Learn how to unlock the Animal Whisperer and Beastheart skills in Where Winds Meet. Discover the required Aspiration Attributes, Mindset, and Intelligence stats, and how to acquire them.
You can speak to certain animal encounters on your travels if you have the Beastheart train unlocked from Animal Whisperer skill in Where Winds Meet.
To get both of these things, you are going to need to progress a fair amount. The following requirements are required:
- Total Aspiration Attributes: 600
- Mindset: 75
- Intelligence: 50
To get Aspiration, you need to get any of the following stats up that constitute player experience for any exploration stat. The full range is as follows:
| Attribute | Acquisition Methods |
| Resolve | Pitch Pot Madiao Cards |
| Elegance | Gourmet, finding cats |
| Perception | Find Whisper Hive, Enchanting Lotus and Heartsoothe Twig oddities and complete archery tasks |
| Coordiantion | Find Redmist Beetles, Ironwing Mantis and Midnight Nibblers oddities, and cultivate abilities |
| Intelligence | Gift of the Gab and riddles |
| Musicality | Complete Graceful Melodies music tasks and Swallows Rest oddities. |
| Constitution | Complete Outpost missions for the first time and compete in Wrestling activities. You can also get Thunder Fluff oddities |
| Erudiation | Complete Universal Harmony (the butterfly follow activities) and Meow Meow world activities |
| Memory | Complete Healer activities and Disguise activities in Kaifeng |
| Mindset | Collect Dagger General and Moonbeam Toad oddities and complete Fishing competitions and Cure your Spellbound from a Healer player when completing certain world events that cause it to happen. |
| Ambition | Level up. One point per character level |
As you can see, it is largely just partaking in open world activities and other events that take place. Finding oddities is generally a big one which you should be doing anyway for the upgrades from Qi Sheng and the like. But in general, try and find the various puzzles and Gift of the Gab to ensure you get your intelligence up, and the fishing events to focus your Mindset up. You can find a fair few Dagger Generals in the starter area if you’re desperate for Generals too. Check out an interactive map online and look for the specific oddities to power level those stats too to make sure you unlock the Animal Speaking and Beast Heart options as efficiently as possible.
How to check the stats
Head to the details page on the develop screen to check where you are up to with stats and Animal Whisperer unlock.
Okay, since this game has nightmarish menus, you can find all this information by going into the character menu, then clicking on develop. From there, click the details button below your equipment rating. It will take you into another sub menu, where you can find your exploration attributes and exploration skills. This should help you track the progression for any other skill you want to unlock and check your progress for animal whisperer and other such exploration feats.
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