Alright, so I spent a chunk of my time today messing around in Wuthering Waves trying to get that Hero of the Leap achievement or title, whatever it is. Heard about it, sounded like something doable, you know, a bit of a challenge maybe.
First off, I just started jumping off stuff. Anything tall, really. Went to that big city area, climbed the highest building I could find, and just swan dived. Did that a few times. Nothing. Then I headed out to the wilder zones, looking for cliffs. Figured ‘leap’ meant a big jump, right? Makes sense.
Spent a good while just exploring, finding high spots. Tried a few places:
- That massive tree thingy.
- Some of those weird spikey rock formations out in the desert area.
- The really tall cliffs near the coast.
Honestly, most of the time I just ended up face-planting or using up all my stamina gliding down normally. Got kinda annoying after the tenth try, just falling and climbing back up. Wasted a bunch of food for stamina too.
Then I started thinking maybe it wasn’t just any high place. Maybe it was a specific spot, or maybe I had to do something during the fall, like a plunge attack right at the end, or maybe glide a super long distance without stopping. So I tried gliding between peaks, trying to catch updrafts to stay airborne longer. That didn’t seem to be it either, just more falling.
The breakthrough, if you can call it that, came kinda by accident. I was on one of the floating island structures, the ones way up high. I jumped off, started gliding, then did one of those mid-air dash moves, then glided again. Just messing around, really. I covered a huge distance horizontally before I even started dropping much. Landed way further than I expected.
So, I tried that again, more deliberately this time. Found the highest floating island I could reach. Took a running jump, immediate glide, then the horizontal air dash move, then glide again. Did that a couple of times during the same jump, chaining them to stay high and cover distance. Seemed like the game wanted you to use those movement mechanics together, not just a simple jump or glide.
And yeah, after a particularly long glide using those dashes, landed safely way, way far from where I jumped. The little notification popped up: Hero of the Leap. Finally. Took way longer than I thought it would, mostly just figuring out what they actually wanted me to do.
It’s done now, got the achievement. Feels okay, satisfying to tick it off the list I guess. But man, sometimes figuring out these descriptions is half the battle, wasn’t just about the jump itself.
