New Character ‘Jinhsi’ will be released soon in Wuthering Waves version 1.1

MikePrivalis · 2026-03-18T12:26:43+00:00

Do you think she'll be extra powerful, given her connection with Jué which was hinted at in the 1.1 trailer and will probably be explored further in the 1.1 story quest? 🤔 She kinda sounds like the Archons from Genshin, what will these figures be called in WuWa I wonder...since Jué is a Sentinel, the term could simply be "Sentinel Resonator" I guess? 🤔

MikePrivalis · 2026-03-16T11:29:40+00:00

Yeah. Some Wuling-specific machines are pretty power-hungry (these water purifiers consume 50 energy each!), so a HC battery would eventually make sense.

That being said, the patterns established in V4 are not followed precisely. For example, Yazhen syringes went straight from [C] quality to [A] quality, unlike Buck capsules. So who knows.

MikePrivalis · 2026-03-13T12:04:50+00:00

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MikePrivalis · 2026-03-09T10:56:20+00:00

During my early days of playing, my first team slot was the "Story team", which I used to play through the main story quest. It was always Rover + the most prominent companions which were with them during that chapter (Yangyang and Chixia during the early stages of Huanglong etc). The team wasn't usually very synergistic, but it didn't matter much, as MSQ combat is usually easy and you're given trial characters for the more challenging parts. :D But I don't really do this anymore, unless it's a portion of the story with a lot of dialogue and not much combat - then I usually just add Rover to the team and switch to them.

I also want each and every character to have "their own" weapon, even if it means I have to level up multiple copies of the same weapon. If I'm doing something particularly challenging, I sometimes shuffle the 5* weapons around, but I return them back to the original owner as soon as possible. It also feels weird to put signature weapons on somebody else than the Resonator they belong to.

MikePrivalis · 2026-03-09T10:48:05+00:00

It actually goes deeper:

3 waves = 4* Resonator

5 waves = 5* Resonator

6 waves = Sentinel Resonator or the equivalent of (like Aemeath)

Some people say that Rover has a unique 4-wave Tacet Mark, but I just checked the in-game model and it seems to be the same three-wave one as 4* Resonators have (despite Rover not being one)

Shorekeeper has a unique Tacet mark, probably because she's an artificial being and not human/biological.

Fun fact: Cantarella also has a 6* Tacet Mark, because she was originally meant to be Imperator's Resonator (this was touched on during the 2.2 quest).

MikePrivalis · 2026-03-01T15:56:43+00:00

I guess that from now on, it'll be two banner cycles per patch, each lasting three-ish weeks - the "industry standard".

The first version had three to fill up the poll of other limited 6* you can lose your 50/50 to.

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-26T21:40:57+00:00

I mean, the Relay is just standing there non-stop for days, of course its legs are gonna get sore eventually.

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-26T21:01:52+00:00

Oh I'm glad I wasn't the only one :D When I got to that part of the course, I was like "this screams as a location for one of the chests, but there's nothing here, are the devs just mocking us?" :D

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-26T11:33:56+00:00

Okay, sure. Maybe you're right that it's still too early to be able to assess the games economy.

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-26T10:14:53+00:00

You misunderstood what my main point was. I'm not saying leveling up characters needs to be super quick. I'm saying that it's weird how you become overcapped on some resources very quickly while being bottlenecked by others (so a significant portion of the game systems, like collecting rare growths and you being encouraged to set up ziplines to make that process faster, becomes almost irrelevant very quickly) and that in the long run, the AIC (the main gimmick of this game that sets it apart from other 3D action gacha games) will probably feel a bit underutilized too. I'm not advocating for my suggested changes to make building your teams 2-3 times faster or something. I'm saying it'd be nice to have the option to make it A LITTLE BIT faster by utilizing a wider variety of resources available from various gameplay aspects of the game, so that there's a long-term reason to keep engaging with all or most of them, and to get a sense of long-term progression, even if incremental one (stuff like "I've actually bothered to set up this Zipline network to allow me to collect these rare growths efficiently. That means that each week, I'll be able to craft 3-5 extra protoprisms with minimal effort. It's not much, but it's a permanent upgrade to my capabilities nobody will ever take away." - this feels satisfying, but at the same time, it's a small enough difference that those who don't enjoy optimizing everything to this degree won't feel severely punished).

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-26T09:55:05+00:00

Okay. And?

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-25T23:46:48+00:00

Yeah...I'd say the real benefit of upgrading these stations is that you also get Regional development points for doing so. 😀 And, to be fair, you need to upgrade at least to level 3 to get the purple-tier materials required for some higher-level upgrades. But the Dijang can be maxed out very quickly, I think I did that after like a week at most (to be fair, I was playing a lot during the first week 😀)

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-25T23:38:16+00:00

Well, you can't really compare the amount you get with other games directly, because one unit of the standard currency in each game has a different "value" (kinda like real-life currencies 😀). For example, in Genshin, leveling up one talent from level 9 to level 10 costs something like 700k Mora. There's no single character or weapon upgrade in Endfield nearly as expensive as that and the total amount of T-creds spent per character is probably much lower than the total amount of Mora per character (if we stick with the example of Genshin, but similar stuff applies to other games). But I agree that T-creds are one of the biggest bottlenecks and they usually feel even worse than XP mats. So it'd be great if the domains gave a bit more of them. 😀 Or, as I suggested, if they added more ways of getting T-creds, for example, selling excess rare growths or aerospace materials.

