Wuthering Waves beginner tips covering Echoes, team building, efficient farming, and combat strategies to become a pro.
We’ve broken down these essential strategies into easy-to-digest sections. Get ready to level up your game.
Part 1: Your First Steps – Building a Strong Foundation
(These tips are crucial for a great start to your Wuthering Waves journey!)
1. Catch Every Echo You See (Your First Big Power-Up!)
When you first log in, your main mission should be to defeat every single enemy you encounter. Collect all the Echoes they drop. Why? Because collecting Echoes does two very important things:
- It levels up your Account Level (your overall player level).
- It boosts your Databank Level (how much you know about Echoes). The higher your Databank, the better and rarer Echoes you’ll find later! Keep fighting until your Databank reaches Level 20 for the fastest gear progression.
2. Top Early Game Teams (Your Starter Squad!)
Don’t have all the super rare characters yet? No problem! The game gives you some fantastic free characters that can form strong early teams.
- Team 1: Havoc Rover, Danjin, and either Verina or Baizhi.
- Team 2: Encore, Sanhua, and either Verina or Baizhi. If you happen to pull a strong limited 5-star like Jiyan, you can build your first team around them!
3. Smart Echo Cleaning (Tidy Up Your Inventory!)
You’ll collect a lot of Echoes, and some won’t be very useful. Here’s a clever way to clear them out quickly:
- Defense Echoes: Easily get rid of all “Defense” (DEF) main stat Echoes. Most good characters don’t scale off DEF, so you can batch-merge these in bulk.
- HP Echoes: For HP main stat Echoes, only keep the “Rejuvenating Glow” set for your healers (like Verina or Baizhi). Discard the rest!
4. Leveling Echoes Wisely (Don’t Waste Experience!)
When making your Echoes stronger, be smart with your “Echo Experience.”
- Early Check: Only level an Echo to Level 10 first. If it doesn’t have at least one good bonus stat by then, discard it and move on. Don’t throw good experience after bad!
- Discard, Don’t Feed: If an Echo is useless, discard it from your inventory instead of “feeding” it to another Echo. You actually get more materials back this way!
5. Save Your Crystal Solvents (Patience Pays Off!)
“Crystal Solvents” give you “Wave Plates” to play more and get rewards. But here’s the trick:
- Wait for Max Levels: Save these solvents until your Account Level and Databank Level are at their highest.
- More Rewards: Why? Because the higher your levels, the more rewards you get per Wave Plate. Waiting means you’ll maximize your gains!
Part 2: Mastering Your Characters & Combat (Unleash Their Full Power!)
(These tips will help you make your characters super strong and dominate in battle.)
6. Critical Rate is King (Hit Those Super-Hits!)
For your main damage-dealing characters, aim for a 90-100% “Critical Rate.”
- The Goal: A “critical hit” means you do extra damage.
- Why it’s Huge: Hitting criticals almost every time is far more valuable than hitting really big criticals only sometimes. Consistency wins in Wuthering Waves!
7. Support Characters Don’t Need Max Level (Let Your Main Stars Shine!)
Characters like Verina or Baizhi are “supports” – they help your main fighters with healing or buffs.
- Level Smart: You don’t need to level them up to the absolute max. Level them just enough (like Level 60 or 70) to unlock all their special abilities.
- Focus on Buffs: Their buffs aren’t based on their own damage, but on how much damage your main team does, making high levels less critical for them.
8. Weekly Boss Rewards (Don’t Miss Out!)
Every Monday, once your Databank is maxed, the first 13 “weekly bosses” you defeat are guaranteed to drop special Echoes.
- Strategy: Make sure to defeat these specific bosses first each week to get your guaranteed rewards!
- Bonus Tip: If you only need the boss Echo, you can fight the lowest difficulty version to save time!
Part 3: Smart Farming & Exploration (Work Smarter, Not Harder!)
(Discover clever ways to gather resources and explore the world efficiently.)
9. Farm Special “Unborn Echo Boxes” (Future-Proof Your Gear!)
Instead of just farming regular enemies, complete the “Fantasies of Thousand Gateways” event. You’ll get “Unborn Echo Boxes.”
- Why they’re Amazing: These boxes update with new Echo sets when they release! You can save them and open them later to get the latest Echoes for new characters. It’s like pre-ordering your gear!
10. Materials Grow Back Every Day (Daily Harvests!)
The special materials you need to level up your characters and weapons refresh every single day in the open world!
- Benefit: This means you don’t have to farm a huge amount at once. Just collect them daily as needed.
11. Tower of Adversity Tricks (Tactics for Tough Challenges!)
The “Tower of Adversity” is a tough challenge, but these tips will help:
- Use Weaker Teams First: For the easier stages, use your less powerful characters. This saves your main, strong teams for the harder, later stages.
- Share Your Healers: You don’t need a healer for every single team. Use your best healer for the stages where they’re truly essential, letting other teams manage the easier parts.
- Cost-Effective Clearing: Put your best team in the middle tower. Use your second strongest team for the first and fourth parts, and a mid-level team for the second and third. This helps you clear the tower with fewer fully-built teams.
