How To Upgrade Existing Gear In Where Winds Meet

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Creating a character build in Where Winds Meet involves a surprisingly complex system. You have to consider many different factors, like set bonuses, item tiers, rarity, elemental paths, and how they all work together. It can be overwhelming, especially when you start looking at Tuning options.

As you progress, your gear will naturally become more powerful. But instead of simply hoping for better drops, you can also improve your equipment directly to tailor it to your playstyle. This is done through Tuning, which allows you to make your gear significantly stronger than its base level.

What Is Gear Tuning?

Tuning lets you customize all your equipment – weapons and accessories alike – to make them even more powerful. It lets you add extra benefits to what your gear already does, increasing its usefulness and significantly improving your Martial Mastery.

All equipment can be upgraded, no matter how common or rare it is. However, better and higher-tier equipment can be upgraded further and may even gain a special, unique ability.

Using Tuning, you can boost the power of lower-level equipment, sometimes even making it stronger than higher-level gear before that gear is Tuned. This lets you maximize your equipment at any stage of the game.

You can always make your best gear even stronger, so keep your highest-level gear equipped and fully upgraded.

How To Tune Gear

Adjusting your equipment is easy. Just go to the Gear menu, choose the item you want to tune, and press the Tune button. You can do this even if the item isn’t currently equipped.

So, upgrading your gear – what they call ‘Tuning’ – needs items, and one of the big ones is Tuning Materials. The cool thing is, as you level up, these materials also change. Basically, the stuff I use for gear between levels 41 and 50 is different than what I’ll use for levels 51 to 60, and so on. It keeps things scaling with me, which is nice!

You can also use other equipment during Tuning. Just make sure any additional items you use are the same level as the original piece of equipment.

Tuning

Tuning is the first step in upgrading your gear, and it’s used on items that are blue or lower in rarity. Epic (purple) gear doesn’t need this initial tuning process.

The Tuning menu shows the equipment you’ve selected, along with empty circles and a number above them. Adding Tuning Materials or other equipment provides experience to the Tuning process, filling up these circles and unlocking special Tuning effects.

You can overfill on experience, so make sure you’re not wasting materials.

Once you’ve contributed enough items to complete a circle, a random beneficial effect will be applied. You can’t select which items to contribute, and the way you earn experience won’t change this effect unless specifically mentioned.

These abilities can improve performance in several ways, such as helping you level up skills faster, and most importantly, boosting your overall damage with key attributes like Silkbind and Stonesplit.

Attuning

Even with Epic and better gear, you’ll still need to complete the standard Tuning steps until you get to the final stage. This last step, called Attunement, functions a bit differently than the others.

Instead of gaining experience, you’ll first need to select an Attunement Path. This lets you specialize in skills effective against standard enemies, or Arena skills, which are used exclusively in player-versus-player combat.

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Here are all of the Attunement skills on both paths:

Attunement Skill Path
Physical Penetration General Attunement
Physical Resistance General Attunement
Bellstrike Penetration General Attunement
Stonesplit Pentration General Attunement
Silkbind Penetration General Attunement
Bamboocut Penetration General Attunement
Deal bonus Qi damage when breaking a target’s defense with a Defense Break skill Arena Attunement
Gain Tenacity for a short period after damaging a target with a Counterattack skill Arena Attunement
Recover Endurance after casting an Execution skill Arena Attunement
Increase the target’s damage taken after breaking their defense with a Defense Break skill Arena Attunement
Deal bonus Qi damage when hitting a non-defending enemy with a Counterattack skill Arena Attunement
Recover Vitality after casting an Execution skill Arena Attunement

Similar to Tuning, you don’t get to pick the specific skill you receive when you Attune, but you do choose the general type. To unlock Attunement, you’ll need to sacrifice a rare, unique item – these items become available as you progress and are different for regular and Arena skills, meaning you can’t use the same item for both.

Can You Retune Gear?

When you get better equipment, it takes more experience to improve it. Plus, the improvements are random, so you might end up with upgrades that don’t actually help the way you play.

You might be wondering if you can change the skills on your gear, especially the powerful or rare pieces. The answer is a definite no. Once you’ve Tuned an item, those skills are locked in, and you can’t change them. You’ll need to find a new piece of gear instead. Because the materials needed for Attunement are so rare, make sure you’re happy with an item before you commit to tuning it.

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2026-01-02 17:37