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Thundercry Blade and Soulshade Umbrella Hybrid Build
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This is a build focusing on the Thundercry Blade and Soulshade Umbrella 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 Skills to take, and the best gear set and substats to aim for, updated for Version 1.2.
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List of Contents
Thundercry Blade and Soulshade Umbrella Build
Build Overview
| Jump Table | |||||
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| Overview | Martial Arts | Inner Ways | |||
| Mystic Skills | Set and Stats | How to Play | |||
| Overview | |
|---|---|
| Martial Arts | |
| Role | Tank Healer |
| Pros and Cons |
 Has Healing to Sustain Its Own Tanking Can use shields to reduce damage taken  Lose Ability to Taunt which is bad for co-op |
This is a hybrid tank build focusing on the Thundercry Blade's big damaging hits and the Soulshade Umbrella's sustain to keep your HP topped up in fights. Shields + Heals makes this setup near invincible against enemies.
| Date | Changes |
|---|---|
| 1-30-2026 | ・Further optimized the build for Version 1.2. ・Removed Ghost Bind from the main loop as it is now suboptimal. ・Updated Inner Way and added Inner Way for PvP. ・Reworked Mystic Arts and added dedicated PvP options. ・Updated Stat Priority. ・ Updated Set Gear and added PvP option. ・Updated How to Play and added PvP rotations. |
Martial Arts and Weapons
| Jump Table | |||||
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| Overview | Martial Arts | Inner Ways | |||
| Mystic Skills | Set and Stats | How to Play | |||
| Martial Art | |
|---|---|
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Path: Stonesplit - Might |
Path: Silkbind - Deluge |
The two main martial art for the build is the Thundercry Blade and the Soulshade Umbrella with the Thundercry Blade being your main weapon for most of the time. The Soulshade Umbrella is mainly used as a passive healing and buff weapon while you primarily play the Thundercry Blade.
Use buffs then raise the Umbrella into the air then focus on going up front against enemies with charged hits and big damage output.
Recommended Inner Ways
| Jump Table | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overview | Martial Arts | Inner Ways | |||
| Mystic Skills | Set and Stats | How to Play | |||
| Inner Art | Details |
|---|---|
 Morale Chant |
80% chance to gain one stack of Yi River when attacking or healing. Yi River: Increases Physical Damage and healing by 1% for 8 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. The chance to gain Yi River is only calculated once every 2 seconds. |
 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). |
 Battle Anthem |
Increases Charged Skills' damage against all bosses by 10%. |
 Art of Resistance |
Increases the duration of your own HP shield and the bonus effects of its source skill by 4 seconds. |
Morale Chant gives steady passive damage and healing through Yi River stacks, while Exquisite Scenery rewards good blocks with an instant charged heavy and Battle Will recovery. Art of Resistance increases the duration of your shields, while Battle Anthem boosts the damage of your Charged Skills and gains additional bonuses at higher tiers that further improve your charged damage and utility.
You can also consider Adaptive Steel, as it pairs well with a crit-focused build. Its Mo Blade passive increases the Critical Damage of your Charged Skills and Parry Counter Skills, giving your burst windows even more impact.
Alternative Inner Way for PVP
| Inner Way | Details |
|---|---|
 Vital Leech |
Casting an Exhaustion Execution Skill restores HP equal to 8% of the damage dealt. |
For PvP, trade Battle Anthem for Vital Leech as it turns your execution pressure into self-sustain. Alternatively, can also use Trapped Beast as tt acts as an emergency safeguard, generating a shield at low HP to help you survive dangerous moments.
