Where Winds Meet throws a lot at you very quickly. There is your character level, Solo Mode level caps, weapon enhancement, tuning, Mystic Arts, talents, hidden exploration attributes, Medicinal Tales, careers, and a bunch of vendors quietly selling “mandatory” upgrades. If you ignore half of that, you really can end up three or four times weaker than players at the same level.
This Where Winds Meet progression guide breaks everything into simple priorities. We will go over how the daily level cap works, which upgrades are actually worth your rare materials, how to handle weapons and tuning, and why Constitution and Medicinal Tales matter more than any random blue gear you pick up. By the end, you will have a clear leveling route from the early game up to your first significant endgame milestone around level 60.
Use it as both a beginner-friendly Where Winds Meet leveling guide and a checklist whenever you hit a wall and wonder, “Why am I so weak?”
1. Learn The Daily Level Cap And Solo Mode First
Where Winds Meet does not let you grind forever on day one, your character level is tied to a Solo Mode Level that climbs over your first six account days, then stops limiting you after that. GamerBlurb+1
Typical Solo Mode cap staircase for a fresh account:
- Day 1 – Character level cap 20
- Day 2 – Level cap 30
- Day 3 – Level cap 40
- Day 4 – Level cap 50
- Day 5 – Level cap 55
- Day 6 – Solo Mode cap removed, you can level freely
The cap resets with the global daily reset (around 4 pm EST / 9 pm UTC; automatically converted to your local time) and extra XP is stored, not lost.
What this means for progression:
- When you hit “Breakthrough locked” or “Wait until tomorrow,” your job is to stop worrying about XP and pivot into account-wide systems: weapons, enhancement, Mystic Arts, talents, exploration attributes, and Medicinal Tales.
- Plan your “story push” right after reset, then spend the rest of the day cleaning up Outposts, world bosses, and exploration for long-term power.
Treat the daily cap as a rhythm, not a punishment. Your power growth comes more from systems than from the raw level number.
Solo Mode Levels.
2. Keep Weapons At Your Level And Break Through Smartly
If you only remember one thing from this Where Winds Meet progression guide, make it this:
Your main weapons should always stay close to your character level, and you should push their breakthroughs whenever you can.
Open the weapon menu and upgrade until your gear level roughly matches your current level. At certain thresholds, you can trigger a Breakthrough, unlocking a new passive on the weapon that adds huge flat stats or special bonuses.
Key tips from the leveling perspective:
- Weapons first, armor later. Upgrading weapon attack and breakthroughs gives much bigger power spikes than early armor.
- Buy upgrade materials weekly. The seasonal or weekly shop sells enhancement stones and notes for jade currency; cap those purchases at every reset so you never starve later.
- Use the reset option if you misinvest. You can “reset” a piece for around 80% of your materials back. It hurts a bit, but it saves you if you pumped the wrong weapon before deciding on a main.
Later, you will unlock the Enhancement and Armory systems that turn every upgraded piece into account power. Even if you switch from fan to sword or pick up a better purple, the enhancement levels carry through via the Armory brackets (41, 51, 56, 61), giving permanent attack and defense bonuses.
Gears in Where Winds Meet.
3. Tuning Is Mandatory, Not Optional
Once you start getting purple and gold gear, you unlock Tuning. Think of this as feeding extra gear into a weapon or armor to raise its internal tuning level.
In practice, the difference between an untuned piece and a fully tuned one can be almost double the damage. The test build we use shows a weapon jumping from roughly 300 attack to around 625 after tuning, without changing any other stats.
How to handle tuning efficiently:
- Feed unwanted gear into your primary weapons and jewelry first, then armor.
- Do not hoard old gear “just in case.” The game wants you to recycle it into tuning and then into the Armory for permanent account bonuses.
- Expect tuning to get expensive, so stockpile enhancement materials from vendors and Outposts as you go.
If you feel underpowered in the midgame, even with decent gear, chances are that your tuning levels are just low.
