The character Gley is unique amongst The First Descendant characters, not using shields, but HP recovery through kills. She has two states, one being Frenzied, where she increases damage but decreases HP recovery. Therefore, she plays at a high-risk, high-reward style based on aggression and kills outside of frenzied to restore health.
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Role | Utility Dealer |
| Primary Skills | Frenzied, Life Siphon, Increased Sensory, Massacre |
| Passive Skill | Thirst |
| Specialization | Max HP build with no shields |
| Unlock Methods | Can be purchased or crafted |
| Primary Strengths | Damage, Skill Kit, Life Leech |
Gley Skills
- Description: Consumes HP to enter Berserk mode. In Berserk mode, the distance weapon’s ATK and Penetration increase.
- Cooldown: 1 second
- HP Cost: 10% of Max HP
- Firearm ATK Increase: 25%
- Firearm Penetration Increase: 51
- How to Use: Activate Frenzied to increase overall damage at the cost of Max HP. Only activate when health is high and increased damage is needed.
- Description: Deals damage to nearby enemies and restores HP. In Berserk mode, damage increases; in Normal mode, damage inflicted by enemies decreases for a certain period of time.
- Cooldown: 20 seconds
- Damage: Skill Power x 317.5%
- Damage Range: 6 meters Radius
- How to Use: Use Life Siphon to recover HP in a frenzied state. Best used near multiple enemies to maximize HP recovery and damage boost.
- Description: Adds an infinite ammo effect during Frenzy, and increases Movement Speed and HP Recovery in a Non-Frenzied state.
- Cooldown: 40 seconds
- How to Use: Use Increased Sensory in Frenzy for infinite ammo during boss fights. In a non-frenzied state, use it for increased survivability and HP recovery.
- Description: Changes current Firearm to Massacre. Adds additional skill damage during Frenzied state, and inflicts Stun effect on hit enemies.
- Cooldown: 1 second
- HP Cost: 15% of Max HP
- How to Use: Use Massacre to deal additional damage during Frenzied state. Best used as a defensive tool to stun enemies or when needing high damage output.
- Description: Creates Life Spheres upon killing enemies. Recovers HP and stores Power of Life when absorbing Life Spheres.
- How to Use: Play aggressively to kill enemies and collect Life Spheres to recover HP. Manage Frenzied state to maximize HP recovery and damage output.
How to Unlock Gley in The First Descendant
To unlock Gley in The First Descendant, you should speak with the Magister Anais in the Albion Mountains to conduct research with collected materials. Below are the required research/crafting materials for Gley:
1. Gley Enhanced Cells
- Monad Shard x246
- Silicon x430
- Cooling Metallic Foil x40
- Gley Enhanced Cell Blueprint
- 200,000 Gold
2. Gley Stabilizer
- Metal Accelerant x519
- Flectorite x292
- Complex Carbon Activator x60
- Gley Stabilizer Blueprint x1
- 200,000 Gold
3. Gley Spiral Catalyst
- Nanopolymers x363
- Ceramic Composite x408
- Synthesized Artificial Biometal
- Gley Spiral Catalyst Blueprint x1
To craft Gley, speak to Anais in the Albion Mountains area to access the Research Institute.
How to Play Gley in The First Descendant
Gley’s playstyle focuses on absorbing life spheres from defeated enemies to boost her overall power.
- Explosive Management: Use Frenzied and Life Siphon to maximize damage and HP recovery. Manage Frenzied state to balance aggression and survivability.
- Movement and Positioning: Gley’s mobility is average. Use Increased Sensory to increase movement speed and HP recovery when needed.
- Survivability: In tight situations, rely on Life Siphon and Increased Sensory to recover HP and increase survivability.
Best Modules for Gley in The First Descendant
Equip the following modules to optimize Gley’s performance:
- Predator Instinct: Modifies firearm ATK to increase while firing a firearm during a frenzied state.
- HP Concentration: Increases Max HP and Skill Critical Rate.
- Time Distribution: Reduces Skill Cooldown and greatly increases Max HP.
- Strong Mentality: Reduces Resource Cost when using Skills.
Best Weapons for Gley in The First Descendant
The ideal weapons for Gley include:
- Blue Beetle (Scout Rifle): Grants buffs from Fusion and Singular skills, increasing DPS.
- Smithereens (Shotgun): Grants the Fearlessness unique ability, boosting critical hit rate and damage.
- Afterglow Sword (Sniper Rifle): Increases firearm critical hit rate and damage on weak points.
Best External Components for Gley in The First Descendant
For external components, prioritize the following stats to enhance Gley’s survivability and effectiveness:
- Max HP
- HP Recovery
- DEF
Gley Story in The First Descendant
“If you keep looking after others until the very end, who looks after you, mom?”
Dia Elias asked her mother. ‘Until the very end’ was the slogan of Albion’s Medical Corps, and it was the first time that their captain, Gley, faced someone who questioned this slogan. A question that had never been asked by, nor asked to, someone who had declared and lived by this slogan all her life. Hearing this question from her own daughter brought about complicated emotions within Gley, but she could not grant her daughter’s request to allow her to protect herself. Gley, who had lost her entire family on the battlefield, was afraid. If she were to lose her daughter as well, then she would lose everything.
Undeterred by Gley’s stubbornness, Dia went to her mother’s old colleague and fellow military academy professor, Ajax, for a recommendation letter and thus enlisted in the military. Gley, feeling betrayed by Ajax, who knew of her past scars and yet still wrote the recommendation letter, refused to even speak to him.
Despite feeling much concern over her daughter who had stubbornly become a soldier in the end, Gley decided to give Dia a chance and trust in her decision which she would end up regretting when an incident occurred, in which all forces that had been deployed to the Vespers strike operation, excluding the Descendants squad, suffered massive casualties, with many going MIA. Among those who had gone missing were Gley and her daughter. While Albion Headquarters frantically searched for the missing personnel, Gley and Dia were subjected to horrible experiments performed by the Order of Truth. The mother and daughter duo were used as test subjects for the Order’s experiments to create a new ‘species’ by injecting Vulgus DNA into human bodies. Gley despaired at her situation, as she could only tremble in anger helplessly as her daughter’s agonizing screams echoed around her.
