Valby Builds and How to Unlock

This is a Valby build for normal and hard mode in The First Descendant. Read on to learn Valby's best builds, how to unlock, basic info, skills, as well as Valby's exclusive equipment and skins!

Best Valby Build for Hard Mode

Valby Hard Mode Build Showcase

Check out how fast you can clear out mobs using our Valby Hard Mode Build!

Best Valby Modules (Hard)

Supply Moisture	Mid-Air Maneuvering	Veteran's Tactics	Front Lines	Emergency Measures	Focus on Non-Attribute
Skill Simplification	Skill Extension	Skill Expansion	Increased DEF	Increased HP	Nimble Fingers

More Modules can be seen by scrolling horizontally.

With this build, you want to maximize the effects of all your abilities by expanding the range and increasing the duration of the puddles you create. You will also lower their cooldowns with modules for consistent spamming, ensuring a 100% uptime on your Laundry debuff.

Additionally, since Supply Moisture can drastically improve your Skill Critical Hit Rate, you will pair it with modules that provide Skill Critical Hit Damage and Skill Critical Hit Rate to improve your clear speed.

Modules Guide: List of Modules

Descendant Module Substitutes for Bosses

Module Change			Explanation
Veteran's Tactics	>	Lethal Infection	Gain Skill Power Modifier when landing Firearm Critical Hits.
Skill Expansion	>	MP Accelerant	Reduces the puddle radius in exchange for increased Skill Duration and Max MP.
Emergency Measures	>	Time Distribution	Lowers your Skill Critical Hit Chance in exchange for more HP and Skill Cooldown.

For boss fights, you can adjust your modules accordingly to focus more on extending their duration and reducing their cooldown to maintain the Laundry debuff, instead of increasing the radius of your abilities as you won't need to cover a large area with puddles when facing a single enemy.

Your main role during void battles is to spam your abilities for nuke damage and apply the Laundry debuff to lower the boss's Electric and Non-Attribute Resistance.

Best Valby Weapons and Weapon Modules (Hard)

Weapon	Substat Priority
Thunder Cage	• Attribute Status Effect Trigger Rate • Firearm ATK • Firearm Critical Hit Damage • Electric ATK

Since your Laundry debuff lowers the Electric Resistance of all enemies hit by your abilities, the best weapon you can equip is the Thunder Cage due to its unique ability, Overcharge. This unique passive ability gives you a set chance to discharge an Electric Shockwave to all nearby enemies when you defeat an enemy.

Best Weapon Modules

Firing Fiesta	Reload Focus	Concentrate Support Ammo	Edging Shot	Concentration Priority
Action and Reaction	Better Concentration	Electric Enhancement	Fire Rate UP	Rifling Reinforcement

More Modules can be seen by scrolling horizontally.

Because of the Thunder Cage's high base Critical Hit Rate, pairing it with the Supply Moisture module makes this weapon exceptional, achieving close to a 100% Critical Hit Rate with these modules. To fully utilize your high Critical Hit Rate, you should also stack Critical Hit Damage to increase your critical multiplier for massive damage.

Best Weapons Tier List

Best Valby Equipment (Hard)

Equipment	Substat Priority
Materialized Phase Reactor	• Skill Cooldown • Skill Duration Up
Slayer Auxiliary Power	・Max HP ・Fire Resistance ・Kuiper Shard Drop Rate Increase Modifier ・Module Drop Rate Increase Modifier
Slayer Sensor	・Max MP ・MP Recovery In Combat ・Chill Resistance ・Consumable Drop Rate Increase Modifier
Slayer Memory	・DEF ・Electric Resistance ・Shield Recovery In Combat ・Ecive Search Radius Increase Modifier ・Firearm Proficiency Gain Modifier ・Gold Drop Rate Increase Modifier
Slayer Processor	・Max Shield ・Toxic Resistance ・Item Acquisition Distance Increase Modifier ・Ecive Display Time

Note that External Components with set bonuses have fixed main stats.

For the Reactor, you can use either a Materialized Mixture Reactor or a Materialized Phase Reactor, depending on which ability you want to spam. If you are going to be fighting a lot of mobs, equip the Materialized Phase Reactor since you will primarily be spamming Clean Up, which is a dimension skill.

However, if you plan on taking on a void boss, the Materialized Mixture Reactor would be better since you will be using Bubble Bullet to apply the Laundry debuff from a distance.

