Here's a beginner's guide on what you need to know before playing Wuthering Waves. Check out some tips and tricks on how to optimize your experience in the game!

Wuthering Waves Beginner's Guide

Beginner Tips and Tricks
Know Your Character's Unique Abilities Understand the Game's Combat System Equip Echoes for Abilities and Stats Increase Union Level Fast Travel Across The World Watch Your Currencies Claim Rewards from Pioneer Podcast Collect Sonance Caskets Free Gift Packs Check the Guidebook Explore the Entire Region Uncle Wei and Weapon Crafting

Know Your Character's Unique Abilities

Each character has their own unique mechanics that can be utilized to increase their efficiency in combat. These exclusive abilities are usually used in combination of their Normal Attacks, Resonance Skills, or Resonance Liberations.

Fully knowing a character's skill set and role allows you to perform effective combos and easily decide who to send in depending on the situation.

List of All Characters

Understand the Game's Combat System

Battles in Wuthering Waves can be both rewarding and fun if you learn more about the game's combat system. Make sure to check out our detailed combat guide to learn more!

Combat System Guide

Practice Extreme Evasions and Parries

Based on the trailers have shown so far, it seems like dodging and parrying are essential in this action-packed combat system.

There is no official information about the benefits of Extreme Evasions (or perfect dodging), but Parrying has been shown to stagger the attacking enemy for a short period.

Intro and Outro Skills

Characters also have different Intro and Outro skills that can be triggered when switching in and switching out from the battlefield, respectively.

Triggering these skills when swapping between characters requires a full Resonance Energy gauge. Learn the effects of each character's Intro and Outro skills and plan your rotation before sending them to battle!

Equip Echoes for Abilities and Stats

Defeating enemies in the field may give you a chance to capture them and use their abilities as Echoes. Equipping Echoes allows Resonants to use their unique abilities and stat bonuses. Having the Echoes of the same element can activate Sonata Effects, providing more bonuses for characters.

List of Echoes and Sonata Effects

Increase Union Level

Players will increase their Union Level as they progress through the game's story, open various Supply Chests, and defeat various monsters all around Solaris-3. Keep raising your Union Level to increase the difficulty, and get better chances at rare enemies and materials!

How to Increase Union Level

Fast Travel Across The World

The world of Wuthering Waves, Solaris-3, is vast and expansive. Travelling on foot can be time-consuming, so learn how to make use of Resonance Beacons and Resonance Nexuses across the world to travel anywhere at a moment's notice!

How to Fast Travel

Watch Your Currencies

Improving characters requires spending all sorts of in-game currency like Shell Credits. Make sure to always have enough for your favorites by farming and saving them as needed.

Best Ways of Spending Currency

Know How to Keep Getting Astrites

Astrite is the currency needed to be able to pull on the various Convene Banners in Wuthering Waves. Knowing how to keep earning Astrite can help players manage their resources when pulling for Resonators and/or their respective weapons.

How to Get and Farm Astrite Fast

Claim Rewards from Pioneer Podcast

The Pioneer Podcast provides additional rewards like materials and Shell Credits to let players spend and use at their leisure. There is a free version and a premium version that can be bought.

Pioneer Podcast Battle Pass Guide

Collect Sonance Caskets

Sonance Caskets are scattered all across the world, with varying degress of difficulty in getting them. They are an important resource that can be traded in for important resources.

Some of the Rewards Includes Rover's Materials

One of the shops in Jinzhou City asks to trade in the collected Sonance Caskets, and a later reward in its reward ladder includes a Waveband to unlock one of the Resonance Chain nodes for the Rover, as well as the materials needed to Ascend them past level caps.

Free Gift Packs Depending on Union Level

On reaching certain Union Levels, players will be able to receive special rewards, with one of them being a special 5-star Weapon Selector that players can choose from one specific weapon set!

How to Increase Union Level

Check the Guidebook

Unlocked during Chapter 1 of the Main Story, the Guidebook is the perfect way for players to keep track of various progress. These include the Daily Activities, the progress Milestones, various bosses and challenges players can spend Waveplates on, Training modes for Resonators, and a list of Echoes to hunt.

Explore the Entire Region

It is highly encouraged to explore as much of Solaris-3 as possible, as the Pioneer Association will provide special rewards depending on the exploration progress of every region currently present.

Prizes locked behind higher Pioneer Association Levels include more functions becoming available to add to the Utility wheel--like a compass for finding Supply Chests, and a temporary Resonance Beacon!

Uncle Wei and Weapon Crafting

Uncle Wei in Jinzhou City not only sells weapons and provides a way to craft 3-star and 4-star weapons, they also sell weapon materials for crafting and leveling up weapons!

