What is Affinity Damage in Where Winds Meet

Affinity Damage in Where Winds Meet is a special type of damage that can occur randomly when you strike a foe. You can consider it as a secondary crit chance, which will deal a certain percentage based on your maximum damage. This type of damage cannot be triggered manually, as it depends on your Affinity rate.

Let's take a look at everything you need to know about Affinity Damage in Where Winds Meet.

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Affinity Damage in Where Winds Meet explained

Unlike most other RPGs, where Affinity can indicate either elemental damage or a status effect debuff, in the case of Where Winds Meet, it means a special secondary Critical Hit. This does not depend on your base precision chance, as it will trigger automatically.

Afinity Damage in Where Winds Meet (Image via NetEase)

Affinity Damage is based on the maximum damage that is available to your character. Unlike the Crit Damage, which deals around 40 percent of your maximum damage, the Affinity Damage deals an increased 20 percent of it. Essentially, these are mini-critical strikes, and work the best with Damage-over-Time effects like Bleed or Poison.

While the 20 percent might sound like a small amount, based on a high maximum damage build, it can become insanely deadly due to its separate trigger interval from that of the Critical Damage.

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How to increase Affinity Rate and Damage in Where Winds Meet

To increase your Affinity Rate, you will need to stack the Momentum attribute using the various pieces of gear in Where Winds Meet that you unlock. It raises both your Affinity Rate and the maximum physical attack that you can dish out to a foe.

Similarly, finding this Affinity Rate stat in your gear set will also help out in raising it. The damage, however, will increase based on your level. Performing a level breakthrough will increase your Affinity Damage in Where Winds Meet. The Insightful Strike Inner Way also gives you a 10 percent increased bonus for this stat.

You will mainly require the Affinity stat if you use the Strategic Sword martial art, which is best used for a DoT Bleed and Poison build in Where Winds Meet.

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