With a vengeful blade of condensed blood in hand, Ranger Danjin hunts down thieves and bandits for retribution. She journeys to distant lands in pursuit of justice.
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Last review update
Patch 1.0
Last major build/calcs update
Patch 1.3
Last profile update*
December 11th, 2024
*Profile update means smaller edits to echoes, stats, synergies or teams that don't require new calculations.
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Execution
Danjin performs up to 3 consecutive attacks, dealing Havoc DMG.
Danjin combines her Forte with the blade in her hand and consumes Stamina to launch consecutive attacks, dealing Havoc DMG.
Consumes Stamina to perform a mid-air Plunging Attack, dealing Havoc DMG.
Use Basic Attack after a successful Dodge to launch an attack, dealing Havoc DMG.
After a successful Dodge Counter, Danjin can use the Resonance Skill Crimson Fragment to cast the Resonance Skill Crimson Erosion.
Crimson Fragment
When casting Incinerating Will, each attack consumes 3% of Danjin's max HP. When Danjin's HP is less than 1%, this no longer consumes HP.
Danjin attacks the target, dealing Havoc DMG.
After Basic Attack II, Dodge Counter or Intro Skill Vindication, use Resonance Skill to perform up to 2 consecutive strikes, dealing Havoc DMG. When Crimson Erosion II hits a target, apply Incinerating Will to it.
Danjin's damage dealt to targets marked with Incinerating Will is increased by 20%.
Use Resonance Skill after Basic Attack III to perform up to 3 consecutive attacks, dealing Havoc DMG.
Crimson Bloom
Danjin's anger intensifies as she frantically swings her dual blades, performing multiple rapid consecutive attacks, and 1 Scarlet Burst attack(s), dealing Havoc DMG.
Serene Vigil
After accumulating 60 "Ruby Blossom", long press Basic Attack to consume all "Ruby Blossom" to cast Chaoscleave, dealing Havoc DMG, considered as Heavy Attack damage, and restoring HP to Danjin.
If current "Ruby Blossom" exceeds 120, this consumes 120 "Ruby Blossom" to increase the damage multiplier of Chaoscleave and Scatterbloom performed this time.
Use Basic Attack after Heavy Attack Chaoscleave to launch Shatter to attack the target, dealing Havoc DMG, considered as Heavy Attack damage.
Danjin obtains "Ruby Blossom" when using Resonance Skill Crimson Fragment.
Crimson Light
The damage of the Resonance Skill Crimson Erosion triggered by Dodge Counter: Ruby Shades is increased by 20%. The HP cost and stacks of "Ruby Blossom" recovered are doubled.
Overflow
After casting the Resonance Skill Sanguine Pulse, Danjin's Heavy Attack damage is increased by 30% for 5s.
Vindiction
With unwavering determination, Danjin unleashes a strike, dealing Havoc DMG.
Duality
The next character (or other characters on a nearby team that activates an Outro Skill) gains 23% Havoc DMG Deepen for 14 seconds or until the Character is switched.
Sequence Node 1
When Danjin attacks a target with Resonance Skill's Incinerating Will, her ATK is increased by 5% for 6s, stacking up to 6 times. Danjin loses 1 stacks of this effect each time she takes damage.
Sequence Node 2
When Danjin attacks a target with Resonance Skill's Incinerating Will, her damage dealt is increased by 20%.
Sequence Node 3
Resonance Liberation DMG Bonus is increased by 30%.
Sequence Node 4
When Danjin has more than 60 Ruby Blossom, her Crit. Rate is increased by 15%. This effect lasts until the end of Heavy Attack: Scatterbloom even after all "Ruby Blossom" is consumed when casting Heavy Attack: Chaoscleave.
Sequence Node 5
Danjin's Havoc DMG Bonus is increased by 15%, and further increased by another 15% when her HP is lower than 60%.
Sequence Node 6
Heavy Attack Chaoscleave increases the ATK of all team members by 20% for 20s.
