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Where Winds Meet

Nameless Sword and Panacea Fan Hybrid Build

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This is a build focusing on the Nameless Sword and Panacea Fan 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 1.3.

Nameless Sword and Panacea Fan Build

Build Overview

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Overview Martial Arts Inner Ways
Mystic Skills Set and Stats How to Play
Overview
Martial Arts
Role DPS Healer Hybrid
Pros and Cons
Build Pro High DPS with strong burst damage
Build Pro Strong healing and resurrection utility
Build Pro Viable for both PvE and PvP
Build Con Requires proper rotation to maximize uptime

This is a hybrid DPS–Healer build that combines the Nameless Sword’s burst damage and mobility with the Panacea Fan’s healing and resurrection. It is one of the few builds that performs well in both PvE and PvP, making it ideal for beginners while remaining effective into endgame.

Date Changes
2-23-2026 ・Further optimized the build for Version 1.3.
・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.
・Updated PvE and added PvP rotations.

Martial Arts and Weapons

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

Path: Bellstrike - Splendor

Path: Silkbind - Deluge

The Nameless Sword acts as your main damage weapon, providing mobility, shields, and strong burst through dash-based skills. The Panacea Fan supports this playstyle by supplying constant healing, emergency recovery, and the ability to resurrect allies.

You will primarily engage enemies using the Nameless Sword, then rely on Panacea Fan skills to sustain yourself and your team between burst windows.

Recommended Inner Ways

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Overview Martial Arts Inner Ways
Mystic Skills Set and Stats How to Play
Inner Art Details
Morale Chant Icon Morale Chant
100% chance to gain one stack of Yi River when attacking or healing: Increases Physical Penetration by 2 and damage and healing by 1% for 12 seconds, stacking up to 5 times. The chance to gain Yi River is only calculated once every 2 seconds.
Sword Morph Icon Sword Morph
When Nameless Sword's Charged Skill, Vagrant Sword is charged while the Qi shield is present, it unleashes multiple additional sword energy attacks at the 2nd charging stage. You can consume bonus Endurance to increase the sword energy's damage; each Endurance increases damage by 1%, up to 20%.
Royal Remedy Icon Royal Remedy
The Mingchuan Medical Codex Martial Skill Sitting Watch Clouds Rise created Water Clone's healing effect is increased by 10%. If you are within the area of the healing over time effect, you also additionally restore 3 Dew points and 2 Essence points each time.
Battle Anthem Icon Battle Anthem
Increases Charged Skills' damage against all bosses by 10%.

These Inner Ways complement the build’s hybrid identity by strengthening both burst damage and sustain. Morale Chant steadily ramps your Physical Penetration, damage, and healing as you attack or heal, rewarding active uptime in both PvE and PvP.

Sword Morph directly amplifies Vagrant Sword during shielded charge windows, turning your main burst skill into an even stronger spike, especially when investing Endurance. Royal Remedy enhances Water Clone healing while restoring Dew and Essence, greatly improving resource stability and team sustain.

Finally, Battle Anthem boosts Charged Skill damage against enemies (especially bosses), making your Vagrant Sword burst even more impactful in PvE encounters.

List of All Inner Ways

Alternative Inner Way for PVP

Inner Way Details
Vital Leech Icon Vital Leech
Casting Exhaustion Execution Skill restores HP equal to 8% of the damage dealt.
Adaptive Steel Icon Adaptive Steel
Gain a Weapon Mastery effect based on your current Blade Weapon. The Weapon Mastery effects (see below) have the following cooldowns: Sword - 6 seconds, Dual Blades - 10 seconds, Heng Blade - 20 seconds.

Possible Effects:
・Sword: 100% chance to apply one stack of Bleed to the target when dealing Affinity DMG.
・Spear: Attacks ignore 12.5% of target's Physical Defense.
・Dual Blades: After a Perfect Dodge, increases the next Martial Arts Skill damage within 8 seconds by 25%.
・Mo Blade: Increases the Critical DMG of Charged Skill and Parry Counter Skills by 20%
・Heng Blade: After a deflection, increases the damage of Light/Heavy Attack Varied Combo by 5% for 5 seconds.

