Where Winds Meet – Best PvE Weapon Combinations Tier List

Where Winds Meet offers different weapon types, and each has its own unique abilities. Choosing the best weapon combination in PvE mode is crucial in every aspect, as your combat gameplay depends on it. You unlock weapons naturally through story missions, side activities, and special achievements. Build around a playstyle that fits you, and you’ll clear PvE content far more efficiently.

Best PvE Weapon Combos Tier List

Below is the best PvE weapon combo tier list for Where Winds Meet.

S-Tier

1. Strategic Sword + Heavenquaker Spear

Strategic Sword in Where Winds Meet is a great DPS weapon. It is built around stacking Bleed, so you apply Bleed with its light and heavy attacks. When you hit 5 stacks of Bleed, you can consume them with a special skill to deal a big burst. Heavenquaker Spear features wide swings and sweeping attacks, making it ideal for dealing with groups of mobs. Pairing the Strategic Sword with the Heavenquaker allows you to dominate enemies with maximum damage.

Synergy 

• With builds like Heavenquake Spear + Strategic Sword, you can stack a lot of damage on multiple enemies.
• Heavenquake Spear helps apply debuffs, which help your bleed‑based builds, especially when paired with Strategic Sword.
• To get full value, you need to use its skills correctly and swap weapons at the right times to benefit from its buffs.
• Strategic Sword’s survivability is lower, and you also get lots of AoE and a lot of damage buffs.

How To Play This Weapon Combo & Master Its PvE Rotation

1. Open with Heavenquaker Spear to begin applying debuffs with Sober Sorrow and start building your bleed stacks.
2. Stack up to 5 Bleed using your Spear’s light and skill attacks.
3. Apply your self-buffs (Affinity, damage amps, or stance buffs depending on your build).
4. Debuff the target again with another Spear Heavy Attack to keep uptime before switching.
5. Swap to Strategic Sword once the enemy has full bleed stacks and active debuffs.
6. Detonate the fully charged Bleed using the Sword’s empowered skills Inner Balance Strike.
7. Use the Sword to parry only red-marked boss hits to maintain survival and empower counters.
8. Immediately swap back to Spear after your detonation or parry to continue building Bleed and maintain high pressure.
9. Repeat the cycle: spear debuffs → 5 bleed stacks → buff → sword detonate → back to spear.

Rotation Strengths and PvE Impact

• The Strategic Sword and Heavenquaker Spear pairing turns bleed into a resource you actively manage.
• Bosses stop feeling like damage sponges once the flow of stacks, buffs, and detonations clicks.

2. Twinblades + Rope Dart

Infernal Twinblades

The Twinblades in Where Winds Meet are an early weapon and are amazing for single-target damage. Great against bosses in particular. Rope Dart is a hybrid melee-mid‑range weapon, and its light attacks whip out in an arc, while its skills let you pull enemies or pull yourself to them.

Synergy 

• Build Karmic Flame through attacks, then enter Flamelash for CC immunity and damage buffs.
• Rope Dart pulls enemies or drags you toward them, offering strong control in crowded fights.
• Mortal Rope Dart uses Tokens of Gratitude as its unique resource.

How To Play This Weapon Combo & Master Its PvE Rotation

1. Start the fight with Rope Dart, playing like a fast assassin who controls distance while weaving in quick hits with Swing Light Attacks.
2. Use Charged Heavy Attack on Rope Dart to boost your Might Rat’s damage output.
3. Cast Bladebound Thread to pull enemies into your range, then perform the follow-up attack for burst damage and control.
4. Swap to Infernal Twinblades as soon as enemies are in melee range.
5. Build your Flamelash meter by chaining Twinblade attacks.
6. Once Flamelash is full, unleash your 5-hit Light Attack combo for maximum burst damage.
7. Swap back to Rope Dart immediately after the Flamelash burst to reset distance and regain control.
8. Repeat the loop: Rope Dart control → Charged Heavy → Bladebound Thread → Twinblades Flamelash → 5-hit combo → back to Rope Dart.

Rotation Strengths and PvE Impact

• A great combo for dishing out a lot of damage very quickly.
• If you’re getting heals from your teammates to keep you alive, you feel very safe.
• This combo is perfect for those looking to play a higher slash attack class with multiple resources and buffs to track.

