Verina Ascension Materials and Skills - Wuthering Waves Guide - IGN (2024)

Verina has a reputation in Jinzhou as a plant expert who often tags along on expeditions. She has a mature attitude and encyclopedic knowledge beyond her years. This page lists her ascension materials, Forte materials, and skills with some combat context.

Verina Skills

Verina is the top character on our Wuthering Waves tier list for a reason. Her buffing and healing capabilities make her an irreplaceable support as of the Wuthering Waves 1.0 meta. Note that her healing scales based on ATK, not HP like Baizhi.

These are the descriptions of all Verina's Skills from her in-game profile.

Basic Attack: Cultivation

• Basic Attack - Verina performs up to 5 consecutive attacks with vines, dealing Spectro DMG.

• Heavy Attack - Verina consumes Stamina to charge forward, dealing Spectro DMG.

• Mid-Air Attack - Verina consumes Stamina to perform up to 3 consecutive attacks in mid-air, dealing Spectro DMG.

• Mid-Air Heavy Attack - Hold Basic Attack to consume Stamina and perform a mid-air Plunging Attack, dealing Spectro DMG.

• Dodge Counter - Use a Basic Attack after a successful Dodge to attack the target, dealing Spectro DMG.

Resonance Skill: Botany Experiment

Verina converges an energy field in front to grow foliage, dealing Spectro DMG within the range.

Resonance Liberation: Arboreal Flourish

Verina nourishes nearby foliage at rapid speed, dealing Spectro DMG while healing all characters on teams nearby. A Photosynthesis Mark is applied to the target on hit.

• Photosynthesis Mark - Whenever a character on a team nearby performs an attack on targets with a Photosynthesis Mark, Verina performs a Coordinated Attack, dealing Spectro DMG while healing the active character dealing damage on a team nearby, triggered 1 time per second.

Forte Circuit: Starflower Blooms

• Heavy Attack: Starflower Blooms - When casting Heavy Attack, if Verina carries Photosynthesis Energy, Verina consumes 1 stack of Photosynthesis Energy to recover Concerto Energy and heal all characters on a nearby team. Heavy Attack: Starflower Blooms deals Spectro DMG, considered as Heavy Attack damage.

• Mid-Air Attack: Starflower Blooms - When casting Mid-Air Attack, if Verina carries Photosynthesis Energy, Verina consumes 1 stack of Photosynthesis Energy to recover Concerto Energy and heal all characters on a nearby team. Mid-Air Attack: Starflower Blooms deals Spectro DMG, considered as Basic Attack damage. Verina can cast Mid-Air Attack: Starflower Blooms by using Basic Attack after casting Heavy Attack: Starflower Blooms.

• Photosynthesis Energy - Verina can hold up to 4 Photosynthesis Energy. Verina obtains 1 stack of Photosynthesis Energy for every Basic Attack 5 on hit; Verina obtains 1 stack of Photosynthesis Energy for every Resonance Skill Botany Experiment on hit; Verina obtains 1 stack of Photosynthesis Energy for every Intro Skill Verdant Growth on hit.

Intro Skill: Verdant Growth

Verina attacks the target, dealing Spectro DMG.

Outro Skill: Blossom

Verina Ascension Materials

You don't simply level up characters in Wuthering Waves. You also need to ascend them, which means raising their level cap with specific materials depending on the character. Level caps jump from 20 levels at a time in the beginning, and then 10 at a time later on. You need to ascend at level 20, 40, 50, 60, 70, and 80. The highest level is 90.

These are the materials you need to ascend Verina to Level 90:

Howler Corescome from "Howler" type Echoes like Hooscamp Flingers, Diamondclaws, Hoartoises, Fusion Dreadmanes, and more. You can search for Echoes that drop Howler Cores under the Echo Hunting tab of your Guidebook.

Elegy Tacet Core comes from Mourning Aix boss in the Whining Aix's Mire at the lower corner of the map below Jinzhou.

Belle Poppy mostly grows around the Sea of Flames area where the Inferno Rider resides. You can also buy 15 Belle Poppy every week from the Shifang Pharmacy in Jinzhou for 45,000 Shell Credits.

Verina Forte Materials

To max out ALL of Verina's skills, gather these Forte materials:

Helixes come from the Forgery Challenge: Misty Forest domain on the east side of the map between the Sea of Flames and Forbidden Forest. It has one Resonance Beacon in the Dim Forest area nearby.

Monument Belldrops from the Bell-Borne Geocholone Weekly Challenge. Keep in mind that you can only collect rewards from weekly bosses three times a week.