Best Sword and Shield Builds for PVE and PVP (Update 1.2.1)Comment

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New World Builds

• Best PVE and PVP Builds

Role Builds

• Best Tank
• Best Healer
• Best DPS

Weapon Builds

• Void Gauntlet
• Sword & Shield
• Rapier
• Hatchet
• War Hammer
• Great Axe
• Bow
• Musket
• Fire Staff
• Life Staff
• Spear
• Ice Gauntlet

Tips and Tricks

Tier Lists

• Weapon Tier List
• Starter Weapon Tier List

Game Mechanics

• Best Weapon Combos
• Factions Benefits and Best Faction
• How to Use Gem Sockets
• How to Fast Travel
• How to Cleanse Corrupted Breaches
• How to Repair Weapons, Armor, and Trinkets
• How to Set Up and Upgrade Camps
• Azoth Staff Guide
• Crafting Guide
• Best Territory Standing Bonuses
• Respec Guide
• Attributes Guide
• Best Starter Weapon Type
• List of Marauder Gear and Resources
• List of Syndicate Gear and Resources
• List of Covenant Gear and Resources
• List of Leveling Rewards
• How to Sell Items
• How to Enable PvP
• How to Create & Join a Faction Company
• New World Keybinds
• How to Split Item Stacks
• Housing System
• List of Damage Types and Effects
• Outpost Rush Guide

Guides

• How to Level Up Quickly
• Character Creation Guide
• How to Play With Friends
• How to Use a Controller
• How to Get Azoth
• How to Track Resources
• Trading Post Guide
• How to Farm Faction Tokens
• Best Way To Make Money
• List of Legendary Weapons
• Timeless Shards Guide
• Gypsum Guide
• Trade Skill Aptitude System

FAQs

• What Happens When You Die?
• What to Do With Old Gear
• How to Use Voice Chat
• How Long Is the AFK Timer?

Items and Resources

• List of Items and Resources

Resource Types

• Alchemy Resources
• Ammo
• Cooking Recipes & Crafting Schematics
• Consumables
• Cloth
• Crafting Components
• Bait
• Bricks
• Dyes
• Faction Seals
• Fibers
• Gemstones
• Hides
• Ingots
• Ingredients
• Leathers
• Material Groups
• Ores
• Pigments
• Planks
• Refining Materials
• Repair Kits
• Special Resources
• Stone Blocks
• Tuning Orbs
• Wood

Weapons

• List of Weapons

One-Handed Melee Weapons

• Sword & Shield
• Rapiers
• Hatchets

Two-Handed Melee Weapons

• Spears
• Great Axes
• War Hammers

Ranged Physical Weapons

• Bows
• Muskets

Magic Weapons

• Fire Staves
• Life Staves
• Ice Gauntlets
• Void Gauntlets

Weapon Skills

• Sword & Shield
• Rapier
• Hatchet
• Spear
• Great Axe
• War Hammer
• Bow
• Musket
• Fire Staff
• Life Staff
• Ice Gauntlet
• Void Gauntlet

Armor

• List of Armor Types

• Heavy
• Medium
• Light
• Amulets
• Earrings
• Rings
• Bags

Resource Nodes

• List of Resource Nodes

Mining Nodes

• Boulder
• Iron
• Silver
• Gold
• Seeping Stones
• Platinum
• Lodestone
• Orichalcum
• Starmetal
• Alchemy Stones

Harvesting Nodes

• Hemp
• Petalcap
• Silkweed
• Wirefiber
• Farm Plants
• Magical Plants
• Magic Animals
• Fungi
• Herbs

Logging Nodes

• Young Tree
• Mature Tree
• Ironwood
• Wyrdwood

Miscellaneous Nodes

• Bush
• Bulrush
• Briar
• Saltpeter
• Honey Tree
• Nuts
• Azoth Spring

Animals

• All Animal Location Spawn Points

Prey Type Animals

• Bison
• Boar
• Cow
• Elk/Doe
• Goat
• Rabbit
• Sheep
• Turkey
• Pig
• Peacock

Predator Type Animals

• Alligator
• Bear
• Bobcat
• Lion
• Lynx
• Wolf

Trade Skills

• List of Trade Skills and Professions

Crafting Skills

• Cooking
• Weaponsmithing
• Arcana
• Armoring
• Furnishing
• Jewelcrafting
• Engineering

Refining Skills

• Smelting
• Woodworking
• Leatherworking
• Weaving
• Stonecutting

Gathering Skills

• Mining
• Logging
• Harvesting
• Fishing

• Tracking & Skinning

Crafting Stations

• Forge
• Kitchen
• Arcane Repository
• Workshop
• Stonecutting Table
• Tannery
• Outfitting Station
• Woodshop
• Smelter
• Loom

Tools

Tool Types

• Skinning Knife
• Sickle
• Pickaxe
• Logging Axe
• Fishing Pole

Tool Tiers

• Flint
• Iron
• Steel
• Starmetal
• Orichalcum

Item Suffixes

• List of Item Suffixes

Perks

• List of Perks

Furniture

• List of Furniture

Quests

• List of Quests

Expeditions

• List of Expeditions

News

• New World Release Date
• New World Server List and Status
• How to Redeem Pre-Order Bonuses
• Does New World Have Mounts?
• New World Deluxe Edition vs Normal Edition
• Is New World Coming to Console?
• Is New World Free to Play?
• Is There Crossplay?
• Does New World Have Classes and Races?
• New World System Requirements
• New World Recommended Settings
• Will Open Beta Progress Carry Over to Release?
• Queue Times: Best Servers to Choose
• Server Transfer Guide
• How to Fix the Easy Anti-Cheat Error
• How to Fix the Abandoning Event Bug
• How to Fix the Unrecoverable Error
• Does New World Support Addons?
• Amazon Prime Rewards and How to Redeem
• How to Fix Failed to Join Login Queue Error
• How to Join the Public Test Realm

Patch Notes and Updates

Latest Patch

• New World Update 1.2.1

Previous Patches

• Update 1.2
• Update 1.1.2
• Update 1.1.1
• Update 1.1
• Update 1.0.5
• Update 1.0.4
• Update 1.0.3
• Update 1.0.2
• Update 1.0.1
• Launch Update

Pre-Release Patches

• Open Beta Update
• Closed Beta Patch Notes
• June Alpha Update Part 2
• June Alpha Update Part 1
• In-Game Store Update
• May Alpha Update
• Ice Bound Update
• Quest Design Update
• The Empress of Ebonscale Reach Update
• Forge & Fury Update
• Secrets of the Swamp Update
• Alpha Test Update

Message Boards

• Discussion
• Guild Recruitment
• Friend Request
• Party Finder
• Memes