The Best Class and Weapon Builds form a framework for the New World gameplay. Whether you want to play a Tank, or DPS, even a Healer — we cover all of the best build options in our detailed guide. We are also going to share the best Weapon Builds, and outline which PvE/PvP builds are currently in meta. Do not forget to read our Artifacts in New World guide and learn about all the powerful in-game items.
4.9Best Meta Builds in New World
New World is exactly that breath of fresh air in the RPG world. It offers freedom from classes in the game and makes it possible to create your own playstyle without the need to play usual classes like a Tank, Mage, and so on. Of course, these classic builds are also present in the game, but the ability to simultaneously upgrade two weapon slots has opened a new chapter in the creation of playable classes for many MMORPG lovers.
So, playing New World, we can split all builds into two primary categories — Class Builds and Weapon Builds:
- Class Builds are the builds which focus on creating playable Tank, DPS, or Healer characters. While Tanks and Healers are as simple as it is, DPS can be subdivided into Melee, Ranged, or Mage DPS.
- Weapon Builds are simply Weapon Combos, which allow you to switch between two equipped weapons when the situations requires. Some of the Weapons work more or less better than the others and help you to find your style of playing.
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Best Class Builds
Before considering the builds that New World offers, it is worth noting that at any time for a small amount of Azoth and Gold, and up to character level 20 at all for free, you can respec your Weapon’s Mastery and Attributes. This option allows you to retrain from Warrior to Mage at any time and vice versa. And now let’s have a look at the most rewarding Class Build options.
Best Tank Build
- Weapon 1: Sword and Shield;
- Weapon 2: War Hammer;
- Attributes: Constitution and Strength.
Any expedition or party needs a Tank since this class has a lot of health, is able to withstand large incoming damage, and draws off the main forces of the enemy. Sword and Shield mastery is the best for tank build. The best choice here is the Defender Tree, which will increase your taunt potential. If you use a Carnelian gem in your Sword, some skills will provoke mobs and they will attack only you.
Of course, you can withstand a lot of damage from the enemy, but your own attack will be quite weak. For the second weapon slot you can choose any two-handed weapon, but consider choosing a War Hammer. This weapon is good because it allows you to deliver powerful, but slow attacks, as well as stun, or knock enemies back. Juggernaut Tree is suitable for single-player mode in PvE, while Crow Crusher suits for both PvE and PvP modes, and the Carnelian gem inserted into War Hammer and the active Shockwave skill will force monsters to attack only you.
The main attributes for any Tank are Strength and Constitution. We recommend to upgrade the Constitution to a maximum value of 300. If you still have some free points, put them in Strength. This approach will provide you with the maximum health reserve and receive a number of bonuses. For instance, +30% to the duration of stun or slowdown, or a 25% chance to cut down a tree with one hit. As the equipment for the tank, you should choose heavy armor with the maximum indicators of resistance to physical and elemental damage.
Best DPS Build
When it comes to the New World Best DPS build, things become a bit more complicated due to the fact that your DPS character can be either melee or ranged fighter. For any of these options, we provided the info below. Choose what combat style you like most and have a look at the optimal build below.
Best Melee DPS Build
- Weapon 1: Hatchet;
- Weapon 2: Great Axe;
- Attributes: Strength and Intelligence.
There are a lot of options for developing a character’s DPS, but it is Berserk’s skill for Hatchet that allows calling this build one of the strongest DPS in the game. You should put all skill points in the Berserker Tree. As you have Fire Staff as a second weapon to hit targets at a distance, you will not need the Throwing Mastery Tree. Also in the Berserker Tree, there are Defy Death skills. They allow you, after receiving fatal damage, to become invulnerable for 3 seconds and restore 50% of your health. And if you have a Carnelian gem inserted into your Hatchet, then you can taunt all enemies on yourself while actively using the Berserk skill.
Great Axe as a second weapon will allow you to hit targets at a melee distance; it is also better against the crowd of enemies. This build revolves around the Mauler Tree, where we are going to invest no less than 14 points to reach the full potential of the Great Axe.
An optimal attributes distribution: 50/50 Strength and Intelligence, as this will allow you to get +20% Critical Damage for both types of weapons. If you want to add mobility to your DPS build, as well as the ability to dodge attacks, then it is best to give preference to light armor if you want to get better damage resistance at the expense of mobility, and then give preference to medium armor.
