Spear in Where Winds Meet.
Role: Bleed
Long weapon that balances reach, control, and steady frontline pressure.
Difficulty: Moderate · Recommended for: Players who like controlling space from a safe distance and do not mind being responsible for the pace of a fight.
Spear offers classic reach and control, letting you decide exactly when enemies are allowed to step into danger. Its thrusts and sweeps cover generous arcs, poking safely in PVE while still giving you tools to contest space in duels. In Where Winds Meet it works well for steady frontline builds that prefer structured fights, zone control, and reliable answers to mobile targets.
Treat this page as a practical companion to the Where Winds Meet tier list and recommended builds. When patch notes shift numbers, the core fantasy and feel of Spear usually stay the same, so you can focus on whether the weapon's rhythm matches how you like to play.
Notes: This page is based on official showcases and general action RPG experience. It is meant to describe weapon feel and typical roles rather than exact numbers. Treat it as a starting viewpoint, and always trust in-game experience and patch notes first.
Artwork and motion are based on official Where Winds Meet weapon showcases. Exact visuals may evolve over time with new patches or cosmetics.
How Spear tends to play.
Spear offers a comfortable middle ground: longer reach than swords without fully stepping into pure ranged territory. Strong thrusts and sweeps let you work from the edge of packs while denying enemies clean approaches.
In PVE it works well as a “steady frontline” tool. You do not need to soak every hit like a dedicated tank, but you can keep danger at arm’s length by combining spacing and tempo control. For players still learning boss behavior, Spear tends to feel more forgiving than short‑range pure melee options.
In small‑scale PVP or co‑op, Spear often acts as a line‑drawer: your effective range marks a zone enemies hesitate to cross. You may not top every damage chart, but you can make the battlefield much more comfortable for everyone behind you.
Strengths and upsides.
- Strong reach lets you begin trading before most enemies can touch you.
- Combination of sweeps and thrusts is good for line control and small packs.
- Stable, readable rhythm that does not demand extreme reactions.
- Great for learning spatial control, which transfers well to other weapons later.
Tradeoffs and things to watch.
- Its long range can encourage standing too far back, missing windows for stronger pressure.
- Against very mobile enemies, you still need solid prediction to land key hits.
- Reaching top performance still requires understanding enemy moves, not just relying on range.
Gentle practice goals for Spear.
These are not mandatory combos, just small exercises that help you understand how Spear wants to move and trade blows. Use them in low-pressure content first, then slowly bring them into more serious runs.
- During farming, deliberately fight at the edge of your effective range: step in, poke twice, then drift back. This builds comfort with ideal spacing instead of stationary habits.
- Pick enemies with obvious gap‑closers and practice intercepting them with thrusts or control skills; this trains your sense of hitbox length and timing.
- Imagine a line between your team and the enemy and use your movement plus attacks to keep that line stable, preventing enemies from easily reaching the backline.
- To sample the more advanced “Nine Swords Nine Spears” family from Traditional Chinese guides without memorizing full rotations, practice a short pattern: apply a fire or elemental mystic art, land one spear skill that clearly inflicts bleed or vulnerability, then swap to sword for a single detonation skill before resetting.
Example spear flows based on Traditional Chinese guides.
Traditional Chinese build write-ups for sword and spear focus on three broad families: a relaxed "wheelchair" Nameless Sword style that uses spear as a backup, a demanding Nine Swords Nine Spears bleed/burn setup, and an Eight Directions spear route that leans harder into front-line control. The summaries below adapt those ideas into English so you can match them to the skills and flow names in your own client.
Nameless Sword with support spear – "wheelchair" comfort.
This approach uses Nameless Sword as the primary damage source and Spear as a support slot for sustain or extra reach. Community guides describe it as a low-stress way to clear story and light dungeons without sweating strict rotations.
- Core idea: hold most of your damage on charged sword attacks, using Spear tools to cover downtime—either by dropping a debuff, providing extra shielding, or safely poking bosses you do not want to stand directly under.
