Waves of Nightmares: Echoes Across Wuthering Grounds

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• What are Nightmare Echoes?

• How to Unlock Nightmare Echoes

Nightmare Echoes are enhanced versions of existing Echoes in Wuthering Waves, significantly impacting Resonator usage. Superior to their standard counterparts, acquiring a Nightmare Echo is crucial for maximizing character potential. The acquisition process is straightforward, though defeating the Overlords that drop them can be challenging depending on team strength. This guide explains Nightmare Echoes and their acquisition.

What are Nightmare Echoes?

Nightmare Echoes are alternative variants of standard 4-cost (Overlord-class) Echoes. They boast unique active skills and a percentage-based elemental damage boost, making them inherently more valuable than regular Echoes. This passive elemental damage bonus allows them to replace a 3-cost Echo, enabling a 441111 Echo composition.

Importantly, Nightmare Echoes retain the Sonata/Set effects of their regular counterparts, minimizing build adjustments.

How to Unlock Nightmare Echoes

Before acquiring 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 introduces Dream Patrols, overworld activities in Rinascita. Completing this quest reveals all Nightmare Echo locations on your map. These Echoes are found in:

Defeated Nightmare Echoes appear in the Echo Hunting section of your Guidebook.

Nightmare Tempest Mephis and Nightmare Crownless are accessible through specific Exploration Quests:

• Nightmare Tempest Mephis: "Where Wind Returns to Celestial Realms"
• Nightmare Crownless: "Ruins Where Shadows Roam"

To begin the Nightmare Tempest Mephis quest, locate the Resonance Beacon south of Shores of Last Breath, proceed to the northern ruins, and interact with the Lumiscale Construct.

For Nightmare Crownless, access the Exploration Progress menu (Compass icon in the upper-left corner of your map), navigate to Penitent's End, find "Ruins Where Shadows Roam," and select "Track."