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Panacea Fan & Stormbreaker Spear PvE Build

Overview
Designed for: PvE
Weapons: Fan and Spear
Role: Tank, Healer
Difficulty:
Easy
Strengths
  • High Fortitude (CC Immunity)
  • Good Self-healing
  • Tanky
  • Easy to Play
Weaknesses
  • Boring to play
  • Slow Attacks
This build is up to date for the December 29, 2025 patch.

Overview

Using Stormbreaker SpearStormbreaker Spear with Panacea FanPanacea Fan creates one of the tankiest builds in Where Winds Meet. It gives you a huge amount of Fortitude, which means you’re basically CC-immune through your whole combo. Even if the attacks are slow, the build remains more than capable when it comes to tanking bosses in group PVE content or just general solo PVE content.

The build isn't lacking in healing either as the Panacea FanPanacea Fan is more than competent for self-healing while also letting you heal all allies as needed. And of course, the most important part is the access to ResurrectionResurrection which lets you revive players dying in PVE.


Martial Arts

Stormbreaker Spear
Stormbreaker Spear
Panacea Fan
Panacea Fan


Gear

Rainwhisper Set
Weapon 1
Rainwhisper Set
Weapon 2
Rainwhisper Set
Disc
Rainwhisper Set
Pendant
Moonflare Set
Helm
Moonflare Set
Armor
Moonflare Set
Greaves
Moonflare Set
Bracer
Bow
Ring

Stats Priority

Power
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Affinity Rate
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Silkbind/Stonesplit Attack
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Max/Min Physical Attack
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Critical Rate
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Physical Penetration
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Weapon/Weapon Skill Damage Boost

While the Gear part of the build is still under development and more information will come soon, you should use the Rainwhisper + Moonflare set combo and make sure to keep the buff active by weaving in Heavy and Light attacks as needed. This part of the build is still under construction as far as specific stats go.


Inner Way

Morale Chant
Morale Chant
Trapped Beast
Trapped Beast
Battle Anthem
Battle Anthem
Rock Solid
Rock Solid

Trapped BeastTrapped Beast is a strong safety option, giving you a shield whenever your HP drops low. This extra layer of protection helps you survive sudden burst hits and stay alive long enough to heal or counterattack. Adaptive SteelAdaptive Steel also fits this build very well, since it boosts the damage of your Charged Skills, especially useful because Fury SpearFury Spear is used so often and already comes with built-in Fortitude.

Meanwhile, Morale ChantMorale Chant stays one of the most reliable Inner Ways in the entire game. It boosts both your damage and your healing, and keeping the stacks active is very easy during long fights. And finally, Rock SolidRock Solid is a top pick for PVE, giving you steady damage reduction through the whole boss fight while barely lowering your output.


Mystic Skills

Talon Strike
Soaring Spin
Drunken Poet
Free Morph
Ghost Bind
Dragon's Breath
Wolflike Frenzy
Leaping Toad

Leaping ToadLeaping Toad is one of the strongest PVE skills because it deals good upfront damage, applies poison, and also spreads that poison to nearby enemies after some upgrades. Each poison spread triggers multiple explosions, giving you very strong AoE potential. You generally want this running at the same time as Dragon's BreathDragon's Breath for steady damage if you aren't spamming Drunken PoetDrunken Poet.

For breaking Qi bars, Talon StrikeTalon Strike remains a good choice, especially vs random mobs in the open world. It knocks enemies down and hits hard enough to be useful, even if it doesn’t hit as hard as Soaring SpinSoaring Spin.

Dragon's BreathDragon's Breath adds damage over time and gives you time to recover stamina by spamming Drunken PoetDrunken Poet. Every hit from Drunken PoetDrunken Poet makes the burn explode again, giving you both extra DPS and a way to keep attacking without draining endurance.

When you need wide-area crowd control, Ghost BindGhost Bind shines. It pulls groups of enemies together, letting you or your allies melt them with AoE skills. It’s one of the best setup tools you can bring to group PVE or just to keep mobs CC'd.


Rotations

Damage Rotation ↴
Storm Roar
Storm Roar
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Thunder Shock
Thunder Shock
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Fury Spear
Fury Spear
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Thunder Shock
Thunder Shock
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Fury Spear
Fury Spear
  • Begin with Storm RoarStorm Roar to deal some damage and also increase the damage you do to the enemy while decreasing the damage you receive and also taunting the mobs/boss, forcing them to attack you.
  • Follow-up with a quick Thunder ShockThunder Shock into a Fury SpearFury Spear and then of course another Thunder ShockThunder Shock and another Fury SpearFury Spear. Of course, depending on the situation, you can use Light Dust After Morning RainLight Dust After Morning Rain and Emerald DewtouchEmerald Dewtouch keep yourself alive as long the aggro is still held and the boss is still attacking you.

Of course, Cloudburst HealingCloudburst Healing is a very strong AOE heal which you can drop down on top of the boss to heal yourself and allies nearby, you can even begin with Cloudburst HealingCloudburst Healing before swapping to the Stormbreaker SpearStormbreaker Spear.


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