12. Buy Starter Materials (A Quick Boost!)
- Location: Visit the Pharmacy in Jinzhou.
- Use Case: You can buy many ascension materials for your starting characters here. It costs money, but it’s a quick way to get those last few items if you’re in a hurry to level up a character.
13. Don’t Forget Rover (Your Free Super-Star!)
Rover, your main character, is incredibly solid across all elements and will get even more powerful forms as the game updates.
- Invest in Them: Don’t underestimate free characters; Rover is a surprisingly good unit that’s worth investing in!
14. Jump Combos for Faster Gliding (Reach New Heights!)
Certain characters can gain extra height with their jump attacks.
- The Trick: If you cancel that attack with an mid-air dash, you can get just enough height to deploy your glider!
- Benefit: This makes aerial travel much faster and helps you explore efficiently.
15. Fishing Shop Resets Weekly (Weekly Loot!)
Don’t forget to visit the fishing shop every week!
- What you get: You can grab lots of useful items like XP materials, ascension mats, and even Echo boxes. Add it to your weekly to-do list!
16. Tactical Holograms Give Full Power (Start Strong!)
When you begin a “Tactical Hologram” challenge, your team starts with full HP, energy, and Conerto energy.
- Your Move: Use this to your advantage! Unleash powerful abilities right at the start, especially against enemies with long “startup” animations.
17. Standard Pulls for Weapons, Not Characters!
When you get “Standard Pulls” (the regular gacha tickets), use them on the “Standard Weapon Banner.”
- The Reason: You’ll naturally gain standard 5-star characters by “losing 50/50s” (when you don’t get the limited character but get a standard one instead) on limited banners. However, you’ll never get standard 5-star weapons this way. Many standard 5-star weapons are still incredibly strong!
18. Craft Echo Experience (A Small Boost!)
You can craft seven “blue and green tubes” (Echo experience items) per week.
- Location: Farm “Fluorites” on Mount Firmament (near the Bell-Borne boss fight).
- Benefit: It’s not a massive amount, but it adds up over time and helps with your Echo leveling.
19. Echoes for Traversal (Get Around Faster!)
Some Echoes have special “hold” skills (like Infernal Rider or Impermanent Siren) that can help you fly or gain height.
- Early Game Helper: Before you unlock all the fast travel options, using these Echo skills can greatly speed up your exploration in the early game!
20. Mix & Match Echoes Early On (Flexibility is Key!)
Don’t feel pressured to get a perfect full set of Echoes right away.
- Good Enough: Using a mix of two different “2-piece” Echo sets can be perfectly fine in the early and mid-game if they have good stats. Focus on getting usable Echoes first!
- Co-op Tip: If you run out of Echoes to farm in your world, join other players’ worlds to farm there.
Part 4: Pro Player Secrets (Advanced Wisdom!)
(These tips are a little more advanced but can give you a significant edge.)
21. Don’t Waste Your Corals on “Pulse” (Save for Better Rewards!)
“Corals” are a very valuable currency.
- The Mistake: Using them to buy “Pulse” (which gives you character pulls) is often inefficient. 360 Corals only give you 45 Pulse, not even enough for one guaranteed 5-star character.
- The Smart Move: Save your Corals to buy “Sequence Bands” directly. These allow you to get extra copies of specific units you want, which is much more valuable for strengthening your characters.
22. Dishes for Increased Drop Rates (Eat Your Way to Loot!)
Some cooked dishes in Wuthering Waves give you increased “drop rates” for Echoes, more credits, or more materials.
- Must-Have Dishes: Look for the 5-star dishes like “Stuffed Tofu” and “Sweet & Sour Pork Chili Sauce.” “Chili Sauce Tofu” is fantastic if you need more money!
- Use Them: Since open-world exploration is key to progression, use these dishes while farming to maximize your gains.
23. Extended Liberation States (Advanced Combat!)
This is for players who want to master their character’s combat flow. Some characters’ ultimate abilities (“Liberation States”) can be extended past their normal time.
- The Trick: This is done by “animation canceling” certain attacks or using other skills that slow/stop time (like Yuanwu’s ultimate or Sanhua’s enhanced forte attack). This creates extra “frames” that make it easier to pull off tricky combos and maximize damage.
24. Daily Credit Farm (Easy Money!)
- Location: In Rinniscita in Thessaleo Fells, there are 4 areas near teleport points with “destroyable blocks.”
- Routine: Cycle through these areas each day (it takes only 3-5 minutes).
- Reward: You’ll get 25,000 credits daily, adding up to over 1 million credits per patch! This is a fantastic, low-effort way to keep your money supply healthy.
25. Coral Limit for Sequence Bands (Know Your Limits!)
It’s important to note that you can only ever buy 2 copies of a character using Corals (for their Sequence Bands), even if their banner returns later. Keep this in mind when planning your purchases.
Ready to Conquer Wuthering Waves?
By following these tips, you’ll be well on your way to becoming a formidable Resonator in Wuthering Waves. Remember, the key is to play smart, explore efficiently, and always be on the lookout for ways to optimize your progress.
What’s your favorite Wuthering Waves tip?