Best Mystic Skills
| Jump Table | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overview | Martial Arts | Inner Ways | |||
| Mystic Skills | Set and Stats | How to Play | |||
| Mystic Arts | Effects |
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 Dragon's Breath |
Drink to enter Intoxicated. Breath fire with Qi, dealing damage over 2 hits plus Ignition. Gain 15% Damage Reduction and Fortitude. Intoxicated: Lasts 30s. Dragon's Breath and Drunken Poet can be used without drinking. Ignition: Target takes damage every 0.5s for 8s. |
 Drunken Poet |
Drink deeply to enter the Intoxicated state, imitating the drunken grace of the Poet Immortal. Cast repeatedly for up to 5 strikes, each consuming 6 Vitality. Intoxicated: Lasts 30s. Dragon's Breath and Drunken Poet can be used without drinking. |
 Cloud Steps |
Stomp on an enemy's shoulder to deal Physical Damage, other Attribute Damage effective against Cavalry and other units with Unstable Poise. |
 Meridian Touch |
Chance to immobilize, deal Physical damage, and break Vital Points. Immobilize is ineffective against mighty enemies. Vital Points: These enemies have bound Qi bars. Breaking their Vital Points disables Qi regen, deals extra Physical damage and Qi Damage. |
Triggering Burn with Dragon’s Breath and then activating Drunken Poet lets you detonate that damage-over-time into a sharp burst window, making the combo far deadlier than either skill alone. Meanwhile, Cloud Steps serves as a reliable mobility tool for sticking to targets, and it shines even more in encounters against mounted bosses like Sleeping Daoist and Ye Wanshan. Meridian Touch is useful because it lets you briefly immobilize enemies, dealing bonus damage and disabling Qi regeneration.
Alternative Mystic Arts for PvP
| Stat Group | Recommended Substats |
|---|---|
 Wolflike Frenzy |
Knock down an enemy, followed with rapid strikes, and finish with an upward swing that disables the target. Effective against Cavalry and other units with Unstable Poise. Unstable Poise: These units have a Stance bar near their HP. Stance-break deals special hit and Physical damage. |
 Serene Breeze |
Channel Qi into your body to clear blockages in the veins. Can be used while under attack or control effects. On hit, reduces the target's Endurance recovery by 50% and deals damage for 8s. |
 Leaping Toad |
Flip back to knock back and damage enemies, then lunge to apply Toad Venom. The third cast becomes Golden Toad Crash, a knockdown AoE slam. Toad Venom: Explodes after 5 seconds or on death. Can be Detonated by Lion's Roar. |
 Soaring Spin |
Channel your Qi into a roaring thrust, dealing damage to units along the path. Then suddenly shift stance into a spiraling follow-up strike that catches enemies off-guard. Hitting a target reduces their Healing Received by 60% over 5s. |
Aside from the Mystic Skills mentioned in the PvE section, Serene Breeze is essential for PvP, allowing you to break out of enemy combos and crowd control so you can reset, reposition, and survive. Leaping Toad helps with quick repositioning, Soaring Spin is great for closing gaps, and Wolflike Frenzy provides strong burst damage along with Super Armor to prevent interruptions.
Recommended Set Gear and Stat Priorities
| Jump Table | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overview | Martial Arts | Inner Ways | |||
| Mystic Skills | Set and Stats | How to Play | |||
Set Gear
| Stat Group | Recommended Substats |
|---|---|
 RainwhisperWeapon |
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. |
 MoonflareArmor |
2 Set Effect: +40 Max HP
4 Set Effect: When attacking while defending, there is a 30% chance to create a shield that absorbs up to 10% of Max HP, lasting 20 seconds. If a shield already exists, restores 2% HP in addition. This effect can only trigger once every 60 seconds. |
For our gear set, we’re using Rainwhisper because it enhances both our offensive pressure and sustain, increasing our critical damage and healing overall, and boosting them even further whenever we’re protected by a shield. It works perfectly with both your weapons.
Pair it with Moonflare to gain extra survivability through increased maximum health and periodic shielding while fighting defensively, giving you more room to stay aggressive without getting overwhelmed.
Alternative Gear for PvP
| Stat Group | Recommended Substats |
|---|---|
|
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. |
 CalmwatersArmor |
2 Set Effect: +13 Physical Defense
4 Set Effect: A Perfect Dodge of an enemy attack has a 50% chance of restoring 3% of your Max HP and 10 Endurance. |
For PvP, consider switching to Calmwaters if you're confident in your dodge timing. It rewards Perfect Dodges with steady health and endurance recovery, giving you more staying power in extended fights and helping you maintain pressure without draining your resources.
