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New World - Musket Skills
This is a list of all Musket skills in New World. Read on to see the Musket's skill trees and available skills for each of them!

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Sharpshooter Tree Skills

Active Skills

ShooterShooter's Stance Description: Player enters a shooting aim stance to enhance shooting performance. Shots deal 100% weapon damage. While in stance mobility is reduced to zero and reload time is reduced by 75%. Mode will exit after three shots.
Type: Active Cooldown: 18
Power Shot.pngPower Shot Description: Overload musket with gun powder, causing the next shot to deal 150% weapon damage. Does not stack or combine with other overload shots.
Type: Active Cooldown: 12
Powder Burn.pngPowder Burn Description: Overload a musket with gun powder, causing the next shot to deal 110% weapon damage and cause a Burn status effect that deals 20% weapon damage per second for 9 seconds. Does not stack or combine with other overload shots.
Type: Active Cooldown: 15

Passive Skills

Sniper.pngSniper Description: Adds an optional 3x zoom view for all musket aim shots. Use mouse wheel up and down to zoom in and out while aiming. Also grants a 15% damage increase to all headshots.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Marksman.pngMarksman Description: If 3 consecutive shots hit the same target, reduce all other musket cooldowns by 25%.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Shoot More.pngShoot More Description: Shots fired before exiting stance increased to five.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Empowering Headshot.pngEmpowering Headshot Description: On successful headshot: Grant Empower, increasing all musket shot's damage by 10% for 5 seconds.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Heightened Precision.pngHeightened Precision Description: While aiming, successful hits with a musket grant a stackable 2.5% damage increase. This effect ends when player stops aiming down sight or more than 5 seconds puases between shots. (max 6 stacks)
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Called Shot Resupply.pngCalled Shot Resupply Description: Standard attack headshots reduce all musket ability cooldowns by 10%.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Called Shot.pngCalled Shot Description: Increase musket damage by 5% if aimed down sight for more than 3 seconds.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Bullseye.pngBullseye Description: Power Shot headshots reduce Power Shot's cooldown by 15%.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
First Blood.pngFirst Blood Description: Additional 10% damage to targets with full health.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Initial Engagement.pngInitial Engagement Description: When you hit with power shot gain empower, causing attacks to deal an additional 10% damage for 5 seconds.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Hit Your Mark.pngHit Your Mark Description: Increased headshot and critical hit damage to target the further the target is away from the player. For a max of 15% at up to 100 meters away. Does not forgo damage fall off.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Ballistic Advantage.pngBallistic Advantage Description: Removes damage fall from standard musket shots on tragets more than 50 meters away.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Greater Accuracy.pngGreater Accuracy Description: Accuracy penalty while hipfiring removed.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Critical Reload.pngCritical Reload Description: Landing 3 headshots with 5 seconds of each other grants an instant reload.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Chronic Trauma.pngChronic Trauma Description: If Powder Burn is a headshot, extend burn duration to 13 seconds.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Backdraft.pngBackdraft Description: Standard musket shots deal 12% additional damage while target is on fire.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -

Trapper Tree Skills

Active Skills

Sticky Bomb.pngSticky Bomb Description: A bomb that can be thrown a short range and sticks to anything it makes contact with. Detonation will occur 3 seconds after impact dealing 235% weapon damage to all targets within 3 meters.
Type: Active Cooldown: 12
Traps.pngTraps Description: Throw a trap that last for 20 seconds. When triggered it cause the target to be Rooted, immobilizing target for 3 seconds.
Type: Active Cooldown: 20
Stopping Power.pngStopping Power Description: Overload a musket with gun powder, causing the next shot to deal 120% weapon damage, staggering target and knocking them back 3 meters. Does not stack or combine with other overloaded shots.
Type: Active Cooldown: 15

Passive Skills

Lethal Combo.pngLethal Combo Description: Increase musket damage by 20% against targets affected by Trapper tree status effect.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Sticky Slow.pngSticky Slow Description: Direct hits with the Sticky Bomb cause the target to be slowed by 15% for 3 seconds.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Unflinching Walk.pngUnflinching Walk Description: Sticky Bomb grants player 40 stamina when it deals damage with an explosion.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Back it Up.pngBack it Up Description: Walking/strafing movement speed increased by 10% when an enemy is within 8 meters of player.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Kick Kick 'Em When They're Down Description: Deal 10% extra damage to targets with an active crowd control status effect. (Slow, Root, Stun)
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Tactical Reload.pngTactical Reload Description: Dodging reloads the musket. (can only trigger once every 6 seconds)
Type: Passive Cooldown: 6
Empowering Weakness.pngEmpowering Weakness Description: Hitting a target with an active debuff triggers empower, increasing player's damage to be increased by 5% for 5 seconds.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Double Trap.pngDouble Trap Description: Ability to have two active traps.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Scent of Blood.pngScent of Blood Description: Regen 100% of weapon damage done as health when dealing damage to trapped targets.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Trapped Damage.pngTrapped Damage Description: Traps apply Rend to target increasing damage to trapped targets by 20% for 3 seconds.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Energy Burst.pngEnergy Burst Description: Attacking a target with an active debuff restores 5 stamina.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Hustle.pngHustle Description: After a dodge: Gain Haste, increasing movement speed by 10% for 3 seconds.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Weakened Defense.pngWeakened Defense Description: Increases the stamina damage from standard shots dealt to enemies blocking with shields by 50 and deal 10% of armor penetration to targets that aren't blocking with a shield.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Supplementary Repulsion.pngSupplementary Repulsion Description: Targets hit with Stopping Power are Slowed by 10% for 8 seconds.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Lasting Impression.pngLasting Impression Description: Targets hit with Stopping Power are Exhausted: reducing stamina regeneration speed by 10% for 8 seconds.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -
Salt on the Wounds.pngSalt on the Wounds Description: Increased 10% damage to targets below 30% health.
Type: Passive Cooldown: -

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