Weapons in Wuthering Waves: how to choose the best and who to give them to in WuW

In Wuthering Waves weapons are an important component game combat system. There are several types of weapons, each of which has many different types with their own characteristics and passive abilities, so it is often difficult for unprepared players to choose the best options for their characters.

In this guide, we will briefly look at the weapon system in VUV, and also talk about the best swords, wide blades, gauntlets, converters and pistols, while indicating which heroes will be suitable for certain types of weapons.

Main features of weapons in Wuthering Waves

Weapon characteristics

If you go to the weapons screen in the Resonators menu, you will see a lot of values, inscriptions and parameters that determine exactly how the weapon will work and what effect it will have on the hero if equipped. Next, let's look at all these indicators:

• Weapon Level – increasing it leads to an increase in the basic characteristics of your weapon.
• Ascension Rank - indicated by diamonds below the weapon level. When you reach these stages, you will need additional materials to further upgrade your weapons.
• Base ATK - determines how much your character's attack power will increase when using this weapon. This figure increases as the level of weapons increases.
• Secondary Stat is an additional weapon parameter that increases the corresponding character value. The example above shows that Jinzhou Keeper increases the heroine's attack power by 20.6%. This indicator also increases as the level of the weapon increases.
• Weapon Rank – increases the stat multipliers of a weapon's passive skill. It increases by “feeding” duplicates to it.
• Weapon Skill is a passive skill that gives the owner various positive effects.

How to level up a weapon

To increase the level of weapons (just click on the inscription "Upgrade" in the weapon menu) you can use other weapons (unnecessary and low-level) and/or special energy cores, which can be farmed in simulations.

However, upon reaching levels 20, 40, 50, 60, 70, and 80, you will be required to ascend a weapon before you can continue leveling it up. To do this, you will have to spend certain materials dropped by enemies and mined in Counterfeit tests (Forgery Challenge).

How to increase the rank of a weapon

In the same leveling menu, go to the tab "Settings" (Tune) and then select the duplicate weapon to increase the rank of the original. By doing this, you will strengthen his passive skill. The easiest way to increase this indicator is with 3-star and crafted weapons, since you can get them in large quantities. Some instances with the 5th “awakening” can easily outperform paid epic and legendary variants in efficiency.

Let’s add that if you use a 4th rank weapon to level up a 1st rank option, the latter will immediately receive 5th rank. It will not be possible to raise this indicator even higher, so you should not, for example, combine two 3-rank weapons, since in this case one duplicate will simply burn out.

Ways to get weapons in WuVa

There are several ways to obtain new weapons in Wuthering Waves. Moreover, the higher the rarity of the weapon, the more difficult it will be to obtain it. So, with a high probability, not all of your characters will be able to carry 5-star weapons.

Banners (Gacha)

Most of the weapons you will get from Convocations (Convene). We are talking about temporary and permanent banners. In the first, you will be able to get event and standard weapons, and in the second, only standard weapons. For every 10 spins you are guaranteed to receive a 4-star weapon, and for 80 - a 5-star weapon. Basically, you will receive 3-star items.

World Exploration

While exploring locations, you will regularly come across supply chests (Supply Chest) and Tidal Heritage, from which you can get weapons with a rarity of 3 stars and below.

In addition, after completing certain quests you can receive containers with a weapon selector or find them in certain places. As a rule, we are talking about 4-star weapons.

Crafting and purchasing weapons

You can purchase 1- and 2-star weapons from Uncle Wei, whose store is located in the northwestern part of Jinzhou.

In addition, you can create 3- and 4-star weapons yourself using the workbench located behind the old man. However, for this you will need special preparations and ore. We talked about this in more detail in separate manual.

Battle Pass

If you buy the paid version of the Battle Pass "Pioneer Podcast" (Pioneer Podcast), then already at level 30 you will receive a container with a selector for choosing a unique epic weapon.

Free weapons

The developers have prepared a special gift for newcomers by adding a permanent event "Awakening Journey" (Awakening Journey). The fact is that thanks to him, after reaching the 45th Unity level (Union Level) you can get a container with a 5-star weapon.

Best Weapons in Wuthering Waves

Next, we will look at all types of weapons separately, showing the best options among them and indicating the characters for whom they are suitable. Note that the rating did not take into account the ranks of weapons.

Plus, it should be remembered that the abilities of some heroes may depend on specific characteristics, so for a number of resonators, the weapon that we indicated at the bottom of the list may provide more benefits than some example from the S-tier.

Note: We did not include 1- and 2-star weapons in the list, since in most cases they are temporary options that are exchanged for more useful weapons at the very beginning of the game.

Best swords (Sword)

Best broadblades (Broadblade)

Best Gauntlets (Gauntlet)

The best converters (Rectifier)

Best Pistols

These are all the weapons in Wuthering Waves. We hope that our guide will help you choose the best weapons for each of your characters.