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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 them is crucial for maximizing character potential. This guide details their acquisition and benefits.

What are Nightmare Echoes?

Nightmare Echoes are alternate variants of 4-cost (Overlord-class) Echoes, boasting unique active skills and a substantial percentage-based elemental damage boost. This passive damage increase alone surpasses standard Echoes, allowing for a 441111 Echo composition (replacing a 3-cost Echo). Importantly, they retain the Sonata/Set effects of their regular counterparts, minimizing build adjustments.

How to Unlock Nightmare Echoes

Unlocking Nightmare Echo hunting requires completing 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 revealing Nightmare Echo locations on your map. Their locations are:

Defeated Nightmare Echoes appear in the Echo Hunting section of your Guidebook. However, Nightmare Tempest Mephis and Nightmare Crownless require completing additional exploration quests:

• Nightmare Tempest Mephis: "Where Wind Returns to Celestial Realms" – Initiated by interacting with a Lumiscale Construct south of Shores of Last Breath, within the northern ruins.

• Nightmare Crownless: "Ruins Where Shadows Roam" – Found within the Penitent's End Exploration Progress menu (accessed via the compass icon on the map).

Successfully defeating these powerful foes grants access to their potent Nightmare Echoes, significantly enhancing your team's capabilities in Wuthering Waves.