Should You Stack HP or Shields on Your Descendants? - The First Descendant Guide

Video about Stat Priority in The First Descendant
0:00 HP vs Shields
1:50 Specific Descendant Considerations
2:30 I Meant To Say External Components Not Modules

[Sweeka_ch]

Some people seem to be confused so I would just like to make this clear, I am not telling you to ignore DEF and only build HP. You MUST build DEF no matter what. I am only saying that you should not build a mixture of HP and shields and would be better off ignoring shields entirely in favor of HP unless you are playing a descendant such as Kyle who requires shields for their abilities.

[kbutta]

They really need to rework shields entirely.

[billy_cross]

You are ignoring a few bags first of all shred regeneration happens in and out of combat with the right components where is hell doesn’t regenerate at all you can pick up or you can modify how much those or give you you can put on modules to grab help when you kill stuff, but it does not regenerate at all ever naturally Shields on the other hand if you’re in a boss fight and you take a gigantic ducking cover and after like one second your shield will start regenerating. If you have shield recovery modifier will generate more quickly. If you have shield, recovery and combat, they will regenerate in combat. I’ll be at a slower rate then if you had children recovery out bad there’s also a shield recovery in combat. Both will speed up your recovery in and out of combat jewel automatically recover auto Kombat. You’ll never recover health auto combat or in combat. There are no mods no mat no nothing I don’t believe anyway no no substance. Nothing that will give you HP recovery in combat. You can modify how fast an orb or how much an orb gives you back with with HB recovery modifier, but there has to be something to start that HB recovery like an orb or HP collector and a kill, so you’re kind of ignoring that aspect of the shield HB flash defense I mean defense and the same thing I don’t know why people compare. Should I have defense or HB of course you need defense defense mitigates all in coming damage of physical nature so you need some defense, but should I only HB or only and shield is that a terrible question if you only have HP then all the damage you take will just be coming off your health and the only way to regenerate that is going to be going to be you and drop to help or they don’t they’re not laying around something same thing collector you have to kill something your shield will regenerate naturally you’re just duck behind covered to feed that up for a second so again I’m gonna argue that you should have a combination of HB and shield but you do need to decide. Should I go majorly in the shield or major league in the HB, but I wouldn’t ignore one or the other mopping build. You can go either way HP probably easier all in on HP. You could even run my to convert all your shield HP and then run HP collector and every time you kill something every two seconds they’re getting back a chunk HB and not to worry about module or whatever or no hard rule. It all depends on the character the player what the characters is going to be used for mostly what the character is his strongest pet. I mean it really is.

[battlecruiserna]

i ignore def and built only hp, but i also run autoimmunity instead of def.

[KareemAhmedart]

is that's the same for Lepic?.. focus on HP and not DEF!!

[billy_cross]

You know one thing I’ve noticed or thought about with Enzo is doesn’t his ability regenerate a percentage like 25% of a shield so wow you don’t. I don’t agree with you that you ever wanna ignore HP right? Let’s just for shifts and say you do ignore your HP on any character or whatever the shields things like poison just ignore shields altogether and if your shield breaks and you have BHV you’re gonna die instantly to almost any hard stuff right so if you’re playing a character where you know abilities are based on his shields then you need to have shields but you also need to have HP if you’re playing Enzo you still need to have HP The more shield you have the better because he regenerates a portion right percentage of those shields so you know if it’s 25% and you have 1000 shields and ability of shield and shield most characters start with you know what 300 to 500 I haven’t looked at all characters but most of the ones I have they have only about 300 400 shield That is useless right so if you’re playing Enzo shield one is useless that I think will kickstart if you have reduced you know if you have better in combat shield regeneration it’ll kickstart that right I think as well so it’s entirely useless but once you rather have a large chunk of shield and an on-demand shield generationto hit the button and 75 shield 500, 000 shield back because you have massive amounts of shield

[NachtEulex]

Why is it always vs. Just have all of them 😂 hp, shield, and def. I got all three maxed. And i tank everything so easy

[johnbiggs]

I'm so glad that you explained that so simply and to the point❤

[Arasaka.Employee]

i have 60k Defense on bunny, im able to tank the hard mod boss executioner to the face.
Yes i still need to try and actively dodge the strongest attacks but im doing fairly ok on it, with 60k defense I can play unga bunga safely till the ads spawn so i can kill them and get hp. Plus im running the gold mod that gives me 9% HP on killing an enemy with a 3 second cooldown.
I still need more Hp cause im only siting at 7k. i need more to start taking advantage of my excess defense.
But im still new so there's some stuff im just not familiär with yet ;/

Thank you for making this. it helped me a lot.

[yoannbirrien]

You need 50k def just on ajax 100k or 80k that good after full hp

[iphonekiller]

Building HP with DP is actually the best way to mod to survivability Since DP modifies the toughness of your HP, for example if you have 100hp and no DP 1 enemy hit counts as 10 HP loss. If the enemy crit on you (yes they can) it can be more. Numbers scaling with enemy lvl. However if you have DP on it can make that 1 enemy hit to not take 10 hp instead take 5 if the DP mod has levelled up to the point it provides 50% DP from that point its diminishing the effectiveness of DP but still provides a lot of DMG reduction overall compared to shields where no matter how bit the number is its gonna break pretty fast tho. Btw DP is DEF in Descendant, i am just too used to other games where its called DP but essentially its the same exact thing. This things btw are tested, shields are useless fully, build DP and HP and you dies a lot lot less. Good video tho 😊

[mightybee]

My heart say 1 idk what happened but not matter what i do it still says 1

[Calaxanasgaming]

HP needs regen and or resources increases so in order to get HP back you have to automatically spec into this or YOU WILL be getting picked up constantly cause you have ZERO shields for constant defense and if you don’t spec into HP resource mod you only get 6% HP. 99% of the community stacks HP and forgets about 2 mods then they searching how to survive more and YouTubers tell him them to add more HP. How you gonna get that HP back without regen or resources😂

[yoannbirrien]

Full shield on enzo and kyle that op other so bad

[admiralomega]

So....big question here is, does defense apply to ahields?

[TheREALSimagination]

TL;DR: Pick either Shield or HP and ignore the other.

[The_True_Strawberry]

Would it be best to use two components with DEF and two with HP, or one DEF and the rest of the three as HP?

[anonymouswv]

I found with most character's you only need to hit a lil over 32k deffense and add auto immunity. Its much more efficient than stacking defense to reach 58k+ needed to see more yields. Wich frees up 2 or even 3 components for hp or shields. A good balance would be one with double shield stats for a 550 shields and other 2 hp. Having the right rolls will mean ur shields on most without mods will hit around 1.5k or higher and will regen very quickly givng cushions of regenerative survivability to get health orbs or survive some light gun fire. This is likely the moat optimal survivability tool with no mod investment for shields.