How to Craft Weapons

All Tips and Tricks Guides

Tips and Tricks

Tips and Tricks
Convene Pity System	Combat System Guide
Character Creation Guide	Best Settings
How To Change Name	Should You Buy the Monthly Pass?
How to Raise and Lower SOL3 Phase Level	How to Increase Union Level
How to Get and Farm Astrite Fast	How to Fast Travel
How to Add and Play with Friends	Pioneer Podcast Battle Pass Guide
Best Ways of Spending Currency	How to Use the Chat Function
Character Leveling Guide	How to Level Up Fortes
How to Reroll Guide	Dailies: Things to Do Every Day
Waveplates Guide	How to Craft Weapons
List of Controls	All Cruisewing Echo Challenge Locations
All Scar's Questions and Correct Answers	How to Increase Resonance Chain Level
How to Parry and Counterattack	How to Ascend Resonators
How to Pass Time	How to Increase Stamina
Secrets and Exploits to Make Your Life Easier	How to Heal
Best Items to Buy with Afterglow Corals	Best Items to Buy with Oscillate Corals
How to Use Intro and Outro Skills	How to Get All Golden Eternal Weapons
How to Reduce Vibration Strength	Trophy List and Rewards
How to Perfect Dodge	Shell Credits Farming Guide
Encryption Block Puzzle Guide	How to Get Rover Wavebands
Originite 4-Star Weapon Chest Location	How to Repair Sound Emulators
How to Increase Exploration Progress	Do You Believe in Light? Trophy Guide
How to Get Radiant Tides	How to Get Lustrous Tides
How to Raise Intimacy Level	How to Remove the Mud From the Chest
Simulation Training Guide	Simulation Training Store Location
Milestones Guide and List of Rewards	Tacet Field Locations and Rewards
Daily Activities and Rewards	List of Forgery Challenge Domains
Forgery Challenges and How to Unlock	Path of Growth Guide
How to Uninstall	How to Use 1 Supply
How to Get the Glider	Tiger's Maw Underground Beacons
Microtransactions and In-App Purchases	Enter The Correct Password Yinlin Quest
How to Glide	How to Destroy Fissured Ledges
How to Sprint	How to Collect 3 Collectibles
How to Get Guide Crystals	Elements and Status Effects
Clang Bang Echo Challenge Guide	Sagaci Springs Guide
All Ski Challenge Locations	Place Next to A Ring and Hanging Eaves Location
Retro Game Collector Guide	How to Use the Trace Scale

Echo Guides

Echo Guides
How to Tune Echoes	How to Absorb Echoes
How to Unlock Data Merge	Enhanced Drop Rate and Data Bank Level
How to Farm Echoes	How to Get Echo EXP

Puzzle Guides

Puzzle Guides
All Puzzle Types and Solutions	Levitator Puzzle Guide
Complete the Fire Thrower Puzzle Guide	Encryption Block Puzzle Guide
Look Afar at the Break of Dawn Puzzle Guide	How to Find a Way to Turn On Electricity
Perspective Bender Domain Puzzle Guide	Parallel Perception Domain Puzzle
Fallen Grave Puzzle Guide	Signal Hubs Puzzle Guide
Pressure Plates And Weight Block Guide	Training Dummy Puzzle Guide
Spikes and Corroders Puzzle Guide	Induction Cells and Transducers Guide
Magnetic Cubes Puzzle Guide	Energy Matrix Puzzle Guide
Offshoot Cores Puzzle Guide	Spinning Mechanism Puzzle Guide
How to Defend Security Nodes	-

Utilities

Utilities
All Utilities	Grappling Hook
Sensor	Waypoint
Casket Sonar	Levitator
Projector	Lootmapper
Camera	Ultrasonic Pulse Chip

Unmarked Challenges

Unmarked Challenges
Unmarked Challenge Locations	How to Complete the Backflip Challenge
Travel in Jinzhou Gulpuff Challenge	Mingming and Doudou Hide And Seek

FAQs

FAQs
Is Wuthering Waves F2P Friendly?	Is Wuthering Waves an Open World RPG Game?
Is Wuthering Waves a Gacha Game?	Is Wuthering Waves Free?
Is Wuthering Waves Cross-Platform?	Is Wuthering Waves a Multiplayer Game?
Is There PVP?	Which Company Made Wuthering Waves?
Can You Skip Cutscenes?	Are There Twitch Drops?
Can You Change Gender?	What is the Max Union Level?
What Time Does The Server Reset?	When Can You Start Pulling?
Which Rangers' Series Weapon to Choose?	-

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Wuthering Waves Categories
News and Game Info	Tips and Tricks
Characters	Echoes
Weapons	Gacha (Convene)
Quests	Events
Enemies	Bosses
Tower of Adversity	Depths of Illusive Realm
Character Tier List	Maps
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