View source for Gale Windhawk Luxury Sub-Guide by Sophie/Joan

[[Category:Wind Hawk]]
= Introduction =
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Hello I'm Sophie/Joan (Guide Date: 28/Aug/2025). You would often see me playing in D1/D2/HoL/LoF/ToT/CT/Villa/BioTemple/Mjol with my Windhawk char R.ClickToRename242812 or with characters of other jobs. Feel free to hit me up to join my #LFG calls. 

This guide is merely what I do mostly with my gale storm WH and is not optimized (dm me on discord/In-game if you can improve upon it). I just try to write it out to satistfy the demand after seeing some people would ask it in #archer channel for the Gale Storm build guide from time to time. There's different requirements and priorities difference with GS build vs CB build (e.g. %acd reduc is not really needed in GS build while it needs 50% on CB build) and the aim of GS build is strictly for farming (it is not for bossing). However between both builds, most of it is simply the matter of gear swapping (most significantly between the weapons and gambler's seal) and so I would advice you readers to familiarize yourself with gears swapping (even more easy now that there's custom skill created for that very purpose).

= Scope/For Whom this guide is Intended for =
End game luxury of nice to have and fun to do things for those players who have reached end game and have collected most if not all BiS gears or their equivalent (for returning player can refer to the old meta of Set's End Game WH guide). This guide is not intended to be a stand-alone and more of complimentary for other more comprehensive WH guides. This guide is very subjective and intuitive as I do not provide exact numbers and optimization, but for that case you can find me to test out or experiment with any gears/luxuries that is listed/mentioned within this guide unless I specifically stated not to have them. On this guide you are assumed to have already worn BiS (Best in Slot) equipments or incomplete BiS (enchanting in progress) and have moved away from wearing {{#item:300261}} on garment because 125 luk is bad for your stat balance. 

End game optimization problem is that for some people, some gears/enchants/MVP setups suit them better as it touches the specifics of their playing styles and consumables consumption patterns (e.g. with {{#item:300473}} you will want to consume {{#item:14536}}) and so we will not assume a narrowminded stance on this issue and would tolerate a bit lesser or bigger DPS and whatnots as long as things works well (shout out to get the DPS envy immunity people!). 

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= Stats/Traits =
The actual distribution of stats are more loosely defined (this is not a starter player's guide) but we aim to fullfill these Objectives (by priority):
*1. Instant Cast (hurt other faster than they would hurt you)
*2. One Hit (OH) damage capability and 217 critical rate (if they're dead they can't hurt you)
*3. Survivability, HP pool and evasion (one might get hurt by lag/mishap/bad luck but somehow have to survive it)
*4. Curse immunity
*5. Non-priority niches (carry weight, ASPD, Gale Storm spammability)

====== Stats ======

* STR - 50-100; Carry weight

* AGI - 80-120; (all remaining points here); reaching 183 ASPD should be easy

* VIT -  77-110; Should adjust it yourself so that you don't get yeeted by D1/D2 mobs that facespawn on you. Can put minimum amount when on party with devo

* INT - 100-120; For Instant Cast, SP pool.

* DEX - 120-130; For Instant Cast, Damage.

* LUK - 80-100; For Curse Immunity, Critical rate.



Example (My stats when wearing {{#item:300530}} or {{#item:300473}}:

* STR - 80

* AGI - 82

* VIT - 77

* INT - 110

* DEX - 130

* LUK - 99

====== Traits ======

* POW - 110; Damage (non-crit related)
* CRT - 110; Damage (crit related)
* CON - 72; Little more damage and evasion/survivability otherwise can be put into WIS or STA (so far no content needs it though)

= Core Skills =

=== Buff ===

Improve Concentration: for Instant Cast

True Sight: Addittional Critical Rate

Wind Walk: MS and FLEE rate

Calamity Gale/Unlimit: Makes Gale Storm crits and additional 350% ranged% damage

Magnum Break (optional, from {{#item:4084}}): 20% fire-elemental bonus damage outside all other sources it is just simply hits above its weight after you have exhausted every other damage% modifier sources.