For PvP, trade Battle Anthem for Vital Leech as it turns your execution pressure into self-sustain.

Unless you're in a 3v3, you would also want to switch Royal Remedy for Adaptive Steel.

Best Mystic Skills

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Overview Martial Arts Inner Ways
Mystic Skills Set and Stats How to Play
Stat Group Recommended Substats
Soaring Spin Icon 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.
Cloud Steps Icon Cloud Steps
Stomp on an enemy's shoulder to deal Physical Damage, other Attribute Damage effective against Cavalry and other units with Unstable Poise.
Dragon 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 Icon 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.

Open with Dragon’s Breath to apply Burn, then cast Drunken Poet to instantly detonate it into a burst spike. Together, they turn steady pressure into sudden damage that can force cooldowns or secure kills.

Cloud Steps keeps you on top of targets, whether engaging or chasing, and is especially important against mobile fights like Sleeping Daoist and Ye Wanshan, where uptime defines your damage.

Soaring Spin acts as a forward lunge that also reduces healing received, making it strong for sticking to enemies while weakening sustain in both PvE and PvP.

Alternative Mystic Arts for PvP

Mystic Arts Effects
Leaping Toad Icon 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.
Serene Breeze Icon 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.
Wolflike Frenzy Icon 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 becomes essential in PvP, as it allows you to escape crowd control and break enemy combo chains, giving you the breathing room needed to reset positioning and regain tempo.

Leaping Toad adds valuable disruption through knockback and knockdown effects, helping you control spacing and interrupt enemy momentum. Meanwhile, Wolflike Frenzy delivers strong burst damage while granting Super Armor, ensuring your offensive pressure continues even under retaliation.

Recommended Set Gear and Stat Priorities

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Mystic Skills Set and Stats How to Play

Set Gear

Stat Group Recommended Substats
Hawkwing Icon Hawkwing

Weapon
2 Set Effect: +0.1% Affinity Rate
4 Set Effect: When any of your damage triggers Affinity, gain Hawkwing: Increases Physical Attack by 2% for 5 seconds, stacking up to 5 times.
Flawless Defense Icon Flawless Defense

Armor
2 Set Effect: +1 Physical Defense
4 Set Effect: Reduces damage taken by 5%. When HP falles below 60%, futher reduces damage taken by 1% for every 10% HP lost, stacking up to 5 times.

Equipping the Hawkwing weapon set helps this build deal stronger burst damage by increasing Affinity Rate and then stacking Physical Attack every time an Affinity hit triggers, which synergizes with Nameless Sword’s rhythm of high-frequency procs and affinity-based damage windows.

The Eaglerise armor set adds reliable defensive stacking while you’re in combat or healing, reducing incoming damage with each stack and granting a powerful Eagle Guard shield when fully stacked, giving you better survivability during dive-ins or extended fights.

Stat Priority

1st Affinity Rate
2nd Max Bellstrike
3rd Momentum
4th Min/Max Physical Attack
5th Critical Rate

Affinity Rate is your highest priority, allowing you to trigger Affinity bursts consistently and scale your overall damage output. Max Bellstrike comes next, as it raises the ceiling of your Nameless Sword's damage.

Momentum strengthens both Affinity Rate and Max Physical Attack, increasing how often your spikes occur while also making them hit harder. Min/Max Physical Attack improves the range and reliability of your damage rolls, keeping your output stable. Lastly, Critical Rate is primarily valuable for Panacea Fan, improving the consistency and potency of your healing when critical effects apply.

