How this 2025 weapon ranking is scored

Weapon tier lists can be messy because people judge different things. This ranking uses a practical scoring system that matches how players actually progress:

1) Boss performance

• Can it handle single-target fights reliably?
• Does it create safe openings or punish windows?

2) Consistency under pressure

• Does it still perform when you miss a parry or get clipped?
• Does it have built-in safety tools (shields, healing, control)?

3) Synergy with weapon swapping

• Can you “set something up” (turret, debuff, control) and swap?
• Do buffs persist cleanly when rotating?

4) Value in co-op

• Does it scale well in group content?
• Can it heal, cleanse, revive, or stabilize fights?

5) Beginner-friendliness

• Does it forgive mistakes?
• Does it teach fundamentals without punishing you constantly?

Where Winds Meet Best Weapons Tier List (2025)

This tier list is based on widely-circulating 2025 rankings and build discussions, plus official descriptions of what each weapon style is designed to do.

S-Tier (Best overall: power + consistency)

• Nameless Sword
• Nameless Spear
• Panacea Fan
• (Some tier lists also place Stormbreaker Spear in S-tier depending on PvE focus and safety value.)

A-Tier (Strong and reliable, slightly more conditional)

• Stormbreaker Spear
• Strategic Sword
• Heavenquaker Spear
• Infernal Twinblades

B-Tier (Useful, but needs the right build or content)

• Thundercry Blade
• Soulshade Umbrella

C-Tier (Playable, but generally outclassed or harder to justify)

• Ninefold Umbrella
• Mortal Rope Dart
• Inkwell Fan

Quick recommendations (if you just want the answer fast)

Best weapon for beginners

Panacea Fan (healing and team value makes learning safer).

Best DPS weapon (easy to use and strong early)

Nameless Sword (high mobility, strong single-target pressure).

Best “I want to be safe” weapon

Stormbreaker Spear (often recommended for steady PvE safety and control).

Best co-op support core

Panacea Fan + Soulshade Umbrella (a widely recommended healing/support pairing).

Best “meta pairing” for smooth progression

Nameless Sword + Nameless Spear (common recommendation because both feel strong and rotate well).

S-Tier Deep Dive

Nameless Sword (S-Tier) — best all-round DPS foundation

Nameless Sword is often ranked at the top because it gives you what most players need in real progression:

• clean damage
• high mobility
• safe engagement/disengagement
• strong single-target focus

What it’s best at

• Bosses where you need consistent uptime
• Quick punish-and-reset play
• Players who want one weapon that “just works” in most content

Where it struggles

• If you refuse to swap weapons and try to force one-tool answers
• In chaotic multi-enemy scenarios if you don’t have control tools on your second weapon

Best pairings for Nameless Sword

Nameless Sword + Nameless Spear

A very popular pairing because both feel strong and help cover each other’s gaps depending on how you rotate.

Nameless Sword + Panacea Fan

This is the “I want to win while learning” setup. Sword provides the damage rhythm; Fan prevents mistakes from becoming wipes.

Beginner rotation that works

• Start safe (defensive positioning)
• Commit to short sword strings
• Disengage before greed
• Swap to your support/utility weapon only when you need healing/control
• This keeps your success rate high while your mechanics level up naturally.

Nameless Spear (S-Tier) — reach + tempo control

Nameless Spear is frequently placed in S-tier because range and spacing are a form of safety—especially early game, when your gear and defense habits aren’t perfect yet.

What it’s best at

• Controlling the distance against aggressive enemies
• Multi-enemy fights where reach prevents dogpiles
• Players who want safe pressure without standing in danger

Where it struggles

• If you play too passively and never punish
• If you don’t learn when to commit (range can trick you into “poke only” forever)

Best pairings for Nameless Spear

Nameless Spear + Strategic Sword

This pairing shows up in competitive build discussions because you can mix strong pressure tools with bleed-focused damage windows.

Nameless Spear + Panacea Fan

A “safe spear” setup: you can keep distance and still have a healing reset button.

Panacea Fan (S-Tier) — the strongest early safety weapon

Panacea Fan is consistently ranked at the top because healing changes how the game feels:

• You learn faster because you stay alive longer
• You clear bosses with fewer resets
• You become valuable in co-op immediately

Official descriptions frame it as a support-based style that can heal allies and provide ranged pressure in groups.

What it’s best at

• Beginners who want “mistake insurance”
• Co-op content where team stability matters
• Fights with chip damage and long phases

Where it struggles

• If you expect it to be your top DPS tool
• If you never pair it with a damage weapon (you’ll feel slow)

Best pairings for Panacea Fan

Panacea Fan + Soulshade Umbrella

This is one of the most common “healer/support core” setups recommended in build guides.

Panacea Fan + Nameless Sword

The best “solo learning” combo for many players: damage + safety.

How to play Fan without losing momentum

• Use it as a stability tool, not a “stay on it forever” weapon
• Heal, reset the fight, then swap back to your DPS weapon
• This keeps clears fast while still being safe.

