Build & Weapon Combo Ideas

Where Winds Meet has a lot of builds that players can use to get creative with how they want to play the game. There’s a mixture of tanking builds, healers, and various forms of DPS or solo sufficient playstyles knocking around. Because of the free form of the weapon swapping, there’s a variety of builds you can run, with the devs even putting in recommended builds and playstyles for you to try. Here’s a quick look at the type of builds you can run to help you work out your playstyle in Where Winds Meet for those getting to grips with finding their playstyle.

Where Winds Meet Builds¶

Before continuing, the game has a built-in build guide helper. It can tell you recommended weapon pairings for a role that you want to play, and the set bonuses, weapon pairings, and even the passive martial arts you can collect and unlock.

To do this, you will need to go into the menu, Develop, and then go to the Weapons tab. From there, you can cycle to “Path Guide” and check out the recommended weapon pairing builds from the Devs. It will range from a variety of playstyles, featuring tanking, healing, ranged DPS, melee DPS and variations of them. If there’s one you like, you can set it as a goal, and it will place a special marker on items for dungeons, boss grinds, or recommended passives you to get, which you can then focus on further as your objective on the map to get them.

These are largely recommended builds because of how the passive features work. For example, not every weapon has a legendary quality martial art passive. So, these weapons essentially become your main bar weapons for most attacks. Your other weapons are then secondary weapons, which often provide some sort of buff to your main weapon, either through buffs, debuffs, or some duration that remains active even while weapon swapping. It’s why it is somewhat streamlined for getting sets and certain weapon combos in Where Winds Meet.

So, hope that explains how the recommended in-game build system works. We’ll be relying on that game menu too so you can track the main passives for the main bar weapons for the weapon combo builds below. But again, these are mainly starter ideas on what builds sort of interest you the most, so you can get a basic idea of what works with them. If you’re looking for the meta, we have some ideas for you on out Where Winds Meet Weapon Tier List.

Infernal Dual Blade Builds¶

If you want specific weapon builds, the dual blades are a solid early game option that also scales very well. The general idea of the DBs is that you can get them really early via a choice when you make your character. It will also be unlockable through Skill Theft quest fairly early too, making it a very strong weapon. Furthermore, you only need to complete the second campaign chapter to get your golden passive martial art skill, making this build really simple to setup fairly early on.

Now, you can either pair this weapon with two other weapons. The first is the Rope Dart, which the game recommends. This unlocks much later on in Kaifeng, so it will take a while to get. Though, when you get it, it really compliments your build as you get bonus burst damage via the active rat attack from it, which carries on into your DBs, so you can pop your Infernal heavy stance, and have the rat do mega damage. Throw on top the bonus crit that DBs want, and fast elemental affinity, and you get an extremely strong build when you get better gear and enchant your weapons with either fire or poison affinity debuffs.

The other weapon we recommended taking is the Nameless Sword. The reason for this is because the DBs tend to be mobile and fast moving. It also has decent stun on its dashes too. You can make this even stronger too with the slash in and out on the Nameless Sword, and it also has a target stun and dash to target. This makes the DB even better for mobility and interrupting boss charge attacks, allowing you to light attack spam and combo extend very easily. This is a good pairing early on while you await your Rope Dart.

Nameless Sword and Spear Build¶

As mentioned above, it can be used as a support weapon. But, it’s largely built for being a main bar weapon. That’s because one of the first legendary quality passives you get is for the Nameless Sword. And since everyone starts with this, it makes for a great starter build to run regardless. You want to pair this typically with the Nameless Spear, as that is your support bar. The Spear grants you more longer range engage, and endurance return. This is important as Endurance is easily spent with the Nameless Sword, thanks to the various attacks, and heavy attack charged ranged slashes you’ll perform in combat. Being able to get endurance back when needed is big, allowing you to maintain your skillful use of martial art skills, and not end up exhausted, where you are exposed a lot.

The other benefit of this is that you can do a lot of dodging, and countering enemies with the CC effects. This makes the Nameless Sword and Spear build in Where Winds Meet extremely strong in the hands of a knowledgeable player, despite their starter appearance.

Nameless Sword and Fan Build¶

The build you can do is slightly unconventional. You can pair it with the Inkwell Fan and perform a hybrid build. The general idea is you use the sword for your main melee damage, then use your gap creator martial art skill to dive out of melee and into range. You can then weapon swap to the fan and harass with ranged damage to avoid melee combinations. The other benefit is that you can get a lot of moves that launch enemies in the air. This means that your charged attack and your martial art skills can knock enemies airborne. This serves as a prime way to go back to sword, do charged heavy attacks and nuke health or combo safely, since you’re reliant on your legendary martial art passive for the build’s main damage feature.