3. Soulshade Umbrella + Panacea Fan

Panacea Fan

This is the only weapon combo in the current season meta that you can classify as a healer. Soulshade Umbrella is a support weapon that provides healing over time and damage buffs. Soulshade Umbrella allows you to easily swap in, activate its skills, and swap out to deal damage with other weapons. Panacea Fan’s Perception skill Resurrection brings back downed teammates using Dew drops.

Overall, this is a healer and support combo in Where Winds Meet.

Synergy 

• Soulshade Umbrella heals you over time for a very long duration and can also heal nearby allies in co-op if their HP is low.
• Its special skill “Echoes of a Thousand Plants” throws the umbrella into the air, and it hovers, auto-healing allies.
• Panacea Fan is useful for Resurrection but suffers in dealing damage, and only has a light attack.

How To Play This Weapon Combo & Master Its PvE Rotation

1. Begin with Soulshade Umbrella and activate its Light Skill to gain your damage buffs.
2. Lift the Umbrella into the air using Echoes of a Thousand Plants, triggering its airborne effect and opening your damage window.
3. Swap to Panacea Fan immediately after the Umbrella is raised.
4. Use Panacea Fan’s Light Attacks for steady DPS or Heavy Attacks when you want burst damage or crowd control.
5. Monitor your Umbrella buff duration while continuing your Fan pressure.
6. Swap back to Soulshade Umbrella once its airborne effect ends.
7. Reapply the Light Skill buff, raise it again with Echoes of a Thousand Plants, and repeat the full rotation.

Rotation Strengths and PvE Impact

• It’s an absolute powerhouse in PvE solo and both co-op modes.
• You can keep all your mates alive with heals, and if they die, you can resurrect them, too.
• Aims to balance out its usage of Dewdrop to activate healing abilities and rotating skills, and heavy attack.

A-Tier

1. Nameless Spear + Nameless Sword

Nameless spear

This is an excellent combination with high single-target damage and mobility. Nameless Spear + Nameless Sword combo excels in fast-paced melee encounters with strong burst and high mobility. The sword provides reliable gap-closing and ranged waves, while the spear offers immobilization and endurance restoration.

Synergy 

• Excellent gap-closing and charge attacks through Nameless Sword.
• Nameless Spear can immobilize enemies and restore Endurance.
• Great for mid-range poke, mobility, and tight burst windows.

How To Play This Weapon Combo & Master Its PvE Rotation

1. Start with Nameless Sword and open with Fearless Lunge to quickly close the gap.
2. Trigger the Fearless Lunge follow-up to activate Internal Art for your damage boost.
3. Charge a Heavy Attack to fire off sword waves and apply strong ranged pressure.
4. Use Shadow Step’s follow-up to reposition and instantly close the distance again.
5. Swap to Nameless Spear once your sword burst is done.
6. Cast Legion Crusher to speed up your next charged attack and prep your damage window.
7. Use Qiankun’s Lock to restore Endurance and maintain sustained pressure.
8. Charge a Heavy Attack with the Spear to unleash your main damage hit.
9. Repeat the loop: Sword gap-close → Internal Art → sword waves → Shadow Step → Spear Legion Crusher → Qiankun’s Lock → charged spear hit.

Rotation Strengths and PvE Impact

• A beginner combo with solid AoE.
• This combo has high mobility, melee, and ranged attacks.
• Easily weave in and out of combat or unleash waves of Qi from afar.

2. Thundercry Blade + Stormbreaker Spear

Thundercry Blade

This is the only tank-style weapon combo in the game. This combo is easy to play and offers huge burst damage, making it perfect for PvE players. Thundercry Blade provides a strong self‑shield and massive fortitude buff when you channel its charged heavy attack, while Stormbreaker Spear provides CC and threat control.

Synergy 

• Thundercry Blade is excellent for soaking damage and holding aggro even in PvP fights.
• Stormbreaker’s CC potential allows it to hold threat, which is extremely useful in group PvE for a tank role.
• As a tanky spear, it’s likely slower or less agile compared to more DPS‑oriented weapons.
• Drum Striking buffs on Stormbreak Spear add a strong burst during windows.

