The First Descendant: Blair Build & Ultimate – Season 4 E1

Arche Tuning for Blair

• Mutant Cells:
  • Fire Cohesion

The Arche Tuning System in The First Descendant is important for every Character; it buffs your stats by a good amount.

You level up Arche Tuning in the Sigma Sector Dropoff Operation and plenty of other activities. Mutant Cells also drop there with a small chance.

Blair Equipment Overview in The First Descendant

Equipment is the cornerstone of any successful The First Descendant Build. For Blair, having the right setup can mean the difference between dominating a dungeon and falling short. This section breaks down the essential equipment types: Weapons, Reactors, External Components, and Transcendent Modules.

Blair Equipment Guide

Equipment Type	Importance	Key Benefits
Weapons	Critical for maximizing damage. A wide variety of weapon types enables different playstyles.	Increases overall DPS. Amplifies the effectiveness of skills. Proper weapon selection can double or triple damage.
Reactors	Essential for boosting skill damage. Incorrect reactors severely reduce effectiveness.	Enhances skill potency of Blair. Ensures Blair’s abilities perform at peak levels.
External Components	Arguably the most impactful equipment. Dramatically improves survivability and utility.	Quadruples stats like HP or DEF for Blair. Adds utility like MP recovery. Enables effective performance in high-difficulty content. Core System Enhancements.
Inversion Reinforcements	Adds further buffs to your build.	Perks that can make a difference in build power.
Transcendent Modules	Unlocks advanced playstyles for Blair. Essential for specialized Blair builds.	Significantly boosts Blair’s skill efficiency and power.

Best Weapon for the Blair Build in The First Descendant

You only really need the Deus Ex Manus sword for the Blair Build. All other weapons are optional. I also recommend Peace Maker as a “Stat Stick” simply because it’s better when you have to move to a far-away checkpoint.

Top Weapons for Blair

Top 3 Weapons for Blair

Weapon	Category	Key Features	Why It’s Great for Blair
Volcanic Heart	Scout Rifle	Stat Stick: Fire Skill Power Boost Amplification perk.	Used as a fire skill damage boost stat stick if you have one with a high quality range.
Deus Ex Manus	Sword	Insane AoE & ST damage. Lots of Additional Attack Chance	Best weapon for Blair build because it can get the most Additional Attack Chance.
Peace Maker	Handgun	Has the best weapon core slots for a “stat stick” weapon. Stat stick: 2x Sprint Speed, 1x Grapple Hook or simply 3x Sprint Speed.	Increases sprint speed and grapple hook recharge time.

Other Useful Weapons

Other Useful Weapon Options for Blair

Weapon	Category	Key Features	Why It’s Great for Blair
Exterminator	Rocket Launcher	Easily destroys enemy Assault Ships. Easily destroys enemy Swarm Sacks & Tunnels. Auto Target function when aiming.	Weapon specialized in destroying Assault Ships, Swarm Sacks & Tunnels.
Shadow	Sword	Massive AoE & ST damage. Strong Special AoE skill.	Best all-rounder sword for massive damage. Fast movement.
Thunder Cage	Submachine Gun	Everyone has this weapon from the main story (easily accessible). “Newbies’ Best Friend” Rains down thunder on enemies.	Deals great AoE damage. Overall good performance.

Best Reactor for Blair in The First Descendant

Selecting the best reactor for Blair in The First Descendant can significantly enhance her abilities, allowing you to maximize her effectiveness in various scenarios. Not only does the reactor determine your skill damage, but it also gives additional secondary benefits through modifiers. These are often hard to get and take time to grind out!

Best Reactors for Blair Builds in The First Descendant

Best Reactor	Specs	Key Benefits	Best Builds
Burning Phase Reactor	Skill Critical Damage Skill Cooldown	Overall best damage for Mobbing content.	Blair Mobbing Build
Burning Phase Reactor	Colossus Damage Skill Critical Damage	Maximizing Colossus Damage.	Blair Bossing Build

How to find the Location of Reactors

Reactor drop locations change every day. Not many players know this and get confused. Now, there is a reactor search function in-game. Go to the map and press on Difficulty Level Rewards. In here, you can see where all the reactors currently drop.

Note: It is possible that not all reactor types are currently dropping. You have to come back and recheck every day.

If your specified reactor drops in an area, you go there and farm any missions and monsters (Preferably missions with lots of monster spawns). There will be plenty of reactors dropping from monsters all over the place, any monster works. It will take a while to get a good reactor!

