Wuthering Waves Nightmare Echoes: A Comprehensive Guide
Nightmare Echoes are enhanced versions of standard Echoes in Wuthering Waves, significantly impacting Resonator usage. Superior to their regular counterparts, acquiring a Nightmare Echo is crucial for maximizing character potential. This guide details their acquisition and function.
What are Nightmare Echoes?
Nightmare Echoes are alternative variants of 4-cost (Overlord-class) Echoes. They feature unique active skills and a percentage-based elemental damage boost, making them inherently more valuable than standard Echoes. This passive elemental damage boost allows for a 441111 Echo composition, replacing a 3-cost Echo. Importantly, they retain the same Sonata/Set effects as their regular counterparts, minimizing build adjustments.
How to Unlock Nightmare Echoes
Before farming Nightmare Echoes, complete the "Dream Patrol I" quest in Rinascita. This tutorial quest is initiated by interacting with the White Cat in Ragunna City after finishing Act 2 Chapter 3 of the Rinascita main storyline.
"Dream Patrol I" unlocks Nightmare Echo locations on your map. These Echoes are found in the following areas:
| Nightmare Echo | Location |
|---|---|
| Feilian Beringal | Requiem Ravine |
| Thundering Mephis | Mistveil Bay |
| Tempest Mephis | Shores of Last Breath |
| Impermanence Heron | Twin Peaks |
| Inferno Rider | Averardo Vault - West |
| Mourning Aix | Averardo Vault - South |
| Crownless | Penitent's End |
Defeated Nightmare Echoes appear in the Echo Hunting section of your Guidebook.
Note: Nightmare Tempest Mephis and Nightmare Crownless require completion of additional exploration quests:
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Nightmare Tempest Mephis: "Where Wind Returns to Celestial Realms" – Start this quest by interacting with a Lumiscale Construct south of Shores of Last Breath, within the northern ruins.
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Nightmare Crownless: "Ruins Where Shadows Roam" – Access this quest via the Exploration Progress menu (Compass icon on the map screen) in Penitent's End.
By following these steps, you can effectively acquire and utilize the powerful Nightmare Echoes in Wuthering Waves.
