The First Descendant: Best Blair Build Guide

Discover the Best Blair Build Guide for The First Descendant and how to create a powerful character with Skills, modules, and weapons.

Creating an effective build in The First Descendant involves carefully selecting and optimizing various components of your character, including modules, reactor stats, weapons, weapon mods, and skills. We will focus on optimizing your skill power and survivability for a Blair build. Let us walk you through creating the best Blair Build in the First Descendant with our guide below.

This guide has been updated for Season 1, Hotfix 1.1.0 of the First Descendant.

Best Blair Build Guide for The First Descendant

Blair is a damage-over-time (DOT) character who can maximize critical hit damage through his passives and abilities. As a flame-based character, his playstyle resembles that of a wizard with a gun. However, Blair’s potential damage output is generally lower than other descendants, especially in a game that prioritizes DPS and quickly defeats enemy bosses.

To build Blair effectively, focus on maximizing the potential for critical hit damage through his passive skill, Pitmaster. Blair aims to apply the burning status effect, which increases his critical hit rate and damage. These bonuses stack, so the more burning targets there are, the greater the buff. However, Blair lacks survivability enhancements, so players must remain strategic and constantly aware of the battlefield to ensure success.

Blair Build Pro	Blair Build Cons
AOE Damage	Master of None
Critical Passive	Weak Mobility
Good Skills	Better DOT damage

Features and Mechanics for Blair Build in The First Descendant

The following list presents all the essential Blair Build Features and Mechanics for the First Descendant:

• Best Modules: Truly Deadly Cuisine, Focus on Fire
• Descendant Attribute: Fire
• Best Reactor: Burning Phase (Fire and Dimension)
• Best Weapon: Enduring Legacy
• Best Weapon Mods: Fire Enhancement, Concentration Priority
• Best External Component: 2x Volcanic, 2x Battle Aesthetics
• Skills
  • Blaze Up
  • Extinguish
  • Burn Taste
  • Deadly Cuisine
  • Pitmaster (Passive)
• Playstyle: Do damage the dealer in close range with fire.
• How to Unlock: Research or purchase in the store.
• Story: As the best chef in Albion who had prepared the final meal for many years, Blair possessed an incredible talent for cooking.

How to unlock Blair in The First Descendant

To unlock Blair in The First Descendant, you must either purchase him from the store, or research him. Moreover, if you choose to purchase Blair he will cost 600 Caliber, which is the premium currency. Otherwise, to craft Blair, you will need:

• Blair Enhanced Cells
  • Ceramic Composite x408
  • Hellion x303
  • Anode Ion Particle x26
  • Blair Enhanced Cell Blueprint
  • 200,000 Gold
• Blair Stabilizer
  • Compound Coating Material x239
  • Carbon Crystal x554
  • Crystal Biogel x39
  • Blair Stabilizer Blueprint x1
  • 200,000 Gold
• Blair Spiral Catalyst
  • Repton x422
  • Semiconstant Plasma x290
  • Balanced Plasma Battery x44
  • Blair Spiral Catalyst Blueprint x1
• Blair Code

Finally, in order to craft Blair you must speak to Anais in the Albion Mountains area. She will grant you access to the Research Institute, where you can choose to craft several additional descendant characters.

Blair’s Exclusive Equipment

Blair has an exclusive Arche called the Incendiary Pyric Release rather than having exclusive equipment. You can access it by clicking details in the Descendant menu and customizing the appearance of her suit. Below are the details on Blair’s Exclusive Arche:

“An Arche ability awakened when he was attacked by Colossus’ Fire. This ability releases ionized, high-temperature Arche gas through the veins of his fingers. The gas is ignited through a specially-made gloves that assist with the ignition when unleashing a fire attack on the enemy. The attack form can be adjusted according to the concentration of the ionized Arche gas, And because it is different from normal plasma, it is also effective against heat-proofed Vulgus.”

Best Skill for Blair

Deadly Cuisine is Blair’s best skill because it has the most burst damage with passive damage over time effects and triggers Pitmaster passive. The Deadly Cuisine skill is your long cooldown, high MP cost damage skill that has a base range of 6 meters with smaller fireballs of 3.5 meters. Each fireball deals damage over time, scaling from skill power percentage. A Blair build wants to optimize for Fire and Dimension to maximize the burst potential from Deadly Cuisine.

At the end of the game, players will look to collect the Transcendant module Truly Deadly Cuisine. This increases the damage of the Giant Fireball and removes the smaller fireballs. This mod makes the best skill even more powerful and is used to burst down many bosses in the game. To optimize your best skill, increase skill power, skill critical hit rate, critical damage, fire, and Dimension. Moreover, look to burn a target and trigger Stoves and flame zones on the ground before activating to increase your critical with Pitmaster passive.