Best External Components for the Blair Build

The best External Components set for the Blair Build is the Fire Brand Set.

External Component Cores: Always use Max HP & DEF.

• Mobbing: 4 x Fire Brand
  • Fire Brand Auxiliary Power: Max HP & Any Resistance
  • Fire Brand Sensor: HP Recovery Modifier & Consumable Drop Rate
  • Fire Brand Memory: DEF & Shield Recovehttps://tfd.gameslantern.com/external-components/polar-night-auxiliary-powerry in Combat
  • Fire Brand Processor: Max Shield & Shield Recovery Modifier

Inversion Reinforcements Setup for Blair

You can find the Inversion Reinforcements in the inventory, located on the bottom left side. This changes with every new season and needs to be leveled up again. You level up Inversion Reinforcements by doing any activity.

At max level, you have unlocked everything. While the last perk is always active in each row, you can only slot three additional perks at the bottom. Here is what you want to prioritize:

• Skill: Module Output Synchronization
• Weapon: None.
• Recovery: Emergency Recovery Kit.
• Survival: Deploy Hardened Shell.
• Season: None.

All Blair Transcendent Modules

Currently, Blair has the following transcendent modules:

Blair Basics in The First Descendant

If it is your first time playing Blair in The First Descendant, here are some useful things you should know.

1. How to unlock Blair
2. Blair Skills Explanation – Master Blair’s Abilities
3. Module Basics Explained!
4. Best Grapple Hook for Blair

How to Unlock Blair in The First Descendant

Let’s take a quick look at how to unlock Blair in The First Descendant. To unlock Blair, you have to purchase him from the store or research him. You need the following items to research Blair:

• 1x Blair Enhanced Cells
  • Location: White-night Gulch Normal – Mystery’s End
• 1x Blair Stabilizer
  • Location: White-night Gulch Normal – Mystery’s End
• 1x Blair Spiral Catalyst
  • Location: White-night Gulch Normal – Mystery’s End
• 1x Blair Code
  • Location: White-night Gulch Normal – Mystery’s End
• 400k Credits

Base Descendants can now be crafted easily in the Research Institute with Archive Shards.

When you visit Magisters Anais at the Research Institute you can hover over each item. Then click on Acquisition Info and it will tell you where this specific item drops. You can also view an in-depth guide on How to unlock Blair in The First Descendant.

The First Descendant Blair Skills Explained

In this section, we will explain the skills available to our Blair Build in the First Descendant, how each skill works, and the best ways for you to use them.

Blair’s skill loadout is themed around fire, applying fire AoE damage in a wide radius.

Icon	Skill Name	Description
	Blaze Up	Spurts flame to deal damage to nearby enemies and creates a Burn Zone. Burn Zones inflict constant damage and Burn effect to nearby enemies.
	Extinguish	Retrieves Stoves in the battlefield and restores Mana. Retrieving Stoves increases DEF for a short period of time.
	Burn Taste	Spurts flames forward. Enemies near the flames’ arrival point are inflicted with constant damage and Burn effect.
	Deadly Cuisine	Throws a large fireball forward. Large fireball splits into small fireballs causing extra explosion. Explosion damage inflicts the Burn effect and creates a Burn Zone on the ground.
	Pitmaster (Passive)	Critical Hit Damage increases when attacking Burning enemies. Critical Hit Chance increases depending on the number of active Flame Zones.

Blaze Up

Spurts flame to deal damage to nearby enemies and creates Stove. Stove inflicts constant damage and Burn effect to nearby enemies.

Blaze Up Skill Description:

• Fire – Dimension
• Spews fire and creates a Flame Zone on the ground.
• Enemies that enter the Flame Zone receive continuous damage and are inflicted with Burn.

Extinguish

Retrieves Stoves in the battlefield and restores Mana. Retrieving Stoves increases DEF for a short period of time.

Extinguish Description:

• Fire – Singular
• Retrieves the Flame Zones created on the battlefield and recovers MP in proportion to the amount retrieved.
• On retrieval, gain Taste of Aggression for a period of time.
• Taste of Aggression increases Firearm ATK and Skill Power.
• Flame Zones summoned earlier are retrieved first.

Burn Taste

Spurts flames forward. Enemies near the flames’ arrival point are inflicted with constant damage and Burn effect.

