One of the things you want to stay mindful of is who you want to strike first in any given day. In my experience the best person to start with is whoever is weak to INJU first, because they're the most malleable when it comes to Circumstance damage. Starting an encounter surrounding them and building INJU and EXPO values at the start, and may as well build HATE and PLEA while you're at it. Then before surrounding them again, surround the other Chosen you want to work on, and do your best to get started on their EXPO. Grab the first Chosen again to minimize Extermination gain, and continue building on EXPO, INJU, HATE, PLEA normally in that order, but swapping them around based on how close one is to getting to the next lvl is what matters most. If you're still struggling, not making a commander for a day or two to build EE for getting more upgrades (particularly ones that increase how long your Commander can surround Chosen) could be good. If your still having trouble, give me some more specifics and I'll see if I can help with more detail.
I'm a bit confused, as wouldn't that mean I'd always be doing the majority of my damage to the weak to INJ one each time since my actual target is the second one that I'm only doing the exposure damage to?
my Chosen are:
Blaze:
Morality: FEAR --|-- HATE <= Significant Vulnerability: Use Grind and Pummel until 10k dmg
Innocence: DISG ---|----- PLEA <= Minor Vulnerability: Reach 100M Unresolved DISG
Confidence: PAIN ----|- INJU <= Core Vulnerability: Surround w/ >10k INJU to Sodomize
Dignity: SHAM ---|----- EXPO <= Minor Vulnerability: Reach 100M Unresolved SHAM
Honey:
Morality: FEAR --|----- HATE <= Minor Vulnerability: Reach 100M Unresolved FEAR
Innocence: DISG ----| PLEA <= Core Vulnerability: Use Caress and Humiliate until 10k dmg
Confidence: PAIN ---|-- INJU <= Significant Vulnerability: Surround w/ >10k INJU to Sodomize
Dignity: SHAM -----| EXPO <= Core Vulnerability: Surround w/ >10k EXPO to Broadcast
Miracle:
Morality: FEAR -----| HATE <= Core Vulnerability: Surround w/ >10k HATE to Inseminate
Innocence: DISG ---|-- PLEA <= Significant Vulnerability: Use Caress and Humiliate until 10k dmg
Confidence: PAIN -|--- INJU <= Minor Vulnerability: Use Caress and Pummel until 10k dmg
Dignity: SHAM ---|-- EXPO <= Significant Vulnerability: Surround w/ >10k EXPO to Broadcast
Attached are the breaks since they would be pretty confusing not being super aligned at all.
The big problem I run into that I seem to constantly run into the hurdle where I'm just not doing enough damage to the circumstances to reach a tier 2 break. It creeps up so slowly due to all the debuffs going on from their tactics and allies. Even though Blaze is super weak to exposure, I can't seem to rely on that because she uses those tactics that make it go up slow and I spend way too many turns trying to get hers up, and if I try using one of the specialized commanders, it seems to barely make a dent. I'm usually able to make a two turn capture 5 round duration commander, but it still doesn't seem to be enough. Usually I use the commander to target my main target once to soften them early, then hit Blaze when she rushes in for that exposure buff, but I can never get Blazes' exposure to 1000 in time so I'm stuck at just the x2 multiplier from it.
The upgrades I have are: Psychic Reading, Wide Deployment, Fast Breeders, Focus, Coordinated Deployment, Eager Breeders, Weakness Sense, Enhanced Polymorphism, Perception, Patience, Hunger, Lust, Anger, Mania, Cunning, Persistence, Human Collaborators, Nursery Hives, Vengeful Reconstitution, Causal Projection, Intelligence
I'm currently working on Networked Consciousness
EDIT: All the tier 2 breaks are ones that were broken on generation of the characters