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YugiNoob posted...

How do I finish the weekly missions about clearing Pain Cage or War Zone 12 times for the first time? Since there are only 10 Pain Cage bosses total with their different difficulties. Will more things open up later and Ill just be unable to do those missions until then?

It doesn't count when you re-clear stages you've already beaten? I usually don't have to worry about that, so I'm not going to be much help to you this time. You do get 8 attempts in the Pain Cage on the weekends now and more stage unlocks in War Zone, so maybe try one of the lower difficulty stages (Elite or Knight) again? For War Zone, maybe re-clear stage 3 of a zone? That's all I can really think of.

Other than that, just finish what you can and try again tomorrow when all of the weeklies reset. Once things do reset, I'll be in a position to test some ideas. If anything, you can start the week off doing that War Zone dailies trick I linked to before. When your account level gets to 55+, you'll start getting three bosses instead of two.

Here's what I do during the week:
Monday - All three stages in one zone in War Zone; 4 runs of Pain Cage
Tuesday - same
Wednesday - War Zone is on Recruitment Phase, so nothing today; wrap up Pain Cage runs
Thursday - Complete another War Zone area
Friday - Finish War Zone runs for the week
Saturday & Sunday - break from both; maybe finish up on Saturday if I missed something or felt lazy

On another note, I did learn something interesting about the Nier characters in this game recently. I was somewhat mistaken about their strength relative to the regular physical team. I came across some threads where veteran players were referring to them as "the whale team" but I didn't know why that was the case. It turns out that, while they are stronger than Alpha+Rosetta+Liv (especially when Alpha's bursts are not feasible), they all have to have their signature weapons and be at least SSS to get there (i.e. pulling enough copies for shards). Since the collab eventually gets a rerun, you could split up pulling for duplicates between the two events but you would have to do that anyway to make them worthwhile. If you keep them at S or SS rank, the Alpha team is stronger. Just something to keep in mind for later. At least it doesn't get in the way of simply collecting them, I guess, but it's a little disappointing.

The upside to that, if you can pull off getting the three all decked out, you'll have a second physical-based team that's better for War Zone and for bosses Alpha can't burst down or has poor survivability against. I'm not really sure what I'm going to do when the collaboration hits: just collect and be done or pull lots of copies.

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