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Freyna is one of the first characters you’ll unlock as part of The First Descendant story. She’s a potent fighter that you can improve further once you have access to her research items and use the right weapons. Based on our time in the game, here’s a comprehensive Freyna build that features a complete skill breakdown, weapon suggestions, mods, and gearing options.
Best Freyna build loadout
- Strong single-target damage.
- Mobbing offers lots of ATK buffs.
- Unique debuffing effect.
- Not quite as strong as other DPS classes.
- Toxin ability usage is critical to her DPS.
- Module -: MP Collector, Focus on Toxic, Skill Expansion, Increased HP, Increased DEF, Nimble Fingers
- Reactor – Toxic Mechanics
- External Components – Max HP, MP Recovery, DEF, Elemental Resistance
- Weapons – Fallen Hope, Python, Thunder Cage
- Weapon mods – Toxic Conductor, Action and Reaction, Toxic Enhancement, Bullet Rain, Rifling Reinforcement
By pairing Venom Trauma and Putrid Venom, our build aims to make Freyna capable of reliable DPS but also solid single-target damage by diving straight into fights. Doing this triggers Freyna’s passive that grants more attack power based on how many foes you poison.
Modules
- MP Collector – When defeating an enemy, instantly recovers X% of Max MP at an X% chance.
- Focus on Toxic – Toxic Skill Power +X%, Skill Cooldown -X%
- Skill Expansion – Skill Effect Range +X%
- Increased HP – Max HP +X%
- Increased Def – DEF +X%
- Nimble Fingers – Skill Cooldown -X%
Freyna is a gear-dependent character, and her strengths will correlate directly with what modules you select. The better defense, shielding, and health she has, the more you can run around and spread your poison AoE. After that, focus on Skill cooldown modifiers. Next, prioritise modules that improve her toxic passive, resulting in improved damage-over-time.
Reactor and external components
- Reactor – Toxic Mechanics Reactor (Poison and Tech)
- External components – Max HP, MP Recovery, DEF, Elemental Resistance
Prioritize reactors that buff Poison and Tech such as the Toxic Mechanics Reactor. Your Toxic Bullet, Toxic Swamp, and Venom Baptism skills are all Poison and Tech skills, which are your primary damage tools. Your DPS largely come from these skill power modifiers for poison.
Freyna gets the most out of the Fallen Hope’s unique ability. Captured by VideoGamer
The Python’s unique synergizes with poison attacks. Captured by VideoGamer
The Thunder Cage cleans up mobs easily. Captured by VideoGamer
Weapons and weapons modules
- Weapons – Fallen Hope Assault Rifle, Python Submachine Gun, Thunder Cage Submachine Gun
- Toxic Conductor – When attacking enemies inflicted with Poison, your Firearm ATK increases.
- Action and Reaction – Firearm ATK +15%, Recoil +5%
- Toxic Enhancement – Adds Toxic ATK equal to 8% of Firearm ATK
- Bullet Rain – Fire Rate +8%, Firearm ATK +1%
- Rifling Reinforcement – Firearm ATK +12%
While Freyna is solid with all medium-range and long-range weapons, Assault Rifles and SMGs pair extremely well with her poison skills and let you get up close to use her Toxic Swamp skill. Alternatively, snipers are another reliable pick; throw down Defensive Measures preemptively, then shoot packs with Toxic Bullet, and snipe away at enemies. Here are some ultimate weapons we recommend:
Freyna skills and abilities
Freyna is a character that’s all about dealing damage with her poison and doing excellent single-target and AoE DPS. She is easily one of the best boss killers and more than stands her ground against mobs thanks to her poison spread. Her skills are as follows:
| Skill | Description |
|---|---|
| Venom Trauma | Fires a Toxic Bullet, dealing damage to hit enemies. The Toxic Bullet explodes, creating a Toxic Puddle and inflicting Room 0 Trauma to those hit. Room 0 Trauma inflicts continuous damage and applies Poison to nearby enemies. The Toxic Bullet deals 174% Skill Power as damage. |
| Defense Mechanism | Gain Plague Body Armour. Inflicts Room 0 Trauma on attacking enemies. |
| Putrid Venom | Throw a poisonous device to create a Toxic Swamp. Enemies in that area take continuous damage equal to 38.7% Skill Power each second for a 12-second duration. Enemies who are hit with the Toxic Swamp get covered in Poison and suffer the Venom Soaked debuff. Enemies with the Venom Soaked debuff leave Toxic Footprints as they move, which apply poison to enemies not already affected by the poison. |
| Venom Baptism | Equip a Unique Weapon that fires 30 rounds that applies Room 0 Trauma, The damage of the rounds equals 253% of Skill Power, while Room 0 Trauma and Poison damage is enhanced. Poison now deals 439% of Skill Power, while Room 0 Trauma deals 75.9% skill power damage to targets affected. |
| Contagion Links | Passive that increases Toxic Skill Power by the number of nearby enemies inflicted with Poison. This stacks up to 15 times, with each stack granting 1.2% more toxic damage. |
How to play as Freyna
Freyna’s is strong at withering away packs of enemies thanks to her poison skills and debuffs. This damage-over-time provides strong single-target DPS against bosses. We have a few tips to make these skills more effective in combat:
- Poison lots of enemies and focus on key threats with Poison damage, such as elite spawns or bosses. This will let you utilise your passive and enhance your DPS.
- Party up with Crowd Control characters like Viessa and Lepic to easily spread poison buffs for your passive. Competition for mob kills makes it harder to maintain her Toxic damage buffs via her passive.
- Throw Toxic Swamp or fire Toxic Bullet when enemy group’s spawn or funnel into tight areas. You can pair this with Venom Trauma as well.
- Only use Defense Mechanism when fighting lots of foes to spread your Poison and Room 0 Trauma effect that way.
- Venom Baptism works best with your passive accumulating stacks. A buffed Venom Baptism is the best way to increase your DPS in most situations, presuming you have the mana for all your poison moves and your ultimate skill.
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The First Descendant
- Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S, Xbox Series X
- Genre(s): Action, Adventure, RPG
