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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. While obtaining them is relatively straightforward, defeating the Overlord-class enemies that drop them can be challenging depending on your team's strength. This guide explains Nightmare Echoes and how to acquire them.
What are Nightmare Echoes?
Nightmare Echoes are alternative variants of standard 4-cost Echoes, dropped by Overlord-class enemies. They feature unique active skills and offer a percentage-based elemental damage boost, making them inherently more valuable than regular Echoes. This passive elemental damage bonus allows for a 441111 Echo composition, replacing a 3-cost Echo.
Importantly, Nightmare Echoes 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. Initiate this tutorial quest 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 it reveals Nightmare Echo locations on your map. They are found in these areas:
Defeated Nightmare Echoes appear in the Echo Hunting section of your Guidebook.
Nightmare Tempest Mephis and Nightmare Crownless require completion of specific Exploration Quests:
- Tempest Mephis: "Where Wind Returns to Celestial Realms" – Locate the Lumiscale Construct south of Shores of Last Breath, within the northern ruins.
- Nightmare Crownless: "Ruins Where Shadows Roam" – Access this quest via the Exploration Progress menu (Compass icon) in Penitent's End.
After defeating a Nightmare Echo, it will be added to your Echo list within the Guidebook's Echo Hunting section.
