Gale Windhawk Luxury Sub-Guide by Sophie/Joan
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 
Galensis Card (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 
[MVP] Snow Angel Card (300473) you will want to consume 
Abrasive (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!).
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 
[MVP] Yortus Arbiter Card (300530) or [MVP] Snow Angel Card (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 
Marine Sphere Card (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:
[MVP] Encroached Tan Card (300533) , 
[MVP] Realized Amdarais Card (4602) combo, 
[MVP] Violent Coelacanth Card (4529) , [MVP] Snow Angel Card (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:
[MVP] Boitata Card (27126) -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: [MVP] Boitata Card (27126) -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, [MVP] Encroached Tan Card (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):
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| Upper | +12 to +15 [A]  Time Dimensions Rune Crown (Wind Hawk) [1] (400539)
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| Middle |  Gambler's Seal [1] (410233)
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| Lower |  Ace of Diamonds in Mouth (Ranged Physical) (420220) (BiS) and/or  Ace of Clovers in Mouth (Defense) (420269) (Experimental)
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| Armor | +12 to +15 [A]  Nebula Suit of Creative [1] (450172)
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| Weapon | +12 to +15 [A]  Time Gap Wind Bow [2] (700108) and/or +12 to +15 [A]  Dimensions Wind Crossbow [2] (700093)
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| Garment | +12 to +15 [A]  Circulation of Life Winter [1] (480352)
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| Shoes | +12 [A]  Glade Rune Boots [1] (470174) and/or +12 [A]  Ice Rune Boots [1] (470175)
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| Accessory (Right) |  Creative Signet of Star [1] (490135)
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| Accessory (Left) |  Signet of Circulation Winter [1] (490486)
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Glossary
- BiS: Best in Slot, refers to items/cards that are considered the best according to the ongoing meta. May be subject to change that is why I put emphasize on dates whenever the term BiS is mentioned on that part
- Old BiS: Old Best in Slot, was the BiS on previous meta. Some have the potential to be BiS again in the future (e.g. Bio5 MVP Ranger Shecil card in the case future Job 4 Wind Hawk Bio MVP cards will give strong combo bonus) so they are generally are still top tier recommended items, though not to die for.
- Experimental: Strong items that could possibly be BiS on some setups but is not widely accepted as the BiS and still needs a lot of testing and discussion for it to be universally designated as BiS. Or items that are situationally considerably better than BiS or offering niches that are considered worth trading with the boons gained from the BiS items.
Acknowledgements
- Discussions and demonstrations from Various Masters (ain't namedropping y'all but you know who you are) 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