Viessa’s Build Guide: Maximizing Absolute Zero in TFD

If you want to maximize Viessa’s potential in The First Descendant, her ultimate version is when paired with the Absolute Zero Transcendent module.This guide will walk you through how to leverage this powerful module, explain its mechanics, and provide a detailed build to ensure you dominate in both mobbing and boss encounters. Buy Ultimate Viessa Character Unlock Boost to quickly unlock, use “harry” coupons to get 5% off!

Absolute Zero Overview

This module is a rare drop from the Frost Walker boss on Hard difficulty, which can be a challenge to farm. Buy TFD Void Intercept Boost for quick obtain, it can transform Viessa into a devastating force.

The Absolute Zero Transcendent module is exclusive to Viessa’s Ultimate version. Its main feature is the ability to generate Ice Spears when your skills critically hit enemies. These Ice Spears fly towards nearby enemies, dealing significant damage on impact and causing burst damage to surrounding targets. The sheer numbers you can achieve with this build are astounding, with critical hits easily reaching over 200,000 damage, even without shooting your weapon.

Key Effects:

  • Critical Hits: When a skill critically hits, it triggers the Ice Spear effect.
  • Ice Spears: These spears seek out enemies, dealing direct and burst damage upon impact.
  • Frostbite: Instead of Ice Shackle, critically hitting with a skill now inflicts Frostbite, further enhancing your damage output.

Core Build Components

To fully optimize Viessa with Absolute Zero, here’s the build you should aim for:

  1. Transcendent Module: Absolute Zero
  • Effect: Converts all skills to singular forms, allowing you to focus on singular skill power.
  • Important Note: You need to ensure your skills are critically hitting to proc the Ice Spears consistently.

  1. Skill Enhancements
  • Spear and Shield: Increases defense and skill power, providing a balance between survivability and damage.
  • Increased HP: Vital for staying alive in tough encounters.
  • Skill Expansion: Enhances the effective range of your skills, making it easier to hit multiple enemies.
  • Time Distribution: Reduces skill cooldowns, allowing for more frequent skill usage.
  • Emergency Measures: Boosts critical hit rate and critical hit damage for skills.
  • Nimble Fingers: Reduces skill cooldowns further, focusing on skill efficiency.

  1. Reactor: Thunder Cage Mounting
  • Effect: Provides Chill skill power boost ratio and Singular skill power boost ratio.
  • Note: This reactor is ideal for maximizing the power of your newly singularized skills.

  1. External Components
  • Annihilation Set (2-Piece): Increases defense and max HP, with a bonus to skill duration.
  • Polar Set (2-Piece): Provides additional Chill skill power.
  • Optional: Consider the Slayer set for additional rounds capacity and skill power, though the increased skill cost may not be ideal for this build.

Playstyle and Strategy

Mobbing
When mobbing, the focus is on spamming skills to trigger as many Ice Spears as possible. The build provides a good balance between skill power and survivability, allowing you to take down waves of enemies efficiently. The low cooldowns mean you can keep skills cycling, maintaining high damage output without relying heavily on weapon fire.

Bossing
For boss encounters, Cold Bloodiness is still the preferred choice due to its consistency and focused damage output. However, if you prefer the Ice Spear mechanic, Absolute Zero can still perform well, especially if you tailor your build to enhance single-target damage.

Absolute Zero is a game-changing module for Viessa’s Ultimate version. It allows you to turn what was once a crowd-control-focused skill set into a high-damage, crit-focused powerhouse. While it may require some farming and experimentation with different builds, the payoff is well worth it.