Where Winds Meet: Raging Tides Sect Guide – Joining, Drinking Trial & Spear Martial Arts

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Raging Tides – The Heroic Drunk Spearmen of Where Winds Meet

Raging Tides is a renowned faction famous for its bold combat style—treating wine as a companion and wielding long spears as their signature weapon. It is an ideal choice for players who favor a powerful, adaptable playstyle that can fulfill either a Tank or a Melee DPS role depending on character customization.

Raging Tides Sect Overview

• Signature Weapon: Long Spear
• Role: Tank or Melee DPS
• Combat Style: Fierce spearplay fueled by wine to unleash enhanced power
• Strengths: High survivability, potent area-of-effect (AOE) damage, excellent team synergy
• Weaknesses: Requires precise skill rhythm to maintain buff efficiency

How to Join the Raging Tides Sect

To join the ranks of Raging Tides in Where Winds Meet, follow these steps:

1. Travel to the Shenxian Crossing area.
2. Participate in the Raging Tides Sect Recruitment Event hosted at the location.
3. Complete the quest "One Cup Knockout"—the faction's signature drinking trial.
4. Upon successfully passing the challenge, you will be officially inducted into the sect.

Sect Rules

The current game version has not established strict sect mandates for Raging Tides.
Disciples may join or leave the faction freely without penalty or restriction.

Raging Tides Martial Arts Systems

Raging Tides possesses two distinct spear martial arts styles, catering to either Tank or DPS builds.

1. Nine-Bends Divine Spear Technique

Attribute Branch: Umbra / Shadow
Focuses on high-speed attacks, multi-hit damage execution, and building combo buffs.

• Sorrow without Wine (Basic Skill)

• A spear sequence consisting of 6 consecutive sweeping strikes.
• Each successful hit triggers various enhancement effects based on your current combo count.

• Flying Tumbleweed (Charged Skill)

• Consumes stamina to execute a continuous forward thrust sequence, dealing rapid multi-hit damage.
• Highly effective for pursuing targets or delivering burst damage.

• Sweeping the Army (Special Technique)

• Spins the spear to deal wide AOE damage, ideal for mob farming or multi-target boss encounters.
• Bonus damage scales with the number of active buffs stack on the player.

2. Eight-Directions Wind and Thunder Spear

Attribute Branch: Might / Shatter
Focuses on crowd control, taunting, and damage mitigation, optimized for Tank roles.

• Roar of Wind and Thunder (Basic Skill)

• Slam the spear onto the ground to release a sonic shockwave, dealing close-range damage.
• Taunts all surrounding enemies to draw aggro.
• Grants a damage reduction buff, crucial for boss tanking.

• Battle in Eight Directions (Charged Skill)

• Unleashes a flurry of relentless thrusts, delivering heavy damage.
• Effective in both solo combat and group encounters.

• Shocking Thunder Thrust (Special Technique)

• Consumes 2 charges of Battle Intent.
• Executes a combo: Spin Kick → Spear Sweep → Heavy Slam, knocking the target Prone and inflicting a Vulnerability status (increasing damage taken by the target).
• An exceptionally powerful engagement initiation skill.