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Review
Can be played as a Solo DPS or as a Sub DPS in a more supporting role
Deals excellent damage for a 4-star with great potential to grow with Sequences
Can make use of one of the best Echoes in the game effectively; the Dreamless Echo
Has incredible parrying abilities making bosses easier to deal with
High-risk high-reward play style
You’re almost always 1 hit from death, which can be a problem when fighting multiple enemies, especially ranged ones
Damage at S0 is lesser compared to other 5-star damage dealers
Danjin is a 4-Star Havoc Sword wielder that can function as either a Hybrid character which offers Support as well as secondary DPS, or a High DPS unit in teams completely centered around her. This is thanks to her ability to execute high damage and consistent combos throughout a fight outside of her cooldown-based abilities. However, it is worth noting that playing Danjin in this way will deplete her HP quickly, even if you bring a healer, due to her berserker-style kit.
True to the berserker archetype, consuming her HP is what builds up her Forte Gauge. The Gauge has two milestones; at 50% capacity, it will allow her to use her most powerful attack - Chaos Cleave. This can be quickly succeeded by Scatterbloom, dealing tremendous damage and also healing Danjin for a considerable amount. At 100%, the damage multiplier for both skills is increased, and as such it is advised to only trigger Chaos Cleave when Danjin’s Forte Gauge is 100% full to maximize her damage potential.
Danjin’s skill is centered around converting her basic attacks into multiple possible combos as follows:
Single basic attack followed by a single skill.
Two basic attacks followed by two skills - This will inflict the hit enemies with Incinerating Will, which increases the damage taken by Danjin’s other attacks. It is important to keep this active on your primary target whether you are using Danjin as Sub DPS or Main DPS.
Three basic attacks followed by three skills - outside of the previous combo to keep Incinerating Will active, Danjin should be primarily utilized to perform this combo as it not only deals the highest damage of the 3 choices, but also generates the highest amount of Forte Gauge, which is essential to her gameplay.
Lastly, Danjin’s Ultimate is a simple on-demand high Havoc DPS nuke that targets everything in front of her. Despite the fact that it features an incredibly long casting time, it is an excellent choice as a burst damage option as it freezes most time-based clocks for its entire duration.
When it comes to staying on the field and what she can provide, Danjin is flexible depending on which playstyle you prefer for her. She can stay on field for a significant amount of time with her extended combos, providing excellent sustained damage as a primary damage dealer. Alternatively, she can spend minimum time cycling her cooldowns and maintaining her Incinerating Will debuff, providing fantastic burst damage as a hybrid Sub DPS while also buffing Havoc DMG% amplification.
When it comes to playing her, it has to be noted that your experience can largely differ on the basis of the role you choose. If you wish to use Danjin as primary DPS, it means dealing with her berserker-styled gameplay. That is to say, she will continuously be living on the edge of her HP pool, relying on her Forte skills to replenish it. The recovery won’t last long however; she will chew through her recovered HP, making it imperative that you must master the art of dodging for it is about to turn into a Souls Game. Even with a healer on field, she is unlikely to survive a hit due to how fast she burns her HP pool. On other hand, if you prefer the Sub DPS & Support Hybrid Danjin, she will stay reasonably healthy most of the time with assistance of a healer, allowing you to play more relaxedly.
Danjin’s Outro provides 23% Havoc Amplification, which offers a significant damage boost to any Havoc character switching in. Regardless of which role you prefer for Danjin - be it Main DPS or Sub DPS & Support Hybrid, she would prefer a full damage build. No matter how much time she spends on the field, she can deal a significant chunk of damage, making Dreamless Echo and 5P Havoc Set the best choice for her.
Overall, Danjin has no problems being the Solo DPS in teams centered around her, should she have a skilled player controlling her. As a 4-star while her damage at S0 is slightly less than her 5-star counterparts, investing in Sequences increases her damage potential greatly. But she’s also excellent when played alongside Havoc Rover as a Sub DPS & Support Hybrid.