The Slayer Set is the ideal External Component to equip for the 26% increase in your Skill Power. However, if you’re experiencing issues with survivability, you can replace the set with DEF Support or HP Support External Components to boost your base Defense and HP, making your defensive modules more effective.

Valby Playstyle Tips

Valby Playstyle Tips
Apply Laundry On the Boss Utilize the Puddle DOT When Clearing Mobs

Apply Laundry On the Boss

When fighting a boss, make sure to apply the Laundry debuff to lower their Electric and Non-Attribute Resistance. This will significantly boost your entire party's damage output and can help you burst down the boss before it becomes frenzied.

All Void Intercept Battle Bosses

Utilize the Puddle DOT When Clearing Mobs

When securing an area, you can create puddles at enemy spawn points to instantly eliminate them. Use this to your advantage to improve your clear speed and overall efficiency during missions.

Best Valby Builds for Normal Mode

Best Valby Modules (Normal)

Best Valby Modules
HP Collector	When defeating an enemy, instantly recovers X% of Max HP (Cooldown Xs).
Emergency Measures	Skill Critical Hit Rate +X%, Skill Critical Hit Damage +X%
Time Distribution	Skill Cooldown -X%, Max HP +X%
Focus on Non-Attribute	Non-Attribute Skill Power +X%, Skill Cooldown -X%
Focus on Dimension	Dimension Skill Power Modifier +X%, Skill Cooldown -X%
Shock Punch	Modifies the Charged Sub Attack. Use a Shock Punch to attack when performing a Charged Sub Attack. As the Enhancement Level increases, Max Module Capacity increases. (Currently +X)
Skill Insight	Skill Critical Hit Rate +X%
Skill Expansion	Skill Effect Range +X%, applies only to certain skills for each Descendant
Nimble Fingers	Skill Cooldown -X%

This build mainly focuses on improving your Skill Cooldown and Skill Power to consistently deal massive damage with your abilities. With this setup, you will be able to spam your skills to apply Laundry. Additionally, Laundry makes the enemy more vulnerable to Non-attribute and Electric attacks, so it is ideal to keep this debuff on enemies as much as possible to maximize the advantage of your weapon's attribute.

Modules Guide: List of Modules

Best Valby Weapon and Modules (Normal)

Weapon		Stat Priority
Thunder Cage		・Electric ATK ・Attribute Status Effect Trigger Rate ・Firearm ATK ・Firearm Critical Hit Rate
Best Modules for Thunder Cage
Firing Fiesta	When reloading, rounds are not consumed for Xs (Cooldown Xs).
Insight Support Ammo	Rounds per Magazine +X%, Firearm Critical Hit Rate +X%
Marksman	Firearm Critical Hit Rate +X%, Firearm ATK +X%
Sharpshooter	Firearm ATK +X%, Firearm Critical Hit Rate +X%
Expand Weapon Charge	Rounds per Magazine +X%
Better Insight	Firearm Critical Hit Rate +X%
Electric Enhancement	Adds Electric ATK equal to X% of Firearm ATK
Rifling Reinforcement	Firearm ATK +X%

Using these modules, you will be able to fully utilize the strengths of your Thunder Cage due to its high Critical Hit Chance, Fire Rate, and its unique Overcharge ability. Further increasing these stats will drastically increase your clear speed, especially if you can apply the Laundry debuff on enemies with your skills, as it lowers their Electricity and Non-attribute Resistance.

Best Weapons Tier List

Best Valby Reactor (Normal)

Reactor	Stat Priority
Materialized Phase Reactor	・Skill Critical Hit Rate ・Skill Critical Hit Damage

Since Clean Up has two charges and a low Cooldown, this will be your main skill to create puddles and apply Laundry. It is best to use a Materialized Phase Reactor to benefit from the Skill Power Boost Ratio bonuses.

Reactors Guide: List of Reactors

Best Valby External Components (Normal)

Set	Set Effect
Acrobat Set	2-Set Effect: ・Skill Power+ 1.7% Firearm ATK+2.8% 4-Set Effect: ・Firearm Critical Hit Rate +5.9% ・Skill Critical Hit Rate +21%
Substat Priority
Auxiliary Power	・Max HP ・Fire Resistance ・Kuiper Shard Drop Rate Increase Modifier ・Module Drop Rate Increase Modifier
Sensor	・Max MP ・MP Recovery In Combat ・Chill Resistance ・Consumable Drop Rate Increase Modifier
Memory	・DEF ・Electric Resistance ・Shield Recovery In Combat ・Ecive Search Radius Increase Modifier ・Firearm Proficiency Gain Modifier ・Gold Drop Rate Increase Modifier
Processor	・Max Shield ・Toxic Resistance ・Item Acquisition Distance Increase Modifier ・Ecive Display Time

The Acrobat Set provides an increase in both Skill Power and Firearm Attack, which are the two main stats you need to make this build more efficient. If you can equip all four pieces of this set, you will also receive additional Critical Hit Rate for both stats.