The premise behind Blair’s skills is inflicting the burning status effect and producing small burning zones called “stoves.” Retrieving these Stoves with the skill Extinguish is how you sustain MP and increase your DEF stat. Therefore, Blair’s combat gameplay loop applies burning DOT damage, collecting stoves for resources, and rotating through skills on cooldown to maintain high DPS. Below are all of Blair’s skills in The First Descendant and how to use them:

Blaze Up

Blaze Up Features in The First Descendant:

• Description: Spurts flame to deal damage to nearby enemies and creates Stove. Stove inflicts constant damage and Burn effect to nearby enemies.
• Descendant Attribute: Fire – Dimension
• Cooldown: 12 seconds
• MP Cost: 25
• Max Stacks: 3

How to Use Blaze Up: Blaze Up is a powerful damage attack with a low cooldown that inflicts a burning status effect and generates a Stove. You’ll want to use this when multiple mobs are together or to inflict burning or generate a stove. The radius is 3.5 meters, and the duration is 5 seconds of burning, so inflict early, then switch to weapon for damage while the enemy’s health bar is melted.

Extinguish

Extinguish Features in The First Descendant:

• Description: Retrieves Stoves in the battlefield and restores Mana. Retrieving Stoves increases DEF for a short period of time.
• Descendant Attribute: Fire – Singular
• Cooldown: 28 seconds

Aggressive Flavour (MP Recovery) Values

• MP Recovery Amount per Flame Zone: 19
• Firearm ATK Increase Amount: 10%
• Skill Power Increase Amount: 10%
• Duration: 10 seconds

How to Use Extinguish: this skill is your main resource sustain and DEF boost. You’ll want to use this when you see small flame spots on the ground called Stoves. Typically, you’ll want the stoves doing damage to enemies, but they are useful if low on resources or need damage reduction via the DEF stat. Moreover, the skill cooldown is longer, so use it conservatively. It is not necessary unless you need more MP or DEF.

Burn Taste

Burn Taste Features in The First Descendant:

• Description: Spurts flames forward. Enemies near the flames’ arrival point are inflicted with constant damage and Burn effect.
• Descendant Attribute: Fire – Dimension
• Basic Info: Values
• Cooldown: 30 seconds
• MP Cost: 35
• Continuous Damage: Skill Power x 121.8%
• Damage Interval: 0.3 seconds
• Duration: 4.5 seconds

The Burn Values

• Continuous Damage: Skill Power x 6.5%
• Damage Interval: 1 second
• Duration: 5 seconds

How to Use Burn Taste: this skill is the channeled skill that shoots out fire from your hand in front of you in an up-close range. The best way to utilize this in Blair build is to melt enemies and inflict the burning status effect, doing constant damage while you channel the ability. Either skill cancels Burn Taste, or you don’t use it until you are likely not taking any damage, so you don’t lock into a long animation.

Moreover, Burn Taste does not create Flame Zones and has a longer cooldown. While the skill looks cool and the damage can be substantial, this won’t feed your resource sustain and defensive play loop with Stoves. However, this skill can be great for single target or AOE applications if you aren’t taking damage when channeling.

Deadly Cuisine

Deadly Cuisine Features in The First Descendant:

• Description: Throws a large fireball forward. Large fireball splits into small fireballs causing extra explosion. Explosion damage inflicts Burn effect and creates Stove on the ground.  Stove deals constant damage to nearby enemies and inflicts them with Burn effect.
• Descendant Attribute: Fire – Dimension
• Cooldown: 120 seconds
• MP Cost: 60

How to Use Deadly Cuisine: this skill acts as your “ultimate” ability with a long cooldown, a giant fireball, and three smaller fireballs, all dealing damage and triggering burn and flame zones. Deadly Cuisine is so powerful that it has one of the longest cooldowns of any skill in the game and should be used to burn down bosses or large mob fights.

Deadly Cuisine synergies well with the Pitmaster passive, rewarding you for extra critical chance and damage based on the flame zones on the ground. Up to 3 activate at a time can reward you with ultra-high damage, thus you can rotate between Deadly Cuisine and Blaze up to keep your passive bonus active.

