Sharen is the main stealth character inThe First Descendant. She is a master of striking from the shadows with a hard-hitting sniper rifle or a flurry of blades. While she is frequently regarded as a weak character compared to other Descendants, that doesn’t mean she is a bad character.

She is currently the only character who can consistently complete Recon missions without being detected, greatly increasing mission rewards. Sharen can also solo most Void Intercept bosses in 60 seconds or less through the use of a powerful Active Camouflage build. Today, we’ll show you how to leverage these strengths to create the strongest Sharen builds possible with minimal investment.

The First Descendant Sharen Parts

How To Unlock Sharen

Sharen’s parts are obtained fromNormal difficulty dungeons found in Agna Desert and Echo Swamp.As with most early-game Descendants, all of Sharen’s parts come pre-built with no research requirements. Once the part drops, you’re done. Simply get all four of Sharen’s parts to start researching her.All of her parts have a 20% drop rate.

Sharen Abilities Explained

Passive

Assassinator is all about letting Sharen activate her second ability, Active Camouflage, as quickly as possible.After you decloak, if you land a kill with the subsequent Ambush buff, you’ll reset Active Camouflage’s cooldown.This can only happen once every 45 seconds, which can be reduced with Cooldown Reduction modifiers.

Additionally,Sharen passively deals 15% more damage to targets not currently targeting her.This ensures that her single-target DPS remains competitive in group content like Void Intercept missions. This buff stacks multiplicatively with other damage sources.

First Descendant Sharen Login Screen

Cutoff Beam

Swipes targets with an electric blade, dealing damage and Electrocution status to struck targets.

27 MP

First Descendant Sharen Passive

4.4m x 6.0m

Skill Power x 114.7% as Electric

First Descendant Sharen Fourth Ability

Affects electric debuff duration

Affects slash size

First Descendant Sharen Second Ability

Affects MP cost

Affects slash damage

Sharen wields one of her shortswords and slashes it in a wide arc, damaging all enemies caught in the arc. Each enemy hit is also inflicted withElectrocution, a status ailment that deals passive damage over time. you may extend this debuff with Skill Duration, although it’s somewhat wasted on this skill alone. You’re better off scalingRangeandPowerto make it a stronger skill for slaying fodder enemies.

First Descendant Sharen Third Ability

Active Camouflage

Sharen cloaks herself, hiding from enemy sight. Attacking an enemy while in this state ends Active Camouflage, granting Ambush for your next attack.

15 MP

First Descendant Sharen First Ability

Affects cloak duration

N/A

Active Camouflage is Sharen’s bread-and-butter skill.After a short delay, you will become invisible and impossible to track for enemy targets.This allows you to reposition without drawing enemy attention. you may even bump into enemies without drawing their aggro. You can move around and use your grappling hook while in this state, but dealing damage in any form will immediately end this ability.

Void Recon Hacking

While Active Camouflage is active, you gain the ability to hack generators found in Recon missions. Disabling the generators this way allows you to earn an additional reward, including exclusive Amorphous Materialsand Shape Stabilizers.

As of launch, Sharen is the only character in the game who can do this.

First Descendant Sharen Floating Beside Ten Daggers

When Active Camouflage ends, you will gainAmbushfor your next attack.Your next source of damage will be doubled, which affects abilities and weapons alike. You ideally want to cloak, aim for the target’s weakpoint, then use a high-damage weapon like a sniper rifle to dish out some absurd damage.Killing an enemy with Ambush active will reset this ability’s cooldownvia Sharen’s passive, although this effect has a lengthy cooldown.

Ambush itself can’t be modded for, although you may buff the cloak’s duration withSkill Durationto give yourself more time. We highly recommend youspec for Cooldown Reduction modulesif you plan on maximizing this skill. The shorter the cooldown, the more often you can trigger Ambush to skyrocket your burst DPS.

