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Where Winds Meet: Essential Tips to Prepare for Breakthrough 8
This guide provides valuable information on how to prepare for Breakthrough 8 in Where Winds Meet. It covers energy management, essential mystic skills, broken farming locations, arsenal optimization, acquiring key materials, and efficiently using resources to stay ahead.
1. ⚡ Energy Management and Essential Mystic Skills
- ✅ Use energy wisely in sword trials and joint battles to obtain Ebony Iron.
- ✅ Ebony Iron is needed to upgrade mystic skills to level three (10 per level).
- ✅ You can reset any skill and recover 100% of the resources, allowing for experimentation.
| Mystic Skill | Importance |
|---|---|
| Drunken Poet | Mandatory in PvP and PvE |
| Dragon's Breath | Mandatory in PvP and PvE |
| Ascending Spin | Mandatory in PvP and PvE |
| Season's Breeze | Mandatory in PvP and PvE, especially in PvP |
00:00 - 00:37
1. ⚡ Energy Management and Essential Mystic Skills
- ✅ Use energy wisely in sword trials and joint battles to obtain Ebony Iron.
- ✅ Ebony Iron is needed to upgrade mystic skills to level three (10 per level).
- ✅ You can reset any skill and recover 100% of the resources, allowing for experimentation.
| Mystic Skill | Importance |
|---|---|
| Drunken Poet | Mandatory in PvP and PvE |
| Dragon's Breath | Mandatory in PvP and PvE |
| Ascending Spin | Mandatory in PvP and PvE |
| Season's Breeze | Mandatory in PvP and PvE, especially in PvP |
01:20 - 03:22
2. 🚜 Broken Farming Location and How to Exploit It
- ✅ Start at the map location with two NPCs talking.
- ✅ Interact with the cart and exhaust the dialogue.
- ✅ Eliminate the forts: Gormmont Grove, Buddha Fort, and Tiger Fort.
- ✅ Return to the cart and continue the dialogue until you teleport to a new zone.
- ✅ In the new zone, gather all the enemies and use 'Buddha Clap' (unlocked by pressing 1 and then 9 in the air) for massive AoE.
- ✅ Exit the zone through the top of the screen and return via quest exploration.
- ✅ Enemies will stop dropping weapons after a while, but will continue to drop crafting materials.
03:23 - 04:09
3. 💰 Rarity Exchange and Dragon Head Unlock
- ✅ Make sure you have at least nine rarities for the next breakthrough.
- ✅ Talk to Baji for the rarity exchange.
- ✅ Nine rarities unlock Dragon Head at level 61.
- ✅ Rarities are obtained by exploring the map in flight mode or running.
04:16 - 05:58
4. ⚔️ Arsenal Optimization and Equipment Tips
- ✅ Maximize your arsenal to get extra HP.
- ✅ Make sure your equipment is fully leveled.
- ✅ Try to get a purple bow and ring through crafting.
- ✅ Check the materials needed for crafting in the crafting menu.
- ✅ Recycle everything except high gear score items to increase arsenal mastery.
05:59 - 07:08
5. ✨ Items with Legendary Tuning Perks and Stone Globes
- ✅ Keep items with a legendary tuning perk for guaranteed golden stats when tuning the weapon.
- ✅ Prioritize items with purple passives over blue ones, provided the gear score is similar.
- ✅ Acquire stone globes through sword trials or dungeons.
- ✅ Raids guarantee one stone globe per boss kill.
07:09 - 08:05
6. 🧪 Essential Materials and Mystic Skill Upgrades
- ✅ Gather extra toxic dust, fire oil, and aquatic wax for damage-over-time effects.
- ✅ These materials are also used to level up divine crafts (fire, water, and poison).
- ✅ The grease obtained from farming these materials is used to level up crafting trees.
- ✅ Items for upgrading mystic skills are also obtained by farming.
- ✅ Vicious fruits are obtained in the same way as grease and fire oil.
08:06 - 09:20
7. 🍲 Consumables for Gathering and Using Windsense
- ✅ Use chicken noodle soup for an extra 20% harvest chance when gathering herbs.
- ✅ The chicken noodle soup vendor is located at the specified map location.
- ✅ Homemade dishes give a 20% harvest chance, while the signature dish gives 10%.
- ✅ Use the flower icon on the map to track flower locations.
- ✅ Fire materials come from Buddha levels, water materials come from beauty garments and beauty feathers.
- ✅ Use Windsense to find the exact location of resources.
09:21 - 10:01
8. 🎯 Boss Passives and Damage Bonuses
- ✅ Check the boss's passives before the fight to complete mini-games and gain extra damage and survivability.
- ✅ The 'Sleeping Dowist' example requires you to save teammates transformed into donkeys to get 30% extra DPS.
10:02 - 12:40
9. 🎣 Saving Jadefish and Guild Activities
- ✅ Save Jadefish to buy golden boxes containing legendary gear.
- ✅ Golden boxes can be saved for the next breakthrough.
- ✅ Ways to farm Jadefish include the reward system, killing players, and doing boss trials.
- ✅ Complete the taping mausoleum and divine challenges for extra rewards.
- ✅ Participate in guild activities, including weekly guild raids for rewards.
12:41 - 13:33
10. 📚 Prioritizing Inner Form
- ✅ Max out your inner form by destroying books.
- ✅ Lock important books to avoid accidentally destroying them.
- ✅ For most builds, prioritize Five-Fold Bleed (if your build attacks a block), Moral Chant, and the main weapon of your choice.
13:34 - 14:36
11. 🔄 Converting Books and Maximizing Power
- ✅ Save Insightful Strikes, as it is a very good inner form.
- ✅ Convert other books into Insightful Strikes to maximize power towards the end of the game.