External Components Guide

How to Unlock Valby

Unlock Using the Research Institute

You can unlock Valby through the Research Institute in Albion. Note that to acquire a Descendant using research, you need all the required items and gold to unlock this character.

Research Institute

Purchase Valby Using Caliber

Alternatively, you can unlock Descendants by purchasing them in the Shop. This method only requires Caliber, an in-game currency that you can buy with real money. Purchasing Valby in the Shop instantly unlocks the Descendant, allowing you to skip the item requirements and research time.

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Valby Basic Info & Stats

Valby Basic Info
Valby The Shape of Water	Role	Constant DPS
	Element	Non-Attribute
Description
"A dealer of continuous damage who moves around freely through her Water Arche. A terrifying torrent to her enemies, she's always a refreshing ocean wave to her teammates."

Stats

Valby Skills

Passive Skills

Skill	Type Effect
Water Intake	When using skills while standing on water, she consumes less Mana.

Active Skills

Skill	Type Effect
Bubble Bullet	Fusion Bounces a Bubble Bullet forward to create a small puddle where the Bubble Bullet impacts and where she stands. Enemies in the small puddle take continuous damage and are inflicted with Laundry.
Plop Plop	Dimension Creates a large puddle where she is standing, then dives in. Vallby then pops out at a selected location in the large puddle. Enemies in the large puddle take continuous damage and are inflicted with Laundry.
Laundry	Dimension Vallby becomes Liquefied. While Liquefied, she cannot take her feet off of the ground or use skills, but she can move through enemies and her Movement Speed and DEF increase. When moving while Liquefied, she creates a path of water that deals continuous damage to enemies and inflicts Laundry.
Laundry Bomb	Fusion Changes the equipped weapon to the Laundry Bomb Launcher. When the Launcher is fired, a Laundry Bomb is created, pulling in enemies inflicted with Laundry and dealing continuous damage.

Valby Exclusive Equipment

Arche-Hydro Symbiosuit

With her Arche abilities, Valby can turn into water, anytime and anywhere. As such, her unique drawbacks are also like water. Over time, moisture evaporates, and she is unable to maintain her shape. Valby's exclusive suit is an environmental shielding suit that was designed to compensate for this. Not only does it assist in Arche-hydrogen bonding, so she can take on human form, but it also features shape memory technology that enables Valby to assemble, and disassemble, with Arche, providing her with various tactical capabilities.

Valby Skins

All Valby Head Skins

Valby's Albion Academy Cadet	Valby's Classic Maid Uniform	Valby's Midnight Waves
Moisture Detection Helmet	Round and Round	Albion Braid
Wish	Baby Bird	Summer Vacation

All Valby Body Skins

Valby's Albion Academy Cadet	Valby's Classic Maid Uniform	Valby's Midnight Waves
Wish	Baby Bird	Summer Vacation

All Valby Back Skins

Baby Panda	Ammo Supply Box	White Rabbit Doll
Bear Cub	Satellite	Albion Rocket
Planetary Projector	Rocket Jet Pack	Double Z Wing
Run, Hamster	Advanced Material Backpack	Pink Salamander
Firefighting Tank

All Valby Chest Skins

Small Flashlight	HQ Access Card	Old Teddy Bear
Bunny-Ears Strap	Dynamite	Brave Squirrel
Emote Tag	Magister Researcher	Mark of Albion
Recorder

All Valby Ecive Skins

Continuity	Bio Scan	Heart

All Valby Full Body Skins

Panda's Adventure

Dinosaur Pajamas

All Valby Grappling Hook Skins

Special Supply

Advanced Material Engineering

All Valby Make Up Skins

Petal	Galaxy	Blue Core

All Valby Spawn Skins

Magical Moment	Passion	Dismantling and Fusion
Snowman	Beyond the Unknown	Thunder and Lightning
Gale	Big Water Bomb	Wrong Direction

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