Tower of Adversity — Wuthering Waves

Every season is split into three zones of rising difficulty: Stable Zone (the easiest, a warm-up), Experimental Zone (mid-tier, where most rosters start to feel the buff's effect), and Hazard Zone (the hardest, where clear rankings actually get decided). Each zone is a multi-floor climb — clear one floor to open the next, with difficulty scaling as you go.

The twist is the season-wide buff: every season applies its own rotating buff that boosts specific damage types, elements or mechanics across all three zones. Because the enemy composition and this buff both rotate, a team that topped the Hazard Zone last season is not guaranteed to top it again — grouping-focused and AoE-heavy characters swing in and out of relevance depending on what the current buff and enemy line-up reward.

Two different clocks run on Tower of Adversity, and mixing them up is the most common mistake:

• Weekly reward reset — clear progress toward the weekly reward cap resets every week alongside the weekly boss clears and Whimpering Wastes. Miss a week and that week's reward allowance is gone; nothing carries over.
• Season rotation (the enemy line-up + buff) — this is the longer cycle covered by the season list below. Reading the actual start/finish dates for every season since launch shows the cadence itself changed: Seasons 1-18 ran on a 14-day (biweekly) cycle from launch through early February 2025, then Season 19 onward switched to a 28-day (monthly) cycle, which is still the current pace.

Practical takeaway: clear your weekly reward cap every single week regardless of season, and don't assume the enemy comp or buff you're building around will still be there in four weeks — check the season timer before committing to a long farming plan.