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Wuthering Waves: FULL GUIDE

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🌳 EXPLORATION:
💠 Explore the map to open chests, do side quests and beat bosses for 'First Time Rewards' e.g. Union LVL EXP, Astrite etc.

💠 Select 1 resonator out of 3 in your team. This will be your active character that can be controlled and switched at ANY TIME.

↗️ CHARACTER LEVEL:
💠 Union Level is your account level, can be increased by obtaining Union EXP.

💠 Union EXP can be earned by completing in-game missions and events as well as spending Waveplate (the game’s stamina system).

💠 As your Union Level increases, you will unlock more game functions such as Daily Activities

💠 It also increases the number of times that you can ascend your Resonators and Weapons, increasing their level cap.

💠 The MAX Union level is 60.

🗡 COMBAT:

💠 Teams of 3, 1 active character at all times that can be switched.

What are Resonators?
💠 Resonators are the playable unit characters in Wuthering Waves.

💠 Mainly obtained via Gacha Pulls, some from free in-game events or missons.
Resonator Stats

HP - How much damage a Resonator can take before dying.

ATK - How much damage a Resonator deals.

DEF - Reduces the damage a Resonator takes.

Max Stamina - Determines how many continuous stamina using actions (dashing, dodging, climbing, swimming and some attacks use stamina) you can take before being forcibly stopped.

Crit Rate - How likely it is for the Resonator to land a critical hit.

Crit DMG - Determines the damage multiplier when landing a critical hit.

Energy Regen - Determines how fast a Resonator charges energy for their Resonance Liberation (Ultimate).

Resonance Skill DMG Bonus - Increases the damage of Resonance Skill.

Basic Attack DMG Bonus - Increases the damage of Basic Attacks.

Heavy Attack DMG Bonus - Increases the damage of Heavy Attacks.

Resonance Liberation DMG Bonus - Increases the damage of Resonance Liberation (Ultimate).

Elemental DMG Bonus - Increases all damage a character deals. Note that there are six different elements in the game and each element has its own separate Elemental DMG Bonus stat.

Elemental DMG RES - Reduces the damage a Resonator takes from a specific Element.
Healing Bonus - Increases the amount of healing a Resonator provides.

RESONATOR ELEMENTS, WEAPONS SKILLS ETC.

💠 There are 6 Elements in the game:

Glacio

Fusion
Electro
Aero
Spectro
Havoc

💠 There are 5 Weapon types in the game:

Broadblade
Gauntlets
Pistols
Rectifier
Sword

💠 Basic Attack: a Character’s auto-attack that is always available. The most used ability and it is usually the main way to generate the various resources other abilities use. You can activate Heavy Attack by long-pressing the Basic Attack button.

💠 Resonance Skill: a combat ability that a Resonator can use with effects ranging from dealing damage to healing your allies. This ability has a cooldown and can not be used back to back.

💠 Resonance Liberation: the strongest combat ability. To use Resonance Liberation, it must first be charged through certain combat actions such as dealing damage to enemies or triggering Extreme Evasion. It must also be recharged after every use.

💠 Forte Circuit: an ability that is unique for every Resonator. It is represented by a gauge above the health bar. Once it is available, it will change into the color of that Resonator’s Element and will gain a waveform-like appearance. It can be activated using the right abilities while it is available.

💠 Outro and Intro Skills: abilities that activate upon switching Resonator once the current Resonator has filled the Concerto Energy. It is represented by a gauge to the left of the health bar. Upon switching, the current Resonator will activate their Outro Skill, buffing the next Resonator you are switching into. While Intro Skills are unique attacks that the next Resonator will perform.

Resonator Progression:
💠 Upgrading Resonators in Wuthering Waves will enhance their combat capabilities.

How can I upgrade my Resonator?

💠 Increasing the Resonator level

💠 Upgrading the Resonator’s Fortes

💠 Unlocking the Resonator’s Resonance Chain

💠 Equipping Weapons

💠 Equipping Echoes

RESONATOR LVL AND ACENSION:

💠 Resonator Level ranges from 1 to 90 and gains additional stats as they level up.

💠 Resonators start with a base max Level of 20.

💠 Each time you ascend a Resonator, their level cap will increase by 10 up to a maximum of 90.

💠 To ascend a Resonator, you will need to gather materials from Boss Challenges and collect materials from enemies and plants in the overworld.

