Career Notebook is a development material in Where Winds Meet that drives profession progression for both Healer and Scholar paths. The item holds research insights and productivity knowledge from exceptional individuals throughout history, and spending it raises your Jianghu Career level. Each profession rank you gain increases your character's core attributes, making Career Notebooks valuable even if you focus primarily on combat.
Quick answer: Career Notebooks are obtained by completing healing encounters and Gift of Gab debates in the open world, and by purchasing limited weekly stock from the Season Shop using Jade Fish currency.
What Career Notebooks Do
Career Notebooks function as universal experience for both available professions. When you spend them, your profession level increases, and each new rank grants permanent stat improvements. The Healer profession unlocks the ability to craft combat potions, while the Scholar profession enables talisman crafting for temporary stat buffs. Both professions also open card-based minigames that let you interact with NPCs and other players in non-combat ways.
Professions in Where Winds Meet are optional specializations that exist alongside your weapons, Mystic Arts, and Inner Ways. They do not replace your combat build but instead provide new activities, crafting lines, and small stat increases as you level them. The game currently offers two professions—Healer and Scholar—with no restrictions on learning both. However, both professions share the same leveling resource: Career Notebooks.
How to Obtain Career Notebooks
Career Notebooks drop from profession-related activities in the open world. For Healers, you receive them by completing healing encounters with sick or injured NPCs. For Scholars, you earn them by winning Gift of Gab debates against NPCs. Both activities are marked on your map under the POI filter in the bottom left corner, where you can toggle icons for healing patients and scholar debates.
The Season Shop sells Career Notebooks in limited quantities for Jade Fish currency. Stock refreshes weekly, so check the merchant after each reset to purchase available notebooks. This weekly rotation creates a bottleneck for profession advancement, especially if you are leveling both Healer and Scholar simultaneously.
Some players report obtaining Career Notebooks from campaign outpost boss loot, sword trials, and in-game merchants, though the primary sources remain healing encounters, debates, and the Season Shop.
Profession Leveling Requirements
Advancing your profession level requires increasing amounts of Career Notebooks. Early tiers demand smaller quantities, but higher tiers require 200 to 250 notebooks per level. If you split your purchased notebooks between Healer and Scholar, you will progress more slowly in each profession compared to focusing on a single path.
The limited weekly shop stock means you cannot rapidly level professions through purchases alone. Completing all available healing and debate encounters in the open world becomes essential for steady progression. Once you exhaust the available NPCs on the map, you must wait for the weekly shop reset or for new encounters to appear.
Upgrading Profession Skills
Each profession includes upgradeable skills—Prescriptions for Healers and Gift of Gab cards for Scholars. Upgrading these skills requires collecting duplicates of each card or prescription. The upgrade screen shows the required number of duplicates in the lower right corner.
Duplicates are obtained exclusively through the Season Shop by purchasing profession boxes. These boxes have limited weekly stock, so plan your purchases carefully if you want to upgrade specific skills. The weekly reset applies to both Career Notebooks and profession boxes, creating a shared bottleneck for all profession-related progression.
Healer Profession Overview
The Healer profession turns medicine into a tactical card game. Each illness in the world functions as an enemy you fight using treatment cards. You spend a limited pool of action points to play cards, while the disease pushes back with its own effects and patterns. Your goal is to defeat the ailment by managing your cards and resources wisely.
More than a dozen different illnesses affect NPCs and other players throughout the world. You can heal anyone except your own character. Completing healing encounters grants Exploration Attributes and Career Notebooks. Healers also craft combat potions, which you can use in your own fights or sell to other players.
Healer progression increases your character's stats, making the profession useful even if you do not intend to role-play a doctor. The stat increases apply regardless of whether you actively use healing abilities.
Scholar Profession Overview
The Scholar profession focuses on rhetoric and persuasion. You compete against NPCs in oral debates using the Gift of Gab card system. Each debate plays out as a turn-based duel where you build a deck of argument cards and spend a shared resource pool to play them.
Each card has three key parameters: cost, effect, and rhetorical style. The style system follows a rock-paper-scissors loop: Infuriating Nitpicker beats Yapping, Yapping surpasses Wild Boasts, Wild Boasts wins against Heart Stab, and Heart Stab is effective against Infuriating Nitpicker. Predicting your opponent's style and countering it becomes as important as the raw strength of your cards.
Scholars also function as legal specialists within the Jianghu bounty system. You can save other players from false accusations by answering bounty requests. Completing Gift of Gab quests provides rewards, including Exploration Attributes and Career Notebooks. Scholars craft talismans that grant temporary stat buffs, which you can use yourself or trade to other players.
The Scholar career unlocks once your character reaches level 13 and can access Moonveil Mountain. An exploration quest called Legacy: Scholar's Path appears on the map. You travel to the Deeforage Grove area, meet Yan Huaijin, and enter a nearby building to find Wei Rujun. You challenge him using the Gift of Gab debate system, and winning the duel unlocks the Scholar career at the Novice rank.
Why Career Notebooks Matter for Combat Builds
Professions may seem like optional side content, but they directly affect high-end gameplay. Healers gain access to crafting combat potions, letting you stockpile powerful consumables for tough bosses or sell them for currency. Scholars create talismans with temporary stat bonuses, providing a noticeable advantage in difficult encounters.
Both careers raise your character's core attributes through their own leveling, creating another progression path alongside Inner Ways and gear upgrades. The Jianghu bounty system periodically forces you to engage in debates and legal defense. Ignoring professions means you will rely on other players more often.
Professions also change how you perceive the world. Sick or angry NPCs turn from background figures into sources of quests and rewards. False accusations and bounty hunts become social interactions where Scholars negotiate with players for tokens and case outcomes.
