oh I completely read the defensive thing wrong LMAO. but uh.... just get defence ok? You will never die again

Like Warfare, you want your health and armor stats to be high for survivability. Shields not so much. But like Warframe, there is a character that benefit from shield increases. The one character in First Descendant is Kyle. His kit is base around his shield like Hildryn from Warframe.

More mtashed bringing us more first descendant videos? Yes, please.

Clarification.. your max isn’t 80% def. All that means is that you can’t have your defenses reduced more than 80 percent. Same with enemies.

You can also upgrade your melee slot to get extra mod capacity slots

Finally a game made for Mtashed.

Just saved me 10 mod slots, will not be using shield mods anymore!! Thank you!!!!

For everyone reading this comment and playing def character like ajax or kyle, aim for 80/120k/160k def. Those are the sweet spot for us. 40-50k is good for other character

Thanks for this , have been struggling up till now , I swapped my shield slot for hp and it’s made a huge difference

I’d say DEF and Health modules should be the first one using catalyst slot on, since those are guaranteed on every build. Skills one’s need more testing, I think purple mods are additive and blues are multiplicative.

okay honestly I got rid of this game cuz I thought I suck at this game. You are the only one that actually explained this in detail. Thank you for taking time to explain this in detail. You just got a sub and I am going to try this again!

This is such an insightful video! I love putting builds together and was wondering the same as well as far as if i should spec into shields vs defense. Thank you for breaking it all down! Ive subbed, cause ive got to see what you do next.

Im glad your playing a game im playing again. I sub'ed during the early Destiny days.

Man, you're the first person I heard talk about the farming perks. Thanks for the awesome video.

Felt so good going from being three shot by devourer on Ajax to being able to solo him a few hours later bc I built so tank.

Let's goooo mtashed is back with more descendant vids!

Nice vid! Glad to see your content again!

So defense is weird, you only want increased def on all characters but no more than that unless you're ajax. Hp increase and hp amplification are a 100% must but instead of regen boost I suggest hp conversion on kill regen hp so killing mobs is 100% hp and ammo hopefully. There is no need to max out an antibody leave them at 2k before max or just do 5k (Diminishing returns and optimal building 1k=10% reduction 2k=20%5k=30% than it's 35% at 8k) Do not use the multi antibody mod it's awful and it evenly distributes the resistances into each slot. So 800 than 200,fire,200cold,200 toxic,200 electric. Pointless and will do nothing.

Hey i was hoping youd bring this up in your video. Theres a mod called "An Iron Will" that, at max capacity of 16, will give you 128,3% DEF when your shield is 0. This might go well with your current build? Maybe a full on "noshield" build would be viable, in combination with the "Overwhelming HP" mod, that reduces ur shield to 1 but adds 14.2% of the reduced shields as HP. I dunno, would love to see you try this out

Eyyy came across this vid after getting annihilated by the devourer on my bunny 😂😂😂😂

thanks for the advice mtash i legit was looking for how to make my freyna more tankier bc her skill gives 25% more def which is insanely good with these sets of mods you've shown me the light again thanks and great video as always keep doing you broski!

The last sentence in DEF is "The maximum efficiency for effects that reduce DEF is -80%." I think that just says enemies can reduce your total DEF by up to 80%.

The HP and DEF mods aren't optional, they are mandatory for hard mode.

Great advice, thx!

Very helpful!! Thanks!

Tash the only vid with this , have you seen potent collector so good

Once you start getting catalysts to change slot types you will be able to balance defence and offensive mods

That's why I plan to main Gley when I can finally build her, not having MP or Shields makes her super easy to build cause all of those mods that impact shields and MP have ZERO effect on her negatively and her 1 is a straight 20% gun damage boost iirc from the betas.

Youre doing the Lords work out here sir. Mad props

It's also recommended to aim for 40-50k DEF at most, because there are certain breakpoints where you decrease incoming damage. Basically decreasing incoming damage by 10% every time you double your defense starting from 2000 DEF, and then 4k, 8k, 16k, etc.. Also, Elemental Resistances are not as valuable against Hard mode bosses because they hit so hard and the elem res values are so small per mod/external component sub stat

Enzo is the only descendant who can viably shield tank, to my awareness, purely cuz he’s actually got the ability to recharge his shields while taking damage. I haven’t tried to many other descendants tho, cuz ammo, and is not good at modding in this game yet

On 2 of your external components (auxiliary power and memory) you can roll both Max HP AND Defense with resistances. All 3 and you'll be even more tanky

Always count on Mtashed to be covering the games I play.

Wait till he finds out Kyle is a tanky bruiser... Kyle, this changes everything! Im hoping he covers more of the First Decendant.

You should build your tamer for weak point damage trust me

Does anyonce know how to file a complaint. Finally beat devourer after around 20 tries and the game crashed and i lost all my rewatds including the valby piece i needed.

hey im sorry to bother you I’m hoping someone can help me I’m trying to find out what is the cap? on weapons rolled stats like if I have 9.2% week point damage. On my tamer What is the cap?

Also to note, for some reason on reactor the blue negative stats are higher than the gold stats. I’m sure they will fix it in the future but for now it’s worth pursuing.

i noticed you are doing this on Bunny, Would this build style be more effective on a naturally "tank" style character like Ajax? with his dome/barrier and the high hp and DEF, would that be even more effective?

