If you want to deal a lot of damage and breeze through the enemies of The First Descendant, Valby is one of the best Descendants that should be in your arsenal. The Water Goddess can take control of a large area using her Clean Up, Plop Plop, or Laundry Bomb abilities.
In The First Descendant, you can unlock Valby using two methods. Let’s get into it.
Unlocking Valby through Albion’s Research Institute
If you don’t want to spend any real-world money or in-game currency, then the only way to unlock Valby is through Albion’s Research Institute. Anais the Magister can be found when you unlock the first open-world area of The First Descendant.
To unlock Valby, you will need the following items:
- 400,000 gold
- Valby Enhanced Cells
- 422 Repton
- 571 Superfluid
- 200,000 gold
- 48 Data Processing Neural Circuits
- One Valby Enhanced Cells blueprint
- Valby Spiral Catalyst
- 519 Metal Accelerant
- 32 Encrypted Neural Circuit
- One Valby Spiral Catalyst blueprint
- 386 Hardener
- 200,000 gold
- Valby Stabilizer
- 248 Monad Shards
- One Valby Stabilizer blueprint
- 239 Compound Coating Material
- 40 Murky Energy Residue
- 200,000 gold
- Valby Code
- Intercept Battle: Common Pyromaniac for Amorphous Material Pattern 036
- Intercept Battle: Common Devourer for Amorphous Material Pattern 032
- Sterile Land Hard: Abyssal Void Fusion Reactor in Sterile Land Repository
- Sterile Land Normal: Void Fusion Reactor in Sterile Land Rockfall Zone
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You can find these materials in various missions, intercept battles, and loot. It will take some time to secure all of the required materials. The research time for unlocking Valby is 16 hours.
Unlocking Valby through Caliber
You can also unlock Valby by spending 600 Caliber, The First Descendant’s in-game currency that can be bought with real-world money.
Purchasing Valby through the store will allow you to equip the character immediately without spending time and effort at Albion’s Research Institute.