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Guide to the best strategic sword build to dominate all bosses in Where Winds Meet
This guide presents a strategic sword build focused on bleed damage (DoT) in Where Winds Meet, highlighting the martial skills, inner paths, equipment, and combo rotation needed to maximize damage in both PvE and PvP.
1. ⚔️ Introduction to the Strategic Sword Bleed (DoT) Damage Build
- ✅ This build is ideal for players looking to inflict large amounts of bleed damage (DoT) in both PvE and PvP.
- ✅ The build focuses on applying and detonating bleed stacks for massive burst damage.
- ✅ The build utilizes the Inner Track Slash martial skill of the strategic sword, which allows for a quick attack that applies bleed.
- ✅ Pressing the skill again within two seconds unleashes multiple slashes that apply even more bleed stacks.
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1. ⚔️ Introduction to the Strategic Sword Bleed (DoT) Damage Build
- ✅ This build is ideal for players looking to inflict large amounts of bleed damage (DoT) in both PvE and PvP.
- ✅ The build focuses on applying and detonating bleed stacks for massive burst damage.
- ✅ The build utilizes the Inner Track Slash martial skill of the strategic sword, which allows for a quick attack that applies bleed.
- ✅ Pressing the skill again within two seconds unleashes multiple slashes that apply even more bleed stacks.
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2. 💥 Special Skill Innerbalance Strike and Charge Skill: Second Track Slash
- ✅ The special skill Innerbalance Strike allows you to dodge backward and unleash a flurry of attacks that apply bleed, consuming stamina.
- ✅ If the enemy has five stacks of bleed, activating this skill deals massive additional damage and removes all bleed stacks.
- ✅ The charge skill Second Track Slash allows you to charge forward, dealing damage and applying five stacks of bleed.
- ✅ During the charge, the player is immune to damage, making it both an offensive and defensive tool.
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3. 🗡️ Inner Path Sword Horizon: Crisscrossing Swords
- ✅ The Sword Horizon inner path is obtained by purchasing 30 unknown ancient books in the ghost market.
- ✅ With Sword Horizon equipped, using martial, special, or charge skills grants access to a follow-up attack called Crisscrossing Swords.
- ✅ Crisscrossing Swords removes all bleed stacks and deals a large amount of bleed damage.
- ✅ Upgrading Sword Horizon is a priority, as it restores stamina, increases physical attack, and guarantees affinity hits.
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4. Damage Amplifier: Heavenquaker Spear Martial Art
- ✅ The Heavenquaker Spear Martial Art is obtained by stealing skills from Raging Tides Marshall Sanctum.
- ✅ The martial skill Soberers Sorrow unleashes six wide attacks, granting a damage buff based on the number of hits landed.
- ✅ The charge skill Drifting Thrust applies a debuff called Soul Shaken, which increases damage over time received by up to 50%.
- ✅ Each stack of Soul Shaken also increases bleed damage by 10%.
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5. Inner Path Wolfchaser's Art: Rotation Consistency
- ✅ The Wolfchaser's Art inner path is essential to ensure consistency in the damage rotation.
- ✅ It reduces the combo count required to obtain martial skill buffs.
- ✅ When the enemy is affected by bleed, the combo count increases based on the number of bleed stacks.
- ✅ At level four, reaching 12 combo counts grants the Raging Waves buff, which increases damage by 25%.
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6. Complete Combo Rotation
- ✅ Start by applying bleed with the charge skill or martial skill of the strategic sword.
- ✅ Switch to the Heavenquaker Spear, use the martial skill, and land at least nine hits to activate River Flow.
- ✅ Use the charge skill and land five hits to fully stack Soul Shaken.
- ✅ Switch back to the strategic sword and repeatedly trigger bleed damage detonations.
- ✅ Incorporate the Dragon's Breath mystic skill for even more bleed damage.
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7. Other Recommended Inner Paths: Morale Chant, Bitter Seasons, Adaptive Steel, and Insightful Strike
- ✅ Morale Chant provides a constant damage increase and physical penetration through the Yi River buff.
- ✅ Bitter Seasons has a 10% chance to apply a poison effect that deals damage and reduces physical defense.
- ✅ Adaptive Steel applies an additional bleed stack on affinity hits and allows spear attacks to ignore 12.5% of the target's physical defense.
- ✅ Insightful Strike generates focus when dealing affinity damage and, when full, grants a 10% increase to affinity damage.
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8. Mystic Skill Dragon's Breath
- ✅ The mystic skill Dragon's Breath complements the build by applying burns, another damage-over-time effect.
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9. Equipment and Pathing: Bell Strike Path and Optimal Equipment Sets
- ✅ Choose the Bell Strike Path and save your best gear in the armory.
- ✅ Upgrade equipment slots, prioritizing offensive ones first, then defensive ones.
- ✅ The optimal equipment setup is a full set of Hawking for offense and a set of Eagle Rise for defense.
- ✅ Prioritize Bell Strike max attack, max physical attack, and power on your gear.
| Set | Bonuses |
|---|---|
| Hawking (2 pieces) | Affinity Rate |
| Hawking (4 pieces) | Increases physical attack when dealing affinity damage |
| Eagle Rise (2 pieces) | Physical Defense |
| Eagle Rise (4 pieces) | Reduces damage received when dealing damage over time |