Welcome to our New World New Weapons Guide. New World has a plethora of awesome weapons, but there are some obvious ones missing. This trailer gives some small easter egg confirmations that these weapons will come at some point in time.
New World New Weapons Guide
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New World S-Tier Weapons
You can make any weapon or weapon combination work depending on your selected skills and augmentations, however these are the top picks to get started with in New World.
Life Staff
The Life Staff will not deal much damage, however as the name recommends, it will keep you alive. The Life Staff is New World’s sole recovery weapon, and its Healing and Protector skill trees offer it an unexpected level of flexibility.
Life Staff Skill Trees
In addition to reinforcing your life-restoring powers, the Healing skill tree grants abilities such as Splash of Light and Mending Touch that get rid of debuffs.
Protector is a more active branch that integrates recovery with passive and active enthusiasts. The recovery potency is a bit less, but you get AoE results for skills as a compromise.
Whatever your choice, we advise combining Life Staff with at least another strong weapon regardless of your perfect class.
Hatchet
The Hatchet is a perfect DPS weapon that rewards aggressive play and constant attacks. Its heavy and charged attacks deal considerable blows, but even stringing a chain of normal attacks sees your damage portion boost.
Hatchet Ability Trees
The Hatchet’s skill trees are Berserk and Throwing. Berserk mainly gives you new attacks and enhanced damage, however it has two standout skills: Defy Death and Berserk. Defy Death lets you make it through a deadly blow with 50 HP once every 75 seconds, while Berserk enhances your damage by 20% for 15 seconds.
Fire Staff
The Fire Staff is one of New World’s most effective weapons, but not initially. You’ll wish to combine the Fire Staff with another weapon up until you begin investing heavily into its skills, since it relies on mana for its attacks. That suggests you’re unprotected when it goes out, once you broaden your mana swimming pool, the Fire Staff is a powerful weapon.
Fire Staff Ability Trees
The Fire Staff’s skill trees are subtly different from each other. Both focus on extending the results of your fire spells, however Fire Mage is nearly entirely DPS focused, while Pyromancer uses some status and support options for the well-rounded mage.
Terrific Axe
The Great Axe strikes difficult and has a large area of effect, so it sits comfortably in the overlap between DPS and tank. It’s a two-handed weapon that generally hits more than one foe at a time, and its 2 skill trees make it possible to build for either role.
Terrific Axe Ability Trees
The Reaper tree is the DPS option. Its abilities and passives increase damage, penetration, and move speed, making it easier to reach opponents and dispatch them quickly. There’s even a number of self-healing skills to take the strain off your healer.
Mauler likewise enhances the Great Axe’s attack potential, but throws in some damage decrease and celebration enthusiasts as well. It’s perfect for tanks, but also functions as a well-rounded efficient skill tree for any role.
New World A-Tier Weapons
A-tier weapons rank a little lower, but not by much. Ability range is ususally the most substantial difference, but all of these are still deserving choices.
Ice Gauntlet
The Ice Gauntlet is a powerful DPS weapon that’s both versatile and a little more limited than its counterparts. It’s a popular enhance for the Fire Staff thanks in part to a couple of skills that assist bring back mana.
Ice Gauntlet skill trees Ice Tempest is the most interesting of the Gauntlet’s skill trees, with skills such as Ice Spike that deal continuous damage and Ice Storm that slows enemies down. This is the branch to choose if you prefer a less “in your face” battling style.
Home builder focuses on varied attacks and some buffs. Entombed is an excellent option for tanks or DPS classes that momentarily protects from all damage and can be improved to provide an enduring defense buff once the ability ends. This tree’s offense capacity centers around the ranged Ice Pylon attack, making it a little less useful for dealing continuous damage.
Sword and Shield
Sword and Shield is the timeless jack-of-all-trades weapon with something for every develop, but nothing that stands out as spectacular. There’s likewise less flexibility in your skill trees. Focusing on one build means quiting prospective for another, and while that may sound uninteresting, it makes Sword and Shield is a best beginner option.
Sword and Shield Ability Tree
Swordmaster is purely a DPS branch, and while it augments Sword and Shield’s offensive capabilities, it’s also quite standard. You get some high damage abilities, such as Reverse Stab, and a small enthusiast to party attack, in addition to a jumping attack that’s handy for covering long distances.
Protector quits DPS potential, but it’s a solid choice for tanks. Shield Bash stuns and ridicules opponents, while Final Stand minimizes damage received and also uses a taunt impact in a larger location.
Spear
The spear is another strong, if a little less inspiring, weapon option. Its skill trees include a number of effects to your attacks, including knockdown and sluggish, with passives that help take advantage of the conditions you apply.
Spear Ability Trees
Zoner has something for any design. Javelin is a ranged attack, while Sweep knocks enemies down, and Cyclone causes sluggish for a brief period. Impaler is more DPS focused, with attacks that add bleed and stun effects while dealing heavier damage than Zoner’s skills.
New World B-Tier Weapons
These are still useful weapons, however have less ability range or included major disadvantages.
War Hammer
The War Hammer is slow and bulky, that makes it difficult for PvP, but outstanding for tanks. Whatever your choice, you’ll wish to match it with a more flexible weapon to prevent getting overloaded and outmatched.
War Hammer Skill Tree
The War Hammer has 2 unique trees. Juggernaut has tank capacity, however primarily focuses on dealing high damage in a broad location. The downside is, just like routine War Hammer attacks, you move quite gradually in the process. Crowd Crusher is the Hammer’s best skill tree, with considerable capacity for strong attacks and moves that also rub your character. It’s a should for tanks.
Musket
If you have great objective, the musket will likely sit higher on the tier list. Headshots are as deadly as you ‘d expect, but once you start investing in its skill trees, even body shots deal heavy damage. The Trapper tree likewise offers a more special approach to fight than other weapons.
Musket Skill Tree
Sharpshooter is great if you want the more standard DPS-oriented method, given that its skills boost your firepower and reward great aim. Trapper lets you build an unpredictable musketeer, one that combines strong shots with deadly bombs and traps dealing ongoing damage on top of deadly impacts.
New World C-Tier Weapons
These remaining weapons do not use much in range or usefulness, and we only recommend them as secondary weapons.
Rapier
The rapier is a restricted sword that works finest coupled with a more flexible weapon, though it’s definitely not our top pick even for that.
Rapier Ability Tree
Despite the name, the Blood tree only has one ability that inflicts bleed, and the attack power for that plus its other abilities is less than 100%. Grace consists of some fancy-looking skills, such as Fleche and Riposte, however beyond looking cool, they do very little of value.
Bow
The bow is a bargain musket that’s considerably less fun to utilize. It works well enough, however most of its abilities are essentially variations of the very same style. Bow users ought to combine it with a more vibrant weapon, ideally one with crowd control abilities.
Bow Skill Tree
Skirmisher is a bit uninspired, though the poison arrow result is helpful in many scenarios with less opponents. Hunter has much better damage capacity, particularly with permeating arrow, but it’s still limited compared to every other weapon in New World.
You can make most weapons operate in New World, but if you’re digging into faction wars, you’ll wish to focus on the best weapons and many useful abilities. If you’re still getting used to how things operate in Amazon’s MMOs, check out our summaries for where to find rare items such as Fae Iron, Saltpeter, and Petal Cap. Some of in charges you’ll deal with for quests aren’t the most convenient to find either, including Boatswain Ambrose.
