How to unlock and use Mystic Arts in Where Winds Meet

Mystic Arts are some of your most important skills in Where Winds Meet. Some of them are required to solve puzzles and find secret areas, while others just make you more powerful in combat. They come in a wide assortment of styles, and the method of unlocking them varies from skill to skill.

You’ll unlock at least one of them very early, if you start doing side quests. From Skill Theft to Side Quests, there are a few ways you can unlock these skills. In the early game, you’ll have to be prudent on which Mystic Arts you equip, but as time goes on, you’ll gain more slots to use in Where Winds Meet.

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How to unlock Mystic Arts in Where Winds Meet

Mystic Arts are universal skills in Where Winds Meet, that you can use just about anytime you want. They do have cooldowns in battle, but that shouldn’t be a surprise. It would be entirely too strong if you could just spam them. It’s likely that your first Mystic Art will be Tai Chi, which will introduce you to Skill Theft.

You can pick up Mystic Arts all over the region. Just keep an eye out (Image via NetEase)

Skill Theft is a common way to unlock Mystic Arts in Where Winds Meet. You use Wind Sense to watch a beast or person, and by hitting the corresponding button at the right time, enough times, you’ll permanently unlock the skill. Tai Chi and Leaping Toad are Mystic Arts you’ll unlock this way

In my experience, there are a lot of Mystic Arts that you unlock by completing side quests. During The Abandoned Shrine for example, you can unlock Cloud Steps, and Meridian Touch unlocks from the side quest Meridian Touch.

The game gives you clues, but it's up to you to puzzle them out (Image via NetEase)

Some of the major side quests can also reward you with Mystic Arts. Volume IV: Blind to the World rewards you with Blinding Mist. If you’re curious about where a Mystic Art lies, the game gives you hints, if you click on them in the Develop -> Mystic Arts screen. Just click a Mystic Art and click How to Learn.

Once you’ve unlocked a few, you need to equip Mystic Arts in Where Winds Meet. If you go to Develop -> Mystic Arts, you can equip at least one here. As you go through the Talent Tree, you’ll unlock more slots. Mystic Arts come in a few categories as well:

• Puzzle: Tai Chi, Meridian, Heavenly Touch, Cloud Steps
• Area Debuff: Leaping Toad, Lions Roar
• Area DMG: Guardian Palm, Ghost Bind, Flaming Meteor
• Single-Target control: Talon Strike, Yaksha Rush, Free Morph, Wolflike Frenzy, Soaring Spin
• Single-Target Burst: Dragon’s Breath, Drunken Poet, Dragon Head
• Support: Blinding Mist, Serene Breeze, Golden Body, Ghostly Steps, Honking Havoc, Glow of Fireflies, Veil of Stillness

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How to use Mystic Arts in Where Winds Meet

Sometimes you just need to smash enemies with the power of an ethereal poison toad (Image via NetEase)

Once you’ve equipped some Mystic Arts in Where Winds Meet, using them is incredibly simple. They’re activated by either 1-4/Alt 1-4 on your keyboard/mouse setup, or your controllers R2/Right Trigger+Face Buttons. You can swap between your Mystic Arts tabs by Alt+Number or R2/Right Trigger+Up/Down Arrow.

This gives you access to a good selection of Mystic Arts, provided you have unlocked enough of them to use in and out of combat. These skills have cooldowns in and out of battle, and some require you to be in combat.

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