Zenless Zone Zero is as gacha as gacha games get, so at a certain point, you’ll need to start completing a selection of daily tasks to progress the story and your account. The list gets longer the more activities and reward sources you unlock, and we’ll be going over everything here.
Free-to-Play Daily Task List in Zenless Zone Zero
The number of daily tasks you have in Zenless Zone Zero starts fairly small, but once you get into Chapter 2 and beyond, their number increases by at least one per Inter-Knot level. Most of these activities cost Battery Charge to do for rewards, and you’ll rack up enough activities and game modes that even the coffee-boosted 300 Battery Charge isn’t enough. However, if you’re smart about both your battery and other resource use, you’ll do well.
Daily Errands
The daily-est of daily tasks are your Errands, which consist of the simplest tasks in all of Zenless Zone Zero. There is a selection of tasks you can complete for a required total of 400 points. They are:
- Log in for the day (100 points).
- Try one coffee (100 points).
- Get a scratch-off card from Howl (100 points).
- Open the video store to business (100 points).
- Complete a Hollow Zero run once (400 points).
- Spend 60 Battery Charge (200 points).
Honestly, the last two tasks are just kind of there because you should always get a coffee for the extra Battery, always get a scratch-off card for free rewards, and open the video store in no time at all. If you want to start a ZZZero session with Hollow Zero, you can, but the easiest options are best.
Spend Your Battery Charge
If you have the maximum 300 Battery Charge from drinking coffee, you’ll want to spend most or all of your Charge on whatever you need that day. For progression, I highly recommend focusing on Combat Simulation activities that award Skill and Promotion materials for your Agents and W-Engines. You can also spend some charge on:
- Expert Challenges for Core Skill ascension materials.
- Basic Material Simulations for XP Items if you’re running super short or you have a new character you’re looking to bring up to par. This is also true once you can take your characters and W-Engines to at least level 40, as the XP item cost gets a bit excessive.
- Routine Cleanup for Drive Discs once you can get your characters to at least level 40. Drive Discs and Zenless Zone Zero’s version of Artifacts, Relics, and Echoes (Genshin, Honkai: Star Rail, and Wuthering Waves), and until you can reliably farm gold-rarity Discs, you don’t want to spend too much on them. However, past Inter-Knot rank 30, enemy scaling is such that you’ll probably need to invest in a full set of at least passable Drive Discs to stay competitive.
Check Each Hub Area for Commissions
Take some time each day you log in to Zenless Zone Zero to check all the hub areas you have unlocked. You might find new commissions or activities in at least one of them. ZZZero is weird in that there are tons of commissions to complete, whether in the hubs or through the H.D.D., and you can only find them by visiting the citizens of New Eridu and urging them to let you help. Use the opportunity to do some Officer Mewmew tasks and visit other NPCs for HIA Commemorative Coins, as well.
Build Trust With Your NPC Allies
Shortly after you reach Inter-Knot level 30, you’ll unlock the ability to direct message your NPC allies and set up special commissions where you meet with them and build your Trust Rank. At each rank, you get 30 Polychrome, as well as either Skill XP materials or character-specific bonuses.
You need to have pulled the characters and interacted with them in the story for them to appear in the hub areas, but once you’ve done both, you can meet up with them and respond to their questions and concerns. Responses each character favors will increase trust. Responses they don’t like will decrease trust. This depends on the character, with the happy-go-lucky Billy Kid favoring answers that play to his child-like sensibilities or deeper-rooted insecurities, for instance.
Weekly and Long-Term Task List in Zenless Zone Zero
On top of your daily tasks, there are plenty of weekly and even longer-term tasks you can undertake for rewards and progression. Most of these don’t cost Battery Charge, and while the rewards they offer are greater, you’ll need to work much harder for them. Moreover, you’ll likely need to engage with these more difficult tasks if you want the Polychrome to pull other limited characters that released in the future.
Hollow Zero
The first of two main endgame modes in Zenless Zone Zero, exploring Hollow Zero, is this new game’s version of the Simulated Universe from Honkai: Star Rail, with all the rogue-lite trappings you’d expect. You gain access to Hollow Zero fairly early in the story campaign, and you’ll earn additional areas and difficulties as you continue to increase your Inter-Knot level, complete main story commissions, and make your way through the Hollow Zero zones themselves.
Complete Floors of Shiyu Defense
The other, more straightforward endgame mode, Shiyu Defense, is the Spiral Abyss or Memory of Chaos in ZZZero. The mode is a set of combat challenges that escalate in difficulty. The first ten chambers are easy, but the latter floors up the difficulty exponentially, and you’ll eventually need two fully-built teams of three Agents to even hope for them. You’ll be well past Inter-Knot level 50 or higher by the time you can reliably clear the toughest Shiyu Defense stages. However, as the mode is one of the only recurring sources of Polychrome, mastering it can be essential to get more characters.
Notorious Hunts
One of the last activities you unlock is Notorious Hunts, or your weekly boss fights. You gain access to these hunts after Chapter 2, and you can complete three of them per week. Moreover, you need to complete them regularly if you want to fully level your character because, like other HoYoverse games, you can’t upgrade your character’s Skills all the way with the materials the bosses drop.
As for which bosses you’ll fight, expect main story chapter bosses only, much like Honkai: Star Rail and Genshin Impact. You might find an Agent Story boss sneak its way in, but for the foreseeable future, I’d expect only important story encounters to be featured here.
Account Trials
Trials are one of the more consistent reward tracks in Zenless Zone Zero, though only for progression. Each trial consists of five tasks you need to complete, but not all the tasks presented are available as soon as you unlock them in the trials.
The tasks are all relatively simple: engage with this new mechanic once, level an Agent or W-Engine to a certain level a certain number of times, meet this character at their new home, etc. You get Polychrome, Inter-Knot experience, and eventually even Drive Discs. Not in massive amounts, mind, but enough that they’re worth doing.
Spend Your Investigation Merits and E-Merits
Made available shortly after unlocking both Hollow Zero and Shiyu Defense, you’ll want to spend both currencies every month, as the rewards you can buy with them reset monthly, and any you don’t purchase will be lost. Rewards include a few tapes, Boopons, and upgrade materials, among others.
Progress the New Eridu City Fund Season Pass
Each major update in Zenless Zone Zero comes with a new season pass of the New Eridu City Fund. If you’re staying free-to-play, you can get up to five Master Tapes and a reasonable sum of currency and experience items simply by playing the game regularly. Ponying up for the premium pass does, of course, come with much better rewards, but that’s another topic.
And with that, you now know about all the daily, weekly, and long-term tasks you can and should do in Zenless Zone Zero. If this article was helpful, check out the others we have in our ZZZero guides hub.
Published: Jul 12, 2024 04:25 am