- Inner arts focus: mix one or two offensive options with plenty of stamina sustain and defense. Traditional Chinese lists often pair Nameless Heart arts with comfort picks that keep you alive while you learn boss patterns.
- Typical loop: enter with a sword shield or buff → weave repeated charged sword swings as long as stamina allows → when drained or pressured, swap to Spear for a quick control or ranged poke → reset and repeat.
Nine Swords Nine Spears – high-APM bleed specialist.
The more advanced family stacks multiple damage-over-time effects with spear skills and then detonates them with sword arts. It is frequently highlighted in Traditional Chinese guides as top-tier ceiling damage that demands strict execution.
- Core idea: open with a fire or elemental mystic art → run a short spear string that stacks bleed and other debuffs → swap to sword and trigger skills that consume or amplify those stacks. Most of your damage comes from overlapping DoTs rather than one big hit.
- Inner arts focus: talents that boost bleed, burn, and other status damage, plus enough stamina tools to keep long strings flowing without collapsing halfway through.
- When to use it: this is best for players who enjoy practicing long rotations on training dummies, then transferring that precision into high endgame bosses once the order is muscle memory.
If you prefer a simpler experience, treat these notes as background and lean on the Nameless Sword–plus–spear comfort setup instead.
Sample Spear builds from Traditional Chinese guides.
Community builds written in Traditional Chinese describe three major spear families: simple Nameless basics, a complex bleed-and-burn engine centered on Nine Swords and Nine Spears, and a tanky Bloodbath-ready setup based on Bafang Thunder Spear. The notes below translate those ideas into English so you can copy the structure even if your client shows Chinese skill names.
1. Nameless basics – starter spear and sword.
The default Nameless Sword and Nameless Spear form a forgiving hybrid that focuses on stamina, mobility, and readable combos. Guides recommend treating this as a “training deck” for learning spacing, stagger breaks, and dodge timing before climbing into harder flows.
- Keep combos short—two to three hits—then reposition. The goal is to build the habit of attacking only when you have stamina to dodge.
- Favor inner arts that stabilize stamina, basic attack power, and stagger damage. You can reassign points later once you commit to a more advanced flow.
2. Nine Swords & Nine Spears – advanced bleed/burn engine.
This flow uses a specific spear style to stack bleed, burn, and other damage-over-time effects, then swaps to sword to detonate them. It has one of the highest ceilings in the game but expects you to follow a strict combo script.
- Typical PVE loop in guides: apply a fire qi art → spear skill that consumes burning to trigger a flurry → charged spear hit → swap to sword for follow-up strings → return to spear and repeat. The exact names differ by language, but the pattern is “apply status → consume with spear → extend with sword.”
- Inner arts lean heavily on bleed and “extra damage based on max attack” effects. Gear prioritizes crit rate and any affixes that enhance dots or status detonations.
3. Bafang Thunder Spear – PVE “unkillable” tank.
Another popular Traditional Chinese build stacks multiple additive damage-reduction sources around Bafang Thunder Spear, turning your character into a near-unkillable tank for dungeons and Bloodbath bosses.
- Combine spear skills that grant mitigation with inner arts and qi arts that further reduce incoming damage or redirect it to companions. The goal is to stack many moderate reductions rather than a single massive buff.
- Offensively, this setup often leans on qi arts for damage while you stand your ground. It is an excellent “comfort pick” for players who would rather memorize mechanics slowly than race through them.
Watching Spear in motion.
Before committing to a full respec or fresh character, it helps to see how a weapon looks and sounds during real combat. The official showcase clip below offers a quick preview so you can decide whether Spear matches your taste.
When you watch the clip, you might focus on details like timing, distance, and how openings are created rather than only the visual effects:
- Observe the average distance the player keeps from enemies: this is roughly where you want to stand in your own runs.
- Note when sweeps are used versus straight thrusts—sweeps for flanks or small groups, thrusts for interrupts or focused targets.
- Watch how long recovery is after each attack so you can mentally budget time for dodges or guards.
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