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Whether you're playing as a tank on a New World Aeternum team or prefer to tank solo, you need to master reliable builds. Crafting any build in New World is a complex process that requires careful consideration of multiple factors.

With the addition of the new Nighthaven zone, new battle modes, and raids in Season 10, the chances of encountering unstable and dangerous situations have increased, so a solid tank build will help you survive longer.

Below, we'll cover everything you need to know about crafting a tank build suitable for various combat scenarios this season.

What Qualities Should Tank Builds Possess?

Tanker roles often convey a solid and reliable impression in combat. While their damage output may be average, their health and defense are superior to their DPS, making them effective at attracting enemies and protecting teammates in team fights.

However, the tank builds we're introducing this time are designed to be suitable both for solo and team play, so their damage output needs to be average.

Therefore, when choosing artifacts, armor, and perks, in addition to the most important health and defense bonuses, it's important to include items with damage buffs to ensure you can still kill enemies in a timely manner during solo exploration.

In addition, for tank builds, you should always focus on strength and constitution. Investing enough points in each, try to maintain a 1:1 or 1.5:1 ratio between the two.

Artifact Selection

Although Season 10 has added new artifacts, don't rush. New isn't always the best. At least for tank builds, we recommend the classic ring Blooddrinker.

The most important perk within this artifact, Ghoul's Harmony, grants you 25% lifesteal effect and increases all healing from lifesteal by an additional 5%.

Although the accompanying debuff reduces your base damage to enemies, the overall artifact system update introduced in Season 10 has reduced this value from 25% to 20%, and further reduced to 15% if the target is diseased.

This way, you can receive substantial, consistent healing on your own, ensuring you're constantly replenished, whether you're fighting solo or your team's healer is struggling.

While tanks should have some damage potential, that's predicated on having adequate health and defense, so don't worry about equipping Blooddrinker.

As for armor artifacts, both Void Darkplate and The Unmoved are excellent. The former offers durability and increased block damage, while the latter, while less tanky, reflects void damage equal to 16% of your weapon's damage.

Which armor artifact you choose depends on your personal needs: to be a more robust team shield or a versatile offensive and defensive player.

As for amulets, Odo is recommended. It supplements your damage output and provides lifesteal and healing benefits, as follows:

• Odo's Punishment: Increases your damage dealt to stunned or knocked-down enemies by 20%.
• Odo's Confidence: All your attacks grant 3% lifesteal. If you don't have a shield equipped, you gain an additional 5% lifesteal.
• Leeching II: Restore health equal to 3.2% of your damage dealt.
• Trenchant Strikes II: Increases the damage of your Heavy Melee attacks by 12%.

Main Weapon Selection

New World Aeternum offers a wide variety of weapon types, and choosing a primary weapon that synergize effectively with your secondary weapon is crucial.

For tank builds, Sword and Shield is generally the best primary weapon. While dual-wielding a weapon may offer lower mobility, its active and passive abilities give it exceptional utility and defense, making it particularly well-suited for tanking in PvE.

You can choose a Sword and Shield-centric tank build based on your needs and available artifacts. Of course, different build styles require you to unlock different Sword and Shield abilities.

PvE - Shield Bash: Increases defense, damage output, cooldown reduction, and threat management

• Upheaval
• Shield Bash
• Defender's Resolve

PvE - Shield Rush: Continuously reduces damage from one or more enemies, maintaining a continuous buff

• Shield Rush

PvE - Defensive Formation Tank: A tank build with optimal defense

• Defensive Formation

PvP - Shield Rush: Focuses on damage, ideal for solo PvP play

• Leaping Strike
• Shield Bash
• Shield Rush

Also, it's best to add a Cut Pristine Carnelian Gem to your sword. This grants a taunt effect when you use certain abilities, attracting and suppressing enemy attacks. This is very useful in team fights.

How To Choose Your Secondary Weapon?

Regardless of your build style, we recommend Hatchet as your secondary weapon. While it lacks obvious tanking characteristics, it's highly forgiving, easy to master, and compatible with most builds and combat types.

However, it's important to note that Hatchet is best suited for PvE combat, as it deals more damage and complements your primary weapon. Additionally, Cut Pristine Carnelian Gem can also be added to your secondary weapon.

Which Additional Perks Can Enhance Your Build?

