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Where Winds Meet: DPS Guide with Strategic Sword and Spear to Deal Over 600k Damage
This guide details the optimal rotation, correct mystic skills, weapon passives, and internal forms to maximize DPS in Where Winds Meet, using the Strategic Sword and Spear.
1. ⚔️ Introduction to DPS setup and weapon selection: Strategic Sword and Heavenquaker Spear
- ✅ Rotation is crucial for high DPS, not just the build.
- ✅ The preferred weapons are the Heavenquaker Spear and the Strategic Sword.
00:00 - 00:31
1. ⚔️ Introduction to DPS setup and weapon selection: Strategic Sword and Heavenquaker Spear
- ✅ Rotation is crucial for high DPS, not just the build.
- ✅ The preferred weapons are the Heavenquaker Spear and the Strategic Sword.
00:32 - 01:06
2. 🗡️ Skill analysis of the Strategic Sword and Heavenquaker Spear
- ✅ Strategic Sword: Inner Track Slash and Inner Bounce Strike are important. Second Track Slash is for extra mobility.
- ✅ Heavenquaker Spear: Somber Sorl is key. Riverflow increases boss damage by 20% with 10 stacks. Avoid Sweep All. Drifting Thrust is a charge attack.
01:07 - 01:37
3. 🔥 Spear Passive: Bleed (DoT) Damage Improvement
- ✅ The spirit charge ability (R) applies a Soul stack, increasing all DoT damage received by 10% for 10 seconds, stacking up to five times.
- ✅ Each Soul stack also increases bleed damage by 10%, which synergizes perfectly with the build.
01:38 - 02:21
4. 🔄 Rotation concept and Riverflow synchronization
- ✅ It is not necessary to switch at exactly 10 seconds; it can be done at 11 or 12 seconds.
- ✅ Riverflow lasts 15 seconds and is mainly for amplifying damage.
- ✅ Mystic skills do not count as DoTs, allowing them to be used at the end of the 10-second window.
02:22 - 03:20
5. 💥 Breakdown of the opening combo and example of a complete rotation
- ✅ Always open with an attack from the Strategic Sword (1), but do not finish the animation.
- ✅ Switch to the Spear, hold (1) until you get 10 stacks, then press S to finish.
- ✅ Hold R on the Spear to activate Flurry.
- ✅ Switch back to the Strategic Sword and continue attacking.
- ✅ Make sure Dragon's Breath is applied, then use 4, 1 and spam 4 again.
03:21 - 03:51
6. ⚖️ Chi Management Rule: Never reach maximum
- ✅ Chi (white bar) should never be full; use it constantly so you don't lose damage.
- ✅ The Drunken Poet and Soaring Spin skills do not count as DoT.
03:52 - 04:58
7. 🏃 Boss movement and Cloud Step utility; Season Breeze for Anti-CC
- ✅ Cloud Step allows you to move quickly around the map, closing distances without using stamina.
- ✅ Season Breeze removes CC effects from the boss, providing CC immunity for 1 second.
04:59 - 05:56
8. 🧘 Internal Forms: Main Set (Sword Horizon, Moral Chant, Bleed, Wolf Chaser Art)
- ✅ Sword Horizon: Mandatory.
- ✅ Moral Chant: Widely used.
- ✅ Bleed: 10% chance to apply bleed with each damage dealt.
- ✅ Wolf Chaser Art: Extends Sombero up to 15 seconds.
05:57 - 07:16
9. 🎯 Insightful Strikes: Endgame power and how to convert extras
- ✅ Insightful Strikes is crucial for the endgame, especially at high levels (minimum Tier 4).
- ✅ Increases focus accumulation by 50% and DoT damage by 20%.
- ✅ Make sure you have an internal form that can be converted into Insightful Strikes.
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10. 👹 Boss Talents: +30% free DPS
- ✅ Boss talents increase damage by 30%.
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11. 🛡️ Best armor sets for DPS
- ✅ Hawking Set: Recommended.
- ✅ Eagle Rise: Good option for defensive stats.
- ✅ Recommendations on the weapon are more important than the total weapon mastery.
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12. 📈 Priority of stat recommendation (Perks and Mastery)
- ✅ Prioritize perks and mastery.
08:42 - 09:13
13. 🧪 Damage oils and consumables
- ✅ Use Fire Oil and Aquax for additional damage.
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14. 👨🍳 Professions for stronger foods and buffs
- ✅ Scholar and Talisman Crafting are excellent for creating foods and scrolls that provide additional buffs.
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15. 🕹️ Full in-game combo demonstration
- ✅ Open with the Intoxicated buff, then use Fire, followed by 1 and the spin.
- ✅ Use Cloud Step to close distances if necessary.
- ✅ Hold R for maximum damage.
- ✅ Switch to the Sword, use 4, 1 and spam 4.