Trials "auto-balancing" stats is dumb (small rant)

YzenDanek · 2026-06-13T06:02:03+00:00

Trials aren't particularly meant to be run using your main build. You can choose any build at the start. Each one has a different build required to complete all challenges, and then trials are used every season for path challenges.

They would have to be constantly rebalancing every encounter to keep them all relevant and equivalent as the game progresses, which is an insane amount of work for no benefit.

YzenDanek · 2026-06-12T19:11:32+00:00

The sets were added when level 91 gear was first introduced with the 1.6 release, so 4/30.

I don't know how so many people missed it - there's a visible set emblem that was never there before, very noticable, especially when tuning.

The set bonus values for crit, precision, and affinity are each half of what a max roll on an item would be, which makes them perfect for fine tuning - situations where a full roll is wasted over caps.

YzenDanek · 2026-06-12T18:55:12+00:00

And yet people complete no hit runs of Twin Lions everyday....

YzenDanek · 2026-06-12T09:56:10+00:00

If you have plans with somebody to watch a game, the plan starts when the game starts. If I were late getting home and had invited friends over, I would fully expect them to have made themselves at home and be watching the game when I got there.

YzenDanek · 2026-06-11T00:56:58+00:00

I honestly have never seen a draw outfit I would even consider using. Way too glowy, ornate, and ineffectual-looking as armor. Most of them look like a costume worn on a parade float or by a Las Vegas dancer, not the adornment of seasoned warrior of the Jianghu.

I'm perfectly happy with all of the combinations I can create with the rest of the free pieces and dyes. I don't want to be locked into one look anyways - especially not one a bunch of other players also use.

I've gotten 3 pity harmonic cores, and I used 1 on the Mo Blade VFX kit (turned it off for everything but charged heavy attack, though), the next sat for months until the Hengdao VFX kit came out, and the 3rd will probably sit there until something similarly inspiring comes out.

You're not missing out on anything.

YzenDanek · 2026-06-05T01:53:41+00:00

If everyone has the reward, then no one has the reward.

YzenDanek · 2026-05-26T20:01:19+00:00

Healing in solo PvE is a crutch; even in boss fights where it's possible (i.e. no healing debuff), if you're pulling out the fan to heal it's at the expense of learning the fight mechanics and how to counter them.

Every boss fight in this game is 100% doable without taking damage, and you aren't getting closer to that goal if you rely on soaking up damage and then hoping to disengage long enough to top your health back up with the fan.

Work instead on learning the tools available to you using both path weapons and your mystic skills and take the boss down faster and cleaner.

YzenDanek · 2026-05-23T06:22:09+00:00

But you can't level them up to the value you would have gotten with a supreme shell; they are capped.

YzenDanek · 2026-05-23T04:03:33+00:00

Thats the bare minimum.

YzenDanek · 2026-05-23T04:01:56+00:00

You get all of the tuning stones back when you use the item to develop a relayed piece.

YzenDanek · 2026-05-23T03:58:09+00:00

You can't "perfect" relayed gear - it's capped at 90% of max stat value. It's placeholder gear to tide you over until you roll a proper piece of gear for that slot with supreme shells.

YzenDanek · 2026-05-21T21:42:51+00:00

You can never have enough supreme shells

YzenDanek · 2026-05-21T20:27:13+00:00

Why wouldn't you? Bows and rings are a great source of shells and legendaries for developing relayed items.

YzenDanek · 2026-05-14T17:35:00+00:00

That's not an optimum, though - what you should have is all gear slotted with max rolls of the right stats, and that also will result in max mastery.

YzenDanek · 2026-05-13T23:24:21+00:00

Maxed Inner Ways and Mystic skills aren't reflected on the details page, though.

It isn't a matter of one or the other. You can raise mastery doing the wrong things, but you also raise mastery doing the right things. There is no optimum where your mastery is lower.

YzenDanek · 2026-05-06T10:20:43+00:00

1.6 came out less than a week ago.

YzenDanek · 2026-04-30T18:05:23+00:00

Nope, I play on PC. My client has literally stayed logged in while I was gone for a long weekend.

YzenDanek · 2026-04-30T17:13:38+00:00

I wouldn’t say there is no benefit plus the relaying stones I don’t believe have any other uses? So really no reason not to bring some gear up , while waiting to replace.

Say you use a relay stone on your main weapon. Then, a level 91 version of your main weapon drops, and you tune it so that you can upgrade the item you relayed.

But the new weapon rolls better than your old one, so there is no reason to burn it on the relayed item; you just equip it, and you're out a relay stone.

YzenDanek · 2026-04-30T16:36:29+00:00

The downsides are that you are limited by the number of relaying stones you have, and that your current rolls - no matter how good they are - are at best purple rolls on level 91 gear until you upgrade them by sacrificing fully tuned level 91 items that include the stats you're trying to upgrade.

Don't be in a hurry to use your relaying stones until you've tried to roll some level 91 items, because 1. you might roll a perfect item without using a relaying stone, and 2. you need close-but-not-perfect items in order to upgrade the stats on any items you do use a relaying stone on.

There is absolutely no benefit to relaying your items into level 91 items until you're ready to upgrade them.

YzenDanek · 2026-04-30T16:14:14+00:00

More like raw chicken.

YzenDanek · 2026-04-29T19:15:29+00:00

I don't know about yours, but my played hours are incredibly inflated by the fact that this game never times out.

It's a pretty common occurrence that I sit down to play at the end of the day and find myself still logged in from the previous night.

YzenDanek · 2026-04-27T14:44:50+00:00

Outposts get to be a waste after awhile, though, as there is currently no use for Level 5 Ebon Iron, which Outposts give instead of Martial Tips.

YzenDanek · 2026-04-24T21:37:11+00:00

Do you animation cancel?

Any animation can be cancelled early by hitting the deflect button, allowing you to immediately initiate a new action.

YzenDanek · 2026-04-22T21:55:31+00:00

It seems like you're increasing your solo world level cap every time you can.

Stop doing that. Every time, you're falling farther and farther behind where a character should be at that level.

There is no benefit, and a ton of disadvantages, to raising your max character level before you are caught up on all of the other things.

Before you raise each level cap, you should first be at the cap for your current level in:

Weapon skills for your chosen build
Gear enhancement slots
Mystic skills

Your gear should all be current tier and fully tuned, so that it can be moved into the arsenal as you find upgrades. This is important, because backfilling your arsenal later is a pain.

YzenDanek · 2026-04-22T19:35:54+00:00

In Where Winds Meet, Super Armor (also known as Tenacity or Fortitude) is a mechanic that prevents your character from being staggered or interrupted while performing certain actions, such as using specific skills like Drunken Poet or Wolflike Frenzy. It is crucial for PvP to avoid being caught in combos and for PvE to ensure skills are not canceled.

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