The First Descendant: Sharen Build Guide

There are over 15 different Descendants to unlock in The First Descendant. Among them, Sharen is one of the most versatile Descendants with unique skills that make her a great pick for both PvE and Void Intercept battles.

While it can be easy to get started with Sharen, you can often find yourself struggling in later stages on Hard difficulty against end-game enemies if you haven’t built her properly. So, to help you avoid such situations, here’s a complete breakdown of everything you need to know about Sharen in The First Descendant and the optimal way to build her.

How To Unlock Sharen In The First Descendant

If you haven’t unlocked Sharen in The First Descendant, you can do so by either purchasing her from the in-game store or researching her from Magister Anais at the Research Institute. If you want to unlock her via research Sharen, then you’ll first have to collect the following items:

• 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
• 400,000 Credits

Once you have gathered all the materials, you can start her research through the Institute at Albion, which will take around 16 hours to complete.

If you want to avoid the grind, you can also directly purchase this Descendant for
600 caliber from the store.

How To Play Sharen In The First Descendant

Sharen is a must-have character if you like playing stealthy thanks to her unique Active Camouflage skill, which grants her invisibility and amplifies her damage in ambushes. This skill makes her the ideal choice for infiltrating outposts and taking down elite Vulguses without being detected.

If you’re using her for Infiltration challenges, especially in Hard difficulty, be sure to use Sharen’s invisibility to bypass enemy defenses and eliminate elite Vulguses and objectives. Her ambush mechanics reset the Active Camouflage cooldown after each successful kill, making it much easier to clear most modes that don’t have hordes of enemies.

With her cloak skill that almost doubles her damage, Sharen can shred through bosses like the Colossus and most Elite Vulguses with a maxed-out sniper rifle. Try to prioritize hitting the enemy’s weak points to get the most DPS, and finish most bosses within a few minutes.

While not her strongest suit, you can equip AoE weapons like launchers on Sharen to manage crowd control. This is useful when farming resources.

Best Sharen Build in The First Descendant

If you’ve got Sharen unlocked, and know how to use her skill combinations, then you should start building her with the appropriate components to make sure she can be useful even in the late game. Overall, Sharen excels against single target units like in Void Intercept battles, so your focus should be on increasing her burst damage, Crit rate and damage.

Best Sharen Modules

Modules are essential to increasing the skill effectiveness of Sharen and making her viable in harder difficulty levels. Below is a breakdown of the ideal modules for different builds:

• Overcharged Edge Module: Converts MP cost to Shield for Sharen’s second skill. This is an exclusive module for Sharen, and is an absolute must to provide her much-needed survivability. It also increases ambush damage by 150%, with an additional 50% boost when consuming enough Shield.
• Energy Amplification Module: Reduces cooldowns for Sharen’s invisibility skill, making her more useful, and also improves her overall DPS.
• Shield Capacity Module: Boosts survivability even more, especially for builds relying on Overcharged Edge. Increases Sharen’s overall endurance to help her survive most boss fights.
• Crit Damage Enhancer: Increases the sniper rifle damage when targeting weak points during boss fights. This is an essential module especially if you plan on using Sharen primarily for clearing boss fights.

Best Sharen Weapon

A sniper rifle is the ideal weapon of choice for Sharen, as it synergizes perfectly with her cloak skill. When cloaked, sniper shots deal double damage, making it essential for taking down bosses and Elite Vulguses. Here are the top weapon choices you should consider:

Phantom Edge (Sniper Rifle): The best choice for Sharen because of it’s high base damage and excellent crit scaling. If you’ve got the ideal build, Sharen with Phantom Edge is the best combination for any boss fight.

Ardent Fang (Sniper Rifle): Incase you don’t have Phantom Edge, your next alternative should be Ardent Fang. It provides innate cooldown reduction, helping with Sharen’s invisibility skill and is an overall balanced sniper rifle.

Guardian R4 (Launcher): Effective against large waves of Vulguses, and insane burst damage potential. If you plan on going farming with Sharen, this is your go-to weapon.

You can also
equip high DPS assault rifles
as a mixture of both AoE and burst damage, like Divine Punishment or SMGs like Thunder Cage that compliment her skill set.

Best Sharen Weapon Modules

If you want to further bolster Sharen’s DPS and deal additional damage, you can equip the following modules on your weapons in The First Descendant:

• Electric Enhancement: Adds additional electric attack type damage to your weapon. Especially useful for assault rifles and SMG picks, and against Void Intercept bosses.
• Weak Point Sight: Increases damage dealt to weak points, the best choice if you’re using Sniper Rifles.
• Marksman: Increases your weapon’s Crit Rate and Firearm ATK by a flat 10 percent, providing a significant DPS boost

Best Sharen Reactors

Reactors are essential components, especially for Descendant’s that are reliant on their skill damage. This is also the case for Sharen, as most of her DPS comes from her main skills. To ensure that you can maximize your skill damage, your best reactor choice would be:

• Tingling Mixture Reactor: The Tingling Mixture Reactor boosts Sharen’s electric-type skill damage, making her skill damage skyrocket significantly, especially if you’ve got a maxed out level 100 Reactor.

Be sure to prioritize Cooldown Reduction and increased Skill Duration modifiers on your reactor to ensure that you get the most optimal build. Skill Damage boost and Skill Power boost modifiers are also good alternatives.