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While playing a gacha game likeWuthering Waves, you’ll have some of the most fun when you spend your hard-earned Astirites to get your favorite characters. However, this is just the first step since you’ll now have to build these characters and find their best weapons, teammates, and Echoes.
While it’s fairly easy to get most of the gear required for your characters, Echoes can be challenging as this system is quite unique. Once you understand how this system works, you’ll easily be able to beat the hardest content in the game.
What Are Echoes?
You’ll get introduced to the Echo system quite early in Wuthering Waves, but it’s difficult to fully understand it. This is essentially theRNG-based system that’s supposed to keep you grinding for a whileevery time you get a new character. You can get Echoes whenever you defeat an enemy or farm Tacet Fields during the late game.
Each character can hold up to five Echoes on them, and these provide the characters with various buffs. The top slot in the Echo screen for each character is the primary slot, and you’ll beable to use a special ability for the Echo you place here, which makes it one of the most important parts of the game.
For most of your time in the game, you’ll dealhigher damage from these Echo abilitiesthan you deal with your character skills.
These Echoes are divided into groups, and if you havemultiple Echoes from the same group on a character, you may get a specific bonus. However, this is quite difficult to achieve so you should only focus on it during the late game. In the starting, getting random Echoes with specific stats for each character is more valuable.
How Does The Echo Cost System Work?
When you enter the Echo screen for the first time and click on any Echo that you’ve acquired,you’ll be able to see their cost. On the other hand, when you head over to the Echo screen for any character, you’ll see the total cost they can take on the top left. The maximum cost is the same for all characters, which starts at eight but you may take it up to 12.
To increase your maximum Echo cost, youhave to increase your data bank level. You reach the maximum cost at level nine.
As you might already understand, the cost of your Echoes when youplace all five on a character needs to be equal to or below this maximum cost. Echo costs depend on their class/rarity as follows:
There’s a reason for the higher class Echoes to have higher cost. You can get somesought-aftermain statson these Elite, Overlord, and Calamity class Echoeslike special DMG bonus and Crit Rate/DMG respectively. With this in mind, you only have a few combinations you can go for with maximum Echo cost:
While there can be other combinations, these three are the most recommended for all characters.
How To Get Higher Rarity Echoes
When you get your first Echo in the game, you might already notice a green color on its logo. Thisrefers to the Echo’s rarity, which is different from their class. You can find green, blue, purple, and gold Echoes in Wuthering Waves, but you won’t be able to get most of them in the beginning.
To get higher rarity Echoes, you have to upgrade your data bank levels. Head over to your data bank andyou’ll be able to see each level’s effects on the bottom left. You can start getting blue Echoes at level five, purple at level eight, and gold at level 15. Your chances of getting high-rarity Echoes also increases with level.
To have a chance at getting higher rarity Echo, youfirst have to get a drop after defeating an enemy.
The Echo drop rate starts at six percent and goes up to a maximum of 20. However, you’re able to have acertain amount of higher chances for these dropson boss enemies. These reset every week.
Ideally, you’d want to start farming Echoes for your main characters every dayas soon as you reach level 15 on the data bank. Though thisdoesn’t mean spending Waveplate on Tacet Fields.
