Like most other gacha-based RPGs,Wuthering Waveshas an elemental system. It’s not only used as an aspect of character and enemy design, but it determines the damage type they’ll be doing and can even play a part in their story or where they’re from. Most important of all, the element of a character or enemy is going to affect your damage numbers against them.

If you’re sending your Fusion Resonators out against Fusion bosses, you’re going to have a much harder – and longer – fight on your hands because your damage is lowered. If you want to do the most damage and speed up fights, you’ll want to take the Elements into account.

Spectro Rover attacking a Spectro Prism and doing no damage to it in Wuthering Waves.

Elements, Explained

Elements, also called Attributes at times, tell you whattype of damage a Resonator or enemy is going to be dealing, and also whattype of damage that an enemy is going to resistor might evenbe immune to. For example, thePrism type of enemy, such as Havoc Prisms or Glacio Prisms, are totallyimmune to their Element’s damage, whileOverlord and Calamity class enemieslike theInferno RiderorMourning Aixhavehigh resistance to their Element’s damage.

SomeTacet Field challenges, Tower of Adversity, and other special zones alsoinclude increased or lowered Elemental resistance, depending on what enemies there are.

Menu for a Tacet Field with a description showing it has enemies taking less Havoc damage in Wuthering Waves.

While itwon’t reduce your DPS too muchoverallif you don’t use an enemy’s elemental opposite, havingthat opposite elementwhen facing an enemy willincrease the damage you’ll do to them slightly, such as if you send out a Fusion-based Resonator against a Glacio element enemy.

You alsodon’t want to use your Glacio Resonators against any Glacioenemies, as their increased resistance to the element will mean you’llbe doing less damagethan if you used a neutral or opposite element. In zones likeTacet Field challenges, this goes a step further, as they’lloften reward you for using a specific Elementwith bonus effects such asincreased damage with certain attack typesor additional elemental effects, andenemies in the fieldshave even higher elemental resistancethan normal.

Echo menu focusing on an Inferno Rider echo with its echo skill scription in Wuthering Waves.

In Tacet Fields, even characters not of the bonus element canstill get some effects from the field-specific modifiersif they use the right attack type.

How To Increase Elemental Damage

There are afew ways you can increase a Resonator’s elemental damage, and most of theminvolve Echoesandtheir innate abilities,the main statsthey can roll with, or from aSonata set bonus. TheOverlord and Calamity Class Echoes, likethe Mecha Abomination, often come with special skills that not only do a lot of damage but alsocan increase a particular Element’s damagealongside buffing stats such as DEF or ATK.

Somelower tier Echoes like the Tambourinistcan alsoincrease your elemental damage, but to a lesser degree than what higher-tier ones can do.

Data bank menu showing different Sonata sets including the Void Thunder set and what it does in Wuthering Waves.

IncreasesHavoc and Resonance Skilldamage.

IncreasesAero and Heavy Attackdamage.

IncreasesFusion and Basic Attackdamage.

IncreasesGlacio and Resonance Skilldamage.

IncreasesSpectro and Resonance Liberationdamage.

IncreasesElectro and Heavy Attackdamage.

Thundering Mephis

IncreasesElectro and Resonance Liberationdamage.

Besides special skills, it’s also possible to have anEcho’s main statbe a percentincrease for a specific damage type. These elemental stat increases canonly befound on Three-Cost Echoes, such as theSpearback,Havoc Dreadmane, or Chasm Guardian.

Getting aSonata’s set bonuscan alsoincrease a particular Element’s damage by 10 percentif you havetwo pieces of a set equippedwhile equippingfive of a setgives you an additionalelemental damage increase for or after certain attack types.

Main stat percent increases for an element can alsostack with the bonus from meeting Sonata set requirementsand give you a pretty big damage increase.

Celestial Light

(2 Pieces) IncreasesSpectro damageby 10 percent.

(5 Pieces) IncreasesSpectro damage by 30 percentfor 15 seconds after releasing an Intro Skill.

Freezing Frost

(2 Pieces) IncreasesGlacios damageby 10 percent.

(5 Pieces) IncreasesGlacio damage by 10 percentafter performing a Basic or Heavy Attack, and canstack up to three times. The effect of each stack lasts for 15 seconds.

Molten Rift

(2 Pieces) IncreasesFusion damageby 10 percent.

(5 Pieces) IncreasesFusion damage by 30 percentfor 15 seconds after releasing a Resonance Skill.

Sierra Gale

(2 Pieces) IncreasesAero damageby 10 percent.

(5 Pieces) IncreasesAero damage by 30 percentfor 15 seconds after releasing an Intro Skill.

Sun-Sinking Eclipse

(2 Pieces) IncreasesHavoc damageby 10 percent.

(5 Pieces) IncreasesHavoc damage by 7.5 percentafter performing a Basic or Heavy Attack, and canstack up to four times. This effect of each stack lasts for 15 seconds.

Void Thunder

(2 Pieces) IncreasesElectro damageby 10 percent.

(5 Pieces) IncreasesElectro damage by 15 percentafter releasing a Heavy Attack or Resonance Skill. This effectstacks up to two times, and the effect of each stack lasts for 15 seconds.