10 Mistakes Where Winds Meet Players Make Without Realizing

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Ignoring Tuning, skipping Inner Ways, and missing Encounter quests

Where Winds Meet 10 Common Mistakes
As Where Winds Meet continues to grow in popularity, many players dive into exploring the martial world, defeating enemies, and leveling up rapidly. However, the game has deeper systems than it seems, and it’s easy to miss critical elements unintentionally. Experienced players have compiled the most common mistakes, along with fixes and tips to boost damage, save time, and protect your character long-term. Here are 10 things both new and veteran players often get wrong and how to correct them for maximum efficiency.

1. Ignoring the Tuning system for massive damage boosts
Many players underestimate equipment Tuning, which significantly impacts stats. For example, a level 62 hat can provide similar proficiency as a level 130 armor piece, greatly increasing protection.

How to Upgrade: Open the Equipment menu, select Tune, and use “stones” from exploration or shops. Each upgrade randomly grants bonuses like Max Spell Attack or Damage Boost, making your character noticeably stronger.

2. Deleting the wrong equipment and losing important items
Recycling equipment requires caution:

Untraceable = junk, safe to delete
Traceable = rare/legendary items, never delete

Removing Traceable items permanently loses historical items, even if stats remain.

3. Farming the wrong dungeon and missing key materials
Two main Energy-based activities:

Campaign Challenges – reward equipment sets
Outpost Challenges – reward rare Inner Way Notes

While equipment sets help early, Inner Way Notes are crucial for endgame. Focus on Outposts for long-term benefits.

4. Not upgrading Inner Way for huge damage gains

In Development, Inner Way upgrades greatly increase damage but require rare Golden Books, primarily obtained from Outpost loot boxes. Use accumulated Golden Books promptly to boost your damage.

5. Ignoring important NPCs like Tang Bao
Tang Bao offers top-tier passive skills like Moral Chant, essential for all builds. Also provides high-level upgrade stones for 41+ gear sets.

6. Not knowing how to get weapon and skill upgrade items

Upgrade materials like Scarlet Flame Ointments or Beauty Plumes come from:

Loot boxes
Season Shop purchases
Monster farming (Elite → blue items / Grunt → green items)

Prioritize Inner Way Notes and Martial Art Custom Tips before shopping.

7. Overlooking Profession upgrades
Professions like Healer or Scholar require Career Notebooks to upgrade, obtainable from shops. Benefits include:

Easier quest completion
Improved healing
Extra tokens for other uses

Map icons for NPC interactions may also grant additional notebooks, so check regularly.

8. Wasting Donuts (premium currency)

Avoid gambling with Donuts early. Use them instead to buy critical materials like Inner Ways from shops. Gamble only when you have Lingering Melodies, earned from defeating samurai on the map, for maximum value.

9. Skipping Daily Event rewards
In Events → Dawn to Dusk, daily rewards must be claimed every day. Missed days require a Vouch to claim retroactively. Check daily to avoid losing rewards.

10. Ignoring Encounter quests and key shops
Encounter quests disappear if not started promptly. Also, don’t miss crucial shops:

Meow Meow Shop – exchange Cat Coins for rare items
Warehouse Vendor – bribe to access hidden areas and buy Inner Ways
Way Merchant – sells horse upgrades; save 2,000 Donuts to purchase

Where Winds Meet immerses players in the political turbulence of late Tang Dynasty China, a time of conflict and tragedy. Players assume the role of a martial expert navigating this chaotic era, making choices that affect the fate of the dynasty. The game will release on PC, iOS, Android, and PS5, with the PS5 version exclusive for six months.