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Sharen is the main stealth character inThe First Descendant.
She is a master of striking from the shadows with a hard-hitting sniper rifle or a flurry of blades.
Learn how to increase your Weapon Proficiency with this in-depth guide.
Once the part drops, you’re done.
This buff stacks multiplicatively with other damage sources.
Cutoff Beam
Swipes targets with an electric blade, dealing damage and Electrocution status to struck targets.
Each enemy hit is also inflicted withElectrocution, a status ailment that deals passive damage over time.
you could extend this debuff with Skill Duration, although it’s somewhat wasted on this skill alone.
You’re better off scalingRangeandPowerto make it a stronger skill for slaying fodder enemies.
Active Camouflage
Sharen cloaks herself, hiding from enemy sight.
Attacking an enemy while in this state ends Active Camouflage, granting Ambush for your next attack.
you’ve got the option to even bump into enemies without drawing their aggro.
Disabling the generators this way allows you to earn an additional reward, including exclusive Amorphous Materialsand Shape Stabilizers.
As of launch, Sharen is the only character in the game who can do this.
We highly recommend youspec for Cooldown Reduction modulesif you plan on maximizing this skill.
Shock Nuts
Launches a projectile that inflicts Stun in a small area.
Since you could go invisible at will,this skill is almost never useful.
With that said, you might convert Shock Nuts intoBattlesuit Melting Roundsthrough an augment mod.
Flash Shortsword
Target up to ten enemies to launch shortswords at.
Each enemy hit receives Burst damage and is inflicted with Electrocution.
Canceling the ability will reset its cooldown.
A targeting HUD will appear that will mark enemy targets within your line of sight.
Once you’ve tagged enough enemies, press the fire input to launch all the swords from your location.
Tagged enemies will have a maximum of three blades strike them as well.
Ambush doubles the damage of Flash Shortsword.
Be sure you’re safe before using it.
Spec forSkill PowerandSkill Rangeto get the most out of Flash Shortsword.
How To Play Sharen
Sharen is an assassin, ahit-and-run characterwho strikes from the shadows.
Playing her as anything else is highly discouraged or suboptimal for the tools she has available.
The First Descendant is a third-person looter shooter will fast-paced combat, but is it worth it?
Casting a Dimension skill will give you 20% CDR.
Active Camouflage is a Dimension skill, so it’s possible for you to easily maintain this buff.
We then useNimble Fingersfor 25.6% CDR andMP Conversionfor 36.5% CDR.
In other words, you’re able to spam it.
The only thing left to install isIncreased HPto improve Sharen’s health pool.
Finally,give Sharen a good sniper rifleif you plan ontaking this into endgame content.
Forest Gaze is a purple-rarity sniper you’re free to find quite easily.
Once you hit Mastery Rank 15, craft Afterglow Sword for some jaw-dropping DPS.
Sharen Infiltration Build
Duration, CDR, HP
This build is tailored forRecon missions in patrol content.
All you need isSkill Duration and CDR.We useSkill ExtensionandMaximize Durationto make Active Camouflage’s duration roughly 18 seconds.
We then useTime Distributionfor a little CDR.
Throw onIncreased HPto complete the build.
Viessa is arguably the strongest starting character in The First Descendant.
Use this build to make leveling a breeze.
