Blazing Brilliance in Wuthering Waves: Ascension materials, stats and best characters to use on

Blazing Brilliance is Changli's signature 5-star weapon in Wuthering Waves. This weapon primarily aims to increase the damage she can dole out and looks to be tailor-made for her kit which is focused on doing consistent Fusion DMG. This 5-star weapon is expected to go live very soon in Version 1.1. Fans can pull for it using Forging Tides in the limited-time weapon banner.

This article lists everything you need to know about the Blazing Brilliance 5-star weapon in Wuthering Waves such as its stats, ascension materials and the best characters that can make use of it.

Wuthering Waves: Blazing Brilliance ascension materials

Blazing Brilliance is the new 5-star Sword in Wuthering Waves. It will be released on July 22, 2024 along with the Changli banner. The following materials are needed to ascend Blazing Brilliance to its maximum rank:

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LF Howler Core x6
MF Howler Core x6
HF Howler Core x10
FF Howler Core x12
Inert Metallic Drip x6
Reactive Metallic Drip x8
Polarized Metallic Drip x6
Heterized Metallic Drip x20
Shell Credit x330000

Where to find Blazing Brilliance ascension materials in Wuthering Waves

LF/MF/HF/FF Howler Core

Defeat Gulpuffs to get Howler Cores (Image via Kuro Games)

LF/MF/HF/FF Howler Core are primarily obtained by defeating enemies in the world. Some of them that can drop this material include:

Young Geohide Saurian
Young Roseshroom
Hooscamp Flinger
Diamondclaw
Hoartoise
Fusion Dreadmane

Howler Cores can also be farmed by spending Waveplates in Forgery Challenge. Additionally, they can be bought in the Jinzhou Souvenir Shop or synthesized. Blazing Brilliance is speculated to need the following Howler Cores to reach max ascension:

LF Howler Core x6
MF Howler Core x6
HF Howler Core x10
FF Howler Core x12

Inert/Reactive/Polarized/Heterized Metallic Drip

Location of Forgery Challenge: Flaming Remnants (Image via Kuro Games)

Inert, Reactive, Polarized and Heterized Metallic Drip are material drops obtained by spending 40 Waveplates in the Forgery Challenge: Flaming Remnants. This domain is located in Port City of Guixu in the Sea of Flames sub-area. The Blazing Brilliance sword is rumored to need the following amounts of Metallic Drip:

Inert Metallic Drip x6
Reactive Metallic Drip x8
Polarized Metallic Drip x6
Heterized Metallic Drip x20

Wuthering Waves Blazing Brilliance stats

Listed below are the base stats of Blazing Brilliance at Level 90 with Syntonization Rank 1:

ATK: 587
Crit DMG%: 48.6%

Blazing Brilliance's weapon skill is called Crimson Pheonix and it provides the following effects:

ATK increased by 12%/15%/18%/21%/24% The equipper gains 1 stack of Searing Feather upon dealing damage, which can be triggered once every 0.5s, and gains 5 stacks of the same effect upon casting Resonance Skill. Each stack of Searing Feather gives 4%/5%/6%/7%/8% additional Resonance Skill DMG Bonus for up to 14 stacks. All stacks will be removed within 10s after reaching the max stack.