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Early Game Guide: How to Progress Efficiently

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Complete in-game activities to progress through the early game of Where Winds Meet. Check out our guide for a list of early game activities and progression tips.

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How to Progress Efficiently

Check IconDo Main Quests Until the Daily Cap
Check IconUnlock Martial Arts
Check IconUnlock Mystic Arts
Check IconUnlock Inner Ways
Check IconDo Side Quests
Check IconClear Outposts
Check IconUnlock Campaign Bosses
Check IconComplete Exploration Milestones

Do Main Quests Until the Daily Cap

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You can only complete Main Quests until you reach the daily cap. After that, you have to wait until the next day to progress. Prioritize completing main quests until you reach the cap before doing any other in-game activities.
Story Walkthrough and List of Chapters

Unlock Martial Arts

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In order to use a weapon to its fullest potential, you must unlock the associated Martial Art. It is recommended that you unlock Martial Arts for the weapon you want to use because having a weapon with no martial arts unlocked only allows you to perform basic attacks with it.

How to Unlock All Martial Arts

Unlock Mystic Arts

Mystic Arts have a multitude of uses. They can be used for combat, exploration, and puzzle-solving. Choose the Mystic Arts that best suit your needs; they can be useful in many situations.

Best Mystic Arts to Unlock Early

Unlock Inner Ways

Once you have chosen a Martial Art to invest on, look for the Inner Ways or Internal Arts that benefit it. Inner Ways provide passive bonuses to their associated Martial Art, improving many of its aspects.

List of All Inner Ways

Do Side Quests

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Side quests offer many rewards, including Currencies, Oddities, Mystic Arts, and more. They vary in difficulty and length and are a fun way to progress in the game outside of main quests, offering different gameplay experiences.

List of Side Quests

Clear Outposts

Clear Outposts
Clearing outposts contains both a reward for the first time you clear an outpost and repeating farmable rewards. We recommend clearing an Outpost at least once to obtain the initial reward, then save your energy for other activities.

All Outpost Locations

Unlock Campaign Bosses

Unlock Campaign Bosses
You unlock Campaign Bosses by completing their associated campaign, which allows you to challenge them as many times as you like.

Campaigns offer rewards upon completion, so they're worth doing even if you don't plan on repeating the boss encounters after finishing the campaign once.

List of All Campaign

Complete Exploration Milestones

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Progressing through the map via exploration and other in-game activities provide milestone rewards, which are essential to gameplay. The milestones provide helpful rewards such as materials for Breakthrough.

It is highly recommended to take your time to progress through the region in between main-story quests, since the Milestone Rewards for Map progression are quite substantial.

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Early Game Progression Tips

Check IconEquip the Weapon with the Highest Stats
Check Icon Keep Pushing for Higher World Level
Check IconPurchase Daily and Weekly Items
Check IconSave Your Energy for the Endgame

Equip the Weapon with the Highest Stats

During the early stages of the game, it is best to equip the weapon with the highest stats rather than trying to obtain a complete set bonus.

Since you will be upgrading your weapon quite often at this stage, it is recommended that you use the strongest weapon you have now and worry about set bonuses later.

List of All Weapons and Weapon Types

Keep Pushing for Higher World Level

Rewards for activities improve as the World Level increases, so it is recommended that you always set the World Level to the highest level you have and continuously increase it as you progress until you reach the highest level.

Purchase Daily and Weekly Items

Weekly Items.

Some shops in the game have items that are locked behind weekly and daily purchase limits. Complete the necessary activities to earn the currency needed to purchase items and prevent your progress from being hindered.

Save Your Energy for the Endgame

Whle it may be tempting to use your Energy to farm gear, we recomend holding on to your Energy reserves until you reach the Endgame.

You can use your energy to upgrade your Mystic Arts by participating in activities that provide upgrade materials, but only to prevent overflow. Since energy is a rare resource, we recommend saving it for the endgame.

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