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A complete guide on how to play as a Gley character in The First Descendant, including her class skills, role, and everything you should know.
Gley Character (Class) Overview
Gley is a high-risk, high-reward character, that has a very high damage ceiling that will be entirely dependent on the player’s skill to reach. Moreover, her skills often provide you with two options: prioritize damage or prioritize survivability. Therefore, Gley can be incredibly strong, but she’s also not a fragile glass cannon.
Gley Character (Class) Features in The First Descendant:
- Role: Utility Dealer
- Feature: Gley does not spare herself. The more she consumes herself, the stronger she gets.
- Battle Concept: She uses the rage deep inside to quickly defeat enemies. She has to get used to the phrase “High risk, high return.”
- Pros: Strong boss damage and Berserk mode
- Cons: Complexity
- Passive Skill: Thirst
- Active Skills: Frenzied, Life Siphon, Increased Sensory
- Ultimate Ability: Massacre
- How to Unlock: Can be purchased or crafted
Characters take the place of classes in The First Descendant, and each possesses unique skills, passives, and ultimate abilities. At the start of the game, you’ll have to choose a single starting Descendant to play with. However, as you progress, you can unlock more characters by researching and crafting them.
The First Descendant class system is similar to games like Destiny 2 and Warframe. First, you will have three standard abilities with cooldowns based on their power. Additionally, you can also use multiple guns and accessories to develop your build. Finally, each class has its pros and cons and optimal usage. In this First Descendant guide, we will describe how to play the Gley character, how to unlock her, and who would enjoy this class playstyle.
Should you play Gley in The First Descendant?
You should play Gley if you enjoy gunplay builds with high risk and high reward. Unlike others, Gley’s skill revolves around boosting her weapon damage and recovery by taking her own HP. Gley’s playstyle will greatly appeal to any player who loves to strive for top DPS and challenge themselves with complex rotations and gameplay.
Moreover, Gley may also be interested in other players who would like to try for higher DPS rates, but also like to have access to the defensive versions of her abilities as a backup. Additionally, unlike other Descendants that have elemental-like abilities, Gley’s Arche focuses on herself and can send her into a berserk-like state. Therefore, much of her attack power will rely heavily on her equipped weapon and ammo.
Who is Gley? – Story
Gley was the captain of the Albion’s Medical Corps and gave everything she had to her work. Furthermore, she had lost her entire family on the battlefield and was determined to see that her daughter, Dia Elias, did not suffer the same fate. Dia proved just as stubborn as her mother, however, and asked Commander Ajax for a military recommendation letter. Despite Gley’s angry disapproval he agreed, and Dia joined the army.
However, later on, when mother and daughter were deployed to the same battlefield they suffered tragedy when both were captured during a Vespers strike operation. Both were captured by the Vulgus and subjected to horrible experiments performed by the Order of Truth, which injected Vulgus DNA into their bodies.
In her helpless anger Gley lost consciousness one day, and when she awoke found the medical bay destroyed and her daughter nowhere to be found. Without a body to prove whether Dia was alive or not, Gley holds on to hope and presses forward, seeking to reunite with her beloved daughter.
How to Play Gley – Character Gameplay
An effective Gley build will be heavily dependent on three things: equipped weapon, character modules, and player skill. Gley’s gameplay revolves around absorbing life spheres from defeated enemies, which boosts her overall power. Additionally, by consuming health (HP), she can activate a Frenzied mode to significantly increase her damage output. Consequently, this creates a strategic balance between gathering life spheres and judiciously using HP to maximize damage potential when it’s safe to do so.
Area Damage and Single-Target Damage: As mentioned above, Gley’s damage is more strongly tied to her weapon than it is with any other Descendant character. Her abilities are not elemental attacks but rather affect her level of strength (or defense) directly. She will likely be much more effective with single-target damage, though with the right equipment and ammo she could do strong AOE, as well.
Movement and Speed: Gley’s mobility and speed are about average for the game. However, be careful with the use of her ability Increased Sensory. If you activate it while Gley is in a Frenzied state, her Movement Speed will decrease.