Best Ranged DPS Build
- Weapon 1: Musket;
- Weapon 2: Rapier, Spear;
- Attributes: Constitution and Intelligence.
Ranged DPS should be mobile, yet deadly with ranged weapons ready to shoot anyone who appear in your sight. Thus, we equip Musket as our primary weapon. The power of Musket lies in its ability to one-shot enemies, and this is the main reason why we use the Musket instead of Bows. Invest 16 points into Sharpshooter Tree and you are good to go.
Speaking about the secondary weapon, there are two possible options: Rapier and Spear. They are relatively similar in performance, with Rapier being slightly better in cases where rare melee fight is inevitable. We will put 3 points into Blood Tree, and the rest will go to the Grace Tree for Rapier.
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Best Mage Build
- Weapon 1: Fire Staff;
- Weapon 2: Ice Gauntlet;
- Attributes: Intelligence and Constitution.
Mage in New World is basically the Magic DPS. This build just allows you to completely immerse yourself in the magical component and use only Cold or Fire damage. As of the last New World Aeternum update, magic damage has been greatly reduced. However, it is still a great build. It’s quite hard to have every weapon mastery on max. You can save your time and use our hot Weapon Mastery service to get everything done by our professional players.
Basically, the Fire Staff skills should be distributed in the same way as when playing with the Hatchet as the main weapon. The Active Skills you should pick from the Fire Staff trees:
- Fire Tree Skills: Meteor Shower + Fireball, in order to be able to hit single and group targets with massive fire damage;
- Pyromancer Tree Skills: Incinerate in order to be able to push opponents who have come close to you, and also inflict significant fire damage on them.
And speaking about the Passive Skills, it is worth put most of the skills in the Fire mage tree, but you should also pay attention to the passive skills from the Pyromancer tree, such as Pyromania and Kindle.
Ice Gauntlet skills should be distributed as follows:
- The Ice Tempest Tree is definitely an active Ice Storm skill for massive destruction of the enemy;
- In the Builder Tree, take Ice Pylon, which should be upgraded to the maximum, as this will open up access to the passive Ultimate frost skill, which will increase the snow zone and doubles the effect of Quick frost and Empowered frost passives.
The third Active Skill is Entombed. When casting the spells, you should stay in the snowy zone. Whn you are there, Passive Skills give bonuses to movement speed, accelerates skill CD, etc. Most of the Passive Skills in this build are worth spending on the Builder Tree, but from the Ice Tempest Tree, you can consider Cold Reach and Energized critical.
From attributes, it is recommended to upgrade Intelligence to 300, and put the remaining points in the Constitution. Considering equipment, preference should be given to light armor.
Best Healer Build
- Weapon 1: Life Staff;
- Weapon 2: Void Gauntlet;
- Attributes: Intelligence, Focus, Constitution.
The main attribute of the healer in New World is Life staff, a weapon that heals and cripples. Depending on how you plan to play — solo or in a group, the paths of the healer’s development may be different. We suggest considering a universal option. It means the healer can heal himself and allies, and inflict damage with the Life Staff.
Life Staff Skills
- Healing Tree: from the Active Skills we choose Sacred Ground and Splash of light, this will allow us to be a healer in various events where not only you but also your allies are involved.
- Protector Tree: for the opportunity to inflict damage on the enemy (again with a healing effect for allies), let’s take the active skill Beacon from this tree.
Spend your Skill points on Passive Skills in the Healing Tree. From the Protector Tree you should pick the Passive Skills Bend Light and Glowing Focus. A key Passive Skill for Divine Blessing, as when an ally’s health is below 50%, your healing is 30% stronger.
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Void Gauntled Skills
With some of the earlier updates a new type of weapon appeared in New World — Void Gauntlet. This is so far the only weapon in the game whose performance is influenced by both Focus and Intelligence. It’s a plus and a minus at the same time because a high Focus parameter is important for Life Staff (+ 20% healing power), while to increase the firepower of Void Gauntlet you will need Intelligence.
