Zenless Zone Zero: How to Get and Upgrade Drive Discs

Jul. 4, 2024

Zenless Zone Zero is different as well as similar in many expects to other Hoyoverse games. While playing the game, you may have come across Drive Discs. Agents can equip these to increase their base stats and they also have set effects that provide passive buffs to the Agents. Here is a complete guide on what Drive Discs are in Zenless Zone Zero, and how to get and upgrade them.

What Are Drive Discs in Zenless Zone Zero

Drive Discs in Zenless Zone Zeroare equivalent to Artifacts or Relics, and they can be equipped by Agents to increase their base stats or have a passive set effect bonus. There are six Drive Disc equip slots in ZZZ and the first three always have the same base stats, while the last three have randomized base stats.

Every Drive Disc is part of a set, and equipping the Drive Discs from the same set provides passive buffs to the characters.Each Drive Disc set has a 2-piece or 4-piece set effect, so every Agent can either have one 4-piece and one 2-piece set effects of different Drive Discs or have three different 2-piece set effects.

Initially, you won’t find a way to get Drive Discs in the game. You can obtain Drive Discs using themusic store Bardic Needleand tune new random Drive Discs. The music store Bardic Needle unlocks after finishing Chapter 2 of the Story Commissions,around Inter-Knot level 30.Image Courtesy: In-game Screenshot

Once you have unlocked the Bardic Needle, you canfarm the Drive Discs from the Routine CleanupTraining section,which also unlocks around the same time.The rarity of the Drive Discs in Bardic Needle is based on your Inter-Knot level. From Level 40 and above you can obtain S-Rank Drive Discs from the Routine Cleanup training. Other than the music store, you can also get Drive Discs by completing certain in-game missions.

To level up Drive Discs in Zenless Zone Zero, you will needPlating Agents,which give XP to Drive Discs level them up. There are various ways you can get Plating Agents in ZZZ:

ADrive Disc can have a maximum of 4 random sub stats. Every 3 levels, one sub-stat is added or enhanced in the Drive Disc.

Here are all the possible Drive Disc Main Stats:Drive Disc NumberPossible Main StatsIFlat HPIIFlat AttackIIIFlat DefenseIVHP%, Attack%, Defense%, Crit Rate%, Crit Damage%, Anomaly ProficiencyVHP%, Attack%, Defense%, Penetration Ratio%, Elemental Damage%VIHP%, Attack%, Defense%, Anomaly Mastery%, Energy Regen%, Impact%

Here are all the possible Drive Disc Sub Stats:

Drive Disc Sub-statscannot be the same as the main staton that Drive. For example, if the main stat is Attack%, that Drive Disc cannot have Attack% as sub-stat as well.

So, that’s everything about Drive Discs in Zenless Zone Zero. If you have any further questions on Drive Discs, ask us in the comment section.

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