A-Tier Deep Dive

Stormbreaker Spear (A-Tier/S-Tier depending on list) — PvE safety and control

Stormbreaker Spear is often praised for how “steady” it feels in real PvE content: it has tools that help you manage danger, stay upright, and control fights. Official descriptions include taunting/absorbing damage utility and knockdown susceptibility windows.

What it’s best at

• Players who want safer clears over flashy speed
• Multi-enemy fights and sustained battles
• PvE progression where consistency matters more than pure burst

Best pairings for Stormbreaker Spear

• Stormbreaker Spear + Strategic Sword (control + bleed pressure)
• Stormbreaker Spear + Panacea Fan (maximum safety for hard learning phases)

The “safe clear” approach

If you’re dying to bosses, you don’t need to be braver—you need to be more consistent:

• use Stormbreaker to stabilize the rhythm
• swap to your DPS tool only when you see a clean opening

Strategic Sword (A-Tier) — bleed-focused pressure

Strategic Sword is described as a melee DPS style that excels at stacking bleed through sustained aggression, rewarding players who can keep pressure without getting punished.

What it’s best at

• Bosses where you can maintain uptime
• Players who enjoy aggressive, planned pressure
• Pairings where your second weapon helps you keep that pressure safely

Where it struggles

• If you don’t know enemy patterns yet (aggression without knowledge gets punished)
• If your build doesn’t support staying close

Best pairings for Strategic Sword

• Strategic Sword + Heavenquaker Spear (common combo recommendation)
• Strategic Sword + Nameless Spear (pressure + spacing control)

Heavenquaker Spear (A-Tier) — strong pick for planned rotations

Heavenquaker Spear appears in A-tier lists because it fits well into structured rotation play: do setup actions on one weapon, swap to the other for payoff, then reset.

What it’s best at

• Players who enjoy “combo planning”
• Bosses where rotation windows are predictable
• Pairing with bleed or burst weapons

Best pairing

• Strategic Sword + Heavenquaker Spear (highly recommended in many combo discussions).

Infernal Twinblades (A-Tier) — fast pressure with risk

Infernal Twinblades is described as a fast melee DPS style with a meter-based mechanic that can buff you, rewarding relentless pressure when played correctly.

What it’s best at

• Players who like speed and momentum
• PvP pressure (when used unpredictably)
• Short, aggressive burst windows

Where it struggles

• Players who can’t stop attacking
• Content that punishes greed with heavy counterattacks

Best pairing ideas

• Pair with a control/safety tool that lets you keep pressure without dying:
• Twinblades + Umbrella-style utility
• Twinblades + Rope Dart-style mobility (often discussed as a combo path)

B-Tier Deep Dive

Thundercry Blade (B-Tier) — heavy sword with shield utility

Thundercry Blade is described as a slower, heavier sword style with a shield tool and AoE potential (including pulling enemies and unleashing a strong area attack).

What it’s best at

• Players who like “big moment” attacks
• Multi-enemy fights where AoE matters
• Builds that can protect you during slow animations

Where it struggles

• Missing your big commitment attacks feels painful
• Faster enemies can punish slow windups

How to make it feel better

Pair it with something that creates control or a safe setup window—so you’re not swinging into chaos.

Soulshade Umbrella (B-Tier) — support umbrella with healing value

Some community wikis and build resources describe Soulshade Umbrella as a support-oriented umbrella variant that’s used alongside healing weapons in support builds.

What it’s best at

• Co-op stability
• Support rotations where you contribute value even if your personal DPS is lower
• Pairing with Panacea Fan for a healer identity

Best pairing

• Panacea Fan + Soulshade Umbrella is repeatedly recommended as a strong healing/support setup.

C-Tier Deep Dive (Playable, but usually outclassed)

C-tier does not mean “unusable.” It means that for most players, most of the time, other options do the same job with fewer downsides.

Ninefold Umbrella (C-Tier) — the “looks easy” trap

Some tier lists place Ninefold Umbrella low because while umbrella turret-style gameplay feels convenient, it can be outperformed by better scaling and synergy choices.

If you love umbrella gameplay

Umbrella styles can still work—especially when you:

• treat turret/utility as a setup tool,
• then swap to a strong DPS weapon to cash in.

Mortal Rope Dart (C-Tier) — mobility with higher effort

Rope dart styles can be fun and stylish, but some rankings place Mortal Rope Dart low because the payoff can be harder to realize compared to simpler, stronger options.

When Rope Dart still shines

• PvP unpredictability
• Players with strong movement discipline
• Pairings where rope dart sets up the fight and another weapon finishes it

Inkwell Fan (C-Tier) — fan style that loses to Panacea’s value

Fan weapons can vary in performance; many tier lists rank Panacea Fan much higher due to its healing and overall impact, leaving Inkwell Fan as a less popular choice in meta rankings.

Weapon pairings that actually win fights (2025 meta-friendly combos)

Because you can equip two weapons, the best builds follow one rule:

One weapon sets up value, the other cashes it in

That “value” can be:

• healing
• crowd control
• shields
• bleed stacks
• turret pressure
• mobility repositioning

And then your second weapon turns that into faster clears.