This tier list assesses characters based on their combat potential in Wuthering Waves current most demanding content Tower of Adversity (ToA). ToA is a mode similar to Genshin Impact’s Spiral Abyss or Honkai Star Rail’s Memory of Chaos and requires multiple teams, strong Echoes and good Weapons. This mode offers a reasonable mix of Boss encounters (single target), Elite packs (2-3 targets) and AoE scenarios (5+ Targets), allowing multiple characters to find a niche but in the end, there's a bias toward single target focused characters at the top-end.
Please keep in mind Wuthering Waves is a skill-based game and each character has a different playstyle, difficulty level and even special tricks and combos. Wuthering Waves is also a team based game and it's only by combining both these factors to the highest level a character can reach optimal performance.
Tower of Adversity
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Build
107.38%
Stats at Level 90: ATK: 587 | CRIT DMG: 48.6%
100%
Stats at Level 90: ATK: 587 | CRIT Rate: 24.3%
83.37%
Stats at Level 90: ATK: 412 | ATK: 30.3%
83.22%
Stats at Level 90: ATK: 462 | ATK: 18.2%
82.03%
Stats at Level 90: ATK: 387 | ATK: 36.4%
82.03%
Stats at Level 90: ATK: 412 | ATK: 30.3%
78.69%
Stats at Level 90: ATK: 387 | ATK: 36.4%
68.13%
Stats at Level 90: ATK: 325 | ATK: 24.3%
100%
2 Set: Havoc DMG increases by 10%.
5 Set: Upon using Basic Attack or Heavy Attack, Havoc DMG increases by 7.5%, stacking up to four times for 15s.
95.47%
2 Set: ATK increases by 10%.
5 Set: While on the field, ATK increases by 5% every 1.5s, stacking up to 4 times. Outro Skill DMG increases by 60%.
Lingering Tunes requires time to ramp up and is reset after switching characters (which is a VERY common team tactic in the endgame). This set of calculations assumes that for this character's entire burst window, they are not switched out until the very end.
93.19%
2 Set: Havoc DMG increases by 10%.
5 Set: Upon using Basic Attack or Heavy Attack, Havoc DMG increases by 7.5%, stacking up to four times for 15s.
2 Set: ATK increases by 10%.
5 Set: While on the field, ATK increases by 5% every 1.5s, stacking up to 4 times. Outro Skill DMG increases by 60%.
92.59%
2 Set: ATK increases by 10%.
5 Set: While on the field, ATK increases by 5% every 1.5s, stacking up to 4 times. Outro Skill DMG increases by 60%.
Lingering Tunes requires time to ramp up and is reset after switching characters (which is a VERY common team tactic in endgame). This set of calculations displays expected performance if you switched the character constantly never maintaining the buff (switch every 1.5 seconds or faster).
Echoes in Wuthering Waves are an essential part of the character rotations, granting a large amount of Resonance Energy and damage but at the cost of high field time for the most powerful ones. But by using some Echoes right before you're about to switch out on the character, you're able to move to your next character while your previous one is still in the echo animation - it’s what we call an Echo Swap Cancel.
Echo Swap Cancel is almost always the optimal way to use Echoes, and will result in big reductions in character field time and large increases to DPS, but not all of the most powerful Echoes can be swap cancelled in this way. For example, the Feilian Beringal (Aero), Dreamless (Havoc), Tempest Mephis (Electro), Mourning Aix (Spectro), and Infernal Rider (Fusion) Echoes can all be Swap Cancelled.
The remaining element, so Glacio while having powerful Echoes has none powerful enough that can be swap cancelled, and to make things worse, no Echoes that generate sufficient Energy and damage for their field time investment.
The result of this is that you can expect Glacio characters to have higher field time and lower DPS in calculations than their other elemental counter parts until they receive better Echoes to use.