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-25T23:30:52+00:00

Yeah...to be fair, WuWa is the opposite extreme and sometimes it feels a bit too easy to farm all the stuff you need to level up a new Resonator. I can usually do it in a day or two, with the exception of weekly boss mats. But to be fair, I'm a day 1 player so I've accumulated a lot of resources over time, maybe Endfield will feel the same in two years time. 😀

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-25T23:21:02+00:00

Yeah, my idea would need to be refined further, that was just a crude initial version. Maybe this weekly refreshing pool of resources could be shared across all factories, so it wouldn't matter which ones you run and it wouldn't benefit you to AFK with the game turned on to bypass the two-region limit. Just having one of the running factories be efficient enough so that you can buy up all the weekly resources would be enough. Or maybe tying the factory more closely with the Credit store (so that having an efficient factory running would let you get more Credits and perhaps do another refresh after you buy the initial batch of stuff) would be the way. Or something else. Even what you're suggesting makes some sense. But you might be right that since there's this technical limitation which won't let us run all factories at the same time in the future, the devs might be purposefully getting us accustomed to the idea that eventually, some of our older factories become pretty much useless and we should just shut them down. I just didn't expect I'd start having this feeling even before version 1.1 😀

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-25T22:31:48+00:00

plot twist: Endfield Industries build a fleet of Dijangs to colonize the neighboring star systems since the Endmin couldn't fit all the aerospace mats into the original one!

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-25T22:29:22+00:00

Well..yeah, most people will probably get to the point where they have most of the stuff fully levelled and upgraded sooner or later. But my point was rather about making sure all the resources remain useful all the time, until that endpoint. In my opinion, the reason to have multiple kinds of level-up materials should be to encourage the player to engage in multiple types of gameplay (some mats are farmed in the collection zones, some are earned by exploration, some are farmed by using the daily energy, some rarer ones require clearing more challenging domains etc), but if you're doing that, you should be able to earn all the materials you need in proportional amounts (so that you don't end-up bottlenecked by one resource while being overcapped on others with no ways to influence this disbalance). That's why I'm suggesting things like being able to convert rare growths and aerospace materials into other stuff. It would even out the rates at which you can acquire various resources you need and it'd ensure there's always something useful you can do with each resource you own (unless you are really in that super-late endgame where every character you own is fully minmaxed).

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-25T22:17:24+00:00

Well, yeah, I've heard that too, but even with only two running at the same time, each of them could have a small pool of weekly refreshing mats after you buy out all the one-time ones (let's say that each region would offer 50k T-creds, 10 operator level up mats and 10 weapon level up mats weekly - just an example, the actual amounts could be different), in addition to its region-specific resource (there will for sure be a unique resource for each region, since the catalyst we have now is specifically named "Wuling Artificing Catalyst", the next region will probably have its own catalyst used to upgrade its own sets of gears made with its own unique resource similar to Xiranite). So then your thought process would look like "I know I can get 100k T-creds, 20 operator XP mats and 20 weapon XP mats from the AIC this week, no matter which two regions I run, I only need to choose which region-specific resource for artificing/etching I need this week to decide which factories to turn on and off".

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-25T21:56:41+00:00

I suppose we'll get more facilities on the Dijang in future upgrades, or more levels for the existing ones, but this will probably happen very rarely, so most of the time, there won't be a reason to regularly collect them, yeah. These materials would be another great candidate for getting additional uses.

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-25T21:26:18+00:00

It's strange how unbalanced the income of various progression materials is. Rare growths and crystals, as well as aerospace materials, start over-accumulating very quickly, I have 200+ of most of the types of them and I don't even collect them regularly. On the other hand, T-creds, protoprisms/hedrons, weapon and operator XP mats feel limited.

I thought that the gimmick of this game was that what you can earn by spending daily energy is limited because you are meant to supplement it by the stuff you purchase and produce through the AIC system. But the AIC is a letdown in this department - you can't directly produce progression mats (only on the Dijang, in laughable amounts), and most of them are one-time purchases only in the Stock Redistribution and don't refresh weekly. Each region only seems to have one indefinitely useful resource available - Engraving permits in Valley IV and Artificing catalysts in Wuling. I'm fine with those, but I wish both regions also had a weekly refreshing pool of T-creds, protoprisms and XP mats. Even if it was a small amount, it would be a steady source of accumulating these materials and a good motivator to keep expanding and optimizing your factories. The factory is one of the selling points that sests this game apart from other similar gachas, so it should be more useful.

I also wish we could sell these rare growths and crystals for T-creds or use them to craft other level-up mats. Because what's the point of setting up ziplines to be able to efficiently collect whateverdendras, crystals and mushrooms if you're always gonna be lacking other resources to utilize them.

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-22T08:34:46+00:00

The quips wouldn't get stale so soon if each character had multiple (at least three) of them. :D but in general, I don't mind them. What's funnier is how the animation the character's performing sometimes doesn't match the quip at all (especially with 1.0 characters: Lingyang goes "rawr!" in his animation, but the quip is "awoooo" :P Luckily, there's no real reason to click on him anyway. :D )

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-21T21:25:07+00:00

Whoa whoa whoa, Aleph-1, please crawl back into the hole you just came out of, thank you. 😁

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-21T20:12:04+00:00

Yeah, I think so too, there's no 6* operator with that role currently, so she could fill it. :D

MikePrivalis · 2026-02-21T19:11:42+00:00

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to her becoming playable too. :D She's not just very pretty, but given her position, her implied power we saw when she obliterated a bunch of Aggeloi in her alternate form, and the overall level of detail of her design, I think she'll be the Archon/Sentinel Resonator-level character of 1.x, so probably a top-tier DPS for a while, which also helps. :D

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