The First Descendant – Previewed Skills and Transcendent Modules for Nell

From day one, the fans have been asking for Nell to become a playable Descendant, and now, with Season 3, it is happening. And during the recent devlive, The First Descendant team previewed the Skills and Transcendent Modules for Nell.

Previewed Skills and Transcendent Modules for Nell, Coming to The First Descendant in Season 3

After a year of waiting, Nell is finally joining the roster of playable Descendants. The surprisingly dark Season 3: Breakthrough trailer showed that something is happening with Nell, and teased that she’s about to awaken her Arche. Now, in the recent anniversary devlive, before revealing the Nier Automata crossover trailer, the devs revealed details about Nell’s Skills and her Transcendent Modules. They also mentioned that the awakening will be a part of the main storyline.

Skills

Passive – Suspicion and Insight (Non-Attribute, Fusion)

• Using Ecive inflicts Ecive Scan on enemies in the front. 
• Attacking enemies inflicted with Ecive Scan deals additional damage.
• Enemies under the Reticle are guaranteed to be inflicted with Ecive Scan. If the Reticle is on a Weak Point of a Colossus, Ecive Scan is applied to that Weak Point. 
• Efficiency increased when disarming Encrypted Vaults, and rewards increase when decryption is complete.

Breach Discharge (Non-Attribute, Tech)

Fires a Barrage of Breach Shards, dealing damage to hit enemies. If the enemy hit is under the effects of Ecive Scan, additional effects are triggered (Additional Damage, Skill Cooldown, Burst Damage)

Ring of Breach (Non-Attribute, Fusion)

Creates an Arche Breach at a designated location. Inflicts a debuff on enemies near the created Arche Breach and spawns a Gravitic Reversal Field on the ground. The debuff of the Arche Breach intensifies over time and further weakens Adaptive Defense. Reusing the skill retrieves the Arche Breach. On retrieval, the Gravitic Reversal Field disappears, dealing Explosion Damage to the area around it and refunding a portion of the Cooldown.

Gravitic Reversal (Non-Attribute, Tech)

Detonates an Arche Breach, causing a Gravitic Reversal. This pulls in enemies near the Arche Breach and deals Explosion Damage.

Gaze of the Abyss (Non-Attribute, Fusion)

Grants Gaze of the Abyss. All Firearm Attacks from Nell target Weak Points, increasing the Weak Point Damage of herself and nearby allies. While Gaze of the Abyss is active, hitting a target inflicted with Ecive Scan with a Breach Shard increases the duration of Gaze of the Abyss.

Transcendent Modules

Restored Heart (affects Ring of Breach and Gravitic Reversal)

Changes Ring of Breach and Gravitic Reversal to skills that grant buffs to allies. Changes the Arche Breach to grant a Shield-related buff, recalling the Breach reduces the Skill Cooldown of nearby allies, and activating the Gravitic Reversal will grant allies a buff to their Weak Point damage.

Shattered Heart (affects Gaze of the Abyss)

Changes Gaze of the Abyss to an attack skill. Builds up Suspicion stacks using Breach Shards, then fires enhanced Breach Spikes.

Nell is labeled by the devs as a “gun-wielding, telekinetic, DPS,” and these Skills only go to show that she’s a good all-around character, using weapons, debuffing enemies, buffing allies, and dealing skill damage. We will see when she joins the game, but for now, things are looking good.