Illustration of a stone training courtyard of a mountain martial arts hall, with a weathered wooden weapon rack holding swords, a spear, a broad blade, a folding fan, a red oil-paper umbrella, a coiled rope dart and iron gauntlets, and pines and misty peaks behind — Illustration: AI-generated artwork, not a game screenshot

Where Winds Meet Builds

A build starts with a martial path, an official pairing of two weapon martial arts. Here are all 10 paths in Version 2.2, where three recent tier lists place each one, and the guide for each build.

All 10 martial paths

Tier lists are their authors' opinions. We show whose list each column is, when it was made and for which version, and we do not merge them into one ranking.

The official Version 2.2 patch notes (September 16, 2026) list no damage or cooldown changes to martial arts. Their only martial-art entry corrects the description of a Nameless Sword effect.

Swipe the table sideways to see all columns.

Martial path	PvE damageNPC Waifu, September 19, 2026	PvP 1v1OnKamii, September 19, 2026	PvEGame8, September 3, 2026	PvPGame8, September 3, 2026	Guide
Bellstrike - SplendorNameless Sword + Nameless Spear	A	T1	S	S	Nameless Sword build guide
Bellstrike - UmbraStrategic Sword + Heavenquaker Spear	B	T1	A	A	Strategic Sword build guide
Bamboocut - WindInfernal Twinblades + Mortal Rope Dart	B	T0*	B	A	Dual Blades build guide
Bamboocut - DustEverspring Umbrella + Unfettered Rope Dart	B	T1	S	A	Umbrella build guide
Bamboocut - KiteHeavenwill Gauntlets + Skygrasp Rope Dart	S	T0.5	S	S	—
Bamboocut - DraughtSkystrike Gauntlets + Riven Twinblades	A	T0*	S	A	—
Silkbind - JadeVernal Umbrella + Inkwell Fan	A	T0*	A	S	Silkbind Jade PvP build
Silkbind - DelugePanacea Fan + Soulshade Umbrella	Not ranked	T3	S	B	Healer build guide
Stonesplit - MightThundercry Blade + Stormbreaker Spear	B	T1	S	B	Mo Blade build guide
Stonesplit - StrengthSnowparting Blade + Phalanxbane Blade	SPhalanxbane focus ASnowparting focus	T0*	S	S	Stonesplit Strength build guide

* Said aloud in the video. The top row of OnKamii's board is cut off on screen, so these placements are what he says, not what we could see.

NPC Waifu ranks damage builds only, so the healing path Silkbind - Deluge is not on that list. The list shows Stonesplit - Strength twice: once with Phalanxbane Blade highlighted (he calls it the Mo Blade style) and once with Snowparting Blade highlighted (the Heng Blade style).

Weapon pairs are checked as of October 6, 2026; the sources for each pairing are in the Build Planner.

The tier lists in the table

List	Published	Game version	Tiers
NPC Waifu, PvE damage	September 19, 2026	Published after the 2.2 update	S, A, B
OnKamii, PvP 1v1	September 19, 2026	Version 2.2, global server	T0 (best), T0.5, T1, T2, T3
Game8, PvE	September 3, 2026	Version 2.1, before 2.2	S, A, B
Game8, PvP	September 3, 2026	Version 2.1, before 2.2	S, A, B

We read each placement from the list itself on October 6, 2026. Builds that mix weapons from different paths appear on these lists too, but this table only shows the ten official pairs.

Where the two PvE lists differ

Both PvE lists use S, A and B, but they do not rank by the same yardstick. NPC Waifu rates the damage a build deals in practice; Game8 rates how well a build does its job overall, including what it brings to a group. Read them side by side rather than as one scale. They put these 5 paths in different tiers. Game8's list was last updated for Version 2.1; NPC Waifu's came out after the 2.2 update.

Bellstrike - Splendor: S from Game8, A from NPC Waifu
Bellstrike - Umbra: A from Game8, B from NPC Waifu
Bamboocut - Dust: S from Game8, B from NPC Waifu
Bamboocut - Draught: S from Game8, A from NPC Waifu
Stonesplit - Might: S from Game8, B from NPC Waifu

Tier list guides

Both guides were rewritten for Version 2.2 on October 6, 2026. They explain each list's placements, the reasons the list authors give and the official changes since July 2026.

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Where Winds Meet Build Tier List: Every Path in PvE and PvP

Where three recent tier lists place all 10 Where Winds Meet martial paths in Version 2.2, the reasons their authors give, and what changed since July.

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Where Winds Meet PvP Tier List: Best PvP Builds

Where Winds Meet PvP tier list for Version 2.2: how OnKamii's 1v1 list and Game8's PvP list rank all 10 paths, plus the top mixed pairs and Arena changes.

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PvE Builds & Guides

Each guide shows when it was last updated; older ones say so at the top

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Where Winds Meet Dual Blades Build

Where Winds Meet Dual Blades build for Version 2.2: the Inner Ways current Bamboocut - Wind builds share, stat targets, gear sets and tier list ratings.

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Where Winds Meet Healer Build

Where Winds Meet healer build for Version 2.2: the four Inner Ways every build agrees on, stat priorities, gear sets and tier list ratings, compared.

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Where Winds Meet Heaven Quake Spear Build Guide - Pure Spear DPS (2025)

A complete Heaven Quake Spear build guide for Where Winds Meet. Learn the best weapon combo, Mental Methods, Strange Arts, and combat rotation for consistent spear DPS.

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Where Winds Meet Mo Blade Build

Where Winds Meet Mo Blade tank build for Version 2.2: the Thundercry Blade's Inner Ways, stat targets, gear sets and tier list ratings, compared.

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Where Winds Meet Nameless Sword Build

Where Winds Meet Nameless Sword build for Version 2.2: the Inner Ways the builds share, the Sword Morph loop, stats, gear sets and tier list ratings.

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Where Winds Meet Stonesplit - Strength Build

Where Winds Meet Stonesplit - Strength builds for Version 2.2: the Snowparting Blade and Phalanxbane Blade, shared Inner Ways, stats, gear and ratings.