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Lumi is a fun character with high mobility who can also buff Skill DMG for DPS like Jinhsi and Carlotta. Sadly, she’s not really made for a supportive role, as she needs quite a lot of field time to activate her Outro Sk
Calcharo is a strong main DPS in Wuthering Waves . He relies on his Resonance Liberation and he needs a team that can maximize his DMG. That being said, the team should be balanced between Supports and Sustain, which will give Calcharo the buffs he needs while keeping the team al
Changli’s Outro gives Fusion DMG and Liberation DMG bonuses, so she’s the perfect teammate for characters like Encore. Additionally, since she works great in a quick-swap team, other Sub-DPS with minimum field time like Yinlin also work great with Chan
Combat also feels snappy and responsive in Wuthering Waves , with well-made character movement a crucial element of the flow of battle. Dodges felt especially pinpoint and rewarding, and combat also features a parry system where a unit can time their attack to respond to an enemy’s vulnerability indicator during their own lunge – doing so results in damage and a stagger that can set up the next chain of a combo. The hands-on was a little too short to really go in-depth on these systems so it’s difficult to ascertain exactly how the interplay between dodging, parrying, and swapping units really flows, but what was on display felt intuitive and
Even during the brief hands-on – and during conversation with the Kuro Games representative present during the hands-on – it became clear that Wuthering Waves has big plans for launch. There’s a wide array of content immediately available, and when I asked about post-launch plans, there wasn’t a concrete answer but an obvious indication it’s something that’s already a consideration. There’s also the fact that the team has been so readily willing to listen to player feedback. A lot of the improved elements present in this hands-on and the second closed beta are a direct result of players’ complaints from the first round of testing, with some pretty drastic redesigns already made in respo
One other important Wuthering Waves resource is ore – found in the various rocks that look suspiciously interactable during exploration. Smashing these rocks inevitably yields different types of ore, which is a unique type of resource most important in weapon crafting and ascension. Because weapons play such a vital role in character builds, keeping an eye out for ore is also advised while traveling around the
Havoc Rover can inflict a lot of DMG with their Basic ATK or Resonance Liberation. No matter how you choose to play them, they’re strong enough to get the job done . The only problem the Havoc Rover has is not having a dedicated Support that can buff their
Yinlin is a prime example of an off-field DPS. She has excellent AoE DMG and provides great Liberation DMG and Electro DMG buffs for DPS like Xiangli Yao. Sadly, her teams aren’t as strong as the meta Jinhsi + Zhezhi pairing, which causes her to not claim any of the top ranki
Finally, an extremely important item is Sonance Caskets. These are found hidden away in the world, often requiring some keen sight or puzzle-solving to acquire. They can be traded to a Relic Merchant to acquire various other materials – most importantly Astrite , tying back to the most important Ragunna City resource map Wuthering Waves has to of
The amount of Wuthering Waves resources available can seem overwhelming at first, but having them broken down into categories – which ones affect Resonator convene attempts, for instance, versus which ones allow for those same Resonators to level up once acquired – is an easy way to make it a little less intimidating. There’s certainly a lot of depth in Kuro Games’ open-world gacha game at launch, which can be both a blessing and a curse . Too much farming of resources can drive players away eventually, while too little feels like content is a little bar
While the environment and scenery are visually fairly indistinct from what we saw, they were interesting enough, with materials to gather, enemies to defeat, and puzzles to solve. We played through a brief logic puzzle that was just above the boss fight demo, and it was a Tetris block-style conundrum that was a fun distraction. Obviously, one puzzle isn’t enough to judge an entire game’s worth of open world content so it’s mostly speculation at this point, but based on other closed beta impressions/streams it **looks like the world of Wuthering Waves will have more than enough on offer to keep people interested in its early days
Diving head-first into a new adventure can be exciting, but the appeal will wear off if the everyday quests turn into a chore to complete. Players should take their time searching every inch of the map, completing every quest, and uncovering everything that Wuthering Waves has to of
Calcharo is a very dangerous mercenary who defeats his targets with his Electro DMG. Using his Broadblade, Calcharo heavily depends on his Basic and Heavy ATK to deal DMG, especially during his Resonance Liberation. Calcharo’s combos are strong and allow him to continuously deal damage effectively to single or multiple targets at o
