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Blade's Will

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✦Base buff

When Light/Heavy Attack: Varied Combo and Museflow Waist Drum Drumbeat skills hit at least 3 enemies simultaneously, apply 1 stack of Blade of Grass to them for 5s: player units' Endurance Cost increases by 1% and their damage dealt decreases by 1%; non-player units take 2% more damage from Light/Heavy Attack: Varied Combo and Drumbeat skills.

Blade of Grass stacks up to 5 times.

Applicable skills include: Thundercry Blade: Light Attack Varied Combo, Thundercry Blade: Heavy Attack Varied Combo, Moon Shatter Spring, Colorful Phoenix, Bamboo Breeze, Stygian Freeze, Snowbreak Spring, Rhythm of Accord, and End of Gale.

▲TiersTier 1 → 6
Tier 1Breakthrough Gain

Increases the duration of Blade of Grass to 8s.

Tier 2Breakthrough Gain

Increases Formless Attack based on Solo Mode Level.

Formless Attack +2.8–5.6 at Solo Mode Level 7, rising to +19.9–39.9 at level 21

Tier 3Breakthrough Gain

Blade of Grass now increases player units' Endurance Cost by 2%, and increases damage non-player units take from Light/Heavy Attack: Varied Combo by 4%.

Tier 4Breakthrough Gain

When you hit at least 2 enemies at once, apply Blade of Grass. If you hit at least 3 enemies at once, apply 2 stacks instead.

Tier 5Breakthrough Gain

Increases Formless Penetration by 6.

+6 Formless Penetration

Tier 6Breakthrough Gain

When Light/Heavy Attack: Varied Combos or Drumbeat skills hit a player unit with 5 stacks of Blade of Grass, all stacks are removed and Root is applied for 4s, preventing dodging, sprinting, and jumping. A target can be rooted by Blade of Grass from any source at most once every 20s. Non-player units with 5 stacks of Blade of Grass take an additional 5% damage from Light/Heavy Attack: Varied Combos and Drumbeat skills.

❖Where its Notes come fromyour 713 chests a week
ChestsA weekChance of Blade's WillNotes a week
Custom Swap Chest · Silkbind Wings6005.00%30.0
Random chests · energy 63, season shop 40, hero's realm 5, path trial 51130.57%0.6
All 7137134.29% of all your chests≈ 30.6

98% from the Custom Swap Chests, 2% from random chests.

In the Custom Swap Chest, by the sub-path you choose:

Silkbind Wings's Notes drop like every other sub-path's — Blade's Will has the same odds as their Purple Notes.

Assumes all 600 Swap Chests: they cost 5 bookplates each, so the planner works out what yours buy.

Keywords used by this Inner Way

Drumbeat
Museflow Waist Drum's skills that beat the drum: Crane's Cry, Rhythm of Accord, the Heavy Attack's third strike and the Ripples of its Special Skill — the game's Drumbeat skills. Not Stormbreaker Spear's Drumbeat.
Root
Target is significantly slowed and immune to being knocked back from hits.

Where to learn it3 places · Mainland

Quest reward

The game’s clues

On the northern slopes of Mount Tai, stars fell like rain. One struck the earth, sundering stone and shattering the mountain.
Explore the crater left by the fallen star, and reach the far end of the Han Mausoleum to obtain this Inner Way.

The quest that teaches it

Return, O SoulHide ambient entities upon quest completionOpen the story on the Atlas ›
Riddled EchoesTalk to Zhuge FeifeiOpen the story on the Atlas ›
The map around these places
  1. Near Sageplow SteadReturn, O SoulFind it on the Atlas →
  2. Near Crownleek TerraceRiddled EchoesFind it on the Atlas →
  3. Near Seedling TempleFind it on the Atlas →