Bosses and Ultimates: Gley is one of the best Descendants for dealing with bosses, as nearly all of her abilities have a single target focus.
Defenses and Survival Tips: One of the great things about Gley’s abilities is that many of them have two versions, depending on whether Gley is in a Frenzied state or not. The Non-Frenzied versions of those abilities are all focused on defensive buffs or HP recovery. This gives you the option to prioritize survival over damage on a situational basis.
How to Unlock Gley in The First Descendant?
To unlock Gley in The First Descendant, you must either purchase her from the store or research her. Moreover, if you choose to purchase Gley, she will cost 600 Caliber, which is the premium currency. Otherwise, to craft Gley, you will need:
- Gley Enhanced Cells
- Monad Shard x246
- Silicon x430
- Cooling Metallic Foil x40
- Gley Enhanced Cell Blueprint
- 200,000 Gold
- Gley Stabilizer
- Metal Accelerant x519
- Flectorite x292
- Complex Carbon Activator x60
- Gley Stabilizer Blueprint x1
- 200,000 Gold
- Gley Spiral Catalyst
- Nanopolymers x363
- Ceramic Composite x408
- Synthesized Artificial Biometal
- Gley Spiral Catalyst Blueprint x1
- Gley Code
Finally, in order to craft Gley 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.
Gley Passive and Active Skills
In the First Descendant, all characters have one passive skill, along with three active skills and an ultimate to choose from. When you play as the Gley character in the First Descendant, you need to understand the basics of her class and available skills.
- Passive skills: Passive buffs and bonuses are automatically applied or under certain conditions.
- Active and Ultimate skills: These are activated by a player (effects on demand) and vary by character. Each character has unique skills to match their role and playstyle.
Passive Skill
Thirst – Gley cannot have Shield or MP. When in Non-Frenzied state, decreases incoming DMG. Enemies killed by Gley have a chance to drop Life Spheres. Upon acquiring a Life Sphere, recovers HP proportional to Max HP and acquires Power of Life.
Usage – unlike other builds, Gley doesn’t have a shield and must rely on Life Spheres to recover HP. Moreover, her Max HP determines the amount she recovers, and thus, your character should be emphasized to “heal” more.
Active Skills
Frenzied – Enter a Frenzied state. While in Frenzied state, increases Firearm ATK and Penetration, but reduces HP Recovery.
- Usage – use this to go on the offensive, mainly with gunplay, but don’t expect HP to recover. However, once you start understanding Life Sphere play style and mechanics, you stay survivable with Gley, picking them up rather than shield/recovery like other characters.
Life Siphon – Deals damage to enemies within range while recovering HP. HP Recovery increases with the number of enemies hit. The hit enemies are inflicted with additional effects depending on Gley’s state.
- Usage – this is a way to recover HP in a 6 meter radius and increase recovery based on how many you hit. Therefore, look to hit multiple targets to boost survivability.
Increased Sensory – Applies different effects depending on Gley’s state. When in Frenzied state, applies Maximum Lethality during which bullets are not consumed for a certain period of time, but Movement Speed decreases. When in Non-Frenzied state, applies Maximize Recovery during which the drop rate of Life Spheres and Recovery increase for a certain period of time.
- Usage – use this offensively or defensive to stop consumption of ammo (frenzied) or to recover life (non-frenzied). You can combo Frenized and Increased Sensory together to go on a terror single target or AOE.
Ultimate Skill
Massacre – Switches the equipped weapon to Massacre. Massacre is influenced by certain stats of the equipped weapon, such as Firearm ATK power and Fire Rate (excluding Explosive ATK), and inflicts damage on enemies. The bullets loaded are affected by the amount of Power of Life owned. Enemies hit by Massacre suffer damage and are inflicted with additional effects depending on Gley’s state.
When in a Frenzied state, deals additional damage, or deals great damage if current HP is low. When in a Non-Frenzied state, the hit enemies are inflicted with Stun.
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