Sun-sinking Eclipse
One of the strongest burst damage Echoes in the game that also generates a sizeable chunk of Resonance Energy. What makes this Echo strong is that its damage is delivered in a massive 360 degree area around the target it fixates on and is immediately swap cancellable the second it's used with 0 downsides. When using this Echo, always use it and immediately switch out so it deals it's damage and finishes its animation while the caster of the Echo is off the field. Due to this fact this Echo is normally used outside of characters burst windows.
Substats: CRIT RATE = CRIT DMG > ATK% > Flat ATK > Heavy DMG% > Resonance Skill DMG%
Important! CRIT DMG has base value of 150% and Energy Regen has a base value of 100% when you check them in game. The recommended values below don't include the base value but rather show how much on top of it you need to obtain.
ATK: 1700-2000+
HP: 14000+
DEF: 1200+
HAVOC DMG%: 40%-70%+
CRIT RATE%: 50-70%+
CRIT DMG% 100-140%+
Energy Regen: 0%
Danjin does not require any Energy Regen in order to function and it's not specifically recommended for her build, but if you can gain some without it costing you, having more frequent Ultimates will lead to more total damage in fights
Below you can find the order of leveling the abilities for Danjin.
Forte Circuit
Res. Skill
Res. Liberation
Basic Attack
Intro Skill
Gameplay and teams
Below you can find optimal rotation (or rotations) for Danjin. The total time needed to perform it is 11.16 seconds. When selecting the rotations we prioritized achieving 100 Concerto as fast as possible and once that condition was fulfilled, we focused on maximizing the damage output. As or if new and more optimal rotations are found, we'll update the characters calculations as needed.
MAINTENANCE
Due to Danjin’s kit nature and her Burst Rotation flexibility, she isn't required to perform any actions beforehand. However, there are certain things to aim for to be maintained throughout combat, despite her not needing them to achieve certain energy thresholds at specific times unlike other characters.
- Danjin’s Incinerating Will should be kept active at all times, to ensure damage amplification, to do this, weave in the following combo throughout battle in addition to Normal Burst combo listed below:
- Basic P1 OR Skill: Carmine Gleam
- Basic P2
- Skill: Crimson Erosion I
- Skill: Crimson Erosion II
Keep using Danjin's Echo on cooldown, while using Dreamless ensure to Swap-Cancel it as soon as it's available. However, if using alternative Echo, such as buffing one, aim to utilize it before executing a long burst combo.
If Ultimate becomes earlier than planned, use it immediately as long as Incinerating Will is active on the enemy to not waste energy. However, if you are running a team that aims to enhance it with Deepen Outros, stack those first.
BURST COMBO
Danjin’s burst combo doesn’t require it to be executed uninterrupted - allowing her to use Dodges or Swapping to other characters before returning to finish the combo. This is as her preferred Echo (Dreamless) has no buff associated with it and her kit lacks any strict duration to fit damage into. However, if using a team with specific Deepen amplification effects that prohibit switching, consider using that first before performing Swap mid combo.
- Echo (Use before combo but refer to Echo recommendations for exact specifics for your chosen Echo)
- Intro
- Skill: Crimson Erosion I
- Skill: Crimson Erosion II
- Ultimate
- Skill: Carmine Gleam
- Basic P2
- Basic P3
- Skill: Sanguine Pulse I
- Skill: Sanguine Pulse II
- Skill: Sanguine Pulse III
- Skill: Carmine Gleam
- Basic P2
- Basic P3
- Skill: Sanguine Pulse I
- Skill: Sanguine Pulse II
- Skill: Sanguine Pulse III
- Heavy Attack: Chaoscleave Full
- Heavy Attack: Scatterbloom Full
Below you can find a list of some of the stronger synergies between this character and others.
Danjin's kit makes her playable in many different ways. Thanks to her access to shorter lower damage rotations and sustained damage over extended periods of time, she can be played as a standard hybrid, a standard main DPS, but also a very potent solo carry. Pick whatever team suits you best, as they're all viable and competitive (with the fastest teams being shown first).
