Where Winds Meet Bamboo Cut – Draught Guide: Master the Drunken Burst

If you thought Bamboo Cut – Draught was just another flashy martial art, think again. This new set turns drunkenness into a powerful combat resource, allowing you to enter a short but explosive burst state and unleash enhanced attacks.

In this guide, we'll break down how Draught works, how to build drunkenness quickly, which Inner Ways and stats to prioritize, and how to execute its main DPS rotation.

Bamboo Cut – Draught Core Mechanics

The heart of Draught is its Drunkenness gauge, shown by two flask icons above your skill bar. The gauge holds a maximum of 200 points, with each flask representing 100 points.

Your character starts combat with 60 Drunkenness, and the gauge will not naturally fall below this starting value. From there, your goal is to reach the key thresholds as quickly as possible:

• 100 Drunkenness – Tipsy State: Unlocks the special Drunken Fist skill and grants additional Critical Rate.
• 200 Drunkenness – Intoxicated State: Activates a powerful 5-second burst window, giving additional Critical Damage and unlocking Draught's main enhanced attacks.

Once you're fully intoxicated, two attacks become the main source of your burst damage: the enhanced Drunken Fist Heavy Attack and the enhanced Dual Blade Special Skill. The Heavy Attack consists of four strikes with six total damage instances, making proper timing during the 200-point window extremely important.

How to Build Drunkenness Fast

There are several ways to increase Drunkenness, but not all of them are equally practical in actual combat.

The first method is the unenhanced Heavy Attack. Holding it makes your character drink and gradually recover Drunkenness. While this works, standing around drinking during a boss fight is usually too slow and leaves you vulnerable.

A better option is the Dual Blade Special Skill, which immediately grants 40 Drunkenness when it hits a boss. You can then use the Fast Drink mechanic to rapidly gain another 50 points.

After using a martial art skill or the Drunken Fist Special Skill, press or hold R when your character flashes to trigger Fast Drink and recover 50 Drunkenness. You don't need perfect timing either. Holding R or repeatedly pressing it after the skill is generally enough to trigger the mechanic automatically.

This gives you a much smoother opening:

60 starting points → Dual Blade Special → 100 → Drunken Fist Q + Fast Drink → 150 → Drunken Fist Special + Fast Drink → 200

Once you reach 200, the Intoxicated State begins and you can immediately transition into your main damage sequence.

 

The Best Draught Opening

For a clean opener, start by building your gauge rather than wasting time with the basic drinking animation.

Begin with the Dual Blade Special Skill to gain 40 points and enter the 100-point threshold. Quickly switch to Drunken Fist, use the two-stage Q sequence, and trigger Fast Drink with R. This gives you another 50 points.

Next, cast the Drunken Fist Special Skill and trigger Fast Drink again. You'll reach 200 Drunkenness and enter the burst phase.

There are two ways to finish the second part of the Drunken Fist Special Skill. You can use a Light Attack for a quicker follow-up, or press the Special Skill again for slightly higher damage at the cost of a longer animation. For practical DPS, the Light Attack option is generally more convenient because it gets you into your burst window faster.

The Dual Blade Heavy Attack can also generate Drunkenness through Fast Drink, but it is better treated as a backup tool. If you miss part of the Drunken Fist sequence or get interrupted, it can help recover the rotation. Otherwise, spending extra time on it can slow down your burst setup.

 

Essential Buffs and Inner Ways

Draught's damage doesn't come from its burst state alone. Its buffs and Inner Ways are what make the entire rotation work smoothly.

The first important buff comes from the Dual Blade Special Skill, Embibe. It increases the amount of Drunkenness gained from other skills. Without it, Fast Drink interactions from Drunken Fist provide significantly less Drunkenness, making the 200-point setup much slower.

The second key effect is Drunken Execution, which becomes available when the new signature Inner Way reaches Tier 6. When the Dual Blade Special Skill hits a boss, it applies a debuff. During this period, damage from enhanced Drunken Fist Heavy Attacks and Dual Blade attacks is stored and detonated when the debuff expires. You can also trigger the detonation early and immediately apply the debuff again.

For your Inner Way setup, the priority is straightforward:

• 1 Signature Gold Inner Way
• 2 Offensive Purple Inner Ways
• Moral Chant

The Signature Gold Inner Way is especially important. At Tier 6, it provides a 40% increase to damage dealt to bosses. It also becomes extremely valuable when a boss enters an exhausted state.

If you hit an exhausted boss while below 200 Drunkenness, the effect can instantly fill your gauge and activate the Intoxicated State. If you're already at 200, hitting the boss instead extends the duration of the state. This creates an important opportunity to maintain your burst rather than starting the entire setup again.