All in all you get a safe playstyle with a lot of CC and skill avoidance, not having to rely on perfect parrying, perfect dodging, or defense blocks. It won’t have as high of a DPS profile as other builds, but it will offer decent control and safety that other builds lack.

Strategic Sword Builds¶

If you want another longsword type playstyle, then we have the Strategic Sword. This is a weapon that’s about debuffs versus the control of the Nameless Sword. You will get more bleed oriented builds, which work by cutting through defensive stats, debuffing targets, and then getting Vulnerable states for more damage. You want to pair this with the Heaven Spear for its buffs for increasing damage of your bleeds, and even applying bleed itself. It’s a simple build up and DoT weapon playstyle for those that like debuff meters. You’ll want to get the legendary passive for the Strategic Sword, and then apply poison or water affinity enchants on your blades to get even more defensiveness or debuff based gameplay on your build to amp those DoTs the best you can.

If you’re interested, then the build can be unlocked relatively early. Both weapons can be learned with the Skill Theft side mission for both weapons in Qinghe. That will require you to progress the main story quest past level 8. You can then find the quest at the Cloud Temple Tower on the map in the southwest of the starter region. From there, you can unlock the skills and start grabbing Dragon keys for the unlock weapon quests, which you’ll find via the obtain clues from the Develop path menus.

Ranged DPS Builds¶

The DPS Umbrella, aka the Vernal Umbrella is your primary main weapon for any ranged DPS build.
The main one the game recommends is to run it with the Inkwell Fan. The idea of the playstyle is that your umbrella gets bonuses to enemies when you put it into its special turret mode. These bonuses apply to enemies launched in the air. Considering the Fan has launch status effects, that’s how you buff the umbrella to do its big burst special effects.

Umbrella Rope Dart Combo¶

However, there’s more of a blaster type ranged build where you can run the Rope Dart as the Umbrella’s support weapon. Like the DBs, you can activate the rat, and then focus the umbrella for its main combos, and special turret mode. The heavy hits of your combos plus rat gives you a strong ranged critical hit playstyle you can try out if you want some side bar melee options in the playstyle.

Note that both of these weapons also need unlocking. You can get the Umbrella from the starter weapon choice. But, it unlocks in Kaifeng, which is much later on. The Fan also needs unlocking later on too. So you’ll likely need to make do with what you’ve got for a while till you reach Kaifeng in the third campaign chapter.

Healer Builds¶

If you want to play co-op and run a healer build, they are viable too. These will be great for co-op dungeons, world bosses, and other such shared content.
Simply take the Panacea Fan and the Soulshade Umbrella to set up healing and party damage buff options. You’ll do AOE, support buffs for damage and also get to use some CC here and there too. It’s fairly straightforward to play when you get your abilities. Your Umbrella is largely used for providing the support buffs, and some heals, while your Fan is your primary healing weapon you’ll spend most of the uptime on.

If you’re looking to play solo on harder difficulties, you can take the Panacea Fan. This is because it has burst healing focusing on yourself and the lowest HP target. You can easily generate Dewdrops, which is required for healing via your charged attacks or skills, and then spend on the main skills for enhanced healing effects. This makes it easy to use the second bar to build healing up and heal yourself in harder content you’re playing solo. You can then pair it with a decent solo weapon, like the Nameless Sword for your primary DPS builds. But, you can really use whatever you’d like on your main bar. It’s more for solo content rather than any meta game content. You could in theory play a paladin-like build by running the Thundercry Blade and the Fan to get solid sustainability at the cost of movement and damage profile.

The good news is that you can get the Panacea Fan fairly early on, near the starter zone in fact. You can also get the healer fan via the starter weapon quest if you want it straight away, which means an early legendary passive talent for your build too.

Tanking Builds¶

Tanking Builds in Where Winds Meet often require the Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear. The Thundercry is your tanking main hand weapon, relying on damage, Invulnerabilities, and even a self absorb shield for its tanking efforts. Meanwhile, the Stormbreaker Spear has a taunt option, making it an important back bar weapon when you need to taunt. Considering some of the harder World Bosses like the Puppeteers spawn adds, this is when you’ll need that weapon as they can be quite hectic otherwise.

If you want this build, you can get the Thundercry build fairly early on via the weapon choice quest. If you don’t select it, you need to unlock Kaifeng as well. So, this main tanking weapon may be off limits for a while. Whereas the Spear actually unlocks part way through the main quest in the mailbox. So that is fairly easy to get your hands on.