=== Active Skills ===

Swap Equip: You will want to swap into CB build when Calaminity Gale/Unlimit is not active to recover AP.

Camouflage: Survivability.

Warg Rider: MS and Survivability.

Detect: Useful on some maps like D2.

Crescive Bolt: Your secondary hard hitting skill in case the enemy gets to close and way to recover AP while still hitting hard.

Gale Storm: Your hard hitter but is useless without Calamity Gale/Unlimit active.


=== About Physical Damage Modifiers ===

The general aim of min-maxxing process (as of Date: 28/Aug/2025) is to equalize these damage modifiers while maximizing their overall multiplicative result. The contextual reason of the importance on this matter is because of the aforementioned '''One Hit''' (OH) Objective, that we want each hit of our Gale Storm damage to be as high as possible (to be clear it is the '''single instance of the damage''', not the DPS).

Listed from most precious to least worthy, type @bs in game to see yours:

* Class%, hardest and most expensive to get generally speaking, probably you will have 30%-85%. Main Sources: {{#item:300533}}, {{#item:4602}} combo, {{#item:4529}}, {{#item:300473}}, Demigod Set, HoL accesories and enchantments, Abysmal Knight Pet.
* Enemy_Element%, rare modifier mostly seen on more modern iterations of items (post 2016) but is less expensive than Class%, probably you will have around 40%-130%. Main Sources: Boitata-like MVP cards on body slot, Maximum Mammoth Shadow gears, HoL garment 2nd slot enchant, Varmundt Boots 2nd slot enchant, Dimensions/Time Gap Weapons 3rd slot enchant, Jitterbug combo and proc.
* Skill%, quite hard to get as the source is only from TDRC and Dimensions/Time Gap Weapons for Gale Storm skill and is already mandatory, probably you will have 35%-95%.
* Enemy_Race%, not very rare but getting the right ones could be costly, probably you will easily have 70%-200%. Main Sources: Boitata-like MVP cards on body slot, HoL accessories and enchantments, various equipments.
* Enemy_Size%, easy to get and cheap, probably you will have 45%-170%. Main Sources: Cards on Weapon slots, TDRC, Shadow Gears. 
* Res_Ignore%, only source for now is the Fatal Master Shadow Gears for 20% amount.
* Critical% and other '''critical related modifier''' like C.RATE, probably you will have around 300-550% critical% and 80-140 C.RATE. Main Sources: various for Critical%, Shadow Gear Enchantments for C.RATE
* Other '''non-critical related modifiers''' like POW, P.ATK. Main Sources: Shadow Gear enchantments, Varmundt boots/garment 3rd slot enchantments, {{#item:300533}}
* Range%, we already have a lot thanks to Calamity Gale/Unlimit so adding on this is generally redundant. You will have above 350% up to around 450-500%.

===Gears===

Recommended gears (as of Date: 28/Aug/2025):

