Rotation

Master the Strategic Sword build rotation in where winds meet by stacking bleeds with Sober Sorrow and Inner Balance Strike III for maximum DPS.

Your rotation is fairly important for the Strategic Sword build. You will need to start combat doing the following:

1. Start with Sober Sorrow and land as many hits as possible to gain its bonuses.
2. Use Sweep All for damage increases, defense debuffs if you get Spring Surge stack, and bleed if you hit River Flow at ten stacks. You’ll need affinity to get River Flow to ten stacks or hit multiple enemies simultaneously to reach that.
3. Weapon switch to Strategic Sword and press Inner Balance Strike III, the special skill that can either spend your bleed or grant a bleed. Use this first to get bleed stacks rolling.
4. Since this move forces you to jump back, use Second Track Slash, your charged attack, which inflicts bleeds and grants immunity while dashing. Since you jump backwards, that immune dash is pretty important. Then, press the double Inner Track Slash to get one bleed, into its combo for a second bleed.
5. After this opener, you will have 4-5 stacks of bleeds, depending if the Spear gave you bleed on 10 attacks from Sober Sorrow. You now either do the bleed spend if at 5 stacks, or use another charged attack to get the 5th stack on the foe before doing the spender.

Depending on what inner ways you have, this rotation changes slightly after your opener.

Fivefold Bleed inner skill grants some of its own bleed stacks, which can retain on the target when consumed. So, if this happens, you may want to rotate quicker between spending bleed on attacks or not. The Sword Morph also grants big buffs to bursting bleeds on enemies too, which helps a lot.