Nightmare Echoes Locations Revealed: Wuthering Waves

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• What are Nightmare Echoes?

• How to Unlock Nightmare Echoes

Nightmare Echoes are enhanced versions of existing Echoes in Wuthering Waves, significantly impacting Resonator usage. Substantially stronger than their standard counterparts, acquiring a Nightmare Echo is crucial for maximizing character potential. While obtaining and absorbing them is relatively straightforward, defeating the Overlords who 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 superior to regular Echoes. This passive elemental damage bonus allows them to replace a 3-cost Echo, enabling a powerful 441111 Echo composition.

Importantly, Nightmare Echoes retain the same Sonata/Set effects as their regular counterparts, minimizing the need for build adjustments.

How to Unlock Nightmare Echoes

Before acquiring Nightmare Echoes, complete the Dream Patrol I quest in Rinascita. This tutorial quest begins 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 this quest reveals all Nightmare Echo locations on your map. They are found in these areas:

Nightmare EchoLocationFeilian BeringalRequiem RavineThundering MephisMistveil BayTempest MephisShores of Last BreathImpermanence HeronTwin PeaksInferno RiderAverardo Vault - WestMourning AixAverardo Vault - SouthCrownlessPenitent's End

Defeated Nightmare Echoes appear in the Echo Hunting section of your Guidebook.

Nightmare Tempest Mephis and Nightmare Crownless are accessible through these 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, then proceed to the northern ruins. Interact with the Lumiscale Construct on the ground.

For the Nightmare Crownless quest, access the Exploration Progress menu on your Map screen (the Compass icon in the upper-left corner). Navigate to the Penitent's End menu, find "Ruins Where Shadows Roam," and select "Track."