Zenless Zone Zero offers a wide variety of Characters or Agents. The highest level possible to reach for characters is 60. Additionally, W-Engines can be equipped to enhance the weapons and attacks in combat, hence increasing their Stats. Zenless Zone Zero Monochrome, which you can get from TopUPlive, can be used to obtain Master Tapes through which rare characters and W-engines can be pulled.
Players can increase the Base stats, skills, and equipment level of the characters. To level up your character, go to the Agent section at the bottom of the menu or at the top right when in Exploration mode. Here, you can choose which character you want to level up.
Increasing the level also requires certification skills that can be obtained as rewards in combat or through dismantling certain materials. This is used in promoting the agent and unlocks the ability for you to start leveling your character. Promoting the character also offers rewards. However, it is important to increase your inter-knot level as well because it enables the process of leveling as well. You can do ZZZ top up to obtain materials that fasten the process of upgrading inter-knot level, which includes completing missions, etc.
Base Stats
Increasing the base level of a character also allows you to increase their other skills. This process involves a material cost. The material cost includes the certification skills mentioned above to promote and ascend the character. Now, to level up after the promotion (it just unlocks the access to upgrade the level), players need more materials:
Investigator Logs
This can be mainly obtained from the combats simulation and as you play the game. Since you'll need a few of them, you have the opportunity to auto-add or manually add them yourself. There are three types of Investigator Logs - Trainee, Official and Senior offering 100, 600, and 3000 EXP, respectively.
Core Skills
Reaching certain character levels that increase through the base stats, players unlock core skill levels too. They significantly increase the damage you do in battle. The more passives you unlock, the more impactful they become. Players require unique Core Skill enhancement materials to upgrade their core skills. For example, Higher Dimensional Data - Ethereal Pursuit, Living Drive, Ferocious Grip, Finale Dance Shoes, etc.
Skill Enhancement
Players need to reach certain character level thresholds to enable the process of enhancing the skills of a character. The materials required for this process are:
Attribute Chips
These chips are required in accordance with the character's attribute to level up a Skill. The method through which they can be obtained is combat simulators. Different attribute chips come as basic, advanced or specialized. Additionally, there is an original chip that can be used as a substitute for tactical chips.
Equipment
Equipment is as important as weapons and armor in traditional RPGs. It includes W engines and drive discs.
W-Engines
Different W-Engines provide different attributes to characters. W-Engines have three ranks:
S-Rank, A-Rank, and B-Rank. S-Rank W-Engines are the rarest and, by default, the best as they offer impressive stats, whereas B-Rank engines are the least impressive and the most common. To get these valuable S-Rank W-Engines, Encrypted Master Tapes can be used. Top up ZZZ to obtain Encrypted Master Tapes.
These W-Engines can be leveled up to get further stat boosts. There are two ways you can level up a W-Engine:
The first way is by a simple level-up
To do that tap the two arrows next to the indicator. This will level up the W engine with the required materials. The Auto-add adds the required materials automatically. After which the player would have to press Upgrade to level up to the maximum level.
The second way to level up
It is by increasing its style level. This can be done by combining it with a duplicate W engine. The screen will display the duplicates of the selected W-Engine if you have them. Combine them with their duplicates to increase their style level. Additionally, you can lock the rare W-Engines to prevent accidental combinations. However, if you wish to unlock it, you can manually do so by clicking the padlock icon.
Drive Discs
You can equip up to six drive disks. Each of these drive disks improves main stats as well as sub-stats. You can obtain drive disks from the music store and the routine clean-up missions. To get drive discs, players first need to obtain Master copies. These items are then used to obtain drive discs of S-Rank and A-Rank. You can get Master Copies by dismantling Disc Drives. Also, reaching certain levels in the New Eridu City Fund will grant you Master Copies. Disc drives have three rarities: B-Rank, A-Rank, and S-Rank.
Drive discs offer two types of stats: the Base Stats and the Random Stats.
The Base Stats
They are the main stats of the disc. They are different for each slot of discs.
The Random stats
They are the additional stats. You can get a maximum of four random stats in a single disc piece.
Additionally, if the player gets a character once again, then it can increase the character's abilities. This duplicate can be obtained through the character wish banner, shop or specific events.
Conclusion
Leveling up characters in Zenless Zone Zero may seem challenging, but as you play, complete missions, and gain experience, you will obtain the desired materials. ZZZ top-up can further speed up this process as you can buy rare materials and even characters. Additionally, upgrading your bangboo can significantly aid in the battles and help you achieve success.