Gear Tuning in Where Winds Meet.
4. Upgrade Mystic Arts And Parry Skills Before Random Side Stuff
Mystic Arts are your big flashy skills. Each one can be leveled with common resources, but the real power spike comes from breakthroughs that cost rare Buddha’s Tear Roots.
Those roots are minimal early on, so they should go into your:
- Main damage Mystic Skill (the one you cast on cooldown in boss fights)
- Core mobility or utility skill if it directly feeds your DPS rotation
- A must-have support Mystic like Blinding Mist or Buddha Clap once you unlock them
Parry skills also have their own upgrade track powered by special wine-like tokens you buy from a vendor. Maxing them out makes parries more reliable and safer on high difficulties.
TL;DR:
Do not spread Buddha’s Tear Roots across every Mystic you own. A focused level 3 or 4 Mystic Art with breakthroughs is worth more than five half-leveled ones.
Mystic Skills.
5. Talents And Inner Ways – Your “Build Defining” Layer
Open the Talents menu and you will see a sprawling tree of passive bonuses. It is overwhelming at first, but there are a few standouts for progression.
5.1 Must-have Talents
- Surging: Lets you survive fatal damage once, heal a chunk of HP, and gain brief invulnerability. This single talent makes higher difficulties and late story bosses much more forgiving.
- The main branch toward extra HP, damage, and resistances – follow the “spine” of the tree first instead of random side nodes.
Some of the best talents are locked behind minimum HP thresholds and Solo Mode levels. Hence, it is smart to save a handful of Talent Points before significant level milestones like Solo Level 5, then instantly dump them into those central nodes when the gate opens.
Talent Menu.
5.2 Inner Ways (Internal Arts)
You also have Inner Way slots, which act like extra passives. Three early priorities are:
- Envigorated Warrior: A general damage and sustain powerhouse that many builds use as a best-in-slot Inner Way, bought from a specific vendor for jade currency.
- Your weapon-specific Inner Arts add extra animations or multipliers to your weapon skills.
- A defensive or sustained Inner Way that suits your preferred difficulty.
Some of these come from side quests, some from vendors, and some from chests inside stealth “Skill Theft” missions, so your “best build” in Where Winds Meet absolutely includes hunting down those Inner Ways.
Inner Ways in Where Winds Meet.
6. Exploration Attributes And “Hidden” Stats (Constitution Is King)
Where Winds Meet has another set of stats hiding under Details → Exploration Attributes. These include Magnanimity, Elegance, Perception, Constitution, and more.
Each one is mainly tied to a type of mini game or activity:
- Constitution: Outposts and Sumo wrestling
- Elegance: Food/gourmet activities and Cat Plays
- Perception: Oddity collection and archery events
- and so on
Why this matters for progression:
- Constitution directly gates your gear. High-level weapons and armor require a minimum Constitution, and late-game pieces can demand around 50 Constitution or more.
- High total Exploration Attributes unlock Exploration Skills, including Treasure Seeker, which shows nearby chests on the minimap. That alone is huge for farming loot and Medicinal Tales.
Exploration Attributes.
Practical farming tips:
- Clear every Outpost at least once for Constitution, Medicinal Tales, and upgrade mats.
- Do a few rounds of Sumo / Wrestling in the capital to nudge the Constitution up.
- Pet cats whenever you see them. Cat Plays raise Elegance, which you will eventually need for some Exploration Skills.
- Grab Oddities, open chests, and run Meow Meow challenges for extra Exploration Points and attribute gains.
If you feel stuck near the “end” of Where Winds Meet at higher levels and cannot equip a new weapon, check your Constitution before you blame your luck.
Combat Attributes.