Also, the Gauntlet deals Void damage only, so the opponents of Lost can become a serious obstacle on your path. However, if you insert the necessary gems (Aquamarine or Amber), you can do Nature or Ice damage as well. As Active Skills, select Void Blade and Oblivion from the Annihilation Tree, and from the Decay Tree, take the Orb of Decay skill. Thus, you will inflict sufficient damage both against groups of opponents and against single targets. Passive Skills are worth spending on the Annihilation Tree, as there are passive skills, for example, Leeching Blade, which can provide additional healing buffs.
To be a strong Healer and to be able to inflict significant damage on opponents, you should achieve the optimal attributes distribution. It is 250 Focus, 50 Intelligence, and 100 Constitution. We should prioritize medium armor since you will not have much health and opponents who come close can quickly kill you.
Best Solo and Multiplayer Builds
New World Aeternum offers its players various possibilities to enjoy the game. You can start as a PvE player in solo mode, and explore the new horizons as a mighty warrior and traveler. However, you can also choose multiplayer mode and fight against other players in PvP, proving your power and skill. Regardless of your choice, we provide the best PvE and PvP builds, the decision is after you.
Best PvE Build
- Weapon 1: Great Axe (or any two-handed weapon);
- Weapon 2: Bow or Musket;
- Attributes: Strength, Dexterity.
Fight solo PvE is, as a rule, a battle with 1, maximum 2-3 opponents at the same time, respectively, there is not much sense in a strong crowd control. We cannot say that there are very bad or very good builds for solo PvE as the New World is fairly balanced in this aspect. The PvE game is a kind of foothold where you can see which play style and which weapon you like best. Therefore, it makes sense to consider build Great Axe + Bow. You will inflict great damage in melee, and the enemy will reach you already with low health due to Bow attack.
Great Axe Skills
For Great Axe, select the following Active Skills: Execute from the Reaper Tree, as well as Whirlwind and Maelstrom from the Mauler Tree. This will allow you to be competitive in a 1×1 battle, as well as when surrounded by a group of monsters. Basically, we choose Passive Skills from the Mauler Tree. The key Passive Skill — Mauler’s Fury — will allow you to increase the damage from attacks of the Great Axe to 30%. Passive Skills that we pick for in the Reaper Tree are Greed, Critical Gains, Feed, and Death’s Embrace.
Bow Skills
Bow is a good ranged choice as it allows you to inflict several shots before the monster gets close to you. So when the monster approaches, it already has half of its HP. The bow also makes it much easier to complete game quests which require to cull rabbits, elks, turkeys, etc. As Active Skills, take Poison Shot from the Skirmisher Tree and Rapid Shot, Penetrating shot from the Hunter Tree.
Passive Skills should be placed in the Hunter Tree, since with the Headshot you will receive a number of bonuses. For example, it converts damage to health. The key Passive Skill will be Concussion. It allows you to deal 20% more damage via headshots, as well as to save arrows. In the Skirmisher Tree, you should pay attention to skills that increase Haste, for example, Archer’s Speed and Dodge and Weave.
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Best PvP Build
- Weapon 1: War Hammer;
- Weapon 2: Hatchet;
- Attributes: Strength, Constitution.
It is definitely difficult to say which build for PvP is the best, each player has his own playstyle, preferences, etc. The best build is the one that brings you pleasure from the game and is effective in PvP battles. Therefore, it will be a pleasure for us to help you with such PvP activities like Outpost Rush. Just use our hot offer for Outpost Rush and get a nice amount of Azoth and Gold along with experience.
In this guide, we would like to mention one of the best PvP builds that we like — War Hammer + Hatchet. As you can see, we use Hatchet in many builds as it is one of the best weapons in the game. And the choice of War Hammer is due to the fact that its damage has increased significantly since the last updates.
For War Hammer, we take Wrecking Ball from the Juggernaut Tree, Shockwave, and Path of Destiny from the Crowd Crusher as Active Skills. Thus you can successfully hit both single and multi-targets in PvP, stunning or flattening them. We put passive skills into the Crowd Crusher Tree, leaving a few points free for Hardened Steel, Power through Pain, Epitome of Bonk from Juggernaut Tree.
For Hatchet you have several options. The first one is to invest points into entire Berserker Skill Tree. Or instead of Raging Torrent, take the Rending Throw skill from the Throwing Tree. With this option you can throw a Hatchet at a fleeing enemy or use this blow as an opening strike.
