Mystic Arts are the martial art techniques in Where Winds Meet, from sword skills to movesets that make this game wuxia. Though early on, you only have a couple of Mystic Arts slots, and that bottleneck becomes obvious when you start learning new arts faster than you can have the slots to equip them, but thankfully, you can easily increase available skill slots. This guide tells how Mystic Arts slot progression works in Where Winds Meet, how to get more skill slots, and what you should prioritize to unlock the eight-slot loadout.
What are Mystic Arts Slots in Where Winds Meet
Mystic Arts have their dedicated wheels separate from your weapon skills. Every slot you unlock is another spot on the wheel, which lets you equip more utility, traversal, or martial art moves at once. You can run two full wheels—eight slots total—and can swap between wheels with the D-pad.
A few abilities don’t count toward these slots, like Touch of Death, which is an innate technique and stays bound to its own key bindings. Flying skills also fall under the Mystic Arts category and activate with the jump button once you meet their region-specific exploration demands.
How to Unlock More Mystic Arts Slots in Where Winds Meet
The game never says it straight, but every single extra Mystic Arts slot comes from the Talent system. There’s no hidden shrine or secret master, simple Talent Points spent in the development track. You’ll find these slot unlocks sprinkled every few nodes along the Talent tree, mixed between passive stat boosts and utility upgrades, so you’ll naturally get them as you build your character.
The maximum of your Talent Points is collected when you level up. Anything that counts as “worldly experience” feeds into this system, such as main & side quests, journey events, open-world diversions, challenges, and odd discoveries. If the game sends XP or a discovery notification, you’re likely inching toward another Talent Point.
Since new slot nodes are only two or three steps apart, you don’t need to grind specific content. It’s enough to progress through the story and do activities in regions to earn the points you need. One of the most confusing parts of Where Winds Meet is where the Talent system lies in game menus. To find it, open the Develop menu either through the radial menu or the Options button, and you’ll see:
- Mystic Arts
- Gear
- Talents
Head to Talents, where you can all unlock slots. Spend points on the track as you move forward, and look for the nodes that give new Mystic Arts capacity. The game is terrible at reminding you when you have unused Talent Points, so you should check this menu whenever you level up or finish a large quest chain.
How to Deal With Level Locks and World Tier Barriers
Talent track stops you with a hard requirement, and that is to level up your World Tier. These breakthroughs appear in the slide-out menu and function as tests to push into the next tier. Expect to strengthen your gear, improve your arts, and upgrade weapons before attempting the trial a second time after a failed try. Once you clear it, more nodes, including future Mystic Arts slots become available. Thanks to that, it sometimes feels like the slot progression stops mid-game and waits for you to get to the specific tier. World Tier 3, for example, unlocks around character level 20, and later slot unlocks sit behind that requirement.
How to Equip Extra Mystic Arts Skill Slots
Once a slot unlocks, go to the Mystic Arts menu under Develop, where you’ll see new empty spaces on the wheels. Fill them with whatever techniques you’ve learned from sects, masters, Skill Steal encounters, or the bizarre wildlife “teachers” scattered across the world. Once both wheels are fully opened, you’ll have all eight Mystic Arts slots active.
If there’s one good way to speed up Mystic Arts progression, it’s to have the world encounters frequently. The odd tasks—help a villager, investigate a shrine, watch an animal perform martial arts, almost always lead back to XP and Talent Points in the long run. So, keep progressing the Talent track whenever possible, clear your World Tier trials as soon as they appear to take your Mystic Arts wheel to the full eight-slot setup in Where Winds Meet.
