The Bitter Seasons skill is one of the passive skills in Where Winds Meet, that offers players a poison debuff with strong armor stripping qualities. It’s an ideal passive for bosses that have high armor and resistances that you come across. If you’re reading the internal arts and found you like this, or just picked it up randomly, here’s everything you need to know about the Bitter Seasons skill in Where Winds Meet.
You need to defeat the Void King before you can grab the Bitter Seasons skill in Where Winds Meet. Image via Gamer Guides / NetEase.
How to Get Bitter Seasons¶
To get Bitter Seasons, you need to partake in the optional lost chapter stories in Qinghe. You can start this by going to the journal, and selecting the campaigns and going to the Gleaming Abyss option. From there, you get the clue on how to start it, and it takes you to Moonveil Mountain in the southwest of Qinghe.
Now that you’re there, you need to imitate the statue in Wraith Village to enter the secret area. After that, you are then tasked with tracking a deer using Wind Sense. You then need to use Meridian Touch, which is used to maintain a pose on the villagers. After that, you gain entrance to the secret shrine area, and are tasked with finding three spirits along three different pathways.
Once you get them all, you can return to a central stone coffin and defeat a series of enemies. From there, you need to find more enemies and spirits, before coming to a final battle with the Void King boss. When he’s dead, you can get the rewards from the boss, and the Bitter Seasons Tome is located in a secret room towards the back of the boss arena for you to loot.
How Bitter Seasons Works¶
So, Bitter Seasons is fairly interesting since it’s one of the universal passives that work for any weapon. The actual skill itself is fairly situational, thanks to its unique poison debuff stacking and armor shredding qualities. If there’s a boss that feels particularly high HP or takes less damage than you normally see, then it indicates high armor. This can then be a good passive to slot into your build to help shred armor so you can do more damage.
The other important highlight is that upgrading this skill can give you precision. The Tier 2 upgrade of this skill grants you Precision Rate based on solo level. So that can give you a lot of precision if your build is reliant on affinity hits or critical hits. Since Precision Hits are required to land critical hits. So, it is something that is fairly cheap to acquire for those early game stat modifiers.
If you’re interested you can find all of the tiers of the passive upgrades are as follows:
| Tier | Effect |
|---|---|
| 1 | Increases the Physical Defense reduction of each Poison stack to 1.2% |
| 2 | Increases Precision Rate base on solo level |
| 3 | When attacked, there is a 10% chance to apply one Poison Stack to the attacker. |
| 4 | Increase the chance to apply poison when dealing damage to 15% |
| 5 | Increases Physical Damage Bonus by 2.5% |
| 6 | At 5 stacks, the poison also reduced the target’s Physical Resistance by 10. |
As you can see, it’s good for getting more armor shred, better damage bonuses, and even better applications per attack. It strongly favors something like the Dual Blades with its strong fast attacks, and further damage amps ready for the Flamelash stance. Not to mention the precision effects crits. It can also be fairly handy for Ranged DPS builds with their easy to spam light attacks. The Strategic Sword can be good too to help enhance the bleed damage and burst, but it’s not entirely necessary.
Hopefully that gives you an idea on how to get and use the Bitter Seasons skill in Where Winds Meet and how you may consider using this situationally good passive in your build.
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