Below are popular pairing themes seen in build discussions:

Nameless Sword + Nameless Spear

• Strong baseline damage and mobility
• Smooth swapping
• Great for players who want a “main build” early

Panacea Fan + Soulshade Umbrella

• Strong co-op identity
• Great “team carry” potential through healing and stability

Strategic Sword + Heavenquaker Spear

• Pressure-oriented pairing
• Great for players who enjoy structured rotations

Twinblades + mobility/utility pairing

• Works best when your second weapon fixes twinblades’ biggest weakness: over-commitment
• PvP-friendly when played unpredictably

How to swap weapons properly (so your tier list actually matters)

Weapon swapping isn’t “advanced.” It’s core design: official previews emphasize equipping two weapons and switching fluidly.

Some guides also describe swapping as manual or skill-assisted depending on your setup.

The beginner swap rule

Never swap because you’re bored—swap because you need a result

Examples:

• Swap to Fan because you need healing
• Swap to Umbrella because you need utility pressure while you reposition
• Swap to Spear because you need reach and spacing
• Swap to Sword because it’s time to cash in damage

The “three-beat” combat rhythm

1. Stabilize (defend, position, control)
2. Punish (short burst)
3. Reset (don’t greed)

Most players lose fights on beat #2 because they refuse to reset.

Best weapons by goal (choose what fits your life, not just the meta)

Best weapons for solo PvE

• Nameless Sword (fast, strong, reliable)
• Stormbreaker Spear (safe, steady)
• Nameless Spear (spacing control)

Best weapons for bosses

• Nameless Sword (consistent single-target pressure)
• Panacea Fan as your safety slot (healing reduces wipe loops)
• Strategic Sword (if you can sustain pressure safely)

Best weapons for co-op

• Panacea Fan (support value is huge in groups)
• Soulshade Umbrella paired with Fan in healer builds

Best weapons for beginners

• Panacea Fan (forgiving and stabilizing)
• Nameless Sword (teaches fundamentals with strong payoff)
• Nameless Spear (safer spacing)

Best weapons for PvP

PvP rankings shift faster than PvE because the “best” weapon depends on what players are currently doing. Still, pressure tools (like fast styles and mobility-based pairings) show up in PvP combo discussions.

A strong PvP approach is picking:

• one pressure weapon,
• one escape/control tool,
• and playing unpredictably (never repeating the same entry pattern).

Weapons by playstyle (so you pick what you’ll actually enjoy)

If you like clean fundamentals

Choose Nameless Sword or Nameless Spear as your main.

If you like speed and aggression

Choose Infernal Twinblades, but pair it with safety/utility so you don’t die for being greedy.

If you like being the unkillable teammate

Choose Panacea Fan, and build around support value.

If you like heavy hits and big moments

Try Thundercry Blade, but treat it like a “planned punish” tool, not a spam weapon.

If you like cinematic utility

Umbrella styles can be fun because some versions create a “turret” setup that keeps working while you swap weapons.

How to stop wasting resources on the wrong weapon

Upgrading weapons and builds can be expensive in time. Avoid these common traps:

Trap 1: Upgrading a weapon you don’t enjoy

A tier list can’t fix boredom. Pick something you like playing.

Trap 2: Building two weapons that don’t help each other

Even two strong weapons can feel weak if their rotation is awkward or their strengths overlap.

Trap 3: Ignoring your “problem type”

Every player has a problem:

• dying to bosses
• losing to groups
• failing PvP duels
• struggling with stamina/timing

Pick weapons that solve your problem first. The meta can come later.

BoostRoom: get your best weapon combo without trial-and-error

If you want the best weapon setup but don’t want to spend hours testing builds, BoostRoom helps you reach a strong, consistent loadout fast.

What BoostRoom can do for Where Winds Meet players

• Weapon pairing coaching: choose the best two-weapon combo for your playstyle and goals
• Boss consistency help: learn safer rotations and punish windows so fights stop feeling random
• Support build setup: set up Panacea Fan + support combos for co-op value
• Progression planning: upgrade paths that avoid wasted resources and dead-end builds

BoostRoom is about one thing: more wins, fewer resets, and a build that feels good every session.

FAQ

What are the best weapons in Where Winds Meet (2025)?

Most 2025 tier lists place Nameless Sword, Nameless Spear, and Panacea Fan at the top, with Stormbreaker Spear also frequently ranked extremely high depending on the list and PvE focus.

What is the best beginner weapon in Where Winds Meet?

Panacea Fan is commonly recommended because healing makes learning safer and reduces wipe loops.

Can you equip two weapons at once?

Yes—Where Winds Meet supports equipping two weapons and swapping during combat, and official previews highlight this as a core part of the combat system.

What is the best healing combo?

A widely recommended support setup is Panacea Fan + Soulshade Umbrella, used in multiple healer build guides.

Are C-tier weapons unusable?

No. C-tier typically means “harder to justify compared to stronger options,” not “cannot clear content.” Skilled play and correct pairing can still make them work.