The quick answer
The Develop menu is the starting point for checking your character, equipment and abilities. Use Gear for equipment systems, Abilities for Martial Arts, Inner Ways and Mystic Skills, and Path Guide to understand a compatible setup. Open a specific requirement instead of treating every prompt as equally urgent.
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Find the screen that answers your question
| Question | Start here | Inspect |
|---|---|---|
| Why does my weapon feel weak? | Abilities → Martial Arts | The equipped style, its level and breakthrough. |
| Is my equipment behind? | Gear | Equipped pieces, slot enhancement and available gear systems. |
| Which passives work with this setup? | Abilities → Inner Ways | Equipped effects and their activation conditions. |
| How do these two weapons work together? | Path Guide | The suggested combination and available tutorial. |
| What is this stat doing? | Character details | Its current value and in-game explanation. |
For a missing exploration attribute, open Develop → Details → Exploration Skills and select the relevant attribute. Its acquisition entry can point you to an appropriate activity. This is a different branch from Abilities → Mystic Skills, where you inspect an individual technique and its development.
Run a short development audit
Start from the build you will actually use next. Inspect its active Martial Arts, then its equipment and passive choices. If you change builds during the audit, start the comparison again; otherwise you can end up fixing the secondary loadout while thinking you are improving the main one.
Record just one weak point in each area. For example: primary art can break through, an armour slot has missed enhancement, and one passive requires an action you never use. Fixing those named problems is easier to evaluate than following every highlighted button.
Read upgrade requirements as a checklist
- Check that the selected Martial Art or item is the intended target.
- Read the next level or breakthrough reward before the cost.
- Identify whether the blocker is character progression, a resource or another unlock.
- Open the missing material’s acquisition information.
- Choose one available route and return to the original screen afterwards.
If there is no usable acquisition route yet, check the requirement on that route. A locked activity can indicate that story or character advancement should come first. Buying unrelated materials will not remove that gate.
Use guidance to learn, then make a deliberate choice
The official development updates added Path Tutorials to the Path Guide. Use them to try the basic features and combinations before committing to a larger change. A tutorial answers “how does this work?”; it does not prove that the setup is the strongest choice in every activity.
Likewise, a development recommendation can flag an area that is behind without understanding your personal priorities. If your current goal is exploration, you may choose a useful traversal or interaction unlock before fine-tuning a competitive build.
Check automated purchases and replacements
Quick Enhance and similar shortcuts are convenient after you understand the proposed change. Before confirming, inspect the materials, any purchase cost and the selected target. An upgrade becoming available is not by itself a reason to spend a limited currency.
After a gear change, check the saved Development Plans as well as the active one. The game can offer Batch Replace when the old piece is used in other plans; select only the plans you intend to change. A damage upgrade in today’s setup may be a poor replacement in a saved support setup.
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Common questions
Which keyboard shortcut opens Develop?
Input layouts and platforms differ. Use the main menu or your configured function wheel to locate Develop, then check the binding shown by your client rather than relying on a fixed shortcut.
Sources & verification
Source research is separate from in-game testing. Recommendations are identified as editorial advice.
- Official: May 27 development changes
Development Plan Batch Replace prompt and Path Tutorials; no platform-specific binding asserted.