ZZZ Drive Disc Farming Planner (Area Patrol)

Pick the agents you are building and this Zenless Zone Zero Drive Disc farming planner ranks all 15 Area Patrol stages by how many Drive Discs your team can actually use per 60 Battery — which stage to farm first, and which to skip.

1 Your roster

Every Area Patrol stage drops exactly two Drive Disc sets for 60 Battery, so a stage where both sets are ones you want is worth twice the battery of one where only one is. Mark the agents you own below — it is the same roster as the ZZZ Roster Builder, saved in this browser.

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2 Who to plan for

Pick the agents you're building — any number — or plan for your whole roster.

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3 Which Area Patrol stage to farm

How this ranking works

Every Area Patrol stage costs 60 Battery and returns about 2.5 S-rank discs at Lv. 60, split evenly between the stage's two Drive Disc sets. So roughly 1.25 discs land on each set, and the only question worth asking is how much of that do I actually want.

Each selected agent votes. Their recommended 4-piece sets and 2-piece effects become weighted needs — first choice counts most, later alternatives taper off.
Every agent gets one equal vote per role. An agent's vote is split across their options, so someone with a single viable 4pc (Remielle → Feathered Fate) puts their whole weight on one set, while a Stun agent happy with any of four sets spreads theirs thin. Narrow needs rank higher because only one stage can ever satisfy them — those are tagged only option on the card.
Main DPS outbids support. Support, Stun and Defense set choices are saturated — one or two genuinely good sets each, everyone converges on them, and a buffer whose job is a flat team-wide percentage works fine on mediocre pieces. A carry's discs are where the damage actually comes from. So a DPS need counts full, a Stun need 0.6, and Support/Defense 0.5 for the same 60 Battery.
2-piece needs are matched on the effect, not the set name. Freedom Blues, Chaos Jazz and Feathered Fate all grant Anomaly Proficiency +30 — that is one need with three sources, not three needs. Guides written before a new set shipped will only name the older ones.
A stage scores the sum of both its sets. That is already the "both discs usable" rule: a stage where you want both halves outscores an otherwise equal stage where half the drops are junk. The Battery / wanted S-disc figure spells it out — 24 when both sets are wanted, 48 when only one is.
The farm order strikes off what it covers. After a stage is picked, the needs it satisfies stop counting, so a second source of an already-covered 2-piece effect collapses to nothing. That is why some stages vanish from the plan even though they look good in the full list below — you'll see a ↺ already covered note saying which stage got there first.

Not modelled: double-reward events (they scale every stage equally, so they can't change the order), and main-stat / slot RNG within a set.

Farm order

Built greedily: once a 2-piece effect is covered, other sources of it stop counting. Freedom Blues, Chaos Jazz and Feathered Fate all grant Anomaly Proficiency +30 — one need, not three.

Do not farm for these discs

All 15 stages

Sorted by Value: how much of this team's outstanding set demand one run serves, scaled so the best stage is 100. Battery per wanted S-disc is the raw efficiency (24 when both sets are wanted, 48 when one is).

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❓ How it works

Which Area Patrol stage should I farm for Drive Discs?

The stage where both of its Drive Disc sets are ones your team wants. Area Patrol is the only targeted source of Drive Discs: each of the 15 stages drops exactly two sets, and a run costs 60 Battery Charge (2–3 S-rank and 5 A-rank discs at level 60). A stage where only one set is useful returns roughly half the value of a stage where both are. The planner scores every stage by usable discs per run and emits a farm order.

How does it know which sets my agents want?

From community build guides: each agent has a recommended 4-piece set and one or more 2-piece effects. The 2-piece part is matched by effect, not by set name — Freedom Blues, Chaos Jazz and Feathered Fate all give Anomaly Proficiency +30, so any of them satisfies that need. Pick specific agents to plan for a team, or use your whole owned roster.

Which Drive Disc should I farm in ZZZ?

Start with the 4-piece set of the agent you are building right now — a 4pc need is four specific discs and only one or two stages drop that set, so it is the scarce part of any build. 2-piece needs are flexible: they are an effect (Anomaly Proficiency, Ether DMG, ATK%…) that several sets provide, so they are usually covered by whatever else the stage drops. The planner encodes exactly that: a 4pc need is worth more than a 2pc need, an agent's only viable set outweighs one of four options, and a stage whose two sets both serve your team beats one where only one does.

How is the stage value calculated?

Every selected agent contributes the same total demand, split across their recommended 4-piece sets and 2-piece effect classes by rank (each lower-ranked option is worth 60% of the one above). A set's value is the 4pc demand for that exact set plus the 2pc demand for its effect class, with partial credit for near-equivalent classes. A stage's Value is the sum of its two sets' values, scaled so the best stage for your team reads 100; ties break on how many sets are wanted and how many agents are served. The farm order is greedy: once a run covers an effect, other sources of that effect stop counting, so the list tells you what to run next rather than listing the same need five times.

What about stages to avoid?

Stages where neither set is wanted by anyone you selected are listed separately so you don't spend Battery there. Ether Batteries (auto-combat, up to four queued) follow the same ranking — the plan is about where the Battery goes, not how you clear the stage.

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