How to unlock Hailey in The First Descendant

A Descendant to nuke your enemies.

Hailey in character select screen in The First Descendant
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Hailey is the new character in The First Descendant season one, and unlocking her works a little differently from the rest of the Descendants. You don’t have to rely on luck that much, but it still takes a lot of time to grind every material.

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Here’s everything you need to know to unlock Hailey in The First Descendant.

How to get Hailey in The First Descendant

Hailey research material chart in The First Descendant
36 core materials for each component. Screenshot by Dot Esports

You can research Hailey at Anais using the following components: Hailey Enhanced Cells, Hailey Stabilizer, Hailey Spiral Catalyst, and Hailey Data Chip. Unlike other Descendants, core materials for these components don’t drop from Amorphous Materials.

Instead, you can farm them by completing Invasion Dungeons added to The First Descendant with season one and by completing specific Infiltration Operations on Hard difficulty.

Once you have the core materials and all the basic resources, you can research individual parts and then Hailey herself. Every part takes eight hours to research, while Hailey takes 16 hours. On top of that, you need 1,000,000 Gold for all the crafting.

Hailey Enhanced Cells

  • 246 Monad Shard: Drops from resource boxes and munitions in Kingston.
  • 239 Compound Coating Material: Drops from resource boxes and munitions in Echo Swamp.
  • 96 Polyatomic Ion Particle: Drops from mission monsters in Fortress and Quarantine Zone mission.
  • 36 Hailey Reinforced Cell DNA: Drops from Invasion Dungeons, as well as Magister Lab and Slumber Valley missions on Hard difficulty.

Hailey Stabilizer

  • 363 Nanopolymers: Drops from resource boxes and munitions in Agna Desert.
  • 455 Reverse Charging Coil: Drops from resource boxes and munitions in the Fortress.
  • 47 Negative Ion Particle: Drops from Encrypted Vaults in Sterile Land.
  • 36 Hailey Stabilizer Component: Drops from Invasion Dungeons, as well as The Shelter and The Chapel missions on Hard difficulty.

Hailey Spiral Catalyst

  • 422 Repton: Drops from resource boxes and munitions in Kingston.
  • 554 Carbon Crystal: Drops from resource boxes and munitions in Hagios.
  • 14 Common Carbon Activator: Drops from The Shelter and Sepulcher missions in Vespers
  • 36 Hailey Spital Catalyst Ring: Drops from Invasion Dungeons, as well as The Asylum and Caligo Ossuary missions on Hard difficulty.

Hailey Data Chip

Hailey Data Chip is the same as the Code component for other Descendants. It doesn’t have a crafting recipe, but you still need to farm 36 of it. The Hailey Data Chip drops from Invasion Dungeons, as well as The Haven and Mystery’s End missions.

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