The First Descendant: Sharen Build & Ultimate – Season 3 E2

Arche Tuning for Sharen

• Image 1: Sharen Mobbing Build
• Image 2: Sharen Bossing Build

The Arche Tuning System in The First Descendant is important for every Character; it buffs your stats by a good amount. For The First Descendant Sharen, we are focusing on the right and upper right section.

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

For Sharen, Arche Tuning changes depending on what setup you run. Sharen’s Mobbing Build focuses on powering up skills and reducing cooldown. Whereas Sharen’s Bossing Build wants to go to the other side and buff weapon damage!

Sharen Equipment Overview in The First Descendant

Equipment is the cornerstone of any successful The First Descendant Build. For Sharen, 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, and explains how they maximize her power.

Sharen Equipment Guide

Equipment Type	Importance	Key Benefits
Weapons	Sharen’s Bossing Sniper Build needs a maxed-out Sniper Rifle to deal massive damage. Sharen’s Mobbing Build requires a specific weapon to get bonuses to damage.	Maximize damage and stats.
Reactors	Essential for boosting skill damage. Incorrect reactors severely reduce effectiveness.	Enhances skill potency. Ensures Sharen’s abilities perform at peak levels.
External Components	Arguably, the most impactful equipment. Dramatically improves survivability and utility. Set Buffs with 2/4 pieces.	Quadruples stats like HP or DEF. 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. Essential for specialized builds.	Significantly boosts skill efficiency and power.

Best Weapon for the Sharen Build in The First Descendant

Below you can find the Top 3 Weapons for Sharen in The First Descendant.

Don’t forget to have the needed Reactor Optimization Condition with the correct weapon types, otherwise, your skills will deal much less damage!

Top 3 Weapons for Sharen

Top 3 Weapons for Sharen

Weapon	Category	Key Features	Why It’s Great for Sharen
A-TAMS	Sniper Rifle	Best Sniper Rifle. Charge up shot to deal max damage.	Used on Sharen’s Bossing Build to one-shot.
Blue Beetle	Scout Rifle	Enhances Sharen’s Skill Critical Hit Rate. Great Support “Stat Stick”.	Used on Sharen’s Mobbing Build to enhance damage. Sprint Speed core for faster movement. Grapple Hook Recharge core for more movement.
Albion Cavalry Gun	Machine Gun	Insane ST damage. Stuns enemies.	Insane ST damage and stuns nearby enemies. Fast Fire Rate. Overall High DPS Weapon. Can be used for both AoE and Single-Target.

 

Other Useful Weapons

Other Useful Weapon Options for Sharen

Weapon	Category	Key Features	Why It’s Great for Sharen
Voltia	Beam Rifle	Instantly destroys Anti-Void Shields and Arch Barriers. Electrocutes nearby enemies.	Best weapon to instantly destroy Anti-Void Shields and Arche Barriers, nothing even comes close to it. A must-have in your group if you are doing Void Vessel Operation runs!
Thunder Cage	Submachine Gun	Everyone has this weapon from the main story (easily accessible) “Newbies Best Friend” Electric Shockwaves	While this isn’t the best weapon out there, it is easily accessible. Deals good AoE damage.

Best Reactor for Sharen in The First Descendant

Selecting the best reactor for Sharen 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!

All our skills have the chill damage type. Additionally, because we use the Absolute-Zero Transcendent Module, our skills all turn singular. So we need to select a reactor with Chill + Singular!

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 Sharen Build

Depending on what build you run you want to use the follow External Component sets.

• The Hunter Set gives us extra Skill Cooldown reduction and returns MP, perfect for mobbing. 
• The Annihilation Set boosts our Firearm ATK the lower the HP we have.

Additionally, External Components now also have core slots; it is recommended to slot Max HP and DEF cores.

Sharen Mobbing Build Best External Components

External Component Part	Base Stats	Selective Best Stats	Cores
Hunter Auxiliary Power	Max Shield	Max HP MP Recovery Out of Combat	Max HP DEF
Hunter Sensor	DEF	Max MP MP Recovery in Combat	Max HP DEF
Hunter Memory	Max Shield	MP Recovery Modifier DEF	Max HP DEF
Hunter Processor	Max HP	Max Shield Shield Recovery Modifier	Max HP DEF

Note: You can replace one or two DEF cores with attribute resistance if you fight against specific enemy types.

Sharen Bossing Build Best External Components

External Component Part	Base Stats	Selective Best Stats	Cores
Annihilation Auxiliary Power	DEF	Max HP MP Recovery Out of Combat	Max HP DEF
Annihilation Sensor	DEF	Max MP MP Recovery in Combat	Max HP DEF
Annihilation Memory	Max HP	MP Recovery Modifier DEF	Max HP DEF
Annihilation Processor	Max HP	Max Shield Shield Recovery Modifier	Max HP DEF

Note: You can replace one or two DEF cores with attribute resistance if you fight against a specific colossus.

