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Mystic Skills: all 19, and what each is for
Mystic Skills sit outside your weapon slots. They are the tools that solve problems a rotation cannot: closing distance, healing through a mechanic, revealing a hidden target, or converting a heal build into damage.
At a glance
- Count
- 19 documented Mystic Skills
- Slot rule
- Separate from martial arts and weapons
- Role
- Utility, mobility, control, reveal, sustain
- Conversion skill
- World to Sword (万物为锋) turns healing into blade damage
- Version-gated
- Contortion (缩骨功), live since global 1.3
- Pairs that get confused
- Flute of Tides vs the pipe skill it is separate from
What is a Mystic Skill?
A Mystic Skill (奇术) is a utility ability equipped alongside your martial arts. It does not replace a weapon skill and it does not consume an Inner Way slot. The point is coverage: a fight that punishes a pure damage rotation usually wants one Mystic Skill changed, not a different build.
Timers and cooldowns for most of these are not published in one place, so this page does not quote durations. What it does is map the English name to the Chinese original and state what the skill is for, so you can match a video or a patch note to the button you actually have.
Mystic Skills list
| Mystic Skill (English) | Chinese | What the name indicates | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dragon's Breath | 神龙吐火 | Fire-breathing attack | Community |
| Drunken Poet | 太白醉月 | Drunken-style technique | Community |
| Soaring Spin | 骑龙回马 | Spin / mount-and-return movement | Community |
| Talon Strike | 鹰爪连凿 | Chained claw strikes | Community |
| Tai Chi | 太极 | Redirect / counter stance | Official |
| Meridian Touch | 金玉手 | Precision hand technique | Community |
| Celestial Seize | 摄星拿月 | Grab / pull | Community |
| Cloud Steps | 凌云踏 | Mobility | Community |
| Ghost Bind | 百鬼打穴手 | Bind / lock | Community |
| Lion's Roar | 狮吼正身 | Area shout / stance reset | Community |
| Serene Breeze | 清风霁月 | Cleanse / calm | Community |
| Yaksha Rush | 药叉破魔 | Charging strike | Community |
| Wind Sense | 听风辨位 | Detection / awareness | Community |
| Contortion | 缩骨功 | Body-compression technique | Official — live since global 1.3 |
| Cosmic Reversal | 乾坤倒转 | Reversal of state | Community |
| Moonleap Morph | 锦鳞逐月 / 闲风追月 | Morph-type mobility | Community |
| Flute of Tides | 潮汐长笛 | Instrument-based skill | Community — separate from the pipe skill |
| Bursting Nine | 衍九矢 | Multi-projectile | Community |
| World to Sword | 万物为锋 | Converts healing output into blade damage | Community |
Which Mystic Skill turns healing into damage?
World to Sword (万物为锋). It converts healing output into blade damage, which is the one Mystic Skill that changes what a support build is for. On a fan or support character it is the difference between "heals only" and "heals and threatens", and it is the reason a healing build can hold a solo encounter instead of waiting for a group.
Use it carefully: if your healing is the party's only sustain, spending it as damage is a trade, not a free upgrade. In group content the conversion is usually a burst tool for a damage window, not a permanent stance.
Which Mystic Skills help with bosses?
- Mobility (Cloud Steps, Soaring Spin, Moonleap Morph) for fights where the boss relocates or the arena has terrain.
- Awareness (Wind Sense) for encounters with hidden or off-screen threats.
- Control (Ghost Bind, Celestial Seize, Lion's Roar) for adds, and for buying a second to re-read a pattern.
- Sustain (Serene Breeze) for fights with debuffs or chip damage between phases.
The boss pages call out which of these matter for the three checks that catch most players: a deflectable projectile, a hard timer, and a challenge mode.
Are any Mystic Skills version-gated?
Yes. Contortion (缩骨功) only arrived on global with version 1.3. A guide written before that update will either omit it or describe a Chinese-build version, which is a useful way to date content. The same caution applies to anything that arrived alongside the 2.3 path changes: check the date before assuming a skill is available to you.
What is the most overrated slot?
More Mystic Skills than most players use. The common pattern is to equip a favorite movement skill and never change it, then blame the build when a mechanic needs a control or cleanse tool instead. Treat the Mystic Skill row as the flexible part of the loadout: swap one, test the fight, swap back.
For PvP specifically, remember that gear and Attunement rules change by bracket, while Mystic Skills keep working — see which PvP modes apply your gear. That makes the utility row unusually valuable in equalized modes.
Where do I find the Chinese names?
Every row above is in the glossary, so a Chinese video or patch note can be matched to the English button in one lookup. If a name you see in the wild is missing here, the glossary is the page to check first.