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This is a guide on the best DPS builds in New World. Read on to see the recommended stats, skills, armor, and playstyle guides of the best and latest DPS builds for PVE and PVP as of Update 1.2.1!
List of Contents
List of Role Builds | ||
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Best Tank Builds | Best Healer Builds | Best DPS Builds |
Build Purpose | |
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PvE | |
Strengths | Weaknesses |
・Solid DPS
・High Survivability ・Ideal for soloing ・Both weapons uses the same Attribute |
・Great Axe swings are very slow
・Weak early on due to the abscence of Defy Death |
Stat Priority | Strength → Constitution |
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Strength | 125 |
Dexterity | 5 |
Intelligence | 5 |
Focus | 5 |
Constitution | 75 |
Stats obtained through armor are not accounted for in this table.
1st Weapon | 2nd Weapon |
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Hatchet | Great Axe |
Active Skills | |
Passive Skills | |
Perks and Equipment Stats | |
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Best Perks | |
Stats: Soldier (Strength) |
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Type: None Stats: - |
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Weight: Heavy Stats: Soldier (Strength) |
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Weight: Heavy Stats: Soldier (Strength) |
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Weight: Heavy Stats: Soldier (Strength) |
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Weight: Heavy Stats: Soldier (Strength) |
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Weight: Heavy Stats: Soldier (Strength) |
This build is recommended for players who just want to go in and fight their opponents. Both weapons scale off of Strength, which makes it easier to allocate your stats and maximize the damage output.
This build is good for taking down single targets and groups of enemies. On top of the insane damage you can do to your enemies, the self-sustain of Hatchet's Berserk, coupled with its Defy Death and the life steal you get from Great Axe's Reap. This makes it hard for you to die even if you charge headlong towards groups of enemies.
It's also easy to level these weapons up, as most of the time, you'll be pulling large mobs towards you using Great Axe's Maelstrom and Gravity well. If you're starting out with this build, make sure to ease on the aggression until you get Defy Death later on. Otherwise, you will die quickly pulling mobs if you aren't very careful.
Build Purpose | |
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General (PvP & PvE) | |
Strengths | Weaknesses |
・Both weapons scale off Intelligence
・High Burst Damage ・Lots of CC and AoE |
・Requires good mana management
・Requires proper set-up for combos ・Squishy |
Stat Priority | Intelligence → Constitution |
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Strength | 5 |
Dexterity | 5 |
Intelligence | 165 |
Focus | 5 |
Constitution | 35 |
Stats obtained through armor are not accounted for in this table.
1st Weapon | 2nd Weapon |
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Void Gauntlet | Ice Gauntlet |
Active Skills | |
Passive Skills | |
Perks and Equipment Stats | |
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Best Perks | |
Stats: Scholar (Intelligence) |
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Type: None Stats: - |
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Weight: Light Stats: Scholar (Intelligence) |
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Weight: Light Stats: Scholar (Intelligence) |
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Weight: Light Stats: Scholar (Intelligence) |
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Weight: Light Stats: Scholar (Intelligence) |
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Weight: Light Stats: Scholar (Intelligence) |
This build uses the ice and void gauntlets to inflict crowd control effects and deal heavy damage to opponents. Void Gauntlet will be your primary weapon against your opponents. Orb of Decay is a powerful tool against enemies as it is an AoE attack that can also explode using the Detonating Orb perk.
If you hit an opponent and detonated it correctly afterward, it can acquire two stacks of Void Essence, which can potentially reset all your skills. Successfully landing a Petrifying Scream at your opponent will disable their movement and make it easier to land your combo. Applying Baleful Tether prior will also help maximize the DPS to delete a chunk of their health or kill them outright.
Then we use the Ice Gauntlet mainly as a support weapon as It can fill your mana back, place down AoE to slow opponents, and inflict DoT and crowd control effects to your opponents. This makes it easier for you to land your Void Gauntlet skills, making it an ideal support weapon to pair it up with.
