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Nightmare Echoes are powerful variants of the standard Echoes found in Wuthering Waves, significantly enhancing the capabilities of your Resonators. These Echoes are stronger and offer unique advantages, making them a top priority for players looking to maximize their character's potential. While acquiring Nightmare Echoes is straightforward, the challenge lies in defeating the formidable enemies that drop them. Let's dive into what Nightmare Echoes are and how you can obtain them.
What are Nightmare Echoes?
A Nightmare Echo is an enhanced version of the regular Echoes in Wuthering Waves, dropped by Overlord-class enemies, also known as 4-cost Echoes. These Nightmare versions come with different active skills and a crucial percentage boost to elemental damage, making them far more valuable than their standard counterparts. This passive elemental damage boost allows Nightmare Echoes to replace a 3-cost Echo, enabling a 441111 Echo composition.
Importantly, Nightmare Echoes retain the same Sonata/Set effects as their regular versions, ensuring that your character builds require minimal adjustments.
How to Unlock Nightmare Echoes
To begin your journey to farm Nightmare Echoes, you must first complete the Dream Patrol I quest in Rinascita. Start this tutorial quest by speaking to the White Cat in Ragunna City after finishing Act 2 Chapter 3 of the Rinascita story questline.
Dream Patrol I introduces you to the Dream Patrols, an overworld activity in Rinascita. Completing this quest will reveal the locations of all Nightmare Echoes on your map. Here's where you can find each Nightmare Echo:
| 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 |
After defeating a Nightmare Echo, it will appear in the Echo Hunting tab of your Guidebook.
Note that Nightmare Tempest Mephis and Nightmare Crownless are locked behind specific Exploration Quests:
Tempest Mephis: Where Wind Returns to Celestial Realms
- Start this quest by heading to the Resonance Beacon south of Shores of Last Breath, then proceed to the ruins to the north. Interact with the Lumiscale Construct lying on the ground.
Nightmare Crownless: Ruins Where Shadows Roam
- To begin this quest, open the Exploration Progress menu in your Map screen (click on the Compass icon on the upper-left corner next to the name of the region you're on), navigate to the Penitent's End menu, scroll down to find the Ruins Where Shadows Roam quest, and select Track.
