Nightmare Echoes Locations Revealed in 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. Superior to their standard counterparts, acquiring a Nightmare Echo is crucial for maximizing character potential.

Obtaining and integrating a Nightmare Echo is straightforward, though challenging enemies may require strong teams. This guide explains Nightmare Echoes and their acquisition.

What are Nightmare Echoes?

Nightmare Echoes are alternative variants of standard Wuthering Waves Echoes, dropped by Overlord-class enemies (4-cost Echoes). They boast unique active skills and 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 Sonata/Set effects of their standard counterparts, minimizing build adjustments.

How to Unlock Nightmare Echoes

Before farming Nightmare Echoes, complete the Dream Patrol I quest in Rinascita. Initiate this tutorial quest 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, Rinascita overworld activities. Completing this quest reveals 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 require completion of 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 your map), navigate to Penitent's End, find "Ruins Where Shadows Roam," and select "Track."