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

Viessa is a character/class in The First Descendant, who excels as a debuffer and utility support for allies. Her nickname is “The Cold-Blooded Hunter” as she mainly has skills that have ice-themed effects and damage. Lore-wise, she is a smuggler who used to be the top dog of her trade who had an affiliation with the cold.

This guide dives into all the information that you need to unlock her and make an effective build for her.

How to unlock Viessa in The First Descendant?

Currently, there are two options available for unlocking Viessa in The First Descendant. Firstly you can simply purchase her from the store for 300 calibre. But if you want to unlock her through research, you will have to grind for materials.

1) The research needs one Viessa Enhanced Cells, to craft it you need these materials:

422x Repton
290x Semiconstant Plasma
40x Fusion Plasma Battery
1x Viessa Enhanced Cell Blueprint
200k Gold

2) You will need one Viessa Stabilizer, to craft it you will need the following components:

239x Compound Coating Material
499x Monomelecular Extractor
14x Common Carbon Activator
1x Viessa Stabilizer Blueprint
200k Gold

3) You will need one Viessa Spiral Catalyst, to craft it you will need the following components:

571x Superfluid
386x Hardener
99x Synthesized Artificial Biometal
1x Viessa Sprial Catalyst Blueprint

4) The research also needs one Viessa Code, you can farm it in these locations:

a) Intercept Battle: Common Executioner

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b) Intercept Battle: Common Devourer

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c) Intercept Battle: Hard Swamp Walker

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d) Echo Swamp Hard – Abyssal Void Fusion reactor

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5) Finally to order the research you have to pay a sum of credits:

400k Credits

Once you get the materials, you will have to talk to Magister Anais in the Albion Mountains. Once you submit all the materials to the research it will take some hours for her research to complete.

The First Descendant Viessa skill breakdown

Descendant Skill Name	What type of skill is it?	Brief Description
Ice Sphere	Passive (Tech)	Generates a floating Ice Sphere when enemies are Ice Shackled. The sphere automatically attacks nearby foes, damaging them and surrounding areas.
Frost Shards	Passive (Fusion)	Launches an explosive Ice Beam, dealing damage and applying Ice Shackle in the impact area.
Frost Road	Active (Fusion)	Boosts Running Speed and Shield. Creates Ice Sheets where Viessa stands, inflicting Ice Shackle on enemies who touch them.
Cold Snap	Active (Fusion)	Fires a cold air arc forward, damaging enemies and applying Ice Shackle.
Blizzard	Active (Tech)	Summons an exploding snowstorm, damaging and Ice Shackling enemies caught inside.

Viessa’s skills mainly revolve around applying ice shackles debuff. She is mainly a crowd-control character that offers utility to the team composition. Focus on the skills that inflict the Ice Shackles on the enemies to make them slow and easy to kill. Save her DPS skills for large gatherings of enemies. Combine her DPS with debuff skills to perform wipes.

All Viessa Skill modules in The First Descendant

Unique modules of Viessa (Image via NEXON)

Here are all the unique skill modules for the character:

Module	Descendant	Socket	Effect
Cold Snap Watch	Viessa	Cerulean	Cold Snap conversion: Creates a temporary Cold Snap zone ahead, inflicting Ice Shackle and continuous damage to enemies within.
Cold-Bloodedness	Viessa	Rutile	Frost Road conversion: Enhances Skill Power, reduces MP Cost and Cooldown when used. Frost Roads no longer appear while moving.
Glacial Cloud	Viessa	Cerulean	Blizzard conversion: Launches a projectile that creates a blizzard where it lands.
Hypothermy	Viessa	Cerulean	Skill now applies Ice Needle instead of Ice Shackle. At a certain stack count, triggers passive skills. Ice Needle: Deals increasing continuous damage as stacks accumulate.

The First Descendant Viessa build: What are the Best Modules to use?

The best build for the Cold Blooded Hunter (Image via NEXON)

Hypothermy – Ice Needle replaces Ice Shackle. It deals continuous damage that increases with each stack (up to 5) but doesn't slow enemies.
Nimble Fingers – Decreases Skill Cooldowns.
Skill Extension – Lengthens Skill Durations.
Skill Expansion – Greatly enlarges Skill Effect Range.
Chill Specialist – Enhances Chill Skill power.
Non-Attribute Master – Greatly increases overall Skill Power, with an additional smaller boost to Non-Attribute Skill Power.
Dual Claws – Use Dual Claws for Sub Attack. Increases Max Module Capacity.
Entropy Acceleration – Moderately improves Max MP and Skill Critical Hit Damage.
Energy Collection – Drain MP from enemies.
MP Accelerant – Moderately increases Skill Duration and Max MP.
Skill Range Mastery – Boosts Skill Critical Hit Damage and slightly increases Skill Effect Range.
HP Concentration – Boosts Max HP and Skill Critical Hit Rate.

Viessa mainly depends on her skills to be effective on the battlefield. That’s why the best modules for her focus on reducing the cooldown of her skills as well as increasing the potential of her ice-based abilities. Due to her high MP consumption, it’s a good idea to equip some MP regeneration modules as hell as HP boost so she can stay longer in the field providing support to her allies.

Keep in mind, that the Hypothermy will replace the Ice Shackles skills with Ice needles which will turn Viessa from a debuffer to a DPS class. So, equip if you want to play her as a DPS.

Reactors

Viessa has two tech skills and three fusion skills, which is why the best reactors for Viessa are the ones that boost chill and fusion skills.

External Components to use on Viessa

The best components to use on Viessa are:

Max Shields
Max HP
HP Recovery
DEF

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Edited by Srijan Sen