{| class="wikitable mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="width:85%;"
!Type
!Item
!Card
!Enchants and Notes
|- style=height:13em
|'''Upper'''
| align="center" | +12 to +15 [A] {{#item:400539}}
| 
<small> 
*{{#item:4529}} 
*{{#item:300377}}
*{{#item:300363}}
</small>
|
*Enchanted with {{#item:312753}}, {{#item:312712}}.
|- style=height:11em
|'''Middle'''
| align="center" | {{#item:410233}}
| 
<small>
*{{#item:4529}}
*{{#item:300363}}
*{{#item:4198}}
</small>
|
*Enchanted with any of the following:
**Critical Atttack +10%
**Critical Atttack +9%
**Critical Atttack +8%
|-
|'''Lower'''
| align="center" | {{#item:420220}}
| <center><small> N/A </center></small>
|
*Enchanted with any of the following:
**'''1st line''': DEX +5  
**'''2nd line''': Critical Atttack +7% ''or''  Critical Atttack +6%
|- style=height:9em
|'''Armor'''
| align="center" | +12 to +15 [A] {{#item:450172}}
| 
<small>
*{{#item:300533}} 
*{{#item:4602}}
*{{#item:27126}}
*{{#item:4408}}
*{{#item:300007}}
*{{#item:300021}}
*{{#item:300445}}
</small>
|
*Enchanted with {{#item:310685}}, {{#item:310735}}, and {{#item:4723}}. 
**For more info on how to enchant, check this [[Constellation_Tower_Enchants|page]].
|- style=height:18em
|'''Weapon'''
| align="center" | +12 to +15 [A] {{#item:700108}} <br> and/or <br> +12 to +15 [A] {{#item:700093}}
| 
<small>
*{{#item:4399}} 
*{{#item:27361}}
*{{#item:300519}}
*{{#item:300506}}
*{{#item:300240}}
*{{#item:300241}}
</small>
|
*For a list of possible enchants, refer to [[Varmundt%27s_Biosphere_Depth_2#Dimensions_Weapons_Enchants|this]]. Enchants of your choice will vary depending on your needs, and the race/elemental property of the mobs you're going to prioritize.
*Can be carded with the following combo:
**{{#item:4399}} & {{#item:27361}}
**{{#item:300519}}& {{#item:300506}}
**{{#item:300240}} & {{#item:300240}}
**{{#item:4399}} & {{#item:300240}}
|- style=height:21em
|'''Garment'''
| align="center" | +12 to +15 [A] {{#item:480352}}
| 
<small> 
*{{#item:300530}} 
*{{#item:300473}} 
*{{#item:4676}} 
*{{#item:300426}}
*or any other cheap Bio5 MVP card e.g. {{#item:4677}}
 
</small>
|

*Enchanted with {{#item:313023}}, {{#item:312538}}, and {{#item:312479}}.
*The reason any Bio5 MVP cards work is because it is only a difference of CRI +20 (we don't really care about Bio5 Shecil card's 15% ranged physical damage bonus) and is easily solved by {{#item:14536}}

|- style=height:16em
|'''Shoes'''
| align="center" | +12 [A] {{#item:470174}} <br> and/or <br> +12 [A] {{#item:470175 }}
| 
<small> 
*{{#item:300177}} 
*{{#item:300280}}
*{{#item:27383}} 
*{{#item:300511}} 
*{{#item:300510}}
*{{#item:300508}}
*{{#item:300509}}
*{{#item:300514}}
*{{#item:300516}} 
</small>
|
*'''Midnight Archi Card''' will serve as your general all-purpose card while the episode 21 racial/element cards will be for targeting specific MVPs/maps.
|- style=height:14em
|'''Accessory (Right)'''
| align="center" | <br> {{#item:490135}}
| 
<small> 
*{{#item:300278}} 
*{{#item:4084}} 


</small>
|
*Enchanted with {{#item:313033}},  {{#item:310706}}, and {{#item:310706}}. 
**For more info on how to enchant, check this [[Constellation_Tower_Enchants|page]].
|-
|'''Accessory (Left)'''
| align="center" | {{#item:490486}}
| 
<small> 
*{{#item:300278}} 
*{{#item:4084}} 
*{{#item:300471}}
</small>
|
*Enchanted with {{#item:313006}} and {{#item:312981}}.
**For more info about purchasing and enchanting the accessory, check this [[Circulation_of_Life_Accessories|page]].
|}

= Acknowledgements =

*Discussions and demonstrations from Various Masters (ain't namedropping y'all) mostly but not limited to #archer, #swordsman, and #mage class channels of MuhRo Discord that have educated me on so many things regarding this class beyond general guides. 
*Goldie's EM Guide Endgame part table format was used for gears part formatting of this guide