Wuthering Waves is not only about the open-world exploration, story, finding Echoes, and fighting enemies. There are also different game modes that give you rewards, such as materials, special currencies, and more.
Resource and Boss Game Modes
Forgery Challenge
Weapon Materials
Required Waveplate: 40
Forgery Challenge stages provide Weapon Ascension or Forte Upgrade materials. There are five stages that give different materials for the five weapon types in the game. It is crucial to check which weapon materials you need before starting unless you’re farming for each weapon type.
All Forgery Challenges:
• Forgery Challenge: Flaming Remnants
• Forgery Challenge: Misty Forest
• Forgery Challenge: Eroded Ruins
• Forgery Challenge: Moonlit Groves
• Forgery Challenge: Marigold Woods
Simulation Field
EXP Materials
Required Waveplate: 40
The Simulation Field is where you can get experience (EXP) and other materials such as Shell Credits, Resonance Potions for Resonator experience points, Energy Cores for Weapon experience points, and Sealed Tubes for Echo experience points.
All Simulation Fields:
• Simulation: Resonance Potion
• Simulation: Energy Core
• Simulation: Shell Credits
• Simulation: Sealed Tube
Boss Challenge
Ascension Materials
Required Waveplate: 60
The Boss Challenges produce Resonator Ascension materials, and each boss will reward you with different materials. Make sure to check which Ascension material your character needs before challenging one.
Boss Challenges:
• Crownless
• Impermanence Heron
• Feilian Beringal
• Inferno Rider
• Lampylumen Myriad
• Mech Abomination
• Mourning Aix
• Tempest Mephis
• Thundering Mephis
Weekly Challenge
Output Advanced Skill Material
Required Waveplate: 60
Weekly Boss Challenges can only be claimed once per week for 60 Waveplates. It rewards you with Forte upgrade materials, standard weapon molds, and Weapon and Echo EXP materials.
Boss Challenges:
• Chaotic Juncture: Ember
• Bell-Borne Geochelone
Tacet Field Cleanup
Echo Materials
Required Waveplate: 60
The Tacet Field Cleanup stages will give Echo Tuners (for tuning different ranks of Echoes), Echoes, and Echo EXP materials. Every Tacet Field has a different Sonata Effect, so check first which one you need to complete.
Tower of Adversity
Tower of Adversity is one of the endgame game mode for Wuthering Waves after reaching a certain point of the main story quest and Union Level. You can play through the Tower of Adversity as often as you want to be rewarded with drops. The tower has different Zones, each with various challenges, enemies, and types that must be cleared. This is fairly similar to the Spiral Abyss stages in Genshin Impact, for those who played the game.
Zones
Stable Zone
Recommended level: 30-40
This is the tower’s first zone, with one zone of challenge containing four stages. With a time limit, you must defeat many enemies to get rewards. Clearing a stage before certain time limits will reward stars. Each stage rewards three stars up to 12 stars.
Experiment Zone
Recommended level: 60-70
This has two zones of challenges that has eight different stages. Like the Stable Zone, you must defeat enemies within a time limit to be rewarded with stars and more. Each stage rewards three stars, up to 24 stars.
Hazard Zone
Recommended level: Max level
Consists of three zones, containing 10 stages with many enemies to be defeated within a time limit. Each stage rewards three stars up to 30 stars.
This stage will reset after a period of time.
Vigor
Vigor is a stamina system within every zone in the tower. All Resonators will start with 10 Vigor. Each stage within a zone has a specific Vigor cost requirement, and using Resonators would reduce their Vigor upon completion. If Resonators run out or don’t have enough Vigor, they cannot be selected for the stage.
Points Store
After completing challenges in the tower, you will be rewarded with Deep Records (DR, exclusive currency) that can be exchanged for rewards in the Points Store – Deep Tower Exchange.
Items in the store:
• Advanced Resonance Potion (Monthly Limit: 30 | 8 DR)
• Advanced Energy Core (Monthly Limit: 30 | 8 DR)
• Advanced Sealed Tube (Monthly Limit: 30 | 10 DR)
• Shell Credits x10000 (Monthly Limit: 60 | 10 DR)
• Premium Tuner (Monthly Limit: 20 | 30 DR)
• Phantom: Feilian Beringal (Limit: 3 | 300 DR)
Depths of Illusive Realm
Tactical Hologram
Tactical Holograms are one-time boss challenges that features levels with varying difficulty. There are four bosses with six difficulty levels (as of CBT2), there will possibly be more in the future updates. Clearing these challenges for the first time rewards you with Echo materials and Drill Data Sets.
Points Store
After completing Tactical Hologram challenges, you will be rewarded with Drill Data Set (DDS, exclusive currency) that can be exchanged for rewards in the Points Store – Drill Store.
Items in the store:
• Astrite x50 (Limit: 6 | 100 DDS)
• Astrite x100 (Limit: 5 | 200 DDS)
• Medium Tuner (Limit: 10 | 6 DDS)
• Advanced Tuner (Limit: 10 | 20 DDS)
• Premium Tuner (Limit: 10 | 60 DDS)
• Advanced Sealed Tube (Limit: 10 | 20 DDS)
• Premium Sealed Tube (Limit: 10 | 50 DDS)
• Phantom: Mourning Aix (Limit: 3 | 600 DDS)
• Phantom: Thundering Mephis (Limit: 3 | 600 DDS)
• Shell Credits x500 (1 DDS)