Burn Taste Description:

• Fire – Dimension
• Emits flames forward, inflicting continuous damage and Burn upon enemies near the fire.

Deadly Cuisine

Throws a large fireball forward. Large fireball splits into small fireballs causing extra explosion. Explosion damage inflicts the Burn effect and creates a Burn Zone on the ground.

Deadly Cuisine Description:

• Fire – Dimension
• Fires a Giant Fireball forward.
• On explosion, the Giant Fireball inflicts AoE damage to nearby enemies and splits into multiple Small Fireballs, which create additional explosions.
• Small Fireballs deal AoE damage to enemies near the explosion site, inflicting Burn and creating a Flame Zone.

Pitmaster (Passive)

Critical Hit Damage increases when attacking Burning enemies. Critical Hit Chance increases depending on the number of active Flame Zones.

Pitmaster Passive Description:

• Fire
• When attacking enemies inflicted with Burn, increases Firearm and Skill Critical Hit Damage.
• Increases Critical Hit Rate based on the number of Flame Zones created on the battlefield.

How Modules Work in The First Descendant

Modules are the bread and butter of all The First Descendant Builds. There are a few important things to remember about modules. This is for both Descendant and Weapon Modules.

While most builds require you to increase Module Capacity with an Energy Activator (you get two for free), they won’t require you to reduce the Module cost with Crystallization Catalyst. However, if you want to truly min-max a build, you will need plenty of these Catalysts.

1. How to increase your Module Capacity
2. Module Levels and Cost
   1. Kuiper Shards & best way to farm!
3. Reduce the cost of Modules
4. How to farm Modules

How to Increase Module Capacity

You get a base of 45 Modules for every Descendant character. And you can increase this up to 85 currently. First off, always slot a Sub Attack Module (Slot 7). When you increase this to the max level you will get an additional 10 Module Capacity. if you use a Crystallization Catalyst on the Sub Attack Module, you even get 15 extra slots. You will see this in the setup below.

Additionally, you can use an Energy Activator to increase your Module Capacity by another 20. However, these are fairly hard to farm, only use them on your best Descendants.

Lastly, increasing your Mastery Rank will also increase Module Capacity. Rank 1 gives you 25 Module Capacity, Rank 20 gives you 50 Module Capacity. That is how we reach the 80 Module Capacity that you see on most builds.

1. Slot a Sub Attack Module (and max it out to get +10 capacity, crystallize it for +15)
2. Use an Energy Activator (2o extra capacity)
3. Increase Mastery Rank (25 base capacity, max 50)

Weapons: Basically the same, but because you don’t have Subattack Modules, the Energy Activator gives you 30 instead of just 20 extra capacity.

You can also read my in-depth guide on how to increase Module Capacity in The First Descendant if you need more information. Or my Best Energy Activator Farm Spots and our Best Crystallization Catalyst Farm Spots. I tested all of the grind spots by myself and have already farmed plenty of these items with this method.

Module Levels and Cost

Modules can be enhanced (leveled up) with Kuiper Shards in The First Descendant. Enhancing Modules increases their power. At higher levels, the power will increase way more than at lower levels. Therefore it is always recommended to max out the most important Module first.

Here is an example of a must-have Module called Increased HP for our Descendant. You will notice that we start at 22%, but at the max level, we get a whopping 218.5% increase in health!

Transcendent Modules are the exception; they decrease Capacity Cost with higher levels!

For an in-depth overview, please visit our How to Level Up Modules in The First Descendant guide.

How to Farm Kuiper Shards

Kuiper Shards are used to level up Modules. We have a guide on the Top 3 Kuiper Shard Farming Locations in the First Descendant. We explain how to most efficiently farm Kuiper Shards (300-500k/hour) and show the amount you need to level up mods. As a summary, to max out a Module you need:

• Normal Modules: 103’100 Kuiper Shards
• Rare Modules: 206’200 Kuiper Shards
• Ultimate Modules: 309’300 Kuiper Shards
• Transcendent Modules: 515’500 Kuiper Shards

Always max out the most important Modules first, we will showcase the order below.

How to Reduce the Cost of Modules

To reduce the cost of Modules you need Crystallization Catalysts in The First Descendant. These require a lot of time investment, most builds won’t require you to get many if any at all (Budget Setup). But if you want to completely min-max you need to get plenty of them as technically, every slot can have a specific socket type to half the cost.