In addition to the perks inherent to artifacts, some gear provides slots for you to add more perks, boosting the strength of the gear and even the entire build. For tank builds, the following perks are recommended:

• Enchanted Ward: Reduces the damage dealt by enemy light and heavy attacks.
• Refreshing Ward: Reduces skill cooldown, allowing you to block or defend more frequently.
• Hated: Helps you continuously generate threat, attracting enemy aggro.
• Health: Increases your maximum health.
• Protection Perks: Choose perks with targeted protection based on the type of combat you're facing.
• Conditioning Perks: Choose perks that reduce specific types of damage based on the type of combat you're about to face.

That's all for this guide. If you or your friends are playing a tank role, this guide should help you complete the new content in Season 10!

Generally speaking, completing specific PvE dungeons or competitive PvP modes in New World not only earns rewards, but more importantly, showcases the game's combat design.

However, there are also some gameplay methods that don't involve overly ingenious mechanical design, primarily allowing you to directly farm resources to level up your character, such as chest runs.

Also known as elite chest runs, these are large-scale endgame activities. You instantly team up with other players and follow a specific route through elite zones or strongholds to search for elite chests and loot them.

With the addition of Nighthaven, a new zone, in Season 10, your run routes and strategies may require some adjustments to better adapt to the new season and maximize your gains from a single chest run. We'll explain these tips below.

Special Tips For Chest Runs

Mechanically, the gameplay is simple: follow the route, kill enemies at each destination, and loot chests. However, knowing a few additional tips ahead of time can help you avoid unnecessary losses during chest runs.

First, while there's no character level requirement for this event, it's recommended that you reach at least level 50 before entering, as otherwise, you'll be easily killed.

Second, all elite chests can only be looted once within 24 hours, and the limit resets daily at 5:00 AM EST. This means you can participate in this resource farming activity daily if you have the time.

How To Form A Team?

Players gather in real-time in Recruitment text chat every day to complete chest runs together. If you'd like to join someone else's team, follow the chat below and select a reliable team to join:

• X WT
• X ECR
• X TRAIN
• X and then the elite zone you're gathered at

If you want to be the team leader and recruit others, you can first plan a good run route, then post a notification in Recruitment text chat and wait for others to join.

What Preparations Should You Make Beforehand?

Compared to large-scale PvE or PvP battles, chest runs are less challenging, so your character and gear requirements aren't as demanding. However, preparation is still necessary to maximize resource farming efficiency.

Since Nighthaven is a key part of chest runs in Season 10, a must-have item in your inventory is Potion of Full Sight. It reveals invisible secrets and grants you a 30-minute buff to complete the run.

You can exchange this item directly by New World coins in the market, or you can gather enough crafting materials and craft it at Aana Station. You can craft two potions at a time. Required materials:

• 1 gravel dirt
• 100 water
• 1 quartz

Note: This potion should not be confused with Potion of Fool's Sight, which reveals invisible enemies in Season 10 new raid, Isle of Night.

We also recommend carrying the following items to improve your chances of obtaining more loot during chest runs:

• Gear with the luck stat and Monstrous Turkey Leg: Combined, these maximize your luck and increase your chances of obtaining rare loot from chests.
• Topaz Gypsum Potions: Obtain extra gypsum from killing enemies.
• Interactive Map: Shows you the exact locations of most available chests.

Route In Nighthaven

This route begins in Church of Divinity area and ends at Nightbreaker Roost. Before setting off, consume any buffed potions you have; they should allow you to complete the farming round within the duration.

If you have a mount, use it for travel to increase your speed. Avoid areas of light as much as possible, as they make you more vulnerable to enemy damage. Also, equip medium gear and increase your Constitution points to mitigate fast enemy attacks.

Next, you should see a mountain with two beautiful bridges. Climbing the top offers a chance to obtain two chests. Take them and continue forward. You'll encounter another group of crow enemies. Killing them will also reveal chests nearby.

It's worth noting that the best way to deal with crow enemies is to spread them out as much as possible and then defeat them one by one. Individual crows are fragile and can be killed in one hit.

From there, your mission is simple - nothing much to say: just head straight toward your destination, defeating all enemies you encounter and taking any chests that appear.

It's also worth noting that at the end of the route, you'll encounter a boss. This boss not only deals high damage, but also disables your Potion of Full Sight if you are killed.

Since chest runs are mostly team-based, you can help your teammates by diverting the boss's aggro after grabbing your own chests. This can be done by quickly returning to the boss and attracting his attention. You might also unlock additional chests along the way.

