The First Descendant Blair build: Best loadout, skill breakdown, and more

As a former cook, The First Descendant’s Blair brings the heat in ways other Descendants just can’t. He’s an interesting character with a fiery flair, and if you want to dominate the battlefield with him, we’re here to help. He’s all about creating deadly Flame Zones and doling out incredibly powerful critical hits. If that’s your cup of tea, then you’d want to give him a spin.

While he’s not the most powerful character in our The First Descendant tier list, he has the potential to deal incredibly high damage. Here’s how you can build your own devastating pyromancer Blair.

Note: Some parts of this article are subjective and reflect the author's opinions.

How to unlock Blair in The First Descendant

Spending real money is also an option, if you don't want to wait (Image via Nexon)

Like all characters in The First Descendant, you can unlock Blair with real-world currency, if you want to skip the grind. He costs 300 Caliber, which is less than some Descendants, so it’s something to keep in mind. If you’re going to grind him out, then you’ll need the materials listed below from the game in addition to the Code for Blair:

Requirements for Blair

400,000 Gold
16 hours of real-world time
Blair Enhanced Cells
Blair Stabilizer
Blair Spiral Catalyst
Blair Code

Enhanced Cells pattern

Repton x192
Semiconstant Plasma x225
Arche Receptor x15
Blair Enhanced Cell Blueprint
150,000 Gold

Stabilizer pattern

Repton x192
Hardener x453
Data Processing Circuit x9
Blair Stabilizer Blueprint
150,000 Gold

Spiral Catalyst pattern

Metal Accelerant x270
Hardener x453
Monite Stone x16
Blair Spiral Catalyst Blueprint
150,000 Gold

The First Descendant Blair skill breakdown

Skill Name	Skill Type	MP Cost	Cooldown	Description
Blaze Up	AOE Damage (Fire - Dimension)	25	12s	Launches flames and creates a Flame Zone on the ground. Enemies that enter the Flame Zone take continual damage and receive 'Burn' debuff. Max stacks: 3
Extinguish	Buff/Retrieval (FIre)	N/A	28s	Retrieves Flame Zones on the battlefield and recovers MP based on the number retrieved. Gives Taste of Aggression (Firearm ATK/Skill Power buff), and earlier Flame Zones are retrieved first.
Burn Taste	AOE Damage (Fire - Dimension)	35	30s	Shoots Fire forward, which inflicts continual damage and applies the 'Burn' debuff. Does not create a Flame Zone.
Deadly Cuisine	AOE Damage (Fire - Dimension)	60	120s	Launches a giant fireball that explodes, dealing AOE damage to nearby foes, and splits into smaller fireballs, which also explode. Small Fireballs deal AOE damage near the explosion site, applying Burn and a Flame Zone.
Pitmaster	Passive (Fire)	N/A	N/A	Critical Hit Damage increases when attacking Burning enemies. Critical Hit Chance increases based on the number of active Flame Zones.

Blair’s skillset is a really fun one, when it comes to The First Descendant’s characters. While yes, he typically has to be fairly close to be effective, he does have tons of AOE damage to blast into the world. His passive, Pitmaster, increases his critical hit chance based on the number of Flame Zones he has active, which come from a pair of his abilities. Additionally, simply attacking enemies who are "Burned" increases his Critical Hit Damage.

Blaze Up creates Burn Zones, and deals damage, and his ultimate attack, Deadly Cuisine creates several of them after the smaller fireballs explode. If you’re short on mana, you can retrieve them, using Extinguish. At least two of his abilities apply Burn as well, so it’s not hard to deal plenty of damage when playing as Blair.

All Blair Skill Modules in The First Descendant

At first, I wasn’t sure how I felt about Blair’s Skill Modules in The First Descendant. However, I do appreciate the power of Incendiary Bomb since it makes a very clear Flame Zone from a thrown projectile. Truly Deadly Cuisine is probably more for people who just want to hit something really hard once—perhaps a large boss, instead of aiming for huge groups of enemies. You’ll see all of his unique Skill Modules below, along with their socket type:

Backdraft (Malachite): Extinguish SKill Conversion. Flame Zone absorption significantly increases Weak Point ATK instead of Skill ATK.
Classic Chef (Xantic): Pitmaster Skill Conversion. Modifies the increases to Firearm and Skill Critical Hit Rate to 5 based on the Flame Zone count. Using Deadly Cuisine increases the number of Flame Zones created to 4.
Incendiary Bomb (Almandine): Blaze Up Skill Conversion. Throws a projectile forward that spawns a Flame Zone where it lands.
Truly Deadly Cuisine (Almandine): Deadly Cuisine Skill Conversion. Significantly increases the damage of Giant Fireballs. When a Giant Fireball explodes, Small Fireballs and Flame Zones do not spawn.

The First Descendant Blair build: What are the best Modules to use?

Blair is truly a blast to play (Image via Nexon)

Many of Blair’s max level Modules are no-brainers in The First Descendant. Fire Specialist, Skill Expansion, and Technique Manual in particular. These all enhance what he does best - hurt things with fire.

Even if Technique Manual takes some of your Max HP, it’s worth it to deal the extra damage. Skill Range is another obvious choice since it increases your overall range. I'm not incredibly high on Blair's unique Modules, but Backdraft or Incendiary Bomb can be considered instead of Increased DEF.

Skill Range Mastery: Improves the range of your Skills.
Increased Shield: Increases your Max Shield.
Fire Specialist: Increases Skill Power of Fire skills.
Skill Expansion: Increases Effect Range of skills.
Focus on Fire: Improves Skill power of Fire Skills, and reduces Skill Cooldowns slightly.
Dual Claw: Changes Sub Attack to a Dual Claw attack. Increases Max Module Capacity.
Willpower Efflux: Increases your DEF and slightly improves HP Heal.
Increased DEF: Increases Defense.
Increased HP: Increase Max Health.
Technique Manual: Landing a skill deals a portion of Max HP as extra damage. 8s cooldown per target.
Insert whichever defensive Module you need for the content you’re doing.

Ideal Reactors

In tight spaces, those Flame Zones can be devastating (Image via Nexon)

When considering a Reactor, whether for Blair or any other character, you want to focus on one that has certain stats. For Blair, the ideal stats to look out for are anything that increases Fire (Burning Reactor) or Dimension (Phase Reactor) damage, as well as Skill Power and Sub Attack Power. You also want Skill Critical Hit Damage as another potential stat.

External components to use on Blair

Set those enemies ablaze and enjoy the extra damage as Blair in The First Descendant (Image via Nexon)

Since unlocking External Components is fairly random, finding the ones you want for Blair might be difficult. If you’re lucky enough to, you want External Components with Max Shield, Max HP, HP Recovery, and DEF stats.

Check out our other guides on The First Descendant:

Edited by Abhipsito Das