According to attributes, you can either put all points in Strength and get a solid increase in the character’s damage. Or you can distribute 70/30 or 50/50 Strength and Constitution so that your character also has a certain amount of health for melee combat. Select the heavy type of armor.
Best Weapon Builds
Now let’s look at a number of fairly popular and interesting Weapon Builds. They are difficult to attribute to any class, but which at the same time are quite strong in any situation. It’s up to you which class to associate with while playing with these Weapon Combos. Let your imagination do the job, and we’ll share the builds.
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Life Staff and Hatchet
- Weapon 1: Life Staff;
- Weapon 2: Hatchet;
- Attributes: Strength, Focus.
To fully unleash the potential of Life Staff + Hatchet Build, it is best to upgrade the Berserk Tree for Hatchet to the maximum. It will allow you to maximize your DPS damage. With the Life Staff and the Passive Skill Defy Death from the Berserk Tree, you will have sufficient survivability. In addition, Life Staff will significantly save on Health Potions, frankly, and you practically won’t need them.
At the same time, it is worth noting that this build is good, mainly for solo passing the game. Therefore, we recommend to upgrade the Life Stuff skill from the Healing Tree. After all, for going on expeditions and other group activities, you need a full-fledged Healer. Your task is simply to inflict damage per second and not to die at the right moment.
Attributes are best put 50/50 in Strength and Focus, preferred armor type is medium.
Hatchet with Sword and Shield
- Weapon 1: Hatchet;
- Weapon 2: Sword and Shield;
- Attributes: Strength, Constitution.
This build is a great opportunity to see a Tank with DPS damage. For Hatchet, we choose the unshakable mastery tree of Berserk and Hatchet will be your main weapon. When you need resistance to high damage from opponents, switch to Sword and Shield, where we put all skills in the Defender Tree. You can put the remaining skills in the Sword Master Tree. Thus you can be a Tank in expeditions or other group activities. The key passive skill of the Defender Tree — Defensive formation gives + 30% damage reduction for allies.
Attributes are best put 50/50 in Strength and Constitution, the preferred type of armor is heavy.
Great Axe and Hatchet
- Weapon 1: Great Axe;
- Weapon 2: Hatchet;
- Attributes: Strength, Constitution.
This is the Build which will allow you to inflict high damage both against single opponents and groups of opponents. The main weapon is the Great Axe, which became kinda a new meta.
In PvP you can see a lot of players, who use Great Axe as a primary weapon. It is best to consider a Mauler’s Fury as our main Passive Skill. It will significantly increase our damage to opponents. We recommend Execute, Whirlwind, and Maelstrom as Active Skills. At the same time, exclusively for solo PvE games, the Reaper Tree, upgraded to the maximum, is perfect.
When you need attack speed (and the great axe’s attacks are slow enough), switch to Hatchet, where we put skills in the upgrading of the Berserker Tree.
Attributes should be 70/30 in Strength and Constitution or 100% in Strength, since the build focuses on dealing damage, not on using defensive skills. The preferred type of armor is medium or heavy.
Musket and Spear
- Weapon 1: Musket;
- Weapon 2: Spear;
- Attributes: Dexterity.
The Musket is an interesting ranged weapon that mainly aims to get you headshots to deal a lot of damage. However, it is a slow enough weapon that takes a long time to reload. Spear will work well with it as a melee weapon.
In addition, the Musket has a Trapper Tree, which allows you to set traps to deal damage to the enemy. So, the main Active Skills will be Powder Burn and Shooter’s Stance from Sharpshooter Tree, Traps from Trapper Tree. Passive Skills choice should be based on your preference, but it is worth having Sniper as a key passive. It’s also good to use abilities that add damage during headshot, such as Empowering Headshot, Called Shot Resupply. From Trapper tree Back it up and Tactical Reload is worth considering.
For Spear, upgrade the Impaler Tree to the maximum. It will allow you to get the following active skills: Skewer, Vault Lick, and Perforate. The key Passive Skill is Exploited Weakness.
We put all points in Dexterity in order to get additional damage when shooting in the head and body, and to increase the chance of a critical hit. Armor is either light or medium, depending on how important the dodge parameter is to you.
4.9We hope that our New World Best Class and Weapon Builds guide provided you with the best builds. No matter what style of play you like best — solo play and PvE mode, or PvP battles in multiplayer. Come back for more comprehensive guides on New World Aeternum and be well!
