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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. Obtaining and absorbing them is straightforward, though defeating the Overlords 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 them to replace a 3-cost Echo, enabling a 441111 Echo composition.
Importantly, Nightmare Echoes retain the same Sonata/Set effects as their standard counterparts, minimizing necessary 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 introduces Dream Patrols, an overworld activity in Rinascita. Completing this quest reveals all 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 are accessible through these Exploration Quests:
- 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 the Nightmare Crownless quest, access the Exploration Progress menu (Compass icon in the upper-left corner of the map), navigate to Penitent's End, find "Ruins Where Shadows Roam," and select "Track."
