Not interested in slashing and poking enemies like a madman in Where Winds Meet? Then you might be better suited for a support role. A healer plays a crucial part in keeping allies alive during tougher encounters, and to become the ideal support, you’ll need to understand which weapons, Inner Ways, and gear sets to use. In this guide, I’ll break down everything you need to know to create the best healer build in Where Winds Meet.
Best Weapons for Healing
When you’re going full healer mode, you want to run Panacea Fan and Soulshade Umbrella together. These two work really well as a pair because they both bring healing and team buffs to the table. Just know upfront that your damage output will be pretty weak, so you’re counting on your teammates to handle the killing.
Panacea Fan
This is your bread and butter for healing. The Panacea Fan lets you burst heal your team and even revive fallen teammates from far away, which is super handy. Plus, if you counter an enemy with it, they’ll freeze for a moment, giving you time to move around or switch weapons.
Soulshade Umbrella
The Umbrella has longer cooldowns, but it’s worth the wait. It gives everyone a damage buff and constant healing during fights. It also generates Dew over time, which powers up your Fan’s healing.
Best Inner Ways To Use
You’ll need to equip the right Inner Ways to ramp up your healing output and become the most effective support possible. Here are the must-have Inner Ways for a healer build in Where Winds Meet:
- Royal Remedy – Makes Cloudburst Healing 10% stronger. When you max out its Breakthrough, you get a free revive every 2 minutes. This can save a run when things go wrong.
- Restoring Bloom – When you get a critical heal, it gives everyone a Nurturing stack that boosts all healing they receive by 2% for 3 seconds. You can stack this three times, and if you’re proccing crits consistently, you can keep it up forever.
- Mending Loom – When you use Echoing Glow, you restore an extra 10% HP for every 100 Dew you use. It’s not as strong as Cloudburst Healing, but extra recovery always helps.
- Morale Chant – When you hit enemies, there’s an 80% chance you’ll get a Yi River buff that increases damage by 1% for eight seconds. This stacks up to five times, so you can give yourself a little damage boost while supporting.
Best Gear Sets
Aside from Martial Arts weapons and Inner Ways, equipping the right gear sets can further boost your healing and critical stats. Here are the two best gear sets for a healer build in Where Winds Meet:
Ivorybloom Set (Mandatory)
With two pieces, you get 1.7% more Critical Rate. Get all four pieces and your critical healing and damage go up by 15%. Critical healing works just like critical damage but for your heals, so this gear set is mandatory.
Rainwhisper Set (Optional)
Two pieces give you +560 Max HP. Four pieces give you 10% increased Critical DMG and healing permanently. This gets even better when you have a shield up.
Whirlsnow Set (Optional)
When you lose more than 40% HP in one hit, or drop below 20% HP, your next heal within 5 seconds restores an extra 25% of your Max HP. This triggers once every 60 seconds. A great second option if you don’t have the Rainwhisper set yet.
How to Play as a Healer
Just like any other role, playing as a healer requires performing the right combo rotation to maximize your healing output and team buffs.
Start every battle with Floating Grace from your Umbrella. This damage buff helps everyone right away. Then use Echoes of a Thousand Plants to let the Umbrella float and start healing before you swap to your Fan.
After that, stick with your team and watch their health bars. Use Cloudburst Healing to keep everyone topped off. If someone goes down, Light Dust After Morning Rain turns into a revive, use it immediately to get them back up. If nobody’s down, you can use it for big healing, but it costs 50 Dew so don’t spam it. The healing over time effect doesn’t stack anyway.
Keep repeating this pattern. Always try to maintain your Umbrella buffs because that 15% damage increase is a game changer for your team.
Playing as a healer means you’re trusting your team to handle damage while you keep everyone alive. It’s a different playstyle, but it’s essential for getting through the toughest content in Where Winds Meet.