Summary
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Hailey’s skills focus on gunplay and chill damage, making her a more firearm-focused Descendant than Lepic.
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Hailey’s abilities, like Cryo Round and Storm Snare, will cause Cryo to deal direct and long damage to enemies.
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Cold Fury will slow Hailey but increase the critical hit rate and penetration of her firearms.
Season 1 of The first descent Will be launched on August 29, 2024, and it will arrive with a bang. A brand new descendant, Hailey, will be launched on the same day. Fans have been theorizing about her abilities since she was first teased, but Nexon has finally released concrete information about her skills.
Much like Viessa First descendant Build, Hailey’s skills will focus on inflicting chill damage. Unlike Wiesa, however, Hailey’s abilities are more focused around guns, which makes sense given her sniper background. Some of ​​these abilities seem similar in function to the skills of other descendants, so teaching Hailey should hopefully be relatively simple.
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Hailey’s Cryo Round will make Sharen jealous
Causing direct and lingering damage
Hailey’s first skill is Cryo Round, which automatically fires small ice-covered bullets at enemies. This ability looks similar to Iron Man’s automated defense system, complete with a shoulder strike and rapid targeting of enemies. In fact, it will also be similar to Sharen’s flash shortsword skill, although it won’t require the same windup time to be effective.
Cryo Round will also cause Cryo, a debilitating status effect unique to Hailey.
In addition to its direct damage, Cryo Round will also inflict Cryo, a debilitating status effect unique to Hailey. This effect will deal lingering damage to enemies based on Hailey’s firearm attack stat. Its presence in Hailey’s kit will also mean that she will be more firearm-focused The first descent Character like glue.
Storm Snare combines Ajax’s Expulsion and Viessa’s Cold Snap
Angular shot and expulsion effect
Hailey’s second skill is Storm Snar, an ability that turns her anti-material gun into its cannon configuration for massive damage. The beam will fire in a rectangle in front of Hailey, acting like Viessa’s Cold Snap with a longer range. Similarly to her Cryo Round ability, Storm Snare will also inflict Cryo on enemies affected by the beam.
Storm Snar will also cause cryo on enemies affected by the beam.
While the cannon shot is the more visually spectacular part of the attack, Storm Snare has another element. Using it will also unleash an AOE effect around Hailey, which does The additional benefit of pushing enemies away from you before firing off the cannon shot. This is similar to Ajax’s expulsion ability, which inflicts damage and knocks enemies back. Hailey’s blast will also apply cryo to enemies, so even Vulgus who are behind her will feel the pain.
Cold fury will be the opposite of Viessa’s frost path
Become slower to boost skills and firearms
Viessa’s Frost Road ability increases her movement speed and leaves a trail of ice behind her, though a Transcendent module reduces MP cost and cooldowns at the cost of the trail. In some ways, Hailey’s Cold Fury ability will be the opposite of that. Instead of increasing movement speed, Hayley will actually become slower. Also, rather than just boosting her skills, Cold Fury will improve the critical hit rate and penetration of her firearms.
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Cold Fury also increases the critical hit rate for Hailey’s skills. This makes it a good idea to Use Cold Fury as a setup for Hailey’s other damaging abilitiesLike Storm Snar and Cryo Round. Depending on whether your cryo effect can cause critical hits, this can also result in even more powerful lingering damage.
Zenith is the perfect ability to take on Colossi
Huge damage and MP recovery
The final ability Hailey will unlock is Zenith. This allows you to use your massive anti-materiel rifle as a sniper rifle For massive damage. While damage output is great, this gun’s shots will also recover Hailey’s MP when she strikes weak points, giving her an MP recovery option that doesn’t rely on killing lesser enemies.
Combine Zenith’s weak point bonuses with its increased firearm attack and penetration, and you’ve got the perfect colossi-slaying weapon. While it may not one-shot their weak points, it will still be ideal to keep Hailey in the fight longer. This ability can also be exceptionally useful when The new colossus, Death Stalker, joins The first descent On October 10, 2024.