 

Bamboo Cut Talents and Stat Priorities

As a Bamboo Cut path, Draught benefits heavily from Critical Rate, Critical Damage, Agility, and physical attack scaling. You don't need to blindly stack every available stat. Instead, tune enough Agility and Minimum Physical Attack to activate all of your available talent nodes.

For general gear tuning, Boss Damage Boost and Martial Art Damage Boost should be your first priorities.

After that, your build can follow two different physical-damage approaches.

Maximum Physical Damage Build

For a more conventional build, prioritize:

1. Critical Rate
2. Agility
3. Power
4. Minimum/Maximum Physical Damage
5. Bamboo Cut Attack

This approach is relatively straightforward to build and provides a balanced combination of consistency and damage.

Minimum Physical Damage Build

If you're aiming for the strongest version of the build, focus heavily on Minimum Physical Attack instead.

Prioritize two lines of Minimum Physical Attack together with Agility across your gear, followed by Bamboo Cut Attack. Power and Maximum Physical Attack become much less important for this setup.

The trade-off is simple: this path has a higher ceiling, but it is significantly harder to tune correctly because you want to push your Minimum Physical Attack as high as possible.

 

Draught Gear and Attunement

Bamboo Cut – Draught comes with a dedicated gear set, so the new set should be your first choice rather than mixing in unrelated pieces.

Its offensive set bonus can provide up to 5% increased damage to all attack types as well as 5% bonus HP damage against bosses while you're in the 200-point burst state. This makes the set particularly well suited to Draught's burst-oriented gameplay.

There is also a defensive version that reduces incoming damage by 5% and incoming Critical Damage by 10% during the 200-point state, but DPS-focused players will generally get more value from the offensive option.

For Attunement, keep things simple:

• Offensive pieces: Physical Penetration
• Defensive pieces: Bonus Skill Damage during the 200-point state

This setup directly supports Draught's short burst windows instead of spreading your stats across effects that contribute less to its primary damage cycle.

 

Highest-Damage Combat Rotation

Once your gauge-building sequence becomes familiar, the actual DPS loop is fairly compact.

A standard rotation can be summarized as:

Flute → Cancel → Dual Blade E → Fast Switch → Drunken Fist Q + Fast Drink → Drunken Fist E + Light Attack + Fast Drink → 200-point Burst

Once intoxicated, use three consecutive enhanced Drunken Fist Heavy Attack sequences. After that, quickly switch back to Dual Blade and immediately cast the enhanced Dual Blade Special Skill.

That's your main combo loop.

As soon as the Dual Blade Special Skill lands, repeat the loop rather than resetting unnecessarily. This is currently the core damage sequence for maximizing Draught's burst output.

You can also add other Mystic Skills, such as Leaping Todd or Soaring Spin, after completing a full rotation. These are optional additions rather than the foundation of the build, so don't sacrifice your core burst sequence just to force them into every rotation.

 

How to Exploit Boss Exhaustion

Boss exhaustion is where Draught becomes particularly interesting.

When a boss is about to become exhausted, pay attention to the timing of your Dual Blade Special Skill. Ideally, its effect should finish while the boss is still in the exhausted state.

If you already have your burst ready, use the enhanced Dual Blade Special Skill first. Then switch to Drunken Fist and cast one Q. Thanks to the Signature Inner Way, this can immediately push you back into the 200 Drunkenness state, allowing you to continue your enhanced combo without going through the entire resource-building sequence again.

In other words, don't treat exhaustion as the end of your rotation. For Draught, it can actually be the moment when you extend your burst cycle.

 

Final Tips for Bamboo Cut – Draught

Draught looks complicated at first because of its resource system, but its gameplay becomes much easier once you understand one rule:

Build to 200 as quickly as possible, then spend the entire burst window on your enhanced attacks.

Keep these points in mind:

• Don't rely on the basic drinking animation during active combat.
• Use Dual Blade Special to start building your gauge.
• Hold R after your skills to make Fast Drink easier to trigger.
• Use Light Attack for the faster Drunken Fist Special follow-up.
• Treat Dual Blade Heavy Attack as an emergency recovery tool.
• Save your strongest burst for boss exhaustion whenever possible.
• Prioritize Boss Damage and Martial Art Damage before fine-tuning secondary stats.

So, are you ready to get a little tipsy and turn that drunkenness into serious boss damage? Master the 200-point loop, and Bamboo Cut – Draught can become a surprisingly powerful DPS option.

 

Conclusion

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