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Building a character up inWuthering Wavesrequires farming for powerful echoes, XP materials,Ascension materials, skill level-up materials, and a lot more. Almost everything related to this process ends with players earning Union XP. The gameplay loop is meant to naturally increase the world level as players increase their character levels. However, players can easily end up in a situation where, despite earning a lot of Union XP and increasing their world rank, their characters lack the necessary DPS to take down even regular enemies in a reasonable amount of time.
This is because at every 10 Union levels, the world level—called SOL3 Phase Rank—goes up by 1, increasing the levels of all enemies and content in the game by 10. While typically, this is great as it keeps things from getting stale, it can get especially frustrating if players don’t have easy ways of dealing with these high-level enemies. Luckily,Wuthering Wavesallows players to lower the difficulty fairly easily. Here is how it works.
How to Lower SOL3 Phase in Wuthering Waves
To lower difficulty inWuthering Waves, here is what players need to do:
Now, the SOL3 Phase Rank has been reverted to the previous phase. This means that if you were at Rank 4 with the upper limit of level 60, now you’re at Rank 3 with the upper limit of level 50.
Once changed, the SOL3 Phase Rank cannot be changed for 12 hours (real-time).
Players cannot lower the difficulty by more than one tier. If an account is at SOL3 Phase 5, it can only be lowered to SOL3 Phase 4, not Phase 3.
What Does Lowering the SOL3 Phase Do in Wuthering Waves
Reducing the SOL3 Phase of an account will immediately de-level all monsters in the overworld to the previous phase. In practice, going from Phase 4 to Phase 3 means the enemies' level range will go from 50-60 to 40-50.
Red enemies' levelsare independent of the SOL3 Phase.
Additionally, all story/quest content gated behind certain SOL3 Phases will not be available if the current world level is below the required phase. If, for example, players lower their world level to Stage 1, they won’t be able to progress the main story until they revert it.
Here are all the things that lowering your difficulty level byreducing the SOL3 Phase doesn’t affect.
Players can remain at a lower phase for an indefinite period of time. The game won’t push them to a higher world level until they earn enough Union XP to get to the next rank.
