Story, then the rest
Story is the first mode. Normal and Hard pay separate first-clear rewards. Finish the early Normal clears before you jump to a mode that asks for traits or exclusive gear.
East Town
Warrior Saga, posted as Update 1.0 on August 10, 2026, added East Town with three branches described in that update's rundown:
- Story: normal and hard stages with modifiers.
- Infinite: payouts on hard stages after successful wave checkpoints. One write-up said every five waves.
- Mastery: hard stages and the only source that rundown explicitly called an exclusive equipment drop.
East Town also holds the Scholar's Trial tied to Prodigy in the same update notes. Two quest NPCs were mentioned for the Prodigy chase. Their exact map pins were not in the pages read here, so search the town during a stage rather than following a guessed coordinate.
Tower
Tower is an endless floor climb with random elemental resistances. Floor 50 awards the exclusive unit Cubert in the August 10 rundown. The mode splits into a normal trait version and Traitless, which turns unit traits off and is described as harder while paying similar rewards. Random resistances cut damage from the matching units, so a one-element team can stall on a bad roll.
Do not assume equipment passives also turn off in Traitless. That interaction was not specified. Run one floor and read the combat log before you reroll a Traitless build.
West City and older raids
West City Expedition was described as locked until earlier Expedition stages are cleared. Open the Expedition list and clear the unfinished earlier nodes before you look for West City.
July guides described a Spirit City raid with Acts 1 through 3 and Kenpachi farming. Later updates added Tower, East Town, and Boss Rush. Check that Spirit City is still in the mode list before you build a team only for that raid.
Boss Bounty and Boss Rush
Boss Bounty, from the Warrior Saga daily set, rerolls bosses, stages, difficulties, resistances, and modifiers. Gold can reroll a lineup that counters your roster. Payouts cited for that mode include Event Coins and Trait Crystals.
Update 3.0, dated September 25, 2026 on a news log and paired with the Endless Hellflame trailer, added Boss Rush: six in-match gates, each with a miniboss wave, then a final boss. Bring a team that can deal with more than one element. The meta guide explains why a single November ranking will not cover every gate.
Dailies that still matter if the event board is up
The August 10 rundown listed Dragon's Wish (seven orbs, with Event Coins, Equipment Rerolls, Trait Crystals, and a free Unbound for the full set) and the Guess That Unit minigame (Normal and Hard, Event Coins spent on rerolls and evolution material). Some of those rewards were flagged as lasting only until Update 2. If the board is gone, skip the grind. If it is present, do it before you buy the same rerolls.
Auto Play was added in that same update for farming loops. It does not choose your trait targets.