💠 Your Union Level (Account Level) will also determine how many times you can ascend a Resonator.

What are Fortes?

💠 Fortes are a skill upgrade tree that each Resonator has.

💠 Unlocking and upgrading the nodes in a Resonator’s Forte will give stat bonuses, extra passive abilities, and enhancements to their 5 Skills.

💠 Can be upgraded by using materials obtained by completing Forgery Challenges, Weekly Challenges, and killing overworld enemies.

💠 The ability to upgrade Fortes is tied to your Resonator’s Ascension, so you will need to level your Resonator first before being able to upgrade their Fortes.

What are Resonance Chain/Wavebands?

💠 Resonance Chain enhances Resonator’s abilities or gives them new passive bonuses.

💠 Each Resonator has 6 Resonance Chain upgrades, each upgrade giving different bonus.

💠 Resonance Chain upgrades can be unlocked by obtaining duplicate copies (Wavebands) of the Resonator from Convenes (Gacha Pulls) or through in-game missions and events.

💠 You can buy Wavebands from the in-game shop using a currency you obtain from pulling, the shop limits the amount of Wavebands you can buy to 2 per character.

What are Resonator weapons?

💠 A type of equipment that all Resonators can equip and they provide stat bonuses and a new passive to the Resonator.

💠 Weapons also have a Level ranging from 1 to 90 and can be ascended.

💠 Ascension increases the stat bonus that they provide to the equipped Resonator.

💠 Each Weapon has a Weapon ability which is a passive bonus. A Weapon Ability starts at Rank 1 and can be upgraded to Rank 5 by using the Synthesis function.

💠 To use the Synthesis function, you will need to expend duplicate Weapons of the one that you are upgrading. Each duplicate Weapon that you use will increase the Weapon’s Ability Rank by 1.

💠 Any Weapons used as a Synthesis material will be consumed and destroyed. Increasing the Rank of a Weapon Ability will enhance some or all of the numerical portion of the bonus that it provides.

💠 Weapons can only be equipped if the Resonator can use that weapon type.

What are Echoes?

💠 Echoes are the other type of equipment in this game and serve the function of armor and accessories in a traditional RPG game.

💠 Equipping Echoes to your Resonator will give them stat increases from HP to ATK to Energy Regeneration.

💠 Echoes will give your Resonators the main bulk of their stat increases.

💠 Every Echo has an active Echo ability.

💠 There are 5 total Echo slots. The Echo equipped in the first slot will have its active Echo Ability available for you to use. The order of the rest does not matter.

💠 Each Echo comes with a COST requirement that ranges between 1 to 4 depending on the Echo’s Class. Each Resonator has a COST limit of 10 at the start and it is possible to upgrade it to 12 through Data Dock upgrades. Resonators can only equip Echoes up to the COST limit.

There are 4 different Echo Classes:
Common Class (1-COST)

💠Elite Class (3-COST)

💠Overlord Class (4-COST)

💠Calamity Class (4-COST)

💠 Each Echo has 2 main stats and up to 5 sub-stats.

💠 Primary main stats differ while secondary main stats are set for each Echo Class.

Depending on the Echo Class, the possible primary main stats are:

💠 Common Class - HP%, ATK%, DEF%

💠 Elite Class - HP%, ATK%, DEF%, Energy Regen%, Elemental Damage Boost
Overlord Class - HP%, ATK%, DEF% Crit Rate%, Crit DMG%, Healing Bonus%
💠 Calamity Class - HP%, ATK%, DEF% Crit Rate%, Crit DMG%, Healing Bonus%

Depending on the Echo Class, the set secondary main stats are:

💠 Common Class - Flat HP

💠 Elite Class - Flat ATK

💠 Overlord Class - Flat ATK

💠 Calamity Class - Flat ATK

GACHA SYSTEM:

💠 Gacha is the primary way to obtain resonators and weapons.

💠 To pull gacha you will need 'ASTRITES' (Gacha Currency) or 'TIDES' (Gacha Tickets).

💠 GACHA GUARANTEE

4 ★ guarantee if the player convenes (gacha pulls) 9 times without obtaining a 4 ★ resonator or character, they are guaranteed one on the 10th Convene. (IMPORTANT: This resets each time a 4 ★ is obtained.)

How do you obtain Astrites and Tides?

💠 They can be obtained from Events, Missions and some shops.

💠 You can exchange 160 ASTRITE for either 1 LUSTROUS TIDE, 1 RADIANT TIDE or 1 FORGING TIDE.