7. Evercare Clinic, Medicinal Tales, And The Healer Career
Your survival in brutal fights depends on your Medicine Chest and the number of healing charges it holds. The NPC Yao Yaoyao at the Evercare Clinic lets you:
- Cure serious illnesses for coins
- Upgrade your Medicine Chest using Medicinal Tales
Chest upgrades unlock more charges and extra effects:
- Healing charge milestones at roughly Rank 5, 8, and 11
- Up to 5 charges total at max rank, with stronger heals and extra buffs like damage reduction or heal over time
Where to get Medicinal Tales efficiently:
- First clear rewards from Outposts
- World bosses and dungeons
- Random chests and exploration rewards around the world
Career Progression.
7.1 Healer Career And Career Notebooks
Progression also ties into your Healer and Scholar careers. In the Career menu, you can spend Career Notebooks (often bought from shops or earned through side content) to rank up each career.
For most players:
- Level Healer first. It improves your medicine crafting, lets you treat players, and gives more value from Medicinal Tales and healing.
- Then, level Scholar for dialogue “Gift of Gab” events once your Healer rank hits its early cap.
It is all indirect power, but in a long story like this, indirect power is what makes a “best way to progress in Where Winds Meet” actually work.
8. Weekly Shops And Daily Habits
To keep your account from falling behind, make these habits part of your routine alongside the daily level cap:
Every week/reset:
- Buy out upgrade stones, tonics, and Career Notebooks in the seasonal shop with jade currency.
- Check any vendors that sell Inner Way books or special skills you are still missing.
Every day:
- Push the main story and Breakthroughs until you hit your Solo Mode level cap.
- Clear at least one or two Outposts for Constitution and Medicinal Tales.
- Spend materials on weapon enhancement and tuning for your main build.
- Upgrade at least one Mystic Art or Talent whenever you have the resources.
- Use Lightness Skills to make traversal easier during these daily activities.
Once these become second nature, your overall power will keep climbing even on days when the level cap tells you to stop.
Lightness Skills.
9. The Optimal Progression in Where Winds Meet (Level 1 To 60)
To close this Where Winds Meet progression guide, here is a quick roadmap you can follow.
9.1 Early Game (Level 1–20)
The early game is mainly about unlocking core systems and keeping your basics in line. Your focus here should be pushing the main story, keeping at least one main weapon close to your character level, and setting up reliable healing and a few key Mystic Arts. This phase is less about optimization and more about making sure you’re not falling behind on fundamental progression.
- Focus on the main story in Solo Mode.
- Keep your primary weapon upgraded to match your level.
- Unlock a few key Mystic Arts and at least one defensive talent.
- Visit Evercare Clinic as soon as you get your first Medicinal Tales and upgrade the Medicine Chest once.
9.2 Mid Game (Level 20–40)
From level 20 onward, progression shifts away from pure leveling and into account growth. This is where Outposts, Constitution, Mystic Skill breakthroughs, tuning, and Inner Ways start to matter more than just watching the level number go up. Your goal in this range is to strengthen your core and build pieces so that each level actually translates into a big jump in performance.
- Start clearing out the Outposts you see for Constitution and Medicinal Tales.
- Push your main Mystic Art to its first or second breakthrough.
- Begin tuning your primary weapons and jewelry.
- Grab Horse Moral Chant or equivalent strong Inner Ways as soon as you unlock them.
9.3 Late Game (Level 40–60 And Beyond)
Once you hit the 40s, most of your power comes from systems rather than raw levels. Armory brackets, tuning levels, Exploration Attributes, Talents, Inner Ways, and a fully upgraded Medicine Chest become the main drivers of how strong you feel. This phase is about consolidating everything you’ve unlocked so far and preparing your character for the most formidable challenges the game has to offer.
- Unlock and feed gear into the Armory at level 41 and above.
- Max tune your main pieces and push the enhancement averages for the achievement tier.
- Farm Exploration Attributes for Treasure Seeker and other strong exploration skills.
- Round out cores: maxed Medicine Chest, solid Healer rank, key Talents, and Inner Ways in place.
Breakthrough Rewards.
At that point, your character will feel less like a fragile wanderer and more like a proper wuxia monster, which is precisely where you want to be before you dive into the most demanding bosses and MMO content in Where Winds Meet.
