Jayber is the ideal character for players who want utility in combat, rely less on guns, and enjoy skill-based gameplay. With Jayber, your focus will be on using skills rather than weapons, making him perfect for players who struggle with aiming or who like using turrets. He offers consistent damage and powerful healing, making him a valuable asset to any team.
| Feature | Details |
|---|---|
| Role | Utility Damage Dealer |
| Primary Skills | Assault Turret, Medical Turret, Multi-Purpose Gun, Reactivate |
| Passive Skill | Turret Sync |
| Specialization | Turret-based combat and support |
| Unlock Methods | Researched for 100,000 credits and materials from Anais |
| Primary Strengths | Support Skills, Versatile, High Survivability |
Jayber Skills
- Description: Summons an assault turret to attack the enemy. If enhanced, it launches attacks into nearby area.
- Cooldown: 20 seconds
- MP Cost: 30
- Damage: Skill Power x 100%
- Duration: 12 seconds
- How to Use: The assault turret is the basic damage turret that you launch in the area of enemies. Use another skill, a Multi-purpose gun, to extend the duration and enhance the damage in non-mobile fights.
- Description: Summons a medical turret to heal allies and distract enemies. If enhanced, it restores Mana.
- Cooldown: 45 seconds
- MP Cost: 40
- Health Recovery Amount: 4.1% of Max HP
- Duration: 12 seconds
- How to Use: The medical turret acts as a mini tank, healer, and damage boost if the assault turret is activated at the same time. Use the Multi-purpose gun to enhance and extend its duration.
- Description: Changes gun to a Multi-Purpose Gun. If hit by a Multi-Purpose Gun, the turret enters an enhanced state. Firing the Multi-Purpose Gun at an already Enhanced turret recovers the turret’s HP and increases its duration.
- Cooldown: 15 seconds per bullet
- MP Cost: 30
- Max Bullets: 3 Shots
- How to Use: Use the Multi-purpose gun to enhance your turret damage and extend its duration. Prioritize the turret that needs it most and use bullets efficiently.
- Description: Recalls all summoned turrets and inflicts powerful damage to nearby enemies. After using Reactivate, you enter Overhaul state, where turrets are summoned in their enhanced states.
- Cooldown: 80 seconds
- MP Cost: 30
- AOE Damage: Skill Power x 1,492.5%
- Duration: 30 seconds
- How to Use: Use Reactivate when you need area damage. Combo this with your turret skills for maximum effectiveness. Enhance turrets, recall for AOE damage, resummon, and repeat.
- Description: ATK increases when the assault turret and medical turret are both summoned.
- How to Use: Extend the duration of your turrets using the Multi-purpose gun. Prioritize the medical turret for extension and keep both turrets active for bonuses.
How to Unlock Jayber in The First Descendant
To unlock Jayber in The First Descendant, you should speak with the Magister Anais in the Albion Mountains to conduct research for materials and 100,000 credits. Below are the required research/crafting materials for Jayber:
1. Jayber Enhanced Cells
- Hellion x303
- Reverse Charging Coil x455
- Insulated Metallic Foil x43
- Jayber Enhanced Cell Blueprint
- 200,000 Gold
2. Jayber Stabilizer
- Nanopolymers x364
- Shape Memory Alloy x462
- Balanced Plasma Battery x44
- Jayber Stabilizer Blueprint x1
- 200,000 Gold
3. Jayber Spiral Catalyst
- Flectorite x292
- Carbon Crystal x554
- Thermal Metallic Foil x26
- Jayber Spiral Catalyst Blueprint x1
To craft Jayber, speak to Anais in the Albion Mountains area to access the Research Institute.
How to Play Jayber in The First Descendant
Jayber’s playstyle focuses on deploying turrets for both damage and healing.
- Cooldowns: Prioritize skill cooldown reduction to keep your turrets active. Utilize augments and mods to reduce cooldowns.
- Enhancing the Turrets: Use the Multi-Purpose Gun skill to enhance turrets. Apply this skill situationally for damage or healing.
- Boss Fights: Save both turrets for boss fights to activate the Turret Sync passive. Use the ultimate skill Reactivate to enhance turret effectiveness.
Equip the following modules to optimize Jayber’s performance:
- Turret Engineering: Replaces multi-purpose guns, recovers HP, and extends the duration rather than enhancing them.
- Skill Extension: Increases skill duration.
- Skill Expansion: Increases skill range.
- Skill Cost Optimize: Reduces skill cooldown and cost.
- Range HP Calculator: Increases skill range and max HP.
- Non-Attribute Master: Increases skill power modifier and non-attribute power modifier.
- Dual Claw: Changes sub-attack and increases max module capacity.
- HP Concentration: Increases max HP and skill critical hit rate.
- Nimble Fingers: Reduces skill cooldowns.
- Increase Shield: Increases shield size.
Best Weapons for Jayber in The First Descendant
The ideal weapons for Jayber include:
- Enduring Legacy (Machine Gun): Increases vulnerability to status effects and firearm damage the longer you squeeze the trigger.
- Blue Beetle (Scout Rifle): Triggers an increased critical hit rate when using fusion skills.
- Secret Garden (Tactical Rifle): Triggers resource recovery using Dimension skills like Medical and Assault Turrets.
Best External Components for Jayber in The First Descendant
For external components, prioritize the following stats to enhance Jayber’s survivability and effectiveness:
- Max Shields
- Max HP
- HP Recovery
- DEF
Jayber Story in The First Descendant
Are geniuses born or made? A natural engineer, there are many hypotheses about the origin of Jayber’s ability to wield Arche specialized in electronic warfare. One hypothesis claims that the infectious disease he suffered during his childhood stimulated his cerebral cortex, leading to a dramatic increase in intelligence. Another one claims that the drug administered to treat the infectious disease was actually an experiment conducted by the Magisters to mass produce Arche… Despite the unfounded rumors that continue to go around to this day, he himself had no desire to learn the truth. The reason being, as merely a unit in the war, the origin of his ability was unimportant to him.
