When your gear bag is full in Where Winds Meet, you hit a common roadblock, as progress gets stuck in place. The inventory bag fills up with equipment, and once you continue to pick up high-level drops during exploration, you run out of space in no time. The game gives you a few ways to deal with it — expand bag slots, recycle junk, and unlock Tuning and the Arsenal, but it doesn’t tell you what’s actually worth doing. Read on to find out what items to keep, what to leave or recycle, and how to manage the gear’s bag without wasting Coins or losing items you will regret later.
What the Gear Bag Stores in Where Winds Meet
The gear bag stores only equipment like weapons, armor, and accessories. Everything else you pick up on the way goes into separate inventory that includes quest items, crafting materials, food, currencies, arrows, consumables, and so on. You start Where Winds Meet with 100 gear slots for the bag, which is a lot initially. Once you reach the level 30s and 40s, dungeons, bosses, and chests drop so many useless items that quickly fill up all bag slots, and when that happens, you won’t be able to loot a single item from open-world chests or enemy drops.
But remember, it only applies to the equippable gear, while quests/activities rewards get mailed to you through notification. It mostly happens around level 40–42, and that’s when you unlock Tuning, where high-level gear normally spawns. Gear under level 40 has no long-term value, and not every item can be used for Tuning. Furthermore, there’s no traditional storage system in the game; your bag is the only storage you have.
How to Expand Your Gear Bag in Where Winds Meet
That’s easy to do unless you have spare Coins (in-game currency) to spend, even though the game never explains this clearly. For this, open the main menu and select Bag, go to the Gear tab, and you will see locked slots. Click any lock to buy more space and spend the required amount to confirm the deal. One-time purchase unlocks six new bag slots.
The expansion costs for each Gear Inventory row are:
- 5,000 Coins (twice)
- 10,000 Coins (twice)
- 16,000 Coins (twice)
- 23,000 Coins (three times)
- 31,000 Coins (twice)
- 40,000 Coins (twice)
- 50,000 Coins (twice)
You can expand the slots as much as you can, but the price increases every time, and investing coins blindly isn’t always good if your bag is filled with junk.
Recycle Old Gear for Coins and Materials
You can recycle all garbage or old gear in exchange for Gold Coins, which you can invest in armor or weapon upgrades. To do that, open the Bag from the main menu, go to Gear, and press X or select Recycling at the bottom of the section. Anything you currently wear can’t be recycled. Low-tier items are exchanged for coins, and valuable gear can even drop valuable materials like Large Tuning Stones from above level 40 items.
You can also batch recycle to remove multiple items at once, but there’s no confirmation screen for it. Once the recycling is done, everyone will be gone for good, even the valuable item you accidentally selected. If you don’t want to lose anything precious, recycle items one by one or use filters for the bulk. Filter untraced gear because they can’t be used for Tuning, so it’s safe to dismantle.
What Gear Should You Keep
If a gear can’t be tuned, repaired, and doesn’t fit your build, it’s dead weight, and you should abandon it.
- Gear below level 40 is safe to recycle.
- Items Level 41 and above can be used to tune, so first check if it’s traced or eligible.
- Relics or set pieces – If not sure, keep them in a bag until you know Arsenal and set effects.
At level 51, you will unlock the Gear Arsenal ability, which allows you to store the retired low-level gear and gives small passive bonuses according to the Arsenal Path. When an item is registered, it gets removed from the bag, so don’t recycle high-level items immediately. Other than this, Tuning becomes available once you reach level 41, which allows you to upgrade weapons and armor via other specific gear as materials. If you’re unsure what to keep:
- Keep traced gear
- Recycle untraced gear
- Completely get rid of low-level or garbage items
Inventory management is part of this wuxia progression. If your bag is full:
- Expand a little
- Recycle aggressively below level 40
- Filter out untraced gear
- Don’t save “maybe useful someday” items
The game offers plenty of ways to net you enough currency you can use to manage inventory space, but you need to make wise decisions about what to keep and what to get rid of to free up bag space and what to recycle to earn coins you can spend on something important.