I would say the only exception ive found so far to the shields vs health thing, is enzo. Enzo should probably stack defense shields rather than health defence

You are a life saver... Literally 😊😊😊😊

Real question where do you farm hp amplification? can't find anything on where to find it.

Can someone Explain why i have with these same Mods only 4.1K HP when hes have 8.7K Same class playing on Normal.

what about for kyle his whole thing is shields?

Yeah just build around armor and health for survivability. Weapons like the tamer, willpower, and thunder cage all can handle most of every content.

Did this change everything? Btw unlike Warframe, a mod like HP Amplification WILL WORK on Gley who has no shields. So that -% for shields means nothing to her. It’s just straight up more HP.

Would be cool if there was a mod that would make it where you don’t have a shield anymore but if buffs hp and def

Ajax scales less off of HP than DEF, though, if I recall correctly.

perfect

Why are people using shock punch and not the other mods for that category, that gives up more capacity

Enzo uses Sheilds more tho right

Won't iron defence be better then shield conversion defence

I feel like shields suck in this game. Im not sure what they would do to make shields also not be too good.

I love spreading misinformation on the interwebs other than slight slip up, good video! 👍

Did you know you can modify your slots that way it’ll take up less space

Nobody talks about this but imo Yujin is the best Tank. Im a Yujin main and haven't played the other tank classes but i haven't ran into anyone more tanky than me. Every single hard mode boss I can stand in front of forever and not move at all, I only move to try and hit weak point spots and I honestly move out of the toxic pools because that are OP lol. I play Tank Yujin and have the first aid kit mod which is what makes me able to play how I do. No other character to my knowledge can heal so much. They can be as tanky but at some point other characters have to go find health. I just constantly heal myself. I been thinking and making a YT video on my build because i haven't seen a Yujin build on YT like mine.

endgame shields are practically useless i focus on def and health + resistance/ hp equipment.....also Ajax is a must have since his skills benefit from def

imagine puting those modes on tanks

You should aim for 40-50K DEF max because of breaking points for the defence % added (steps of 10%) don’t know about Health at this moment.

A+!!!

Mix it with increased health + all def double components you when your lvl 40 20k health 15k def on gley is so good

If I Had to guess, Defense is simply damage reduction vs physical attacks and elemental resistance is the other side of incoming damage reduction. There are mods like 'Autoimmunity' that provide a full package of damage reduction that everyone thinks DEF does now but at a much lower percentage. Now I don't play enough myself to test that so don't listen to me :)

HP amp is really good with Iron Will, since you loose your shield quicker and get more uptime on that %DEF bonus. Another thing to note is that someone did some math on defense stat and the optimum is around 40-50k more than that and you'll have diminishing returns (and resistances are utterly useless in this game). video for ref : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b8-ToquS2pO5qJc.html

I wish tanks were viable here. Unfortunately in tfd, you just need to out damage the bosses. Also, best to build to your descendants major stat between health, def, and shield.

An iron will give 32% def at base form when at 0% shields edit*ive heard 50k def is probably the best option past that the benefits are lesser

Add an iron will 😂

My god shields need a buff.

Content is content ig

I’m at 83k defense 22k health 15k shields with 30k skill power for dimension abilities 🔥

Man I thought you was an Ajax’s …. Let down

Yeah, I’m pretty sure you missed your boat gage gambler. Vacation doesn’t give you any more defense just HEB and no offense to your reasoning but HP isn’t defense defense is damage mitigation HD just HB you lose all your HB you go down. You don’t lose your defense at all it’s always there operating I mean against the kind of damage that can be mitigated, clearly some damages are notable with the fence is like a glass of water that you can eventually don’t vote completely defense. It is like a glass of water with the camp on it. They cannot be dumped out. It’s always there, but you got my point doesn’t burn off shield and HP do

dead dps is no dps

It's not for us if you can't die because you'll get bored and that's bad news for us Subscribers 😅😅😅

Shield is pretty useless some enemies can 1 shot the shield of you was first with my Viessa shield, def and HP felt squishy then went full def and HP and life became alot easier :)

Wasn’t This Guy using Destiny 2 and then started playing weird Asian video games and disappeared? 😂😂 Love ya M-Tash Maddrunkgamer

How does tash man have 7k HP? I guess he has some really high hp external components? I almost maxed out my hp mod, but it only shows about 2k Hp, unless I use the highest Hp external components which bumps it up to about 3.5k

Genuine question, why is everyone on Tamer? Machine Guns feel terrible to me. Also I think your explanation of DEF isn't accurate.

Yeah do that in hard mode

ok but youre using solo bossing as an example which is a shit example btw purely bc the boss is severely nerfed compared to a 4 person team boss

You might want to check other Descendants. Bun has like zero hp and defense compared to others. Those same defensive mods would be much higher values. (Like my lv 40 with lv 50 items comparing Bun to Lepic he has almost literally double the defense and hp. Though I guess if you are at the point of soloing hard mode bosses then it's fine, but I'd be surprised if people could solo hard mode bosses.) Are you on a fire reactor intentionally? That might be part of why skill damage is so low. I'm sure you are aware and that was probably just an oops, but you'd want one aligned to both your skill types and ideally a yellow rarity (which usually requires "mounted" weapons I think they call it, where you need said weapon actively equipped in your hands.)