Unofficial Where Winds Meet guide
Where Winds Meet, decoded
Mechanics, builds and terms for Where Winds Meet (燕云十六声), written for players who want the reason behind the rotation. Every English name keeps its Chinese original, every tier carries a date, and anything the game has not confirmed is marked as unconfirmed instead of guessed.
Combat
The deflect loop, the Qi economy, and the rules that change in PvP.
Combat: the Deflect loop
Red means Deflect, gold means Dodge, empty Qi means Execute. Why the loop works and what breaks it.
RulesPvP gear rules
33 ignores gear, 11/22/55 use it, and the floor disables everything. Check before you queue.
OnboardingStart here
One weapon, Deflect first, don't touch gear before Tuning. The first-two-weeks checklist.
Builds
Builds with real numbers, and one honest pre-launch page.
Heavenwill Gauntlets
Four-stack Heaven's Will burst, mandatory Inner Ways, level 100 stat targets.
BuildSilkbind-Wings
Fan plus Ribbon Drum, team damage amp, and the buffs whose timers nobody has confirmed.
Pre-launchDual Spears (late Nov)
Confirmed moves and swap mechanics, plus why there is no build to copy yet.
Gear
From Gear Echo to Modulating: the five-step gear chain.
Codex
Sects, martial arts, Inner Ways and Mystic Skills, with Chinese originals.
The nine sects
Well of Heaven, Silver Needle, Raging Tides, Mohist Hill and the rest, with signature arts.
ListMartial arts
All weapon arts with English names, weapon class and unlock route.
ListInner Ways
28 passives, four slots, and the shared-name trap between two bleed Inner Ways.
ListMystic Skills
All 19 utility skills, sorted by what problem each one solves.
World
Boss checks and the dated content roadmap.
Reference
The term table the whole site is written against.
How this site is written
Three rules, applied to every page.
Names before opinions
Every mechanic is pinned to its official English name, with the Chinese original kept alongside it. A build recommendation only appears after the vocabulary is stable.
MethodDated claims only
Tier ratings and durations are stamped with the month they were checked. Values the game has never published are written as TBD, not filled in.
CorrectionsCorrections welcome
If a name or a number is wrong, email [email protected] and the page gets fixed with a note.