Modules have Socket Types. Our Increased HP Module has the Cerulean Socket Type.

• Module: Increased HP
• Socket Type: Cerulean

This is important because if we place our Increased HP Module in the fitting Socket Type, it will half the cost of the Module!

How to farm Modules in The First Descendant

Most The First Descendant Modules can be acquired fairly easily, but the higher-quality ones (Ultimate, Transcendent) are more tedious to obtain. Here is the easiest process to farm Modules quickly.

Open Map > Swap to Access Info > Select Modules

Here, you can find all Modules and their drop locations. If a module drops from several locations, it is recommended to select drop locations with higher drop chances.

There isn’t really much more to this. Simply check the location and go farm. Normal and Rare quality Modules have 30-50% drop chances in most cases. Ultimate ones range around the 5% mark and Transcendent ones can be a tough cookie with around 2% drop chance.

We will list the best farming location of modules in the next step of the guide.

Smooth Grapple Hook for your Blair Build

Using the standard Grapple Hook in The First Descendant can be a pain, and it feels kinda frustrating at times. Don’t worry, there is a way better alternative that will make it a joy to use the grappling hook!

It is called the Mid-Air Maneuvering Sub Module. I use this on all my The First Descendant Builds because it improves grappling by so much.

With this Module, you can attach your Grapple Hook to anything, even air! That means you can simply aim towards the sky and Hook up your grapple hook there for guaranteed fast movement!

Here is a guide on how to get the Mid-Air Maneuvering Sub Module in The First Descendant. It won’t take a lot of effort, but it will improve your build and overall gameplay in The First Descendant.

Blair’s Story in The First Descendant

A chef who deals continuous damage and who manipulates fire.

Fresh vegetables, toast free of sawdust, savoury and thick soup, and a juicy, processed meat steak that has been perfectly matured and grilled. Such a meal would be considered excessive even during a festive period for the desperate members of humanity, but whenever this menu appeared at the mess hall, the troops were unable to hide their gloom. Known as “The Last Supper”, it was part of a military tradition where soldiers were fed this meal just before a dangerous operation.

As the best chef in Albion who has prepared the final meal for many years, Blair possessed an incredible talent for cooking which had even exempted him from conscription, but he no longer wished to cook for the military. After all, did his best cooking have any meaning for those who ate it with a heavy heart? Instead, Blair always wanted to be able to cook delicious meals for the troops who may be having their final meal on any given day, and he had a promising plan to realize this desire. If he could find and open the hyper-cold ingredients vault that had been designed a century ago, during humanity’s golden age, his plan would no longer be unachievable.

However, one day, there was an incident during which a Colossus had appeared above the ingredients vault which the Recon Squad had painstakingly discovered. After a failed intercept battle, the Colossus landed in Ingris and the nearby area was bathed in an infernal blaze. Hearing this, Blair followed the Descendants who had been deployed, only to find that the vault door had been twisted beyond imagination by the scorching heat and the ingredients within withering away in the flames. Stunned at this sight, Blair failed to realize that he had become the next target of the Colossus. Blair was engulfed in the flames that the Colossus spewed towards him, leading the Descendants present at the scene to believe this to be the end of Blair. It seemed that Albion’s greatest chef, full of dreams and romance, had met his demise.

However, their predictions would soon be proven wrong. A grappling hook shot out from the flames and lodged itself in the Colossus’ weak point, and Blair flew forward, bombarding the weak point with the fire emanating from both of his hands, and thus defeating the Colossus. In his moment of crisis, he had awakened as a Descendant.

After this, Blair found himself facing two choices: become a soldier as a Descendant, or remain a chef and continue to cook “The Last Supper”. Blair made the decision to become a Descendant. The reason: If he became a Descendant and incinerated all of the Vulgus, then “The Last Supper” would no longer need to be cooked.

Blair’s Exclusive Equipment – Incendiary Pyric Release

An Arche ability awakened when he was attacked by a Colossus’ Fire. This ability releases ionized, high-temperature Arche gas through the veins of his fingers. The gas is ignited through specially-made gloves that assist with the ignition when unleashing a fire attack on the enemy. The attack form can be adjusted according to the concentration of the ionized Arche gas. And because it is different from normal plasma, it is also effective against heat-proofed Vulgus.

“The best part is that I can use it for cooking, too!”
– Blair

You can also check out our Ultimate Weapons Database for The First Descendant or the Builds Database for The First Descendant.