Best Life Staff Builds for PVE and PVP (Update 1.2.1)

This is a guide on the best Life Staff builds in New World. Read on to see the recommended stats, skills, armor, and playstyle guides of the best and latest Life Staff builds for PVE and PVP as of Update 1.2.1!

Life Staff / Hatchet Support DPS Healer Build

Build Purpose
General (PvP and PvE)
Strengths	Weaknesses
・High healing output ・High DPS ・Balanced offense and defense	・Lower DPS than offensive focused builds ・Weak against ranged enemies

Build Stats and Skills

Stat Priority	Focus → Strength
Strength	50
Dexterity	5
Intelligence	5
Focus	150
Constitution	5

Stats obtained through armor are not accounted for in this table.

1st Weapon	2nd Weapon
Life Staff	Hatchet
Active Skills
Divine Embrace Sacred Ground Beacon	Berserk Raging Torrent Social Distancing
Passive Skills
Absolved Privilege Holy Ground Desperate Speed Revitalize Blessed Sacred Protection Intensify Bend Light Protector's Touch Protector's Strength Infused Light Radiance's Blessing Balance Speed of Light Glowing Focus	Enraged Strikes On The Hunt Berserking Refresh Berserking Purge Uninterruptible Berserk Relentless Fury Desperate Refresh Against All Odds Aggressive Approach Final Blow Fortifying Strikes Frenzied Purge Defy Death Critical Throw Quick Power Stay Back

Best Perks and Equipment

Perks and Equipment Stats
Best Perks	Divine Opportunist IV Arboreal IV Vicious Keen Fortifying Sacred Ground
	Stats: Sage (Focus)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Zealot (Focus & Strength)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Zealot (Focus & Strength)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Zealot (Focus & Strength)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Zealot (Focus & Strength)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Zealot (Focus & Strength)

Build Playstyle

This build is for more offensive healers that can heal and deal damage. You have your Life Staff for sustain, allowing you to take a bunch of damage and still continue to fight, and your Hatchet will allow you to dish out the damage. Having an Amber gem in your Hatchet slot will allow you to deal more damage even if you are putting your points in Focus!

Use the Hatchet's Beserk for DPS

You will be using your Hatchet to deal your damage, whether you are starting a fight or ending it, you will mostly have your Hatchet out. Berserk is an amazing buff and when upgraded with passive skills it can make you an unstoppable DPS machine. Raging Torrent will further increase your DPS, while Social distancing is going to be used as an escape when you are in danger, creating distance to allow you to swap to Light Staff and heal.

Heal when needed

Your Life Staff will be your defensive option when you are in danger. When you need to heal you will just have to gain some distance and use Divine Embrace and Sacred Ground, using your ranged attacks to continue dealing damage. You can also use Sacred Ground and Beacon before you jump in with the Hatchet, allowing you to heal while fighting.

Life Staff / War Hammer Healing Disabler Build

Build Purpose
General (PvP and PvE)
Strengths	Weaknesses
・High healing output ・Lots of disables ・High survivability ・Strong in a party	・Requires mana management ・Low DPS ・Weak solo

Build Stats and Skills

Stat Priority	Focus → Strength
Strength	50
Dexterity	5
Intelligence	5
Focus	150
Constitution	5

Stats obtained through armor are not accounted for in this table.

1st Weapon	2nd Weapon
Life Staff	War Hammer
Active Skills
Divine Embrace Sacred Ground Beacon	Clear Out Shockwave Path Of Destiny
Passive Skills
Absolved Privilege Holy Ground Blissful Touch Revitalize Blessed Sacred Protection Intensify Bend Light Protector's Touch Shared Struggle Infused Light Radiance's Blessing Balance Speed of Light Divine Blessing	Outnumbered Power Cleaner Guarded Sprint Acceleration Concussive Impact Facilitated Expedition Frailty Meteoric Crater Clean And Refreshed Prevailing Spirit Seismic Waves Resurgence Swing Away Aftershock Epitome Of Bonk! Exhaustive Attacks

Best Perks and Equipment

Perks and Equipment Stats
Best Perks	Divine Opportunist IV Arboreal IV Repulsing Clear Out Revitalizing Beacon Sundering Shockwave
	Stats: Sage (Focus)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Zealot (Focus & Strength)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Zealot (Focus & Strength)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Zealot (Focus & Strength)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Zealot (Focus & Strength)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Zealot (Focus & Strength)

Build Playstyle

This build makes you more of a defensive healer that does not only heal, but also provides crowd control and debuffs against enemies. The healing skills in this build is a flexible standard build that can work solo or in a party. Having an Amber Gemstone on your War Hammer is recommended for more damage with more points in Focus.

