In this guide, our team has prepared New World bow spear build content for you. Follow the guide step by step. You can find other new world builds on our website.
New World Bow Spear Build
The Spear and Bow thrust build was extremely popular during the open beta and will likely be a strong build leading into the full release of the game.
This is an extremely flexible build that excels in some key areas: you have both ranged and melee damage, is effective for PvP as well as Expeditions, and has a fair amount of control and sustain. Here’s a closer look at the best masteries for each weapon.
Spear Impaler Tree Best Skill Choices
- Perforate – Rapid attack that applies Rend to your opponent, which means they’ll take extra damage. Pick up both perks in this tree (Rupturing Strikes and Impactful Strikes.)
- Vault Kick – A mobility ability and it can apply a stun. Pick up both of the passives in its tree (Relentless Blows and Continuous Motion.)
- Passives in the Impaler tree – There is a bit of flexibility with the passives you pick up here, but we strongly recommend the Refreshing Jabs passive to increase cooldown speed.
Spear Zoner Tree Best Skill Choices
- Sweep – An essential part of this build, Sweep is the CC you need to keep your enemy on the ground. Pick up the Tenacious Sweep passive which applies Grit to your attack (cannot be dodged or blocked) but don’t bother with Coup de Grace. It looks pretty cool but doesn’t do much for your build.
- Passives from the Zone Tree – Pick up a few mobility passives, like Evasive Maneuvers and Invigorating Crits. Then you have a bit of flexibility with your other passive choices.
Best Bow Masteries and Passives
- Here are the three key abilities you should pick up for the Bow: Penetrating Shot, Poison Shot, and Evade shot.
- The typical combo goes like – open with Penetrating Shot, Poison Shot, swap to Spear, Sweep your enemy, jump back with Evade Shot. Repeat.
- You want to pick up these passives: any mobility from the Skirmisher tree, so like Dodge and Weave, and Archer’s Speed.
- Check out our dedicated Bow build guide here.
New World How to Play Bow Spear Build
- This Spear build mostly focuses on PVP, although with some tweaks it can also be useful for PVE. Those CC abilities with the Spear can be used against large numbers of enemies, especially if you switch out to the Cyclone AOE ability rather than the Javelin, for example.
- The best armor to use for a Spear build is probably Light Armor. That extra mobility is crucial for PVP. If you’re using the Spear for Expeditions or PVE, you may want to switch it out to a full medium set of armor.
- You want to initiate combat with the Spear and then switch to the Hatchet. Apply the various active debuffs (knockdown, stagger) with the Spear, then switch to the Hatchet for rapid attacks.
