
Higher rarities provide bonus stats and unique effects.
Transcendent: Higher range of affixes, includes both components and reactors.

Components: Trinkets providing various stats, available in sets for extra bonuses.
Reactors: Increase power of descendant skills, optimized by conditions, and can be upgraded.

Build mastery experience through gameplay, enhancing module slots, capacity, and inventory.

Attach to weapons and descendants to enhance stats, specific to weapon types.
Equip six modules per weapon, presets retained across ranks.
Skill Modules: Modify skill mechanics.
Sub Modules: Enable and modify melee attacks.
Enhancement: Modules can be enhanced, increasing capacity cost.
Mod Sockets & Types: Matching types reduce capacity cost, can only equip one of each module type.

Similar to other free-to-play games, contains resource items, boosts, and a free ultimate weapon.
Premium and free tracks, shop prices not yet fully detailed.

Ultimate starter guide designed to make the first experience with The First Descendant enjoyable and successful.