Last-Minute Changes to Seed and Orphie & Magus in Zenless Zone Zero 2.2

• Seed Adjustments
• Orphie & Magus Adjustments

Seed Adjustments

Hoyoverse has made a surprise announcement just a week before the official release of Zenless Zone Zero 2.2. Significant adjustments have been made to the characters Seed and Orphie & Magus, focusing on their core abilities and gameplay mechanics. Players eager to enhance their gaming experience need to be aware of these changes!

Here’s a breakdown of Seed’s adjustments:

• Core Skill
  • New Additional Ability: Surprise Strike
    • Seed's basic attacks, specifically Falling Petals – Slaughter, Downfall, and Clockwork Garden – Bloom! will now inflict 30% extra damage while ignoring 25% of enemy Electric resistance.
• Mindscapes
  • Mindscape 2 (New):
    • While Besiege is active, the agent's damage will ignore 20% of enemy DEF.
    • By activating the EX Special Attack: Raining Iron Petals after consuming 60 energy, further energy can be consumed to prolong the skill duration up to a max of 120 energy.
    • For every 5 energy consumed, the next Falling Petals – Slaughter will gain an additional 5% damage.
  • Mindscape 4:
    • Besiege will now increase Decibel Generation Rate by 10%.
    • Ultimate damage bonus has been raised from 15% to 20%.
• Damage Coefficient Changes
  • EX Special Attack:
    • Iron Petal Storm: damage reduced from 1399% to 1367.6%.
    • Daze (Iron Petal Storm): damage reduced from 903% to 880.5%.
  • Iron Petal Storm (secondary value): lowered from 46.5% to 37.1%.
  • Ultimate:
    • Clockwork Garden – Bloom!: decreased from 6547% to 6500.2%.
    • Ultimate Daze: reduced from 922.2% to 894%.
  • Quick Assist: Petal Storm: decreased from 323.1% to 308%.
  • Quick Assist Daze: reduced from 121.4% to 115.5%.
  • Dodge Counter: Blooming Splendor: lowered from 661.8% to 640.2%.
  • Dodge Counter Daze: decreased from 394.3% to 382.5%.

Overall, Seed benefits from a combination of buffs, including a new passive skill and DEF ignoring capabilities, while experiencing minor nerfs to damage coefficients.

Orphie & Magus Adjustments

The adjustments for Orphie & Magus are noteworthy as well:

• Ultimate – Dance with Fire
  • This skill now performs a spinning attack followed by firing a laser that deals Fire damage.
  • When leaping into the air, a Quick Assist will automatically trigger.
  • If a Quick Assist is activated, this will extend the duration of the laser fire.
  • Activating this ultimate restores 20 Bottled Heat.
• Core Passive – Ride the Wind and Flame
  • Removed component: When using the Ultimate with 100 or more Bottled Heat, causing Zeroed In effect for all squad members.
• Mindscapes
  • Mindscape 2:
    • Changed effect from CRIT DMG +40% to ATK +20% for 30s → 45s.
  • Mindscape 4:
    • Zeroed In effect duration increased to 18s.
    • EX Special Attack + Ultimate damage bonus boosted to 45%.
• Hotfix Updates
  • Ultimate no longer consumes heat when at full capacity.
  • Ultimate no longer applies the Zeroed In effect directly.
  • Both Ultimate and Chain Attack now restore 20 Heat each.

While Orphie & Magus have seen slight nerfs regarding buffs and scaling, overall quality-of-life improvements have been made to their Heat management, enhancing gameplay flow.

With the final adjustments in place, players can expect Seed to be balanced for launch, maintaining her unique mechanics while ensuring she isn't overpowered at release. Orphie & Magus will support utility improvements but with more manageable Heat mechanics.

With Zenless Zone Zero 2.2 just around the corner, these adjustments appear to be the final tweaks. Players looking to up their game can visit ItemD2R for ZZZ Top Up options to enhance your gaming journey further!