Stat Priority
| 1st | Max/Min Stonesplit |
| 2nd | Max HP |
| 3rd | Body |
| 4th | Max/Min Physical Attack |
| 5th | Critical Rate |
Max/Min Stonesplit, Max HP, and Body should be your top priorities. This build gains bonus Critical Rate on Thundercry Blade’s Charged Skills based on your Max HP, meaning stacking HP doesn’t just make you tankier, it directly increases your damage output as well. Max/Min Physical Attack further strengthens all your scaling damage sources, while Critical Rate helps your big charged hits land even harder, improving your overall burst potential.
How to Play
| Jump Table | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overview | Martial Arts | Inner Ways | |||
| Mystic Skills | Set and Stats | How to Play | |||
| Silkbind - Deluge Playstyle |
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Recommended Skill Rotation
- Buff yourself using Soulshade Umbrella Floating Grace.
- Raise the umbrella into the air (Echoes of a Thousand Plants) to passively heal you while in combat.
- Swap to Thundercry Blade.
- Use Predator's Shield to shield up.
- Use Cloud Steps, then use your charged Light skill Galecloud Cleave. At the end of the follow-up charged attack, immediately press Parry to animation-cancel it. Four shields are enough to perform two follow-up attacks for extra damage.
- Afterwards, charge your Heavy Charged Skill, Avalanche, then animation cancel.
- When the opportunity presents itself or while your enemy is exhausted you can cast Dragon's Breath to apply Burn, using a Parry to animation cancel after it lands then follow up with Drunken Poet.
- Wolflike Frenzy can be thrown in while waiting on cooldowns or during opportune moments.
Always Keep Echoes of a Thousand Plants Up
Always keep Echoes of a Thousand Plants active because it continuously heals you, effectively giving you passive sustain throughout prolonged encounters instead of relying only on burst heals.
Block Hits to Activate Exquisite Scenery
Exquisite Scenery is an Inner Way that lets you perform a special counterattack after successfully defending (blocking) with a Thundercry Blade, enabling an instant charged heavy attack and restoring a bit of Battle Will, which adds defensive counterplay and damage potential when timed right in combat.
How to Get Exquisite Scenery Inner Way
PvP Tips and Tricks
This build revolves around timing your blocks to activate Exquisite Scenery, turning successful defenses into instant charged heavies and momentum swings that let you shift from defense to heavy punishment in a single opening.
- Open each fight by casting Echoes of a Thousand Plants from your Soulshade Umbrella to secure early self-sustain.
- Play fights slowly and deliberately, predicting enemy movement so your heavy charged attacks land cleanly. You may feel outpaced at times, and that’s normal; this is a slower, heavier playstyle.
- Keep Predator’s Shield active whenever possible, as maintaining that protection greatly improves your survivability and lets you take safer trades
- Use Sunrush Gale when your opponent is close to catch them off guard. it's not something to rely on, but it’s excellent for sneaking in some extra damage and disrupting their attacks at key moments.
- Use Serene Breeze whenever you’re caught in an enemy’s combo to break free and regain control, or break any crowd control on you.
- Use Leaping Toad to cancel animations and reposition.
- Against the Vernal Umbrella users, parry their Spring Away shots until they land, or use Cloud Steps to bring them down.
- Use Cloud Steps to close gaps quickly and secure free damage on your target.
- Use Soaring Spin as a gap closer and apply strong healing-reduction debuff, if your opponent utilizes them.
- After an execution is a great moment to use Dragon’s Breath followed by Drunken Poet, and you can animation-cancel Dragon’s Breath when needed to keep your pressure flowing smoothly.
- When you need to go on the offensive, use Cloud Steps to close the distance and follow up with Wolflike Frenzy for quick burst damage. Otherwise, it can be used defensively between enemy attacks to take advantage of its Super Armor and avoid being interrupted.
- If PvP is too hard with this build, consider practicing with Thundercry Blade and Stormbreaker Spear build!
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