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Where Winds Meet

Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear Build

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Where Winds Meet Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear Build
This is a build focusing on the Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear Martial Art school in Where Winds Meet. Read on to see a full build guide to these martial arts including its best Inner Ways, Mystic Arts to take, and the best gear set and substats to aim for.

Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear Build

Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear Overview

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Overview Martial Arts Inner Way
Mystic Arts Set and Stats How to Play
Overview
Martial Arts
Role Tank
Pros and Cons
Build Pro High Durability
Build Pro High Single Hit Bursts
Build Con Slow movement and attacks

The Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear build focuses on a tanking role that aims to take aggression and reduce it via damage reduction capabilities while hitting enemies with big charged hits.

Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear Martial Arts and Weapons

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Overview Martial Arts Inner Way
Mystic Arts Set and Stats How to Play
Martial Art

Path: Stonesplit - Might

Path: Stonesplit - Might

The two Martial Arts from the Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear focus on tanking and managing your Fighting Spirit to use several tanking abilities to reduce damage taken or reduce the damage enemies deal. This setup is also capable of gaining shields and amplifying charged attacks from the Thundercry Bladeso you can unleash devastating hits during the right situations and setup.

How to Unlock All Martial Arts

Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear Inner Ways

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Overview Martial Arts Inner Way
Mystic Arts Set and Stats How to Play
Inner Way Details
Exquisite Scenery Icon Exquisite Scenery
Successfully defending with Thundercry Blade activates its special counterattack. Press Perception Skill or Heavy Attack to unleash a first stage Charged Heavy Attack without charging. This effect can only trigger once every 10 seconds. Hitting a target with a Varied Combo restores 1 bar of Battle Will (no more than 1 bar restored per cast).
Art of Resistance Icon Art of Resistance
Increases the duration of your own HP shield and the bonus effects of its source skill by 4 seconds.
Trapped Beast Icon Trapped Beast
Taking damage while HP is below 30% triggers Cornered Beast, generating a shield that absorbs up to 30% of Max HP. This effect lasts 4 seconds and can trigger once every 300 seconds.
Battle Anthem Icon Battle Anthem
Increases Charged Skills' damage against all bosses by 10%.

For the Inner Arts, we recommend sticking to the 3 Stonesplit Inner Ways, which are Exquisite Scenery, Art of Resistance, and Trapped Beast. These are all bonuses that easily synergize with the Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear Martial Art, such as executing counterattacks and shield bonuses to help you survive enemy attacks.

We also suggest swapping out Rock Solid for Battle Anthem to provide you with more charged skill damage since the Thundercry Blade specializes in using Charged Skills to deal huge damage.

List of All Inner Ways

Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear Mystic Arts

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Overview Martial Arts Inner Way
Mystic Arts Set and Stats How to Play
Stat Group Recommended Substats
Golden Body Icon Golden Body
With relaxed shoulders and upright posture, gain an indestructible Golden Body for 8s, granting a Shield and 10 Qi Recovery. While the Shield holds, grant Fortitude and 15% Damage Reduction.
Guardian Palm Icon Guardian Palm
Unleash two palm strikes forward, then leap into the air and smite the ground to knock back nearby enemies. At 3-5m height, skill upgrades to Lamp Light with a 12s cooldown: Unleash palm strikes toward the ground and knocking back enemies in the area.

For your Mystic Arts, we recommend equipping Golden Body to help you tank more hits with your shields and damage reduction that stacks well with your weapon martial art effects. Guardian Palm synergizes well with the Thundercry Blade's Sunrush Gale to help group up enemies and single-handedly destroy them with your AoE attacks.

List of All Mystic Skills

Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear Set Gear and Stat Priorities

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Overview Martial Arts Inner Way
Mystic Arts Set and Stats How to Play

Set Gear

Stat Group Recommended Substats
Rainwhisper Icon Rainwhisper

Weapon
2 Set Effect: +40 Max HP
4 Set Effect: Increases all Critical DMG and healing by 10%, and further increases them by 15% when you have an HP shield.
Formbend Icon Formbend

Armor
2 Set Effect: +13 Physical Defense
4 Set Effect: Your shield duration is extended by 2 seconds. If youy have more than 85% Qi or a Qi damage immunity shield, reduce all HP damage taken by 20%.

For our set gear, Rainwhisper increases our max HP and provides 15% bonus critical damage when we have an HP shield, which can be a nice bonus to our big hitting attacks when it triggers.

For the defensive set, Formbend lets us maximize our shield effects and reach an almost 15-second uptime when we trigger the Thundercry Blade's Heaven's Shift.

Best Gear Sets

Stat Priority

Defense and max HP will be heavily appreciated as a tanking role. You'll also want to net critical chance stats to let our charged hits deal extra damage, which also works well with the Rainwhisper Set, which lets us deal bonus damage, especially when shielded.

How to Play Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear Build

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Overview Martial Arts Inner Way
Mystic Arts Set and Stats How to Play
Silkbind - Deluge Playstyle


Recommended Skill Rotation

  1. Engage with the Stormbreaker Spear's Storm Roar to draw aggro and gain damage reduction for 16 seconds.
  2. Cast Thunder Shock to apply Vulnerable to enemies for the increased HP and Qi damage.
  3. Cast your Charged Skill to activate Drumbeat on a successful last hit to increase your charged attack damage.
  4. Swap to Thundercry Blade and use Predator's Shield to gain 2 Fighting Spirit that will increase your Charge Skill damage and gain reduced Endurance consumption.
  5. Use Sunrush Gale to pull enemies and gain 50% increased charging speed for 5 seconds, or simply start charging your light or heavy attack.
  6. Optional: Cast Guardian Palm immediately after pulling in your enemies to deal huge AoE damage on all of them.
  7. Use your Charged Light Skill for AoE coverage or use your Charged Heavy Skill for single target encounters. You can cast 2 charged attacks before the buff disappears.
  8. Swap back to Stormbreaker's Spear and reset the combo.

Block Hits Instead of Dodging

You benefit more by blocking enemy hits instead of dodging, as blocking lets you replenish Fighting Spirit fast. Try to use enemy aggression as a tool to supplement your Fighting Spirit and unleash more hard hitting combos and debuffs.

Taunt to Protect Teammates

When playing multiplayer, you'll want to maximize your taunt ability to ensure your party members can focus on dealing damage. With extra sustain from a healer, you'll be able to survive enemy hits while also triggering your AoE attacks to dish out higher damage, which will benefit your whole team.

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1 Mundo Mundo 14 days

Great guide and you have everything about WWm splendind.

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