Pitmaster (Passive)

Pitmaster Features in The First Descendant:

• Description: Critical Hit Damage increases when attacking enemies in Burn state. Critical Hit Chance increases depending on the number of Stoves in battlefield.
• Descendant Attribute: Fire
• Critical Damage Increase: 10%
• Critical Chance Increase from 1 Flame Zone: 5%
• Critical Chance Increase from 2 Flame Zones: 9%
• Critical Chance Increase from 3 Flame Zones: 14%

How to Use Pitmaster: this passive rewards you for attacking burning (burn) status effect enemies and creating flame zones. The bonuses stack, so you can have three flame zones and a burning enemy to trigger a high critical chance and critical damage bonus. This passive is the key to making Blair do incredible DOT damage and melt enemies with fire.

To trigger burn and flame zone, use Blaze Up as often as possible because it triggers both Flame Zones and Burn status effect.

How to play Blair in The First Descendant

The best way to play Blair in The First Descendant is to focus on applying Burn and creating Flame Zones to maximize your Critical Hit Rate and Critical Hit Damage. Critical Hit damage increases when you inflict Burn, while your Critical Hit Rate increases with the number of Flame Zones you create. Mastering Blair requires practice and skillful play in various situations.

Area Damage and Single-Target Damage: Blair’s abilities are geared more towards area-of-effect damage than single targets. Start combat by creating a fiery explosion within a four-meter radius using Blaze Up. For single-target damage, use Burn Taste to deal fire damage and focus on one target. For optimal AOE damage, stack Burn up to three times before using Deadly Cuisine, though it has a significant cooldown.

Movement and Speed: Blair has average speed in The First Descendant and none of his abilities increase his movement speed. While he isn’t slow, players who prefer fast and nimble characters might find Blair less appealing.

Bosses and Ultimates: When fighting bosses, keep stacks of Burn consistently applied. Rotate between Blaze Up and Burn Taste, and use Extinguish when low on MP or in need of a defensive boost. For burst damage during critical phases, consume Burn stacks with Deadly Cuisine. Manage your cooldowns carefully, primarily using Blaze Up due to its frequent availability.

Defenses and Survival Tips: Blair lacks direct defensive skills, so his best defense is a strong offense. He has a skill that helps replenish MP, which can be useful in tight situations or when you need to reset your attack strategy. While this comes at the cost of some damage, it provides a valuable tool for survival.

Descendant Modules for Blair Build

Truly Deadly Cuisine, Focus on Dimension, and Focus on Fire are the best modules (mods) for a Blair Build in the First Descendant because they increase your best skill, Deadly Cuisine. Dimension and Fire are both attributes used for your burst fireball, and the Truly Deadly Cuisine Transcendent module further increases the overall damage. Thus, you gain the most burst and boss-killing potential with these three modules.

In The First Descendant, modules are essential components that enhance and customize your character’s abilities, stats, and overall performance. Modules can be acquired through questing, missions, loot drops, and vendor items. Moreover, you have limited resources to slot mods; some slots may be empty depending on your chosen setup using the best Blair Build Guide for the First Descendant.

Blair Best Modules for Leveling

Below is a list of the best leveling mods for Blair Build Guide in the First Descendant:

• Increase HP: Max HP 22%.
• Skill Extension: Skill duration +9%
• Focus on Fire: fire skill power +19%, skill cooldown -6.1%
• Dual Claw: Increases Module Capacity, and changes your Sub Attack to a dual claw attack.
• Nimble Fingers – Skill Cooldown -6%
• Skill Expansion – Skill Effect Range +20%
• Focus on Dimension – Dimension Skill Power Modifier +X%, Skill Cooldown -X%
• Increased DEF – DEF +16%

Slot	Module	Quality
1 (Skill Module)	Empty	NA
2	Increase HP	Standard
3	Skill Extension	Standard
4	Focus on Fire	Rare
5	Empty	NA
6	Increased DEF	Standard
7 (Sub Module)	Dual Claw	Standard
8	Nimble Fingers	Standard
9	Skill Expansion	Standard
10	Focus on Dimension	Rare
11	Empty	Standard
12	Empty	Standard

Blair Best Modules

Below is a list of the best mods for Blair Build in the First Descendant:

• Truly Deadly Cuisine: Significantly increase the damage of Giant Fireball. When a Giant Fireball explodes, small fireballs and flame zones do not spawn.
• Increase HP: Max HP 22%.
• Skill Extension: Skill duration +9%
• Focus on Fire: fire skill power +19%, skill cooldown -6.1%
• Skill Expansion: Skill Effect Range +20%
• MP Conversion: Skill Cooldown -9%, Max MP -4%
• Mid-Air Maneuvering: Modifies the Grappling  Hook to cast mid-air. Increase module capacity as you level up.
• Nimble Fingers: Skill Cooldown -6%.
• Battle of Stamina: Max HP +12%, Skill Duration +8.8%
• Focus on Dimension: Dimension skill power modifier +17%, skill cooldown -6.1%
• MP Accelerant: skill duration +5%, max mp +3.7%
• Amplification Control: Skill Effect Range +13%, Max Shield +9%.