How To Play This Weapon Combo & Master Its PvE Rotation

1. Start with Stormbreaker Spear and cast Storm Roar to activate your 16-second damage reduction.
2. Apply Vulnerable by casting Thunder Shock to soften targets before your burst window.
3. Begin a Charged Heavy Attack and let it ride until the final hit, then swap weapons at the last moment to trigger Drumbeat for free bonus damage.
4. Use Sunrush Gale to pull enemies toward you and group them tightly.
5. Cast Predator’s Shield to instantly gain 50% increased charging speed, setting up your next burst.
6. Use Charged Light Attack against groups to hit multiple enemies with the wide swing.
7. Swap back to Stormbreaker Spear immediately after your Fan or off-weapon skills and unleash heavy damage while all buffs and debuffs are active.
8. Repeat the rotation: Storm Roar → Thunder Shock → Charged Heavy + swap → Sunrush Gale → Predator’s Shield → Charged Light → return to Stormbreaker Spear.

Rotation Strengths and PvE Impact

• This tank combo has high durability and high single-hit bursts.
• Both weapons focus on a tanking role that aims to take the aggression and reduce it.

B-Tier

1. Panacea Fan + Nameless Sword

Nameless Sword

This is a Support-DPS Hybrid weapon combo in Where Winds Meet. It mixes Panacea Fan’s healing, buffs, and protection with the Nameless Sword’s fast, fluid DPS and counter-attacks. It is one of the best solo-friendly, long-fight, and sustained DPS + survivability weapon pairings.

Synergy 

• With Nameless Sword, if you hold down the heavy attack button, your character will instead unleash a sword energy wave towards the target.
• Panacea Fan’s main strength is consistent healing support.
• A long-fight specialist combo with safety and control.

How To Play This Weapon Combo & Master Its PvE Rotation

1. Open with Panacea Fan to apply your buffs, heal if necessary with Endless Cloud, and set up your support effects before engaging.
2. Swap to Nameless Sword once your buffs are active and start dishing out damage with its fast slash combos using Light Attack.
3. Return to Panacea Fan to refresh buffs, heal again if needed, and create distance or reset enemy pressure.
4. Switch back to Nameless Sword to resume DPS during your full buff window.
5. Repeat the loop: Fan buffs → Sword DPS → Fan rebuff/reset → Sword DPS.

Rotation Strengths and PvE Impact

• This hybrid weapon combo is best for tackling elite enemies and solo leveling.
• If you prefer self-healing, high safety, and strong counter skills, then this build is for you.

C-Tier

1. Vernal Umbrella + Inkwell Fan

Vernal Umbrella

This is the only rage DPS martial arts path in the game, which makes a great pick depending on what modes you play. This weapon combo shines in PvE because it complements your tame and the damage you do from range while kiting enemies. Strong against humanoid enemies but falls behind in burst or sustained damage at higher levels.

Synergy

• Vernal Umbrella Martial Skill Spring Sorrow allows you to charge briefly, then fire a projectile that immobilizes non‑boss enemies.
• Inkwell Fan creates a wind barrier that knocks back enemies and blocks projectiles for 8 seconds.
• Good for players who enjoy ranged kiting in PvE.

How To Play This Weapon Combo & Master Its PvE Rotation

1. Start with Inkwell Fan and cast Jadewind Shield to summon the windwall and boost all your projectile damage.
2. Swap to Verdant Umbrella and use Spring of Sorrow to fire enhanced projectiles while the windwall buff is active.
3. Use a Charged Light Attack to launch yourself into the air, then spam your aerial projectile attacks for maximum ranged DPS.
4. Build your Blossom meter during your projectile spam and cast Unfading Flower as soon as the meter is full for a strong damage burst.
5. Swap back to Inkwell Fan and immediately cast Peak’s Springless Silence to extend your projectile pressure and keep enemies staggered or zoned.
6. Repeat the loop: Jadewind Shield → Umbrella projectiles → charged jump → aerial spam → Unfading Flower → back to Fan.

Rotation Strengths and PvE Impact

• This weapon combo is effective against humanoid enemies and grants you ranged projectile options.
• It focuses on ranged combat and amplifying your follow-up attacks with trajectory.

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