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Genessa the Wayward

Abilities
Faithful Doubles, Stray Doubles
Passive
Duality
Skill nodes
11
Found in
Revenant Graves

Genessa the Wayward is one of nine Shells in Mortal Shell 2 — the body the Harbinger occupies, and the one slot a weapon cannot make up for. Its active is Faithful Doubles and Stray Doubles. Its passive, Duality, runs for free. The skill tree holds eleven nodes across four tiers, opened by spending Glimpses at the Shellkeeper. You claim it in Revenant Graves.

“Nothing is so broken it can’t be made whole again.”

Abilities

ActiveFaithful Doubles — Genessa summons Faithful Doubles which perform a Weapon attack and then vanish.
ActiveStray Doubles — For a duration, Genessa automatically summons Stray Doubles that copy Weapon and Sidearm attacks.
PassiveDuality — When Genessa's health is depleted, she becomes Stray instead of being severed from the Harbinger.

Our take

Duality is the strongest passive in the game to read carefully: when her health runs out she becomes Stray instead of being severed from the Harbinger. That is a second chance built into the Shell rather than into an item. The doubles are the rest of the kit, and Stray Doubles copying sidearm attacks is what makes her the one Shell where a ranged build genuinely doubles its output.

Skill tree

Spend Glimpses at the Shellkeeper to raise this Shell's bond and open the next tier. Every node takes several levels of its own, so the tree is a question of what to finish rather than what to reach — and the last level of a node is usually where its effect changes rather than merely grows.

Tier 1

Augmentation

Each level improves Faithful Doubles

  1. 1Faithful Doubles cost 15% less Resolve to summon
  2. 2Faithful Doubles cost 25% less Resolve to summon
  3. 3Faithful Doubles regenerate 1 Resolve on damaging an enemy

Catalyst

Each level improves Stray Doubles

  1. 1Stray Doubles cost 15% less Resolve to summon
  2. 2Stray Doubles cost 25% less Resolve to summon
  3. 3Duration of Stray Doubles increased by 20%

Timeless

Each level grants a new effect against Stasis

  1. 1Genessa has 50% Stasis mitigation
  2. 2Genessa has Stasis immunity
  3. 3Enemies that inflict Stasis on Genessa receive 2 Phantom stacks instead.

Tier 2

Instigation

Each level improves Genessa's Doubles

  1. 1Faithful Doubles are summoned with 10 Warp stacks
  2. 2Faithful Doubles inflict 4 Phantom stacks
  3. 3Stray Doubles melee attacks inflict 3 Weak stacks
  4. 4Stray Doubles ranged attacks inflict 4 Fragile stacks

Intangible

When Genessa's Health is depleted:

  1. 1Genessa summons 2 last Faithful Doubles
  2. 2Genessa summons 3 last Faithful Doubles
  3. 3Genessa summons 4 last Faithful Doubles

Tier 3

Distraction

Each level improves Faithful Doubles

  1. 1Faithful Doubles have 50% chance to be attacked by enemies
  2. 2Faithful Doubles struck by enemies burst into a shockwave that inflicts 80% Stasis stacks
  3. 3Faithful Doubles struck by enemies burst into a shockwave that inflicts 15 Stasis stacks

Communion

Each level improves Stray Doubles

  1. 1Stray Doubles deal 150% melee damage
  2. 2Stray Doubles deal 200% melee damage
  3. 3Stray Doubles deal 150% ranged damage
  4. 4Stray Doubles deal 200% ranged damage

Alteration

Sester Genessa is no more and becomes Stray by default

  1. 1Duration of Stray Doubles increased by 3s
  2. 2Duration of Stray Doubles increased by 5s
  3. 3Duration of Stray Doubles increased by 8s

Tier 4

Impetus

Each level improves Faithful Doubles

  1. 1Faithful Doubles have 15% chance to perform any equipped Weapon Ability
  2. 2Faithful Doubles have 20% chance to perform any equipped Weapon Ability
  3. 3Faithful Doubles have 22% chance to perform any equipped Weapon Ability

Causality

Each level improves Stray Doubles

  1. 1Melee Stray Doubles have 25% chance to apply any equipped Weapon Infusion
  2. 2Melee Stray Doubles have 25% chance to apply any equipped Sidearm Infusion
  3. 3Melee Stray Doubles have 35% chance to apply any equipped Weapon Infusion
  4. 4Melee Stray Doubles have 35% chance to apply any equipped Sidearm Infusion

Mirage

Each level improves Stray Doubles

  1. 1Stray Doubles protect Stray Genessa from a single fatal blow
  2. 2Stray Genessa can summon an additional Stray Double
  3. 3Stray Doubles protect Stray Genessa from 2 fatal blows

Where to find it

The route to it passes through:

Sester GenessaMarrow KeepSester Secundus

Elsewhere in the wiki

Named on

Senester

In-game

Sester's Censer Location Mortal Shell 2
Sester's Censer Location Mortal Shell 2