Tower of Adversity: Hazard Zone 1.1 Guide

Overview

Important Terminology

Vigor: A resource tied to your Resonator, which is used to enter a stage and completing a stage.
Interference: Buffs active for specific Tower.

What is the Tower of Adversity: Hazard Zone?

Tower of Adversity (ToA) is a recurring challenge stage that requires you to complete increasingly difficult stages to obtain rewards. These stages are time trials featuring several Overworld enemies and bosses with bumped-up stats.

Unlike Tactical Challenge, each stage will require a certain amount of Vigor to enter and complete. This means that half the challenge is managing the Vigor levels of Resonators in your teams to ensure they can enter each stage. Thus, players are rewarded for building a wide variety of Resonators rather than focusing on a single team.

Vigor Distribution

Before diving into Vigor distribution, keep in mind that all towers require a total of 10 Vigor each.

A common way to distribute Vigor in Resonant/Echoing Tower is to split stages 1+4 and 2+3 to different teams (e.g. The image above has Jiyan handles Stage 2+3 on both Echoing and Resonant Towers totaling to 10 Vigor. While Encore and Jinhsi teams handle stage 1 and 4 of Resonant and Echoing Tower totaling to 5 Vigor each).

If you wish to use two teams for Hazard Tower, each team can tackle 1+4 on each side. Distributing your Vigor this way allows you to pick stages where each team will shine.

Alternatively, you can have 1 team per tower if you do not need a specific team for a stage. This is easiest and requires no thought into placements.

Recommended Investment for 30▲ Crest Clear

All main-DPS are S0 and Jinshi does not have signature weapon

For a full 30▲ clear, the bare minimum requirement is to have at least 3 well-built main DPS, 2 sub DPS, and 1 or 2 support units. Additionally, Echoes and weapons are not locked upon clearing a stage. This allows you to share equipment between Resonators.

Generally, support Resonators can be left at a low level, as they only need Bell-Borne Geochelone, a 5pc Rejuvenating Glow set, and a way to trigger it.

Resonant Tower

Note that once your Resonators hit level 70, you should be able to solo or duo stages 1–3 with ease. However, there is no shame in bringing a full team to stages if you are struggling.

Resonators marked with ★ perform well in that stage, and Resonators marked as ⚠ have multiple or core enemies that resist their element.

Tower Buffs

Characters’ Electro DMG Bonus is increased by 30%.
DMG dealt by Resonators off field is increased by 100%

Stage 1

Enemy List:

Character Recommendations

Main DPS	Sub DPS	Support
Calcharo ★ Jiyan ★ Jinhsi ★ Encore ★ Rover (Havoc) ⚠ Danjin ⚠ Chixia Lingyang	Yinlin ★ Mortefi ★ Yuanwu ★ Sanhua ★ Rover (Spectro)	Verina ★ Jianxin ★ Yangyang ★ Baizhi Taoqi

Note that this list is ONLY A CHARACTER RECOMMENDATION, NOTHING CAN REPLACE GENERAL TEAM BUILDING KNOWLEDGE AND CHARACTER SYNERGIES.

Your standard AoE centric floor with 3 waves of enemies. For this stage, Resonators who can gather enemies are key picks to clear in a timely fashion.

Stage 2

Enemy List:

Character Recommendations

Main DPS	Sub DPS	Support
Calcharo ★ Jiyan ★ Jinhsi ★ Encore ⚠ Rover (Havoc) ⚠ Danjin ⚠ Chixia ⚠ Lingyang	Yinlin ★ Mortefi ★ ⚠ Yuanwu ★ Sanhua ★ Rover (Spectro)	Verina ★ Jianxin ★ Yangyang ★ Baizhi Taoqi

Note that this list is ONLY A CHARACTER RECOMMENDATION, NOTHING CAN REPLACE GENERAL TEAM BUILDING KNOWLEDGE AND CHARACTER SYNERGIES.

Focus target any Young Roseshrooms on stage 2, as they cannot move or be Crowd-Controlled. Additionally, the rest of the enemies in the stage will always come closer to you allowing you to hit the Young Roseshrooms alongside the rest of the enemies.

Stage 3

Enemy List:

Character Recommendations

Main DPS	Sub DPS	Support
Calcharo ★ Encore ★ Jinhsi ★⚠ Jiyan ★ Rover (Havoc) ⚠ Danjin ⚠ Chixia Lingyang	Yinlin ★ Mortefi ★ Yuanwu ★ Sanhua ★ Rover (Spectro)	Verina ★ Jianxin ★ Yangyang ★ Baizhi Taoqi

Note that this list is ONLY A CHARACTER RECOMMENDATION, NOTHING CAN REPLACE GENERAL TEAM BUILDING KNOWLEDGE AND CHARACTER SYNERGIES.

There is really only one threat on this stage, and it is the Chasm Guardian. We recommend focus targeting it as well as the Rocksteady, and using AoE attacks to take care of the remaining mobs.

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Stage 4

Enemy List:

Character Recommendations

Main DPS	Sub DPS	Support
Calcharo ★ Encore ★ Rover (Havoc) ★ Jiyan ★ Jinhsi ⚠ Danjin Chixia Lingyang	Yinlin ★ Mortefi ★ Yuanwu ★ Sanhua ★ Rover (Spectro) ⚠	Verina ★ Jianxin ★ Yangyang Baizhi Taoqi

Note that this list is ONLY A CHARACTER RECOMMENDATION, NOTHING CAN REPLACE GENERAL TEAM BUILDING KNOWLEDGE AND CHARACTER SYNERGIES.

Finally, we have the first menace of ToA, the Exile Technician. If left unchecked, the Exile Technician will constantly spam shield effects for the entire team, prolonging clear time. There is no other way to counteract this other than by stunning or defeating her.

If you have successfully defeated the first wave of enemies with around 4:20~4:30 time remaining, the run should be smooth sailing from there. The second half of this stage is Mourning Aix, and this version of the boss is an absolute pushover; it has low HP and doesn’t have any new moves from its Tactical Hologram counterpart.

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Echoing Tower

Note that once your Resonators hit level 70, you should be able to solo or duo stages 1–3 with ease. However, there is no shame in bringing a full team to stages if you are struggling.

Resonators marked with ★ perform well in that stage, and Resonators marked as ⚠ have multiple or core enemies that resist their element.