Inversion Reinforcements Setup for Sharen

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. However, the fastest way to advance it is by completing Disrupt Invasion (max 4 daily) in the dungeon terminal with the red dungeons.

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:

• Hunt: Pick Arche Circulation Tactic (Faster Skill Cooldown). This is great for our fourth skill!
• Attribute: None.
• Recovery: Selective Neurostimulation.
• Survival: Deploy Hardened Shell.
• Season: None.

All Sharen Transcendent Modules Explained

First, let us look at the full list of all Transcendent Modules for Sharen in The First Descendant. It is important to note that not all of the modules will be used. Some are more effective than others!

Module Name	Module Description	Best In Slot
Battlesuit Melting Rounds	Modifies to stackable skill. Decreases the enemy’s Electric Resistance instead of stunning them.	Not Used
Overcharged Edge	Modifies Active Camouflage to consume Shields instead of MP. Ambush damage increases by the amount of Shields consumed.	Sharen Bossing Build
Release Cutting Force	Modifies Cutoff Beam so that it can be unleashed as Sword Aura.	Not Used
Void Domination	Increases the targeting range of Flash Shortsword. Increases enemy targeting speed.	Not Used
Area Suppression (Ult)	Changes the skill to scatter Shortswords around. Each Shortsword deals independent damage.	Sharen Mobbing Build
Ambushed (Ult)	Modifies so that killing an enemy in Active Camouflage returns the user to the same state. In Active Camouflage, agility increases, and Shock Bomb skill is converted to an attack skill.	Not Used

Sharen Basics in The First Descendant

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

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

How to Unlock Sharen in The First Descendant

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

• 1x Sharen Enhanced Cells
  • Location: Echo Swamp Normal – Seed Vault
• 1x Sharen Stabilizer
  • Location: Echo Swamp Normal – The Chapel
• 1x Sharen Spiral Catalyst
  • Location: Agna Desert Normal – The Asylum
• 1x Sharen Code
  • Location: Agna Desert Normal – Caligo Ossuary
• 400k Credits

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 Sharen in The First Descendant.

The First Descendant Sharen Skills Explained

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

Sharen’s skill loadout is centered around ambushing enemies, gaining extra damage when attacking an enemy that is not attacking Sharen. To help with this, she can use the Active Camouflage skill, the cooldown of which is reset by successfully ambushing an enemy. Sharen can also Electrocute enemies in order to debuff them.

Icon	Skill Name	Description
	Cutoff Beam	Attacks enemy with electric blade to deal damage and inflict them with Electrocute effect.
	Active Camouflage	Hides from enemies. When attacking or using skills, Active Camouflage state ends immediately, regardless of time remaining. When Active Camouflage state ends, Sharen enters Ambush mode, increasing damage of the next attack.
	Impact Rounds	Launches built-in explosives forward from the arm to stun enemies.
	Flash Shortsword	Targets enemies within aiming range, and throws multiple knives to attack them. Knives explode to inflict enemies with damage and Electrocute effect.
	Assassinator (Passive)	Damage increases when attacking enemy that is not attacking Sharen. Killing enemies with a skill in Ambush state resets cooldown for Active Camouflage.

Cutoff Beam

Inflicts damage and Electrocutionon the enemy in front with the Cutoff Beam. Electrocution deals continuous damage at fixed intervals.

How to use Cutoff Beam:

Cutoff beam is a fairly simple skill, dealing single-target damage to a nearby enemy, followed by damage over time from the Electrocution debuff. It is handy to use for extra damage against a single important target, when your other skills are on cooldown, or when you haven’t unlocked other skills yet.

Active Camouflage

Allows Sharen to turn invisible, making it much easier to surprise enemies and play into Sharen’s strengths.

Active Camouflage Description:

• Electric – Dimension
• Hide self from enemies for a period of time.
• Attacking an enemy immediately removes Active Camouflage, but adds Ambush.
• Ambush increases your damagedealt.

How to use Active Camouflage:

Sharen’s Active Camouflage skill is a key element in her loadout. It is essential for playing into her Ambush mechanic, allowing you to gain a damage bonus against enemies. Using Active Camouflage turns you invisible, allowing you to get the jump on enemies without them seeing you. As soon as you attack an enemy, you’ll be visible again, but you’ll gain a damage bonus against them as a result of your Ambush.

If you manage to kill the ambushed enemy, your Active Camouflage Cooldown will be reset, thanks to the Assassinator passive, allowing you to repeat the process. This is how Sharen is able to move around and assassinate enemies without taking too much damage herself.

