Qianye is one of the bosses in Where Winds Meet, players need to beat to progress the main storyline of the game. She is the final boss of the early main storyline, requiring you to beat her to get to Kaifeng. However, she is a tough boss and will gear check you a fair amount if you’re not entirely ready for her. Here’s a look at how to beat Qianye in Where Winds Meet.

Qianye Boss Guide¶

In general, we recommend the following to beat her. It’s not entirely necessary to reach all of these milestones, but they certainly help you out.

• Minimum: Be level 35
• Upgrade Weapon Levels to at least level 40 - Spend spare Zhou Coins on your main DPS weapons, and Bluestone Locks and other crafting upgrade items you get from world exploration and side missions.
• Optional: Medicine Upgrade - If you need more medicines through the fight, try to complete the Side Mission Volumes, Fort and Outposts, and maybe get a co-op group for some of the Qinghe world bosses to upgrade your medicines.

With those preliminaries out of the way, you can go into the boss fight.

While doing the campaign, you will have access to Yi Dao, who is a tank companion. Let him walk in first to get some early tanking, which should help you position better early on. If you’re replaying the boss he won’t be there, but can be summoned using the companion assist.

In phase 1, the move set is fairly simple to parry. There’s some ranged attacks, alongside some move set combos. Simply parry the red ones.

Part way into the fight, the boss will have some escape moves where you need to perfect dodge the spinning blade. She then jumps at you, which can be interrupted with the Meridian Touch skill that can counter those moves. You get this from Volume III if you have not already got it.

When the boss health is depleted, you will transfer into phase 2 of the fight.

Phase 2 - Red Form¶

During Phase 2 in the mystic realm, you will be alone for the fight. Here Qianye has two forms, red and white.

Red is more of a martial type with her scythe. She will do moves that often swing or slam her scythe down on you. Study the moveset and learn to parry the skills for optimal performance. In this phase, rotate in attacks when you can but don’t overstay your combos. A lot of these moves can be interrupted and staggered with weapon skills like Nameless Sword’s grab, Dual Blades spinning dash skill, etc. Check if your weapon has some stagger and try to interrupt her more annoying longer weapon chains so you can trade easily.

Also, there’s a lot of perfect parry moves here. These moves are indicated by the red glowing tip on the blade’s edge. If you perfect parry these, you will temporarily CC enemies, giving you an opening for a special skill to throw in or a light attack combo.

One of her charged moves also has another Meridian Touch phase. Avoid using that if you can and save it for the pop up while she channels her big super attack.

White Form¶

At some point during the fight, she will switch to the white form. This is often done with a special attack that will slowly drain your HP during transition. Make sure to have health or the Snowfall innate passive talented and available so that triggers and you don’t die mid-transition.

During the white phase, it is a lot more slippery. It tends to go invisible, and teleport behind you. You will either need to master perfect parrying here when you can. Alternatively, you can use your stamina on running away, jumping and dashing too. It should make this phase of the fight easier to avoid getting hit and depending on your healing items.

In terms of actually having opportunities to hit the boss, perfect dodging appears best. When the boss comes out of stealth, it often has very quick attacks. If you can perfect dodge the scythe as it comes close, you often slow down time. These are the only real times you can attack the boss during these attack combos it does, bar from when it raises its defense stance at the end of the attack chain.

During the white form’s perfect dodge crash down skill, we recommend using ranged attacks. This is because the slam does a 6 star fling out every 60 degrees or so. And then erupts on the ground where the attacks flew from. If your weapon has some ranged attack that is ideal. Alternatively use your bow and apply fire affinity to it for some bonus damage.

Keep dodging and running away the best you can and trade where possible. The boss can transition back into red after a few minutes, where the fight gets much easier again – at least in our opinion.

Rinse and repeat the dodging and parrying where possible, and this boss should go down fairly simply.