Slot	Module	Quality
1 (Skill Module)	Truly Deadly Cuisine	Transcendant
2	Increase HP	Standard
3	Skill Extension	Standard
4	Focus on Fire	Rare
5	Skill Expansion	Standard
6	MP Conversion	Rare
7 (Sub Module)	Mid-Air Maneuvering	Ultimate
8	Nimble Fingers	Standard
9	Battle of Stamina	Rare
10	Focus on Dimension	Rare
11	MP Accelerant	Rare
12	Amplification Control	Rare

Best Reactor Stats for Blair in The First Descendant

Burning Phase is the best reactor for a Blair build in the First Descendant because it boosts your Fire and Dimension skills.  Fire is your descendant attribute and Dimension increases Extinguish, Burn Taste, and Deadly Cuisine.  The second choice is Burning Singularity, which buffs the Fire and Singularity type and is an effective extinguishing skill.  Below is our recommendation for the best Blair reactors:

1. Optimization Condition: Enduring Legacy (Machine Gun)
2. Skill Power Boost Ratio
   • Burning Phase: Boost to Fire and Dimension type
   • Burning Singularity: Boost to Fire and Singular type
3. Bonus Conditions: Fire power boost ratio and Skill critical hit rate

In The First Descendant, reactors are powerful enhancements significantly impacting a character’s abilities, stats, and overall performance. Each reactor comes with an “optimal condition,” which requires a specific weapon type to be equipped to activate. Therefore, this should be your primary weapon for the build. They function as core components that provide substantial boosts and unique effects, enabling players to tailor their characters to specific playstyles and strategies.

Weapons for Blair Build

Enduring Legacy is the best weapon for an Blair build because the machine gun does incredible damage and debuffs targets, triggering more status effects. Thus, this weapon increases your damage and everyone attacks the boss. Three alternatives are Tamer for bosses, Python for a debuff weapon, or Thunder Cage for mob clear. Your secondary weapon should be Greg’s Reverse Fate for medium range burst damage with bombardment. For range damage, use the Afterglow Sword Sniper Rifle for weak point damage.

The following list presents the best weapon choices for Blair Build:

• Enduring Legacy – Machine Gun
• Greg’s Reversed Fate – Tactical Rifle
• Afterglow Sword – Sniper Rifle

Enduring Legacy

Enduring Legacy features in the First Descendant:

• Firearm ATK: 28
• Fire Rate: 571
• Reload Speed: 2.7 seconds
• Effective Range: 35 meters

The strength of the Enduring Legacy is triggering an extra status effect with the Craftsmanship Perk. Additionally, Enduring Legacy will do more damage than the Tamer, which is a good alternative—another alternative if the Python submachine gun or Thunder Cage.

Greg’s Reversed Fate

Greg’s Reversed Fate features in the First Descendant:

• Firearm ATK: 33
• Fire Rate: 342
• Reload Speed: 1.4 seconds
• Effective Range: 55 meters

The tactical rifle Greg’s Reserved Fate is best for burst AOE damage with Bombardment at medium range. The AOE damage explodes and causes burn damage. Below are the recommended mods for Greg’s Reversed Fate:

• Fire Rate Up: Fire Rate +6%
• Better Insight: Firearm Critical Hit Rate +10%
• Better Concentration: Firearm Critical Hit Damage +8%
• Concentration Priority: Firearm Critical Hit Damage +8%, Reload Time Modifier -8%
• Action and Reaction – Firearm ATK +15%, Recoil +5%
• Rifling Reinforcement – Explosive ATK +12%.
• Weak Point Sight: Weak point damage +10%, Accuracy -5%
• Edging Shot: Firearm critical hit rate +11%, firearm ATK -4%
• Spray and Pray: When landing a firearm critical hit, rounds are not consumed for 3 second (25 second cooldown)

Afterglow Sword

Afterglow Sword features in the First Descendant:

• Firearm ATK: 240
• Fire Rate: 66
• Reload Speed: 2.5 seconds
• Effective Range: 55 meters
• Nightmare Reaper: on hitting an enemy’s weak point, inflicts the unique ability death propagation. On hitting an enemy commander or collossi, increase firearm critical hit rate and apply the effect to the attack.