Build Purpose | |
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PvE | |
Stat Priority | |
Strength → Constitution | |
Strengths | Weaknesses |
・Good against multiple mobs
・High Damage output |
・Can be easily swarmed by enemies if not prepared
・Limited movement options |
1st Weapon | 2nd Weapon |
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Great Axe | Hatchet |
Active Skills | |
Passive Skills | |
Perks and Equipment Stats | |
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Best Perks | |
Stats: Barbarian (Strength → Constitution) |
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Type: None Stats: - |
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Weight: Heavy Stats: Barbarian (Strength → Constitution) |
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Weight: Heavy Stats: Barbarian (Strength → Constitution) |
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Weight: Heavy Stats: Barbarian (Strength → Constitution) |
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Weight: Heavy Stats: Barbarian (Strength → Constitution) |
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Weight: Heavy Stats: Barbarian (Strength → Constitution) |
This is a semi-tank DPS build that specializes in inflicting AoE damage. It is a good starter build for PvE that lets you grind your way to end-game by allowing you to deal with hordes of enemies without much trouble.
You start by luring all the enemies you can see around you by using the Hatchet's throw attack perk with the Berserk buff active. Once you've caught all their attention, switch to your Great Axe and use Maelstrom to keep them in one place. After which, cut them all down using your Whirlwind with Reap to finish them off.
Build Purpose | |
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PvE | |
Stat Priority | |
Dexterity | |
Strengths | Weaknesses |
・Good amount of DPS.
・Very good with |
・Uses ammo that you have to buy/craft.
・Very squishy. |
1st Weapon | 2nd Weapon |
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Musket | Rapier |
Active Skills | |
Passive Skills | |
Perks and Equipment Stats | |
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Best Perks | |
Stats: Ranger (Dexterity) |
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Type: None Stats: - |
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Weight: Medium Stats: Ranger (Dexterity) |
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Weight: Medium Stats:Ranger (Dexterity) |
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Weight: Medium Stats: Ranger (Dexterity) |
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Weight: Medium Stats: Ranger (Dexterity) |
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Weight: Medium Stats: Ranger (Dexterity) |
A Musket build that aims to maximize the damage using the Shooter's Stance. Powder Burn is a better DPS skill compared to Power Shot. It provides some nice bonus to our damage while our enemies are burning via Backdraft. Back it Up helps with kiting, and Weakened Defense is great for enemies using shields.
Use Sticky Bomb to engage your enemies, then apply DPS following it up with a Fleche execute. While the Bleed extension is wasted on the Rapier setup, we are still able to get a steady counterattack combo via Flurry and Riposte. The Finalize stagger also makes finishing the fight with Fleche much easier.
For the Rapier, we focus on utilizing Fleche's cooldown resets since we initially deal damage from afar and we let enemies approach us for the execute once they're in melee combat. Lure with high burst from the Musket then kill!
Build Purpose | |
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PvP | |
Stat Priority | |
Dexterity → Intelligence | |
Strengths | Weaknesses |
・Perfect for annoying people
・High Survivability |
・Low Damage Output
・Enemies with high constitution are harder to kill |
1st Weapon | 2nd Weapon |
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Rapier | Ice Gauntlet |
Active Skills | |
Passive Skills | |
Perks and Equipment Stats | |
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Best Perks | |
Stats:Trickster (Dexterity → Intelligence) |
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Type: None Stats: - |
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Weight: Light Stats: Trickster (Dexterity → Intelligence) |
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Weight: Light Stats: Trickster (Dexterity → Intelligence) |
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Weight: Light Stats: Trickster (Dexterity → Intelligence) |
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Weight: Light Stats: Trickster (Dexterity → Intelligence) |
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Weight: Light Stats: Trickster (Dexterity → Intelligence) |
This build mainly focuses on applying DoT to your enemies using Rapier's bleed while using the Ice Gauntlet to stall for time.
We make use of Rapier's Tondo to inflict bleed
to your opponent while using the Ice Gauntlet's Ice Storm and Ice Pylon to slow their advances. Rapier's Evade and Riposte will make it harder for the opponent to attack you and Ice Gauntlet's Entombed makes sure that you have a constant supply of mana and protection against attacks.
List of Role Builds | ||
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Best Tank Builds | Best Healer Builds | Best DPS Builds |
Best PVE and PVP Weapon Builds | |||
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Sword & Shield | Rapier | Hatchet | Spear |
Great Axe | War Hammer | Bow | Musket |
Fire Staff | Life Staff | Ice Gauntlet | Void Gauntlet |
For the Musket / Rapier, you've put 2 times critical reload (instead of 1 backdraft i guess ?)
Best DPS Builds (Update 1.2.1)
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Whoops! Yes, that's right — the second one is supposed to be Backdraft. Our Musket/Rapier table should be displaying the correct skills now. Thank you very much for pointing this out! :)