First Descendant Sharen One Tap Build

20 MP

Affects stun duration

First Descendant Sharen Stealth Build

Affects blast radius

Shock Nuts is easily the worst skill in the game and something you’ll seldom use. This skill fires a small projectile that detonates after it travels a short distance, inflicting Stun on everything caught in the blast radius. This stun lasts for a moderate duration, but the blast radius is pitiful and can’t be extended past 200% Skill Range. Since you can go invisible at will,this skill is almost never useful.

With that said, you’re able to convert Shock Nuts intoBattlesuit Melting Roundsthrough an augment mod. This turns the projectile into a persistent field that strips enemy defenses, an effect you can stack multiple times. If you can get your hands on this augment, we highly recommend using it until you unlock Sharen’s endgame augment for Active Camouflage.

Flash Shortsword

Target up to ten enemies to launch shortswords at. Each enemy hit receives Burst damage and is inflicted with Electrocution. Canceling the ability will reset its cooldown.

40 MP

10 Shortswords (unmoddable)

Skill Power x 222.9% per sword

Affects ability damage

Flash Shortsword plants Sharen in place and surrounds her with ten energy blades that act as projectiles. A targeting HUD will appear that will mark enemy targets within your line of sight. Once you’ve tagged enough enemies, press the fire input to launch all the swords from your location.

Tagged enemies will have a maximum of three blades strike them as well. Try to aim near your feet or into a tight cluster of enemies to deal maximum damage.you’re able to’t move while aiming the ultimate, so consider activating Active Camouflage before using it.

Ambush doubles the damage of Flash Shortsword.

This skill deals immense burst DPS when used properly, but activating and firing this ability can take a few seconds. Be sure you’re safe before using it. Spec forSkill PowerandSkill Rangeto get the most out of Flash Shortsword.

How To Play Sharen

Sharen is an assassin, ahit-and-run characterwho strikes from the shadows. Playing her as anything else is highly discouraged or suboptimal for the tools she has available. Your core skill isActive Camouflage, which should be active every chance you get.This triggers the absurdly powerful Ambush buff as well as your passive.

Since you only get one hit with Ambush, you’d best make it count.Sniper Rifles are ideal for Sharen, especially ones with high critical stats like Forest Gaze and Afterglow Sword. If you build your sniper rifle for critical strikes and weakpoint damage, you can deal millions of damage in asingleshot.Spec Sharen for Cooldown Reduction modifiers, and she can consistently millions of DPS.Use your ultimate to clear crowds; avoid the rest of her kit.

Ideal Stats

CDR, HP

This build effectively turns Sharen into aMass EffectInfiltrator.We scale cooldown reduction (CDR) as much as possible to spam Active Camouflage.There is a hard CDR cap of 90% for every Descendant in the game, but thanks toMultitalented, we can hit this rather easily.

Casting a Dimension skill will give you 20% CDR. Active Camouflage is a Dimension skill, so you can easily maintain this buff. We then useNimble Fingersfor 25.6% CDR andMP Conversionfor 36.5% CDR. This totals up to 82.1% cooldown reduction.Get CDR as an affix on your reactor, and you should hit the 90% CDR cap, reducing Active Camouflage’s cooldown to a measly two seconds. In other words, you can spam it.

The only thing left to install isIncreased HPto improve Sharen’s health pool. If you get any more capacity on her, throw onIncreased DEFand any Skill Power mods to enhance her survivability and other abilities. Finally,give Sharen a good sniper rifleif you plan ontaking this into endgame content. Forest Gaze is a purple-rarity sniper you can find quite easily. Once you hit Mastery Rank 15, craft Afterglow Sword for some jaw-dropping DPS.

Duration, CDR, HP

This build is tailored forRecon missions in patrol content. Without any endgame investment, you’ll only be able to comfortably do Normal difficulty missions, although Hard mode should be fine if you run a decent sniper.

All you need isSkill Duration and CDR.We useSkill ExtensionandMaximize Durationto make Active Camouflage’s duration roughly 18 seconds. We then useTime Distributionfor a little CDR. Throw onIncreased HPto complete the build. It’s by no means a great build for damage, but it gives you more than enough time to hack every generator in a Recon mission with a few seconds to spare.