Attack from afar and heal with the Life Staff

With your Life Staff you have three healing skills, Divine Embrace for burst heals, Sacred Ground for an AoE heal over time, and Beacon for a heal that can also deal damage. Your passives will greatly increase your heal's effectiveness for you and any party members you have.

Use your War Hmmaer for needed disables

Your War Hammer is where some of your damage, disables and debuffs are gonna come from. You have a knockback to create space with Clear Out if you have enemies on top of you, Shockwave to stun and debuff nearby enemies, and Path of Destiny to deal some damage and stagger.

Your disables and debuffs combined with your heals can make you a tough target to take out, while making it easier for any allies to take out your opponents. This is a great build that can find a lot of use in PvE or PvP situations.

Life Staff / Ice Gauntlet Solo Sustain Build

Build Purpose
General (PvP and PvE)
Strengths	Weaknesses
・High healing output ・Lots of self-sustain ・High survivability	・Requires good mana management ・Low DPS

Build Stats and Skills

Stat Priority	Focus → Intelligence
Strength	5
Dexterity	5
Intelligence	50
Focus	150
Constitution	5

Stats obtained through armor are not accounted for in this table.

1st Weapon	2nd Weapon
Life Staff	Ice Gauntlet
Active Skills
Divine Embrace Sacred Ground Orb of Protection	Ice Storm Ice Pylon Entombed
Passive Skills
Privilege Absolved Holy Ground Blessed Desperate Speed Revitalize Sacred Protection Intensify Protector's Blessing Shared Protection Bend Light Protector's Touch Protector's Strength Balance Spirits United Glowing Focus	Critical Rejuvenation Quick Frost Empowered Frost Greater Pylon Weakening Gust Pylon Regen Gathering Storm Storm Summoner Pylon Dodge Refreshing Frost Strengthened Tomb Punishing Storm Defiant Freeze Pylon Refresh Cleansing Tomb Ultimate Frost

Best Perks and Equipment

Perks and Equipment Stats
Best Perks	Divine Healing Tomb Mana Recovery Mending Protection Refreshing Divine Embrace Fortifying Sacred Ground
	Stats: Sage (Focus)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Priest (Focus & Intelligence)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Priest (Focus & Intelligence)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Priest (Focus & Intelligence)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Priest (Focus & Intelligence)
	Weight: Medium Stats: Priest (Focus & Intelligence)

Build Playstyle

This build is for healers who want to do solo leveling. It has a lot of self-sustain with the Life Staff with Ice Gauntlets helping with crowd control, damage, and survivability. With this build, you should be able to solo the PvE content.

Use your Life Staff for Healing

You have a lot of self-sustain healing with your active abilities (Divine Embrace, Sacred Ground, and Orb of Protection). You also have an offensive ability in Orb of Protection if you don't need your heals. Most of your passives supporting this solo self-healing playstyle, with Absolved and Revitalize being must-haves.

Ice Gauntlet for extra DPS and Survivability

Your Ice Gauntlet will help with crowd control and is a great source of extra damage. Ice Pylon is a great ability to increase your damage output and enable frost buffs, combined with crowd-control of Ice Storm and you can increase your DPS. Entombed is another great active skill that helps with your survivability as a solo player. It can act as a panic button when you are in trouble.

In combat, you will be summoning Ice Pylons then switching back to your Life Staff to do damage with Light and Heavy attacks. Switching back to Ice Gauntlet if you need more Pylons or if you need to slow with Ice Storm. Heal yourself whenever you need to. And If you end up getting low on mana or your healing spells are on cooldown and you are in danger of dying, you can use Entombed to keep yourself alive longer, buying you time to heal yourself.

Life Staff / Sword and Shield Paladin Build

Build Purpose
General (PvE & PvP)
Strengths	Weaknesses
・Perfect for soloing ・High survivability ・Can swap between tanking and healing	・Low offensive power ・Not very agile

Build Stats and Skills

Stat Priority	Strength
Strength	5
Dexterity	5
Intelligence	5
Focus	100
Constitution	95

Stats obtained through armor are not accounted for in this table.

