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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 them is relatively straightforward, defeating the powerful enemies that drop them can prove challenging, depending on your team's strength. Let's explore what Nightmare Echoes are and how to acquire them.

What are Nightmare Echoes?

Nightmare Echoes are alternative variants of standard 4-cost (Overlord-class) Echoes in Wuthering Waves. They boast unique active skills and offer 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 powerful 441111 Echo composition.

Importantly, Nightmare Echoes retain the same Sonata/Set effects as their regular counterparts, simplifying character build adjustments.

How to Unlock Nightmare Echoes

Before embarking on your Nightmare Echo hunt, complete the "Dream Patrol I" quest in Rinascita. Access 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, overworld activities in Rinascita. Completing this quest reveals all Nightmare Echo locations on your map. They're found in these areas:

Defeated Nightmare Echoes appear in your Guidebook's Echo Hunting tab. Note that Nightmare Tempest Mephis and Nightmare Crownless require completion of specific Exploration Quests:

• Nightmare Tempest Mephis: "Where Wind Returns to Celestial Realms" – Initiate this quest by interacting with a Lumiscale Construct in the ruins north of the Resonance Beacon south of Shores of Last Breath.

• Nightmare Crownless: "Ruins Where Shadows Roam" – Locate and track this quest within the Penitent's End menu accessible via the Exploration Progress menu (Compass icon in the upper-left corner of your map screen).