Descendant Freyna's First Build: Skills, Tips, and Weapons

Freyna is one of the first creatures in Descendant that can be unlocked as part of the game's main story options. When you unlock some of the early or mid-game content, you'll have the opportunity to obtain Freyna's research items from the content. When you obtain her, you'll have plenty of new skills to try out and weapons to experiment with. Here's a closer look at a Freyna build for The First Descendant, including a breakdown of skills, combos, weapon suggestions, mods, and gear options.

Freyna's skills in The First Descendant

Freyna is a poison damage character who does excellent single target and AOE DPS. She is easily one of the best boss killers and a great mobbing character as well, thanks to her poison spread as seen in our Descendant Tier List. Her skills are as follows:

• Venom trauma – Fires a toxic bullet, dealing damage to enemies hit. The toxic bullet explodes, creating a toxic pool and inflicting 0 room trauma on those hit. The 0 room trauma deals ongoing damage and applies Posion to nearby enemies. The toxic bullet deals 174% Ability Power,
• Defense mechanism – Gain Plague Body Armor. Inflicts 0 Room Trauma on attacking enemies.
• Putrid Venom – Throw poison to create a Toxic Swamp. Enemies in this area take ongoing damage equal to 38.7% of Ability Power every second for 12 seconds. Enemies hit by the Toxic Swamp are covered in poison and the Venom-Infused debuff. Enemies hit by the Venom-Infused debuff leave toxic footprints as they move, applying poison to enemies not already affected by poison.
• Baptism of Venom – Equip a unique weapon that fires 30 bullets and applies Room 0 Trauma. Bullet damage is equal to 253% of Skill Power, while Room 0 Trauma and Poison damage are increased. Poison now deals 439% of Skill Power, while Room 0 Trauma deals 75.9% of Skill Power damage to affected targets.
• Passive – Contagion Links: Increases Toxic skill power by the number of nearby enemies affected by Posion. Stacks up to 15 times, with each stack granting 1.2% additional Toxic damage.

Please note that the base damage formulas for Room 0 trauma and poisons are as follows:

• Room 0 Trauma represents 9.9% skill damage every second for 6 seconds.
• Poison Deals 58% Ability Power every second for ten seconds.

These effects will get even better as you farm XP and gain more levels on Freyna.

Freyna Skill Tips and Combos

Freyna's abilities are very effective at clearing groups of enemies thanks to the double debuffs. Additionally, these DoTs provide powerful single-target DPS to bosses. We have some tips to make these abilities more effective in combat.

• Poison many enemies and focus on key threats with poison damage, like elite spawns or bosses.
• Team up with crowd control descendants to easily spread poison buffs for your passive.
• Throw a Toxic Swamp or shoot a Toxic Bullet when groups of enemies spawn or in funnel areas.
• Only use the defense mechanism when you are fighting many angry ads to broadcast your positions this way.
• Venom Baptism works best with your passive stacks building up.

Ideally, due to her passive, you want to poison as many enemies as possible. For these reasons, Freya prefers to play solo to get better DPS buffs for her poison and trauma damage. Competing with enemies that kill makes it harder to maintain her toxic damage buffs via her passive. However, she can play very well in groups, especially with more crowd control-focused Descendants like Viessa and Lepic. Their CC helps to group enemies together, so her toxic swamp effects do more damage. Alternatively, she can easily spread Room 0 Trauma and her poison for her passive.

Toxic Swamp is most effective when you can funnel enemies into a shallow area or when you know where enemies will spawn. Toxic Bullet is also most effective in similar situations.

The defense mechanic applies room 0 trauma and poisons to enemies that hit you. This is a free way to spread poisons in fights with many ranged enemies.

Finally, your ultimate is incredibly powerful, and with its powerful poison buffs, you'll really want to use it when your toxic damage is increased by your passive. An improved Venom Baptism offers the best way to increase your DPS in most situations, assuming you have the mana bar for all your poison spread and ultimate.

Building Freyna for The First Descendant

When it comes to builds, Freyna is very flexible. She can use any weapon, as her kit is all about spreading debuffs and DoTs with her skills. The types of suggestions we recommend are:

• Handguns
• Submachine guns
• Snipers or other form of long-range weaponry

So we recommend weapons like pistols, as they deal high damage per bullet and have decent range. You can also pick up weapons like submachine guns when you need to get in close to use your Toxic Swamp skill. Alternatively, snipers are great, as you can preemptively throw down your gear, fire packs of toxic bullets and shoot enemies, while spreading poison with your Defensive Measures skill.

Again, be aware that some reactors have skill power buffs when using different weapons. You can get these for assault rifles, scout rifles, and other weapon types, which we haven't specifically mentioned. If you get one of these modifiers, while having a great reactor, it's worth using those weapon types. Again, your DPS comes largely from the skill power modifiers for possession and room 0, so the better these skills and their skill power, the better it is for Freyna's build.

Regarding the reactor specifically, you want to farm green reactors for the Toxic skill modifiers. You also want to farm the second role modifier, which is Tech. YTour Toxic Bullet, Toxic Swamp and

Venom Baptism skills are all tech skills, which are your main damage tools. So, getting tech will further increase the damage of Toxic Swamp, Toxic Bullet, and Baptism towers.

Equipment and Mods

When it comes to your Descendant Mods and Externals, you'll want to stock up on:

1. Defensive statistics.
2. Mana.
3. Power Skill.

Freyna has very low base stats, so she will be very gear dependent to play. The more defense, shield, and health she has, the more you can run around and spread that toxic fun. From there, the more mana you get, the more you can cast your poison and buff your passive. After that, focus on skill power modifiers. Freyna has high damage output via toxic passive buffs, which lead to high damage DoT effects, making her very strong either way. That pretty much wraps up the basics of what you need to know to get the most out of Freyna in The First Descendant. Good luck spreading those poisons and dealing those big DoT damage to your enemies.