1st Weapon	2nd Weapon
Life Staff	Sword and Shield
Active Skills
Sacred Ground Orb of Protection Beacon	Shield Rush Shield Bash Defiant Stance
Passive Skills
Absolved Mending Touch Blissful Touch Holy Ground Blessed Defensive Light Protector's Blessing Protector's Touch Shared Protection Protector's Strength Infused Light Aegis Radiance's Blessing Spirits United Glowing Focus Speed of Light	Sturdy Shield Sturdy Grip Elemental Resistance Defensive Training High Grip Intimidating Bash One With The Shield Improved Rush Final Blow Invigorating Bulwark Final Count Down Concussive Bash Intimidating Rush Recuperation Restoration Defensive Formation

Best Perks and Equipment

Perks and Equipment Stats
Best Perks	Blessed Enchanted Exhilarate IV Fortifying Sacred Ground Hated Gambit IV Lifestealing Mending Protection Opportunist IV Rally IV Revitalizing Beacon Taunting IV
	Stats: Nomad (Constitution & Focus)
	Type: Tower Stats: Cleric (Focus & Constitution)
	Weight: Heavy Stats: Nomad (Constitution & Focus)
	Weight: Heavy Stats: Cleric (Focus & Constitution)
	Weight: Heavy Stats: Nomad (Constitution & Focus)
	Weight: Heavy Stats: Cleric (Focus & Constitution)
	Weight: Heavy Stats: Nomad (Constitution & Focus)

Build Playstyle

The Sword and Shield / Life Staff Paladin Build is a Healing & Defense centric build that relies on crowd control, debuffs, and healing to outlast enemies.

The Life Staff skills present you with more options to deal damage with Orb of Protection and Beacon, which can also function as healing spells. These are the ideal skills for a Paladin build. Sacred Ground offers supplemental healing and is a good skill to have.

The Sword & Shield skills Shield Rush and Shield Bash are used when enemies are starting to pile up and get out of hand. Hunker down with Defiant Stance when you're being ganged up on.

This build's passive skills are geared towards decreasing incoming damage, bolstering the effectivity of your shield, boosting healing output, and granting buffs on yourself and your allies.

Life Staff / Void Gauntlet Support Build

Build Purpose
General (PvP & PvE)
Strengths	Weaknesses
・Both weapons scale off Focus ・High DPS potential ・Effective as a hybrid support DPS	・Very Squishy ・Highly immobile

Build Stats and Skills

Stat Priority	Focus → Constitution
Strength	5
Dexterity	5
Intelligence	5
Focus	145
Constitution	55

Stats obtained through armor are not accounted for in this table.

1st Weapon	2nd Weapon
Life Staff	Void Gauntlet
Active Skills
Orb of Protection Sacred Ground Beacon	Orb of Decay Petrifying Scream Essence Rupture
Passive Skills
Absolved Mending Touch Blissful Touch Protector's Blessing Holy Ground Revitalize Shared Protection Infused Light Blessed Aegis Radiance's Blessing Sacred Protection Spirits United Glowing Focus Speed of Light Magnify	Forsaken Pact Keen Confidence Fervent Thirst Keen Humility Refreshing Precision Radiant Efficiency Draining Orb Refreshing Harvest Slowing Orb Bone-Chilling Voice Detonating Orb Invigorating Rupture Fortifying Echoes Refreshing Frailty Overflowing Essence Glimpse of the Void

Best Perks and Equipment

Perks and Equipment Stats
Best Perks	Rally IV Revitalizing Beacon Sacred Blessed
	Stats: Sage (Focus)
	Type: None Stats: -
	Weight: Light Stats: Sage (Focus)
	Weight: Light Stats: Sage (Focus)
	Weight: Light Stats: Sage (Focus)
	Weight: Light Stats: Sage (Focus)
	Weight: Light Stats: Sage (Focus)

Build Playstyle

This build pairs up the Void Gauntlet with the Life Staff for its ability to scale off Focus and deal a ton of damage to opponents while healing your team at the same time. Since these weapons use the same stat, your healing will always be maximized, especially since you will get a healing bonus from committing points in Focus.

During engagements, especially massive pulls, make sure to apply the necessary buffs to your team using the Life Staff. This includes Beacon and Orb of Protection for Passive Buffs like Fortify. Drop Sacred Ground as well for the passive AoE healing. If your team is fully buffed, use the Void Gauntlet for the DPS. We use Orb of Decay as our primary DPS tool against your opponents. If detonated correctly after hitting an opponent, it will give you two stacks of Void Essence, which you can use to reset the CD of your skills.

Use Petrifying Scream at your opponent to disable their movement and allow your team to escape during rough situations. Inflicting Essence Rupture will help with the healing effort as long as they hit the target inflicted with a said status.

New World Related Guides

Best PVE and PVP Builds

List of Role Builds

List of Role Builds
Best Tank Builds	Best Healer Builds	Best DPS Builds

Best Weapon Builds

Best PVE and PVP Weapon Builds
Sword & Shield	Rapier	Hatchet	Spear
Great Axe	War Hammer	Bow	Musket
Fire Staff	Life Staff	Ice Gauntlet	Void Gauntlet