Chaos Zero Nightmare (CZN)TressaBuild and Guide
Best guide and build for Tressa from Chaos Zero Nightmare (CZN). Tressa is a 4✦ character from the Psionic class and Void attribute, who belongs to the Terrascion [Planet-Born] faction.
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Profile
Review
Epiphanies
Gear
Deck & Teams
Profile
For a lot card descriptions we updated them compared to what's in game - as either they didn't work as the description implied or the translation was a bit confusing.
Starting Cards:
Dagger Throw
Touch of Darkness
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Unsheathe Dagger
Unique Cards:
Curse
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Shadow Reload
Create 1 Advanced Shadow Dagger.
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Vital Attack
If the target is in Agony, +50% Damage.
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Cursed Gouge
2 Weaken.
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Generated Cards:
Shadow Dagger
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Advanced Shadow Dagger
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Ego Skill:
Wave of Darkness
Ego Skill
Epiphany Cards:
Epiphany cards are special evolutions for the cards you can obtain while playing the roguelike mode. Only some cards in the character's deck can get Epiphany effects. Since there's quite a lot of them, we don't display them by default - press the button below to show them. There are also Divine variants of Epiphany cards, but we're still working on gathering them.
Unsheathe Dagger I
Unsheathe Dagger II
Unsheathe Dagger III
At the start of the turn, create 1 Shadow Dagger.
Unsheathe Dagger IV
+3 Agony Effect to created Shadow Dagger.
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Unsheathe Dagger V
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Curse I
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Curse II
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Curse III
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Curse IV
At the start of turn, 2 Agony to all enemies.
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Curse V
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Shadow Reload I
2 Agony.
Exhaust all Shadow Dagger in hand, repeat equal to that number.
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Shadow Reload II
Create 2 Advanced Shadow Dagger.
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Shadow Reload III
Create X Shadow Daggers card(s).
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Shadow Reload IV
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Shadow Reload V
Create Shadow Dagger equal to that number.
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Vital Attack I
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Vital Attack II
If the target is in Agony, +70% Damage.
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Vital Attack III
For 1 turn, +50% Agony Damage.
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Vital Attack IV
If target's Agony is 3, or more, trigger 1 more time.
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Vital Attack V
+10% Damage per target's Agony.
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The values are shown for level 1 for the nodes currently. Some of them can be leveled multiple times (up to 5/10) and we will add those values soon!
Epiphany Bonus
Potential 1
Upgrade Basic Cards
Potential 2
Neutral Card Upgrade
Potential 3
Basic Card Proficiency
Potential 3-1
Upgrade Unique Cards
Potential 4
Critical Chance Proficiency
Potential 5
Basic Card Proficiency
Potential 5-1
If Tressa’s Damage over Time is greater than 15% an additional +5% to that value.
Critical Damage Proficiency
Potential 6
Upgrade Unique Stats
Potential 7
If Tressa's Damage over Time is greater than 30%, +4% to that value.
Sleeping Memory
Manifest Ego 1
Awakening Memory
Manifest Ego 2
Vivid Memory
Manifest Ego 3
Inner Memory
Manifest Ego 4
Complete Memory
Manifest Ego 5
Liberated Memory
Manifest Ego 6
Review
Tressa is CZN's DoT specialist who deals damage by inflicting Agony. Agony lasts 2 turns in most cases and deals Fixed Damage at the end of your turn. Tressa's most efficient Agony application comes in the form of her 0-cost Shadow Daggers, which she can generate with her cards and Ego Skill. Her gameplay is simple: generate daggers, spam them to apply as much Agony as possible, and use her Agony-scaling payoff cards to deal even more damage.
Pros
Applies frequent Agony (DoT) which deals Fixed damage, ignoring damage reduction.
Can inflict Weakness, lowering enemy damage output.
Generates an absurd amount of 0-cost Exhaust attack cards, which are beneficial for certain synergies.
High hit count playstyle scales well with Morale.
Cons
Very limited AoE only accessible via Epiphanies.
Agony damage is backloaded and takes time to deal its full damage.
Incredibly high action count can accelerate enemy actions.
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- Agony: Where the majority of Tressa’s damage scaling stems from. Agony is a debuff applied to enemies that has a duration that ticks down at the end of each turn. When ticking down deals 50% ATK as Fixed DoT damage. Agony can be applied multiple times to the same target and is removed when the duration reaches 0.