💠 Lustrous Tides are used on the Novice Convene, Character Permanent Convene and Weapon Permanent Convene.

💠 Radiant Tides are used on the Character Event Convene.

💠 Forging Tides are used on the Weapon Event Convene.

🎉 NOVICE CONVENE:

💠 You can only Convene 50 times on the Novice Convene, but you are guaranteed to obtain one 5★ Resonator within the 50 Convenes.

💠 You can only Convene in multiples of 10, with a 20% discount every time you Convene.

💠 You can only obtain one of the following 5★ Resonators from the Novice Convene: Verina, Encore, Calcharo, Lingyang, Jianxing.

(IMPORTANT⚠️ : You can only use Lustrous Tides on this Gacha banner.)

🎉 PERMANENT CHARACTER CONVENE:

💠 Guaranteed to obtain one 5★ Resonator within 80 Convenes.

💠 You can only obtain one of the following 5★ Resonators from the Novice Convene: Verina, Encore, Calcharo, Lingyang, Jianxing.

(IMPORTANT ⚠️ : can only use Lustrous Tides on this banner)

🎉 PERMANENT WEAPON CONVENE:

💠 Guaranteed to obtain the selected 5★ Weapon within 80 Convenes

💠 You can only obtain one of the following 5★ Weapons from the Novice Convene:

Emerald of Genesis, Abyss Surges, Static Mist, Cosmic Ripples, Lustrous Razor.
(IMPORTANT ⚠️ : can only use Lustrous Tides on this banner)

🎉 EVENT CHARACTER CONVENE:

💠 One 5★ Resonator and three 4★ Resonators will be available on any Character Event Convene.

💠 Once you pull a 5★ Resonator, you have 50% chance of it being the Rate-up one.

💠 If you lose the 50/50 then the second 5★ Resonator you pull will 100% be the Rate-up one.

💠 Guaranteed to obtain a 5★ within 80 pulls.

(IMPORTANT ⚠️ : You can only use Radiant Tides on this banner.)

🎉 EVENT WEAPON CONVENE:

💠 One 5★ Weapon and three 4★

Weapons will be available on any Weapon Event Convene.

💠 You are guaranteed to obtain a 5★ within 80 pulls.

(IMPORTANT ⚠️ : You can only use Forging Tides on this banner.)

What are Oscillate Corals and Afterglow Corals?

💠 In-game currency that can be used to purchase Tides, Wavebands and upgrade materials.

How do you obtain Oscillate Corals?

💠 You can get Oscillate Corals by obtaining a 3★ Weapon from convening. Each 3★ Weapon will give you 15 Oscillate Corals.

How do you get Afterglow Corals?

💠 Obtaining any 4★ Weapon:
3 Afterglow Corals

💠 Obtaining any 5★ Weapon:

15 Afterglow Corals

💠 Obtaining a duplicate 4★ Resonator:

1st to 6th duplicate: 3 Afterglow Corals and 1 Waveband of that Resonator

💠 7th duplicate onwards:

8 Afterglow Corals

💠 Obtaining a duplicate 5★ Resonator:

1st to 6th duplicate: 15 Afterglow Corals and 1 Waveband of that Resonator

💠 7th duplicate onwards:

40 Afterglow Corals
(IMPORTANT ⚠️ : You will not obtain an Afterglow Coral for a 4★ or 5★ that you already own)

How do you get Wavebands?

💠 Using the Afterglow Coral you can purchase up to 2 Wavebands (dupes) for any of the standard 5★ Resonators

(IMPORTANT ⚠️ : This includes the current Event character, but they cost more Afterglow Coral to buy.)

🎮 Game Introduction:

Welcome aboard, roving voyager. Upon the shores lay the silent embers of a world during the Ebb Tide. Desolated by the Lament, the erstwhile creations and earthly beings are left static. But they strike back, strong enough to penetrate the silence. Humanity has risen anew from the ashes of the apocalypse.

And you, Rover, are poised for an adventure of Awakening. Companions to meet, enemies to conquer, new powers to gain, hidden truths to unveil, and unseen spectacles to behold... A vast world of endless possibilities awaits. The choice rests in your hands. Be the answer, be the leader, and follow the sounds to arrive at a new future. As Wuthering Waves echo endlessly, mankind set sail on a new journey.
Rise and embark on your odyssey, Rover.