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Nightmare Echoes are enhanced versions of existing Echoes in Wuthering Waves, significantly impacting Resonator usage. Superior to standard Echoes, acquiring them is crucial for maximizing character potential. While obtaining and absorbing them is 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 Wuthering Waves Echoes, dropped by Overlord-class enemies (4-cost Echoes). They possess unique active skills and offer a percentage-based elemental damage boost—a significant advantage over regular Echoes. This passive elemental damage boost 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 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 it reveals all Nightmare Echo locations on your map. These Echoes are found in:
Nightmare Echo Location
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."
