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The Strongest Solo Build: Strategic Sword and Fan Combination (Where Winds Meet)
This video showcases a solo build using the Strategic Sword and Fan in Where Winds Meet. This build balances high damage and survivability, making it comfortable to play even on Legendary difficulty. It details weapon locations, upgrade methods, how to fight bosses, and recommended skills.
Switching to the Heaven Quaker Spear with the fan allows for a more aggressive boss fight
Upgrading Inner Ways is recommended to be done carefully, except for Moral Chant
1. ⚔️ Abilities and How to Obtain the Strategic Sword (Virgil's Blade)
- ✅ The Strategic Sword (aka Virgil's Blade) has 3 main abilities: 1, 4, and R
- ✅ 4: Unleashes multiple slashes, causing a bleed effect and dealing high damage (consumes stamina)
- ✅ 1: Similar to 4, but doesn't consume stamina and approaches the enemy
- ✅ R: Long-range dash (long cast time and consumes stamina)
- ✅ In boss fights, use 4 mainly to deal damage without consuming HP
- ✅ If the enemy is staggered, use the full combo of 1
- ⚠️ R is not recommended because it is difficult to use
- Weapon Location: Dungeon at the bottom of the map
- Keys can be obtained by conquering outposts and camps
- Defeat enemies in the dungeon and obtain the weapon
00:00 - 01:47
1. ⚔️ Abilities and How to Obtain the Strategic Sword (Virgil's Blade)
- ✅ The Strategic Sword (aka Virgil's Blade) has 3 main abilities: 1, 4, and R
- ✅ 4: Unleashes multiple slashes, causing a bleed effect and dealing high damage (consumes stamina)
- ✅ 1: Similar to 4, but doesn't consume stamina and approaches the enemy
- ✅ R: Long-range dash (long cast time and consumes stamina)
- ✅ In boss fights, use 4 mainly to deal damage without consuming HP
- ✅ If the enemy is staggered, use the full combo of 1
- ⚠️ R is not recommended because it is difficult to use
- Weapon Location: Dungeon at the bottom of the map
- Keys can be obtained by conquering outposts and camps
- Defeat enemies in the dungeon and obtain the weapon
01:48 - 04:35
2. 🗡️ Strategic Sword Upgrades: Inner Ways and How to Fight Bosses
- ✅ Sword Horizon Inner Way: Inflicts bleed effect simultaneously (essential)
- ✅ Moral Enchant Inner Way: Increases damage and healing by 5%
| Inner Way | Location |
|---|---|
| Sword Horizon | Kiang Sewers (Buy the book from the vendor at Ghost Light Market) |
| Moral Chant | Blissful Retreat (Buy from Tang Bao for 5,000 donuts) |
- How to Fight Bosses:
- Use 4 when you have a chance and keep your distance from the enemy
- Use 1 if the enemy is staggered
- After using 4, you can switch weapons and use healing skills
04:36 - 08:32
3. 🛡️ Improving Survivability with Fan Abilities and Strategic Sword Combinations
- ✅ The fan has 3 healing abilities: AoE heal, continuous heal, and consecutive heal
- ✅ In the open world, the fan's heal makes you almost invincible
- ✅ In boss fights, you can save potions by healing in phases without healing debuffs
- ✅ Because the boss's attack time is long, you have time to heal between attacks
- Fan Location: Like the Strategic Sword, obtain it in a dungeon using a key
- Royal Remedy Inner Way: Increases the effect of AoE heal by 10% (can be obtained in the same dungeon as the fan)
Switching to the Heaven Quaker Spear with the fan allows for a more aggressive boss fight
08:33 - 12:31
4. ✨ Recommended Passive Skills and Set Equipment
- ✅ Passive Skills:
- Fivefold Bleed: Increases bleed damage by 10%
- Bitter Season: Reduces enemy physical defense by 6%
- Insightful Strike: Dealing affinity damage generates focus, and when focused, there is a chance to increase damage and reduce damage taken
- Set Equipment: Check the recommended sets from the weapon combinations
Upgrading Inner Ways is recommended to be done carefully, except for Moral Chant
12:32 - 16:58
5. 🗺️ Mystic Skills Locations and Other Tips
- ✅ Mystic Skills Locations:
- Cloud Step: Dungeon in the first village
- Guardian Palm: Thousand Buddha Veil quest
- Touch/Steal: From an NPC in a specific location
- Soaring Spin: Deep inside the hidden door at Dreamfall Cliff
- Dragon's Breath: East Cross Street quest
- Other Tips:
- Archer quests need to be cleared multiple times
- Fivefold Bleed can be obtained from Lamping Monk
- Bitter Seasons can be obtained by defeating the boss of Gleaming Abyss