Team #1 - Camellya Hybrid
Team #2 - Havoc Rover Hybrid
Team #3 - Main DPS
Team #4 - Solo Carry
Calculations
Don't use the damage output calculations as an indication on who is worth pulling or investing as those are just simulations and in day-to-day gameplay there's a lot variables and also the skill of the player is important - if you can't consistently perform the character's rotation, their damage will suffer.
As usual, don't compare the numbers between characters - especially between Main DPS and Hybrids as they fulfill different roles in the team.
The numbers below show the character's DPS (Damage Per Second) and DMG (total damage done). When selecting the rotations we prioritized achieving 100 Concerto as fast as possible and once that condition was fulfilled, we focused on maximizing the damage output. As or if new and more optimal rotations are found, we'll update the characters calculations as needed. Listed character calculations are done without buffs or any damage contribution from teammates (full solo). They only include what the character, their Weapon, Echo and gear are capable of during their ideal Burst or Concerto rotation when starting with their Intro and Resonance Liberation available.
Rotation time: 11.16s
Disclaimer: The calculations for Danjin do not include the Dodge Counter damage as it lies outside of the simulation rules. Still, if you will be able to use them consistently, her damage output will improve by a lot.
Here's the rotation we have used to calculate the DPS (Damage Per Second) shown above. The total time needed to perform the rotation is 11.16 seconds.
BURST COMBO
Danjin’s burst combo doesn’t require it to be executed uninterrupted - allowing her to use Dodges or Swapping to other characters before returning to finish the combo. This is as her preferred Echo (Dreamless) has no buff associated with it and her kit lacks any strict duration to fit damage into. However, if using a team with specific Deepen amplification effects that prohibit switching, consider using that first before performing Swap mid combo.
- Echo (Use before combo but refer to Echo recommendations for exact specifics for your chosen Echo)
- Intro
- Skill: Crimson Erosion I
- Skill: Crimson Erosion II
- Ultimate
- Skill: Carmine Gleam
- Basic P2
- Basic P3
- Skill: Sanguine Pulse I
- Skill: Sanguine Pulse II
- Skill: Sanguine Pulse III
- Skill: Carmine Gleam
- Basic P2
- Basic P3
- Skill: Sanguine Pulse I
- Skill: Sanguine Pulse II
- Skill: Sanguine Pulse III
- Heavy Attack: Chaoscleave Full
- Heavy Attack: Scatterbloom Full
And here are the Echoes and Weapons used in the calculations.
Stats at Level 90: ATK: 587 | CRIT Rate: 24.3%
2 Set: Havoc DMG increases by 10%.
5 Set: Upon using Basic Attack or Heavy Attack, Havoc DMG increases by 7.5%, stacking up to four times for 15s.
Substats: ATK (45%), CRIT Rate (42%), CRIT DMG (84%)
Echoes in Wuthering Waves are an essential part of the character rotations, granting a large amount of Resonance Energy and damage but at the cost of high field time for the most powerful ones. But by using some Echoes right before you're about to switch out on the character, you're able to move to your next character while your previous one is still in the echo animation - it’s what we call an Echo Swap Cancel.
Echo Swap Cancel is almost always the optimal way to use Echoes, and will result in big reductions in character field time and large increases to DPS, but not all of the most powerful Echoes can be swap cancelled in this way. For example, the Feilian Beringal (Aero), Dreamless (Havoc), Tempest Mephis (Electro), Mourning Aix (Spectro), and Infernal Rider (Fusion) Echoes can all be Swap Cancelled.
The remaining element, so Glacio while having powerful Echoes has none powerful enough that can be swap cancelled, and to make things worse, no Echoes that generate sufficient Energy and damage for their field time investment.
The result of this is that you can expect Glacio characters to have higher field time and lower DPS in calculations than their other elemental counter parts until they receive better Echoes to use.
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