Combat in Wuthering Waves relies heavily on equipping a character with a decent weapon that brings out their potential. While the game literally throws 3-Star weapons at the player, these weapons are essentially worthless, and spending any weapon upgrade materials or XP on them is a complete waste.

Like most other Gacha games, 4-Stars is where Wuwa starts giving players something they can actually use to beat end-game content. Luckily, Wuthering Waves is fairly generous for newcomers, giving them multiple ways to obtain decent 4-Star weapons to start their journey with.

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How to Get Dauntless Evernight (Free 4-Star Broadblade)

The Dauntless Evernight is a 4-Star DEF% scaling Broadblade that is the BiS weapon for Taoqi and an okay option for Calcharo and Jiyan in the absence of anything else. To obtain it, here is what players need to do:

1. Start the mission 'We Promise, We Deliver' in Jinzhou by interacting with the Bulletin Board near the Synthesizer.
2. Progress the mission until you fight and defeat the Inferno Rider to get the trophy achievement 'Ride the Inferno.'

A cutscene will play out with the player taking control of the Inferno Rider until they reach the top of the floating skyscraper, ending with the Inferno Rider throwing his Broadblade near the top. This is the Dauntless Evernight, and it can be picked up after the fight is over. Players will have to climb the floating road to reach the final skyscraper and interact with the Broadblade stuck in the ground to claim it as their own. Note that the Dauntless Evernight only appears on the floating building after players defeat the Inferno Rider during the mission, not before.

How to Get a Free 4-Star Weapon Selector Chest

The 4-Star Weapon Selector becomes available after completing a two-part quest chain: Hidden Dangers in Peaceful Life and Shadows of the Past. Hidden Dangers in Peaceful Life is an exploration quest that automatically gets added to the players' Journal by progressing the main story. Track the quest in the Journal to get started.

After completing Hidden Dangers of Peaceful Life, the next quest, Shadows of the Past, will automatically trigger with the quest objective "Wait for Xiaoyu's message." The wait time for this is 24 hours in real-time (a full day). The timer starts when the quest begins, so if players complete the preceding quest at 9:00 AM on Monday, Xiaoyu's message will arrive at 9:00 AM on Tuesday.

Completing Shadows of the Past will put the Tiger's Maw mine back into operation, heralding the arrival of a couple of new NPC vendors. One of these NPC vendors, Shilang, arrives right next to the cooking station at the edge of the facility. His shop's name is Tiger's Maw Ore.

Players can buy the 4-Star Weapon Selector chest from Tiger's Maw Ore (Shilang) for 80 Lampylumen ores, which can be obtained by mining for them in the Tiger's Maw. To get the ores quickly, consider joining another Wuthering Waves player's world to mine the Tiger's Maw (this only works if they have completed the Tiger's Maw questline as well).

How to Craft Free 4-Star Weapons

Players can craft free 4-Star weapons by using the Weapon Crafting station at Uncle Wei's shop in Jinzhou (location in the screenshot above). Five 4-Star Weapons can be crafted, one in each category. To craft any weapon, players will need to bring the following materials with them:

Wuthering Waves

Platform(s)

Android , iOS , PC

Released

May 22, 2024

Developer(s)

Kuro Games

Publisher(s)

Kuro Games

Genre(s)

Action RPG , Open-World