Calcharo is a strong main DPS in Wuthering Waves . He relies on his Resonance Liberation and he needs a team that can maximize his DMG. That being said, the team should be balanced between Supports and Sustain, which will give Calcharo the buffs he needs while keeping the team al
Changli’s Outro gives Fusion DMG and Liberation DMG bonuses, so she’s the perfect teammate for characters like Encore. Additionally, since she works great in a quick-swap team, other Sub-DPS with minimum field time like Yinlin also work great with Chan
Combat also feels snappy and responsive in Wuthering Waves , with well-made character movement a crucial element of the flow of battle. Dodges felt especially pinpoint and rewarding, and combat also features a parry system where a unit can time their attack to respond to an enemy’s vulnerability indicator during their own lunge – doing so results in damage and a stagger that can set up the next chain of a combo. The hands-on was a little too short to really go in-depth on these systems so it’s difficult to ascertain exactly how the interplay between dodging, parrying, and swapping units really flows, but what was on display felt intuitive and
Even during the brief hands-on – and during conversation with the Kuro Games representative present during the hands-on – it became clear that Wuthering Waves has big plans for launch. There’s a wide array of content immediately available, and when I asked about post-launch plans, there wasn’t a concrete answer but an obvious indication it’s something that’s already a consideration. There’s also the fact that the team has been so readily willing to listen to player feedback. A lot of the improved elements present in this hands-on and the second closed beta are a direct result of players’ complaints from the first round of testing, with some pretty drastic redesigns already made in respo
One other important Wuthering Waves resource is ore – found in the various rocks that look suspiciously interactable during exploration. Smashing these rocks inevitably yields different types of ore, which is a unique type of resource most important in weapon crafting and ascension. Because weapons play such a vital role in character builds, keeping an eye out for ore is also advised while traveling around the
Havoc Rover can inflict a lot of DMG with their Basic ATK or Resonance Liberation. No matter how you choose to play them, they’re strong enough to get the job done . The only problem the Havoc Rover has is not having a dedicated Support that can buff their
Yinlin is a prime example of an off-field DPS. She has excellent AoE DMG and provides great Liberation DMG and Electro DMG buffs for DPS like Xiangli Yao. Sadly, her teams aren’t as strong as the meta Jinhsi + Zhezhi pairing, which causes her to not claim any of the top ranki
Finally, an extremely important item is Sonance Caskets. These are found hidden away in the world, often requiring some keen sight or puzzle-solving to acquire. They can be traded to a Relic Merchant to acquire various other materials – most importantly Astrite , tying back to the most important Ragunna City resource map Wuthering Waves has to of
The amount of Wuthering Waves resources available can seem overwhelming at first, but having them broken down into categories – which ones affect Resonator convene attempts, for instance, versus which ones allow for those same Resonators to level up once acquired – is an easy way to make it a little less intimidating. There’s certainly a lot of depth in Kuro Games’ open-world gacha game at launch, which can be both a blessing and a curse . Too much farming of resources can drive players away eventually, while too little feels like content is a little bar
While the environment and scenery are visually fairly indistinct from what we saw, they were interesting enough, with materials to gather, enemies to defeat, and puzzles to solve. We played through a brief logic puzzle that was just above the boss fight demo, and it was a Tetris block-style conundrum that was a fun distraction. Obviously, one puzzle isn’t enough to judge an entire game’s worth of open world content so it’s mostly speculation at this point, but based on other closed beta impressions/streams it **looks like the world of Wuthering Waves will have more than enough on offer to keep people interested in its early days
Diving head-first into a new adventure can be exciting, but the appeal will wear off if the everyday quests turn into a chore to complete. Players should take their time searching every inch of the map, completing every quest, and uncovering everything that Wuthering Waves has to of
Calcharo is a very dangerous mercenary who defeats his targets with his Electro DMG. Using his Broadblade, Calcharo heavily depends on his Basic and Heavy ATK to deal DMG, especially during his Resonance Liberation. Calcharo’s combos are strong and allow him to continuously deal damage effectively to single or multiple targets at o