Shock Nuts

Impact Rounds fires special rounds from Sharen’s arms. Enemies hit by this skill are temporarily Stunned.

Impact Rounds Description:

• Electric – Dimension
• Fires Impact Rounds forward from Sharen’s arm
• Enemies hit by the rounds are Stunned

How to use Impact Rounds:

Impact Rounds is a great skill to use if you are dealing with too many enemies by yourself, or if you miscalculated your ambush and find yourself taking too much damage. It allows you to stun enemies, which in turn is great for escaping from a bad situation or just reducing the amount of pressure you have to deal with at any given moment.

If you have the Battlesuit Melting Nuts Descendant Module the Impact Rounds will debuff the enemy’s defense instead of stunning the enemy. This allows us to get higher single-target damage on tough enemies or bosses.

Flash Shortsword

A projectile that can damage and Electrocute multiple enemies at a time.

Flash Shortsword Description:

• Electric – Fusion
• Creates multiple shortswords and takes aim at a target
• Pressing the skill button launches the Shortswords at the designated enemy
• Deals AOE damage and inflicts Electrocution, dealing continuous damage at fixed intervals.
• The skill can be cancelled while aiming without starting the Cooldown.

How to use Flash Shortsword:

While Sharen is primarily a single-target specialist, she does need some AOE potential to get by in the First Descendant, and the Flash Shortsword offers this AOE damage. Not only can you hit multiple enemies at once with Flash Shortsword, you can debuff all of the enemies with Electrocute, dealing extra damage over time and providing additional build possibilities.

Assassinator (Passive)

Allows Sharen to recharge her Active Camouflage ability immediately when killing an Ambushed enemy.

Rabbit Foot Passive Description:

• Electric
• When in the Ambush state, killing an enemy by using a skill resets the Active Camouflage cooldown.
• This effect gains cooldown.
• When attacking, increases the damage against enemies who are not targeting the caster.

How to use Assassinator:

The Assassinator passive is always active. It is great for dishing out lots of damage with Sharen, effectively turbocharging the Active Camouflage skill by heavily rewarding players who use it properly with extra damage and an instant cooldown reset of Active Camouflage, allowing them to push even more damage.

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 Sharen 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 definitely improve your build and overall gameplay in The First Descendant.

Sharen’s Story in The First Descendant

An Assassin-type melee dealer with Electric Arche. Using camouflage, she can close the distance to her enemies whenever she desires, and ambish enemies anytime, anywhere. 

Sharen, Colon Special Forces Agent No. 0 and unit commander, possessed such extraordinary skill that she was considered the strongest among non-Descendant fighters, and her close-quarter combat skills were so deadly that she had killed more Vulgus than even the heavily-armed Descendants. It was often said that should she possess Arche, she would be able to assassinate Karel… However, Sharen herself did not welcome this reputation. The reason being that the Vulgus assassination unit, which Sharen and the Colon Special Forces had been chasing, had slayed more Albion troops than the Vulgus Sharen had killed, vanishing into the shadows every time.

Eventually, in order to put an end to the gradually increasing allied casualties, Sharen decided to track down the deadly cyborg Vulgus. The operation’s mission was to determine the location of the target and call in a Descendant strike force. But Sharen had no intention of handing the final blow to this assassination unit to anyone else. Around this time, Sharen’s battle skills were at their peak, and according to the observation of the agents who were deployed with her, some of her movements were displaying an electrical phenomenon which seemingly appeared to be an Arche ability. Nobody doubted her inevitable victory.

However, the operation ended in failure.

Sharen, who awoke in an Albion operating room, could not believe her eyes. Her limbs were nowhere to be found, and she was writhing in agony in the middle of a hospital room, with just a bloody torso. According to the operation report, the Vulgus assassination unit had ambushed the Colon Special Forced in a display of skill far superior to Sharen’s. Trying to save her soldiers, Sharen suffered fatal injuries and lost consciousness. Luckily, she was rescued by No.17, an agent who had been deployed as backup. Although they had managed to successfully retreat to Albion, Sharen was at death’s door. Her only chance for survival was to transplant her major organs into a newly developed Arche Drive body prosthetic and pray she possessed Arche.

Sharen could not allow herself to die yet. She had to eliminate the cyborg who had brought about this chain of events. Even if she had to live every moment with the pain of blades cutting through her body, she would pay the enemy back with even more blades.

As her consciousness started to slip away, Sharen focused and projected her will. With this, her body started to slowly, and cautiously, replace itself with artificial muscles, synthetic fibers, and an obsidian Kuiper frame.

Related Guides for The First Descendant

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