What Ratz-GG is
Ratz-GG began as a Discord server for a small group of players grinding ranked together, and it grew into the reference we kept wishing we had open in a second window. Today it is a publication: a library of in-depth written guides, a set of free browser tools, and the community projects and tournaments that grew up around them. The guides are the headline. The tools, the brackets, and the rest exist to support players who are already deep in these games, not to funnel anyone toward a purchase.
We cover two games specifically because we play two games specifically. Where Winds Meet is an open-world wuxia action-RPG set in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period of ancient China, blending martial-arts combat, exploration, and a deep crafting-and-lifestyle system. Naraka: Bladepoint is a melee-focused battle royale built around parries, grapple-hook movement, and a weapon-and-skill system that rewards mechanical execution more than almost anything else in its genre. Both games punish guesswork and reward understanding, which is exactly the kind of game worth writing about carefully.
Why it exists
Most of what gets written about live-service action games online is either a thirty-second clip with no explanation or a wall of stat tables with no context. We wanted the thing in between: plain-English explanations of how the mechanics actually work, why they work that way, and what to do with that knowledge in a real match. So we wrote them. When we needed to check our latency to a specific server, or generate a colored chat signature in Where Winds Meet, and no good tool existed, we built those too. Ratz-GG is the collection of explanations and tools we wished had already existed when we started. Our bias is always toward mechanics over fluff: how the damage formula resolves, how the stagger system gates your follow-ups, how the combat triangle decides a duel.
Editorial standards
Every guide on Ratz-GG is written by players who actively grind both games, not by writers working from a press kit. We do not summarize other people's guides or paraphrase patch notes. When we describe how a mechanic behaves, that description comes from playing the game, testing the interaction, and checking the result against the current patch before it goes live.
That matters most for the numbers. The damage formula, the stagger and stamina thresholds, the ping grades on our checker, and the combat-triangle relationships in our guides are derived from in-game testing rather than copied from elsewhere. Live-service games change constantly, so a guide is only as good as its last review. When a balance patch, a new weapon, or a system change lands, we re-check the affected guides against it and update them, because an out-of-date guide is worse than no guide at all. If we are uncertain about a value, we say so rather than inventing precision we do not have.
What we publish
The core of the site is a set of 18 in-depth written guides spanning both games: beginner walkthroughs, combat and movement breakdowns, weapon and build deep-dives, performance and FPS tuning, connection and ping fixes, ranked-climbing strategy, and the underlying damage math. You can browse the full set on the guides page.
Alongside the writing, we maintain a small set of free player tools that run right in your browser, including a server ping checker and a colored-text generator for Where Winds Meet. Beyond the guides and tools, the community runs open-signup tournaments and a handful of other player projects. Those are genuinely secondary to the guides, and we treat them that way, but they are part of what Ratz-GG is.
Independence
Ratz-GG is an independent, fan-made community project. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the publishers or developers of Where Winds Meet or Naraka: Bladepoint. All game names, logos, artwork, and in-game assets belong to their respective owners and are referenced here for the purpose of education and commentary. Nothing on this site is official, and nothing we say should be read as a statement from either game's publisher. We keep the site running through unobtrusive advertising and an optional membership, but neither of those changes what the guides say or who they are written for.
Contact and corrections
We would genuinely rather hear that we got something wrong than leave it wrong. If a value is stale, a mechanic has changed, or a guide reads unclearly, tell us. You can email contact@ratz-gg.net or join our Discord, where most of the day-to-day testing and discussion happens. For the fastest way to flag a specific error or ask a question, see our contact page. Corrections are welcome from anyone; this is a community project, and it gets better when the community pushes back on it.