- Fixed Damage: Fixed Damage cannot be increased or decreased by the usual additive or multiplicative +% bonuses.
- Shadow Dagger: One of Tressa’s signature mechanics is her Shadow Daggers, which are 0-cost single-target attacks that inflict 1 stack of Agony for 2 turns and exhaust after use. Shadow Daggers are generated via many of Tressa’s abilities and are core to most of her damage.
- Advanced Shadow Dagger: A harder-hitting version of Shadow Dagger, which inflicts 2 stacks of Agony instead of 1 and costs 1 AP, not 0. In exchange, it has Retain, allowing you to hold onto it, and Retrieve, allowing you to add it back once after use.
- Weaken: A debuff that reduces enemy damage by 25%. Upon an enemy dealing damage, reduce Weakness by 1.
Wave of Darkness
Ego Skill
Wave of Darkness
Costs 5EP and simply generates 2 Shadow Daggers on use, nothing groundbreaking but is even more access to shadow daggers which is never not useful. A likely lower priority than most other Ego skills on your team but still solid.
Dagger Throw
Dagger Throw
Tressa’s Basic Attack is mostly standard but becomes far stronger than most Combatants’ thanks to her Potential that allows it to apply Agony. Thanks to this, it becomes a serviceable tool for Tressa’s strategy.
Touch of Darkness
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Touch of Darkness
Tressa’s basic heal is completely standard and doesn't have any extra synergy with her kit.
Unsheathe Dagger
Unsheathe Dagger
The highlight of Tressa’s Starting Deck. Costs 1AP and generates 2 Shadow Daggers on use, making it 1 cost for 2 hits and 2 Agony. This is a deal that is very much worth it with how the rest of Tressa’s kit scales.
Curse
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Curse
A Skill card that causes any Attack cards played to apply 2 stacks of Agony for one turn. Solid all around and always playable unless you have no Attack cards in hand. Works especially well if you’re able to generate a bunch of Shadow Daggers in the same turn.
Shadow Reload
Create 1 Advanced Shadow Dagger.
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Shadow Reload
A 1AP Heal that also generates an Advanced Shadow Dagger for the current combat. An effective choice if you’re lacking access to Agony-applying attacks, but gains most of its value through Epiphany upgrades.
Vital Attack
If the target is in Agony, +50% Damage.
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Vital Attack
A 2-cost Attack that hits three times for 80% damage per hit, or for 130% per hit if the target has any Agony stacks. Most enemies you target with this will have at least one Agony stack, making it a powerful damage-dealing option if you have the AP for it.
Cursed Gouge
2 Weaken.
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Cursed Gouge
A 1-Cost Skill card that applies 2 stacks of Agony and Weakness. Building Agony stacks is Tressa’s main goal, and the Weakness debuff will reduce the damage enemies deal, allowing more time for Agony stacks to deal damage before your team winds up in a dangerous situation.
Tressa’s potentials are excellent. You’ll want to pick up her 3-1 ASAP, and the rest when possible.
- 3-1: Causes Dagger Throw to apply Agony to the target. This is a HUGE upgrade to the card and should be a high priority to acquire as soon as possible.
- 5-1: Adds +5% extra damage to Dagger Throw. Additionally, if Tressa’s Damage Over Time is greater than 15%, an additional +5% is added.
- 7: Adds +4% Void Attribute Damage. If Tressa’s Damage Over Time is greater than 30% another +4% is added.
Standard Playstyle
Tressa stands out as one of the characters with the highest access to 0-cost attack skills in the game, making her synergistic with many other combatant playstyles. That aside, Tressa is perfectly functional by herself. When playing Tressa with a focus on her own kit, your goal should be to maximize Agony application by aligning Shadow Dagger use with Curse if possible. Outside of this leverage her high AP efficiency cards when available and use her Agony payoff cards when you can.
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Best Cards
Note
For every Epiphany, we're colored their name based on how useful we think it is compared to the other variants. Here's the key to the colors:
- Epiphany Name - the best variant,
- Epiphany Name - a good variant,
- Epiphany Name - a niche variant.
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Gear
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Deck & Teams
Important!
CZN is a game of randomness; sometimes you’ll be offered generic or Divine epiphanies that are stronger than a character's standard five options. In these cases, breaking the listed build can result in an even more powerful save. Adjust as you see fit!
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