Windrest Hamlet

Tiger's Acolyte虎伥

Optional

Defeated

What it inflicts: No status effect
Phases: 1 phase
Equipment: One set

Recommended gear

With what you can have when you first come across it.

Editor's pick Rock Solid rather than Cloud Step, from the same spell category: deflecting without rolling limits the risk of falling.

Weapon attack: 50
Armor defense: 88
Resistance: Shock: +4

Base values, before upgrades, from the registry.

Weapon
Wind Bear Staff Crafting: Flame Ebongold × 1, Yaoguai Core × 4, Stone Spirit × 8, 8,100 Will
Otherwise: Twin Serpents Staff
Headgear
Galeguard Beast Mask If you do this first: Stone VanguardCrafting: Yarn × 4, Silk × 2, 1,800 Will
Otherwise: Bronze Monkey Mask
Chest
Galeguard Beastmaw Armor If you do this first: Stone VanguardCrafting: Yarn × 5, Silk × 2, 2,000 Will
Otherwise: Ebongold Silk Robe
Arms
Galeguard Bracers If you do this first: Stone VanguardCrafting: Yarn × 1, Silk × 1, 1,000 Will
Otherwise: Ebongold Armguard
Legs
Galeguard Greaves If you do this first: Stone VanguardCrafting: Yarn × 2, Silk × 1, 1,200 Will
Otherwise: Ebongold Gaiters
Spirit
Wandering Wight Optional boss: Wandering Wight
Otherwise: Earth Wolf
Transformation
Red Tides Optional boss: Guangzhi
Spells
- Immobilize
- Rock Solid
- A Pluck of Many If you do this first: Windseal Gate (Headless Monk)
Curios
- Agate Jar
- Cat Eye Beads Optional boss: Wandering Wight
Gourd
Medicine Gourd Optional: rescuing Shen Monkey (Marsh of White Mist)
Soaks
- Laurel Buds

The fight

A single phase, on a windy bridge with no railing: some combo finishers knock you over the edge, and the fall is deadly.

One set: the danger is the fall, not a phase change.

Spells, transformation and soaks are set at a Keeper's Shrine, never mid-fight: what you bring into a fight stays until the end. One spell per category: Cloud Step and Rock Solid exclude each other, pick one before the fight.

What it inflicts

No status effect reported: sword, claw, and the fall off the bridge.

Attacks to watch

High leap and sword plunge, his strongest blow: dodge; pulling the sword out, he often follows with a very wide horizontal slash, the right moment to Immobilize.
A rolling leap through you, sword and claw: dodge through him, then step away from the slash that follows.
Claw flurry: he rushes in with his claw raised, four quick slashes, then a thrust.

What works

Immobilize and Rock Solid: you deflect without rolling, so without risking the fall. Immobilize, Rock Solid
A Pluck of Many: his small frame makes him stagger quickly under the clones. A Pluck of Many

Strategy

Stay in the middle of the bridge.
Stop your light combo before the last hit to keep a safety margin.

Access

Windrest Hamlet, Yellow Wind Formation: cross the bridge after the shrine; he waits in the middle of the next bridge. The area lies behind the Crouching Tiger Temple: beat the Tiger Vanguard first. Optional, but on the way to the cave that leads down to the Stone Vanguard's arena.

What it gives

to obtainTiger's Acolyte
to obtainOld Rattle-Drum
to obtainBlood of the Iron Bull
to obtainYarn × 2
to obtainSilk × 2

Will: 777

In the cave past his bridge, a small chest holds the Glazed Reliquary.

Updates

No published update changes this boss.

In NG+

In NG+, you keep your gear, spells, transformations and spirits, and bosses are tougher. Key items don't carry over: the Vanguards' keys, the Loong Scales and quest items must be taken again.

Page checked on October 16, 2026.