Stats and Attributes Explained

How to Play

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Mystic Skills Set and Stats How to Play
Bellstrike – Silkbind Playstyle



Recommended Skill Rotation

  1. Start with Vagrant Sword, your charged heavy attack that releases waves of sword energy outward, great for wave pressure and bouncing between targets.
  2. Follow immediately with Daunting Strike to dash in, deal damage, and gain a short Qi shield, which keeps you safer in the middle of your combo.
  3. Then use Vagrant Sword again as soon as possible to keep your offensive momentum going.
  4. Use Shadowstep to Disengage.
  5. Follow up with a fully-charged Vagrant Sword
  6. Use Soaring Spin.
  7. Now weave in Dragon’s Breath, which applies a Burn status that ticks over time and then press parry immediately to Animation Cancel. Immediately after igniting that Burn, use Drunken Poet to detonate it into burst damage. This sequence maximizes your burst window by turning lingering damage into an immediate surge.
  8. When you need to, Cast Panacea Fan's Cloudburst Healing to gain more Dew and sustain your health, and immediately use Endless Cloud. You can also cast Light Dust After Morning Rain to gain a healing buff.

Use Endless Cloud whenever Using Cloudburst Healing

Endless Cloud is a Perception Skill tied to the Panacea Fan’s Cloudburst Healing that becomes available when your Dew gauge is full and you immediately recast Cloudburst Healing at that moment.

When triggered, it consumes all your stored Dew to deliver a massive burst of healing to all nearby allies instead of just summoning the regular water-clone heal. This turns a standard Cloudburst Healing into a much larger, instant group heal, which is why players often stack Dew first and intentionally trigger Endless Cloud for big heals in clutch moments.

Use Shield Windows for Burst Damage

Nameless Sword’s shield enables safer burst windows. Use this time to unload sword skills and Mystic Skills before repositioning.

Prioritize Reviving Your Primary Healer

As an off-healer, one of your most valuable contributions is keeping the main healer in the fight. If they fall, use Panacea Fan’s Resurrection quickly and safely to bring them back before the team collapses. A revived healer means restored sustain, stabilized positioning, and a reset to the fight's tempo. Your healers will absolutely appreciate the safety net, and your team will feel the difference immediately.

PvP Tips and Tricks

In PvP, you cannot rely solely on your Charged Heavy Skill, especially when running a single-weapon setup. Play patiently and control the pace of the fight. Use your Charged Heavy to poke when openings appear, but be cautious since it is predictable and easy to parry. If it connects, however, the damage payoff is significant.

  • Activate Drunken Poet before you commit to an engagement. Entering a fight with buffs already active lets you dictate tempo instead of reacting.
  • Use Cloud Steps and Soaring Spin to apply pressure and chase, but avoid draining your Endurance before your burst window is ready.
  • Animation cancel Dragon’s Breath so you gain its benefits instantly without exposing yourself to counterplay.
  • Use Serene Breeze to break out of enemy combos or crowd control and immediately reset the fight in your favor.
  • Against Vernal Umbrella players, parry their Spring Away projectiles patiently, or use Cloud Steps to close the gap and force them into melee.
  • Do not treat Cloud Steps purely as an engage tool. Hold it when necessary to reposition or disengage safely.
  • After securing an execution, follow up with Dragon’s Breath → Drunken Poet to extend pressure, animation canceling when needed to keep the sequence fluid.
  • Use Wolflike Frenzy for fast burst damage, or activate it defensively between enemy swings to leverage its Super Armor and avoid interruption.
  • A major win condition is landing Vagrant Sword, particularly the triple-hit multi-wave release, which deals heavy HP and Qi damage.
  • Even charging Vagrant Sword without releasing it creates threat and can force premature dodges or spacing errors.
  • Maintain disciplined spacing. Proper distance and timing are critical to charging Vagrant Sword safely without getting parried.
  • In 3v3, look for moments during clustered engagements to release Vagrant Sword across multiple targets, but remember that bringing a healing weapon makes you the sole healer of that the team in 3v3.

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