There are many factors to consider when building your character in Where Winds Meet; it can be overwhelming. You need to think about set bonuses, tiers, rarity, paths, and synergy—there’s a lot to manage. And that’s even before you start tuning your equipment.
As you level up, your gear will become stronger. Instead of just waiting for better weapons to find their way to you, you can invest time and resources into your current gear to customize it. This is where Tuning comes into play, helping to significantly boost your equipment’s power compared to its initial state.
What Is Gear Tuning?
Tuning refers to a system that allows you to enhance any piece of gear you equip, from weapons to accessories. The goal is to add extra effects beyond what the item already provides. These effects can improve utility and increase your Martial Mastery.
Every piece of gear, regardless of how rare it is, can be tuned. However, rarer gear and higher tiers have greater tuning potential, sometimes unlocking unique skills on top of the enhancements. Tuning can also make weaker equipment more powerful until you find better gear as you progress. In some cases, tuned lower-tier gear may outperform higher-tier gear before tuning.
Always keep your highest tier gear equipped and tuned because higher-tier equipment can be upgraded to surpass lower-tier gear at any time.
How To Tune Gear
Tuning gear is straightforward. While in the Gear menu, select the piece you want to tune and press the tune button. You don’t need to have the gear equipped to tune it.
Tuning requires specific items. One type is Tuning Materials, which provide experience points during tuning and are tied to gear levels—meaning you’ll need different materials for gear levels 41-50, 51-60, etc. You can also use other pieces of equipment as materials, provided they are of the same tier as the gear you’re tuning.
Tuning
Tuning is the basic level used on gear below Epic rarity (which is purple). When you open the tuning menu, you’ll see your selected gear along with several circles and numbers. Offering Tuning Materials and matching-tier equipment fills these circles with experience, granting effects as you progress.
You can overfill these circles with experience, so avoid wasting materials by pushing beyond what you need. When a circle is fully filled, a random tuning effect is applied—like increasing experience gain or boosting maximum damage with certain attributes such as Silkbind or Stonesplit.
Attuning
For Epic and higher gear, the process continues through the last node called Attunement, which differs slightly. Instead of gaining experience, you select an Attunement Path, choosing between skills effective against regular enemies or Arena-specific skills for PvP. These skills include options like Physical Penetration, Resistance, or Arena-only effects such as increased damage after defense breaks or vitality recovery.
Attuning requires a special item to unlock the Attunement skill, and these are rarer than tuning materials. You choose your path and unlock the relevant skills, but you can’t pick specific effects—they’re randomly assigned when you fill the last node.
Can You Retune Gear?
As you upgrade to higher-tier gear, it takes more experience to tune them. Since the effects are random, sometimes you might get upgrades that don’t suit your build at all. The question arises: can you retune gear once it’s tuned? The answer is no. Once an item has been tuned, those effects are locked in forever. To change it, you need to get a new piece of gear and tune that instead. Because Attunement materials are scarce, it’s best to be sure about your gear before committing resources to it.