The Afterglow Sword Sniper Rifle is the best choice for ranged precision weak point damage. Once you trigger Death Propagation, you gain increased reload and damage on weak points. Use this weapon for ranged headshots if possible. Below are the recommended mods for the Afterglow Sword Sniper Rifle:

• Special Sight – Movement Speed when Aiming -8%, Weak Point DMG when Aiming +8%
• Action and Reaction – Firearm ATK +15%, Recoil +5%
• Rifling Reinforcement – Explosive ATK +12%
• Better Insight – Firearm Critical Hit Rate +10%
• Edging Shot – Firearm Critical Hit Rate +8%, Firearm ATK -4%
• Better Concentration – Firearm Critical Hit Damage +19%
• Concentration Priority – Firearm Critical Hit Damage +30%, Reload Time Modifier -8%
• Fire Rate Concentration – Fire Rate +8%, Firearm Critical Hit Damage +6.5%
• Focus Fire – Weak Point Damage +8%, Firearm Critical Hit Damage +6.5%
• Weak Point Sight – Weak Point Damage +9%

External Component

Volcanic and Battle Aesthetics are the best external component sets because they boost fire skill power and skill critical hit rate. You can also run a four-piece Battle Aesthetics or a two-piece Tomb Raider instead of Volcanic Auxiliary. Regarding stats, prioritize Max HP, DEF, and elemental resistance like Toxic, Chill, Fire, or Electric Resistance. Below are the best External Component bonuses to prioritize for the Blair Build guide in the First Descendant:

First Bonus:

1. HP
2. DEF
3. Shields

Second Bonus

1. Max Resource (HP, MP, DEF, Shields)
2. Elemental resistance (fire, chill, electric, toxic)

Auxiliary Power	Sensor	Memory	Processor
First Bonus Priority	First Bonus Priority	First Bonus Priority	First Bonus Priority
HP DEF Shields	HP DEF Shields	HP DEF Shields	HP DEF Shields
Second Bonus Priority	Second Bonus Priority	Second Bonus Priority	Second Bonus Priority
Max HP Fire Resistance	Max MP Chill Resistance	DEF Electric Resistance	Max Shields Toxin Resistance

Recent Updates and Changes for Blair Build

The biggest change and update to Blair during Season One is the addition of Invasions and Inversion Reinforcement. Blair is functional in the new Invasion content but is slower than the better Descendants. Players are rewarded for completion time and materials used for the newest Descendant Hailey. What you should know is to work towards unlocking the Inversion and completing Invasions to progress this new piece of equipment.

Blair Story in the First Descendant

Fresh vegetables, toast free of sawdust, savory and thick soup, and a juicy, processed meat steak that has been perfectly matured and grilled. Such a meal would be considered excessive even during a festive period for the desperate members of humanity, but whenever this menu appeared at the mess hall, the troops were unable to hide their gloom. Known as ‘The Last Supper’, it was a part of a military tradition where soldiers were fed this meal just before a dangerous operation.

As the best chef in Albion who had prepared the final meal for many years, Blair possessed an incredible talent for cooking which had even exempted him from conscription, but he no longer wished to cook for the military. After all, did his best cooking have any meaning for those who ate it with a heavy heart? Instead, Blair always wanted to be able to cook delicious meals for the troops who may be having their final meal on any given day, and he had a promising plan to realize this desire. If he could find and open the hyper-cold ingredients vault that had been designed a century ago, during humanity’s golden age, his plan would no longer be unachievable.

Blair Story Continued 

However, one day, there was an incident during which a Colossus had appeared above the ingredients vault which the Recon Squad had painstakingly discovered. After a failed Intercept Battle, the Colossus landed in Ingris and the nearby area was bathed in an infernal blaze… Hearing this, Blair followed the Descendants who had been deployed, only to find that the vault door had been twisted beyond imagination by the scorching heat and the ingredients within withering away in the flames. Stunned at this sight, Blair failed to realize that he had become the next target of the Colossus. Blair was engulfed in the flames that the Colossus spewed towards him, leading the Descendants present at the scene to believe this to be the end of Blair. It seemed that Albion’s greatest chef, full of dreams and romance, had met his demise.

However, their predictions would soon be proven wrong. A grappling hook shot out from the flames and lodged itself in the Colossus’s weak point, and Blair flew forward, bombarding the weak point with the fire emanating from both of his hands, and thus defeating the Colossus. In his moment of crisis, he had awakened as a Descendant.

After this, Blair found himself facing two choices: become a soldier as a Descendant, or remain a chef and continue to cook ‘The Last Supper’. Blair made the decision to become a Descendant. The reason: If he became a Descendant and incinerated all of the Vulgus, then ‘The Last Supper’ would no longer need to be cooked.

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