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Where Winds Meet: Vernal Sword & Umbrella Strategic Build Guide for Bleed, Poison, and Burn Damage
This guide details a powerful build in Where Winds Meet that combines the Strategic Sword and the Vernal Umbrella to inflict bleed, poison, and burn damage. It explains how to obtain the weapons, how to use their abilities, which mystic arts and inner paths maximize their potential, and where to find these elements. The build is effective for clearing stages and obtaining significant rewards.
1. ⚔️ Introduction to the Ultimate Bleed Explosion Build with Strategic Sword and Vernal Umbrella
- ✅ The build combines the Strategic Sword and the Vernal Umbrella to inflict bleed, poison, and burn damage.
- ✅ The video explains step-by-step how to use the Strategic Sword's abilities and how to combine four mystic arts in the game.
- ✅ It explains how to use the Vernal Umbrella to shoot fire and deplete the enemy's energy (Ki), leaving them staggering.
00:00 - 00:31
1. ⚔️ Introduction to the Ultimate Bleed Explosion Build with Strategic Sword and Vernal Umbrella
- ✅ The build combines the Strategic Sword and the Vernal Umbrella to inflict bleed, poison, and burn damage.
- ✅ The video explains step-by-step how to use the Strategic Sword's abilities and how to combine four mystic arts in the game.
- ✅ It explains how to use the Vernal Umbrella to shoot fire and deplete the enemy's energy (Ki), leaving them staggering.
00:32 - 01:25
2. 🗺️ Location of the Strategic Sword and Vernal Umbrella
- ✅ Strategic Sword: Located in the first region, inside a cave.
- ✅ Vernal Umbrella: Located in Kiang City (requires level 32 or having progressed in the story). Travel to the Velvet Shade landmark, turn right, cross the bridge, and enter the tall building to start a mission. A cat provides a clue.
01:26 - 03:31
3. 🗡️ How to Play with the Strategic Sword: Abilities and Combat
- ✅ The Strategic Sword has two abilities: light attack and heavy attack.
- ✅ Light Attack (Inner Track Slash): Allows for a quick slash and applies massive bleed. The bleed can be exploded with a heavy attack.
- ✅ Heavy Attack: Consumes stamina to step back and perform crisscrossing cuts. If the enemy has five stacks of bleed, it causes an explosion.
- ✅ The Sword Horizon skill enhances both abilities.
- ✅ No "perfect timing" is required to activate crisscrossing swords; simply press the attack button after using an ability.
- ✅ In combat, use the light attack to approach the enemy and the heavy attack to move away.
03:32 - 04:34
4. ☔ Playing with the Vernal Umbrella: Abilities and Synergy with the Sword
- ✅ The Vernal Umbrella has two abilities:
- ✅ Stun Shot: Immobilizes enemies, knocking down some bosses.
- ✅ Hovering Shots: The umbrella floats and shoots, depleting the enemy's KE. If a fire potion is used, the shots inflict fire damage and burn the enemy.
- ✅ Using Bitter Season enhances poisoning.
04:35 - 05:49
5. 🔥 Combining the Sword and Umbrella in Combat: Strategies and Demonstration
- ✅ Before the battle, use fire to power up the umbrella.
- ✅ Use the umbrella's stun shot to immobilize the enemy.
- ✅ Use the guardian palm to flatten the enemy.
- ✅ Activate the umbrella to float and attack.
- ✅ Switch to the sword and use light attacks to inflict damage and cause collapse.
- ✅ The main damage comes from the sword blades, with the umbrella as a bonus.
05:50 - 06:47
6. 🎯 How to Shoot Blades Continuously with the Vernal Umbrella
- ✅ To shoot blades continuously, hold down the light attack button.
- ✅ To move and attack at the same time, use your thumb on the analog stick and your index finger on the light attack button, or place your thumb on the light attack button and your index finger over your thumb.
06:48 - 08:08
7. ✨ Inner Paths: Five-Fold Bleed, Moral Chant, and Bitter Season
- ✅ Five-Fold Bleed: Inflicting damage has a chance to apply a stack of Weeping Blood (bleed). Upon reaching five stacks, Weeping Blood is removed and deals enhanced piercing damage.
- ✅ Moral Chant: Increases damage dealt.
- ✅ Bitter Season: Inflicting damage reduces the enemy's physical defense and applies poison damage.
08:09 - 10:33
8. 📍 Where to Find the Inner Paths: Bitter Season, Moral Chant, and Sword Horizon
- ✅ Bitter Season: Teleport to Wraith Village, advance towards the Buddha statue, sit in front of the stone, freeze the two guards with Meridian Touch art, open the door, and find the golden chest in the dungeon.
- ✅ Moral Chant: Buy 10 pages from the friendly vendor at the Blissful Retreat landmark for 5,000 echo jade.
- ✅ Sword Horizon: In Kiang City, go to Forsaken Quarter, enter the coffin shop to reach Ghost Light Market. Buy 30 unknown ancient books from the vendor Pang Zangzang (requires a face mask) for 12,500 each.
10:34 - 11:53
9. 🗺️ How to Obtain Five-Fold Bleed: Wandering Tales Mission in Kyifang City
- ✅ Teleport to Homo Avenue in Kyifang City.
- ✅ Talk to the elderly monk at the temple.
- ✅ Talk to the thief near the tree behind the temple.
- ✅ Return and play a mini-game with the monk.
- ✅ Wait a full day in the game.
- ✅ Talk to the lady at the temple gate.
- ✅ Wait another day.
- ✅ Talk to the guy standing near the elderly monk.
- ✅ Complete the Lantern Hall mission in the Wandering Tales section of the regional map to claim the Five-Fold Bleed tome.
11:54 - 12:30
10. ✨ Recommended Mythic Skills: Cloud Step, Guardian Palm, and Dragon's Breath
- ✅ Cloud Step: Allows you to jump over an enemy.
- ✅ Guardian Palm: Allows you to crush the enemy while in the air after using Cloud Step.
- ✅ Dragon's Breath: Deals additional damage.
12:31 - 14:00
11. 📍 Where to Find Mythic Skills: Cloud Step, Guardian Palm, and Lion's Roar
- ✅ Cloud Step: Obtained at the beginning of the game in the general's temple.
- ✅ Guardian Palm: Obtained in the north, near Thousand's Buddha.
- ✅ Lion's Roar: Requires finding four bells: two in the general's shrine, one near Buddha Fort, and another in Wraith Village.
14:01 - 14:56
12. 🐉 How to Obtain Dragon's Breath: Wandering Tales Mission in Kiang City
- ✅ Teleport to East Cross Street Fairground in Kiang City.
- ✅ Talk to Lu Gio in the Dragon Den.
- ✅ Go to the south main gate and find the vendor Leang Huan who sells straw sandals.
- ✅ Steal the Celestial Seas book.
- ✅ Return to Lu Gio and complete the mission to claim Dragon's Breath.
14:57 - 16:04
13. 💪 Build Performance: Stage Clearing and Rewards
- ✅ The build is effective for clearing all stages available in the mausoleum, including divine stages with time challenges.
- ✅ Allows you to obtain significant rewards on the wandering path.