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The First Descendant

I would like to add an external links to https://descendant.gg/, https://tfdtools.com/, and https://cowaii.io/TFD/Home/. These are all tools that players can use to look up other players, review stats, and setup their own builds.

The First Descendant

The First Descendant is a free-to-play, third-person looter shooter with action RPG elements, developed and published by Nexon Games. Launched globally on July 2, 2024, it immerses players in a sci-fi battle as Descendants—superpowered warriors defending humanity against the alien Vulgus and their towering Colossi war machines on the continent of Ingris. Built with Unreal Engine 5, the game offers stunning visuals and fast-paced combat, blending customizable weapons, unique character abilities, and a grappling hook for dynamic movement. With full crossplay support, it brings players together across multiple platforms for an epic co-op experience.

- Platforms: PC (Steam), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
- Genre: Looter Shooter / Action RPG
- Single player & Multiplayer (up to 4-player party co-op) with MMO elements
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Top Gear 2 (released as Top Racer 2 in Japan) is a racing video game developed and published by Gremlin Interactive. A direct sequel to the 1992 game Top Gear, it was first released by Kemco for the SNES in North America in September 1993, and then the Super Famicom in Japan on December 22. It was later ported to the Amiga and Amiga CD32 in September 1994 by Gremlin Interactive, and to the Sega Genesis in September by Vic Tokai. While more realistic than its predecessor, Top Gear 2 maintained the arcade-style gameplay the series is known for.

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My Season 2 Serena build

When Serena dropped in the First Descendant for Season 2, everyone was creating a belly-flop build for her. Typically people associate a new character with the skill/abilities they can do. As a long-time Gley fan, I noticed she had some weapon buff stuff and decided to build her out as a weapon Descendant. Well, it turns out that was apparently the meta, which is somewhat unfortunate because I'd like to play odd-ball builds; and I thought using her for guns was an odd-ball build, oh well.

Note 1: You don't reload with Serena, you press V (Hymn) to automatically reload the weapon.
Note 2: You should press Q (Sacred Flame) to burn enemies you're shooting to get some ammo back automatically.

So this is the build I setup for her, we'll start with the descendant mods:
Serena descendant modules

Serena Arche tree
For the Arche tree on Serena, we went all HP and Shield. Why shields? So that we can have more HP of course (due to overwhelming HP). When I ran out of shield options, I opted to get a purple movement speed.

Inversion Reinforcement

Weapon - Malevolent modules
With the inversion reinforcement this season combined with multi-hit from Serena's Redemption ability, this gun clears rooms and verhy high HP enemies very quickly. Be sure to turn on the setting in the game to auto-fire for you. I have all chill stuff on here for farming purge 30.

Weapon Tuning - More bullets in the clip
Expand Weapon Charge - More ammo in the clip
Charge Amplification - Firearm ATK
Rifiling Reinforcement - More firearm attack
Action and Reaction - Even more firearm attack
Multi-Bullet - Multi-hit damage + DOT
Fire Rate Up - Faster fire rate

Modes you should swap depending on scenario
Chill Enhancement - For purge 30
Chill Priority - For purge 30
Snowflake Conductor - For purge 30

Malevolent core rolls and readjustments
I put everything into fire rate, chill attack boost, firearm attack boost and extended mags. Below are my rolls, but I'm going to not bother putting the % or other values I rolled as the goal should be to get the highest possible on these.
- Chill ATK X
- Firearm ATK X
- Chill ATK X
- Fire Rate X
- Fire Rate X
- Rounds per Magazine
- Chill ATK
- Attribute Status Effect Trigger Rate
- Firearm ATK

Reactor and components
The reactor should be skill cooldown and duration. Or if you have enough duration/cooldown overlap from your descendant mods, then you can pick something elsehere; type match-up doesn't matter here. For the components, you should be doing anything you possibly can to increase your HP. If you don't have a good HP roll on a component, then use one with a good Shield roll since the shields are converted to HP.

Remove the need for an auto-clicker for Malevolent and other single/burst shot weapons

One of the issues with the new Descendant Serena is that she uses Malevolent, and that is a single shot hand-cannon. That means you have to continue to click to shoot. This becomes very tiring if you increase the weapon fire rate. I originally used an auto-clicker setting on my mouse to control this, but I couldn't get the timing quite perfect. So I decided to check out the settings in the game and came across "Change Firing Mode", which doesn't seem obvious at first glance. However, reading the helper message for this setting clears things up:

Changes some single-shot/burst weapons to fire automatically when the weapon's Fire button is held down. This option does not affect such effects from skills, modules, etc.

Now I can kill Vulgus in comfort!

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The First Descendant (2024)

The First Descendant is a free-to-play, third-person looter shooter with action RPG elements, developed and published by Nexon Games. Launched globally on July 2, 2024, it immerses players in a sci-fi battle as Descendants—superpowered warriors defending humanity against the alien Vulgus and their towering Colossi war machines on the continent of Ingris. Built with Unreal Engine 5, the game offers stunning visuals and fast-paced combat, blending customizable weapons, unique character abilities, and a grappling hook for dynamic movement. With full crossplay support, it brings players together across multiple platforms for an epic co-op experience.

- Platforms: PC (Steam), PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S
- Genre: Looter Shooter / Action RPG
- Single player & Multiplayer (up to 4-player party co-op) with MMO elements
- Website
- Wiki
- Moby Games

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