Stats in Where Winds Meet determine how effective your character is in combat, exploration, and various professions. The game separates attributes into several categories; Combat Attributes, Exploration Attributes, Career Attributes, and the different development systems tied to progression. While the full list of stats can look overwhelming at first, most players only need to understand a core set of attributes to make consistent upgrades and keep their build efficient.

This guide breaks down those key stats; how they work; and how to improve them as you advance.

What Are Attributes in Where Winds Meet

Attributes, or stats, represent your character’s innate qualities; combat performance; and progress across different gameplay systems. Some increase naturally by leveling; others require engaging with specific systems such as tuning, Inner Ways, or completing exploration activities. Understanding what each category does makes it easier to invest your resources in a way that supports your preferred playstyle, whether that is melee combat, support tools, or a balanced approach.

Combat Attributes

Combat attributes directly affect your strength and survivability in battle. The game includes a long list, but the following are the most important ones to keep track of:

• Body: affects Max HP; increases as you level up or tune gear
• Power: affects Physical Attack; increases through leveling or tuning
• Defense: affects Physical Defense and Max HP; improved by leveling or tuning
• Agility: affects Critical Rate and Minimum Physical Attack; improved by leveling or tuning
• Momentum: affects Affinity Rate and Max Physical Attack; increases through leveling or tuning
• Max HP: determines how much damage you can withstand
• Max Qi: determines how much Qi you can spend before becoming exhausted
• Physical Attack: determines your base damage output
• Physical Defense: reduces physical damage taken

These core stats form the backbone of any build. Power, Agility, and Momentum shape your offensive capabilities; Body and Defense stabilize your survivability; and Max Qi determines how comfortably you can sustain techniques and Mystic Skills.

There are also many secondary combat stats; Critical Rate; Physical Penetration; Affinity Damage; Attribute Damage; and more. These become more relevant in high-level optimization but tend to improve naturally through gear upgrades, Inner Ways, and tuning. For most players, focusing on the main combat stats will solve the majority of early and mid-game challenges.

How to Increase Combat Attributes

Most primary combat attributes increase through general progression, such as:

• Leveling up in Solo Mode
• Gear Development; upgrading your equipment
• Tuning and attuning gear
• Investing in Inner Ways
• Obtaining better Martial Arts or strengthening existing ones

Players who want to fine-tune their build should pay attention to the stat spread on gear pieces and the bonuses granted by specific Inner Ways; especially at higher levels, this is where customization becomes the most meaningful.

Exploration Attributes

Exploration attributes reflect your engagement with the world map in Where Winds Meet. Instead of affecting combat, they track activities like puzzle-solving, minigames, collection tasks, and regional progression. Each one is tied to specific world interactions.

Examples include:

• Resolve: obtained through Pitch Pot or Madiao Cards
• Elegance: increased through Gourmet Mode or Kitten Hunt
• Perception: tied to Oddity Collection or Archery Competition
• Coordination: earned through Oddity Collection or cultivating abilities
• Intelligence: increased via Gift of Gab or Riddles
• Musicality: raised through Graceful Melody or Oddity Collection
• Constitution: increased through Wrestling or early Outpost rewards
• Erudition; Memory; Mindset; Ambition: each tied to specific minigames or leveling milestones

These attributes do not influence combat directly but unlock exploration skills, Lightness upgrades, puzzle interactions, and world navigation tools. If you want to move through the world faster or access more secrets, these stats matter considerably.

Career Attributes

Career Attributes measure proficiency in professions. Currently, the game supports roles such as:

• Healer: determines how effectively you can diagnose and treat illnesses
• Scholar: influences how you perform in investigations and truth-seeking events

You improve these through performing job tasks, reading profession manuals, and completing career-specific challenges. Career development is optional for combat progression but offers substantial role-play depth and unique rewards.

Character Development

Character Development summarizes your character’s overall progress. It grows through:

• General leveling
• Completing quests and trials
• Submitting Oddities (Melodies of Peace)
• Unlocking Talents

Raising this score reflects how far your character has grown in all systems; it does not impact a single combat statistic but acts as an indicator of long-term advancement.

Gear Development

Gear development represents the quality of your equipped items. You increase it by:

• Tuning and attuning gear
• Upgrading equipment
• Acquiring higher-tier armor and weapons

Because gear directly affects most combat stats, this system becomes one of the main drivers of power as you progress.

Inner Ways Development

Inner Ways represent passive combat enhancements. You unlock more slots and level up your Inner Ways by:

• Leveling in Solo Mode
• Using tomes
• Investing materials to raise tier and potency

Inner Ways have a major influence on your build; many of them boost specific Martial Arts, weapon types, or damage categories. Properly matching Inner Ways to your weapon setup results in the largest power spikes outside of raw gear upgrades.

Martial Arts Development

Martial Arts determine your weapon-based abilities and combo toolkit. You improve this category by:

• Unlocking new Martial Arts via sanctums or quests
• Stealing techniques through Skill Theft
• Joining a Sect for exclusive techniques
• Upgrading Martial Arts tiers with materials

Your main Martial Art defines your combat identity, while your secondary one fills gaps and adds flexibility. Because each Martial Art scales with specific attributes, understanding your stats ensures the two systems support each other rather than compete.

Stats in Where Winds Meet may seem complex at first, but most players only need to focus on a handful of core combat attributes while naturally progressing through exploration and development systems. By leveling your character, refining your gear, upgrading your Inner Ways, strengthening your Martial Arts, and playing Where Winds Meet on PC with BlueStacks, you will steadily raise all the stats that matter. Over time, the more specialized attributes will fall into place through tuning and gear optimization, letting you shape a build that complements your preferred weapon style and role in the world.

Keep progressing in Where Winds Meet with our other in-depth guides.

• Where Winds Meet Beginner’s Guide – Combat, Skills, Map, Gear, and Questing Explained
• All Sects in Where Winds Meet – Complete Guide to Every Sect and How to Join Each One
• Where Winds Meet Weapon Guide – How to Unlock Weapons, Weapon Types, and Starter Weapons Explained