Wuthering Waves: All Nightmare Echoes Locations

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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. While obtaining and absorbing them is relatively straightforward, 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, inherently making them more valuable than 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 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, overworld activities in Rinascita. Completing it 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 specific Exploration Quests:

• Tempest Mephis: "Where Wind Returns to Celestial Realms" – Begin at the Resonance Beacon south of Shores of Last Breath, proceed north to the ruins, and interact with the Lumiscale Construct.
• Nightmare Crownless: "Ruins Where Shadows Roam" – Access this quest via the Exploration Progress menu (Compass icon in the upper-left corner of your map), navigate to Penitent's End, and select "Ruins Where Shadows Roam" to track it.