After defeating the boss, clear the surrounding area again, ensuring no enemies or chests are left behind. This concludes the run. If you have time, you can travel to other zones to continue your adventure.

Tricks For Completing This Route

When dismounting and searching or avoiding enemies within a certain area, mastering some jumping or parkour techniques can help you complete the run faster, shortening your time in a particular area and completing the run as quickly as possible.

In fact, the new chest runs introduced in Season 10 are not difficult overall and can be completed even solo. The only challenge is the final boss.

In addition to the routes we've provided, you can also explore Nighthaven to discover more available chest runs routes, making each day of your New World farming full of new adventures! Have fun!

While it's a good idea to stick with your proven builds from previous seasons when entering New World Season 10, developing new builds will not only expand your combat options but also help you become more familiar with the new season's mechanics.

Typically, crafting builds in New World Aeternum are centered on a specific artifact or piece of gear. This time, we'll continue this tradition and show you how to craft a bow-centric build in Season 10.

Bow Build In S10 Overview

In New World Aeternum, attunements can be thought of as buffs similar to perks. Therefore, whether it's a bow or other weapon, the more attunements you have, the more valuable it is to craft a unique build for it.

As you craft your build, you'll need to continuously earn gold and new gear to complete it, so you'll definitely want to delve into the modes and challenges available in the early stages.

This will also help you become more familiar with Season 10 mechanics, allowing you to use your established bow build to defeat more challenging bosses once you enter the endgame.

The build introduced here is actually more suited for PvE, so you can be more targeted when searching for gear. You can also try using this build to handle simple PvP encounters, but it won't be effective in large-scale PvP battles.

Also, due to the nature of the bow weapon, this build isn't ideal for melee combat. However, it offers good overall range adaptability, is very versatile, and has high damage potential.

Optimal Armor

Let's start with armor. After all, in the early stages of a season, learning how to improve your defense and survivability to protect yourself is paramount.

To do this, you can first consume your New World coins to redeem a medium headwear with as many defensive perks as possible, such as Flame Conditioning or Slash Conditioning.

Afterwards, you'll need to continue farming for available light chest armor and light gloves. Of course, you still need to strive to acquire and equip items with a wonderful selection of defensive perks.

Generally speaking, most armor sets have Physical Ward and Shock Conditioning, so when choosing a chest armor, focus on Energizing Evade Shot and ensure your gloves have Lifestealing perk.

For legwear, the best choice is Attuned Leather Pants. It grants +9 to all attributes and has the unique perks Elemental Aversion II and Shirking Energy II. They also provide an empty gem slot and a defense slot.

Note that with the Season 10 update, you can use Umbral Shards to increase your gear score. Therefore, if you have enough shards, it's best to upgrade your armor score to 785 - the same applies to the weapons described below.

Weapon Selection And Combination

The bow is undoubtedly the main weapon of the entire build. To ensure its effectiveness, you can combine it with the following abilities:

• Penetrating Shot: Fires an arrow that deals 150% weapon damage and pierces the target, with a range of 100 meters.
• Rapid Shot: Fires three arrows in succession, dealing 100%, 100%, and 120% weapon damage, respectively.
• Rain of Arrows: Unleashes a rain of arrows in a 4-meter radius, dealing 150% weapon damage.

As for your secondary weapon choice, there are many options for a bow build, but based on your existing armor and the other content we'll discuss later, we recommend the rapier.

This is because in PvE combat, these two weapons combined can deliver high burst damage, especially if you prioritize your Intelligence when investing in attributes, which will increase your DPS and overall elemental attack boost.

The specific use of these two weapons in combat is to first use the bow to lure the enemy to you, then use the rapier to deal burst damage and knock them down. Regarding the specific Rapier choice, Finisher is a good artifact.

It's worth noting that there's another way to combine the bow and rapier: use the rapier for a quick escape, but then use Riposte ability to stagger and stun the enemy for 2 seconds when they get close.

Jewelry Pairing

Jewelry is a general term, specifically encompassing amulets, rings, and earrings, each with distinct functions.

When choosing amulets, aim for perks that increase health, stamina, and recovery. Vicious and Omnidirectional Evade are both excellent amulet perks for bow builds.

Rings focus on increasing your damage and defense, so we recommend equipping Soulpollen. It has a base gear score of 650-700 and several unique perks.

Earrings are unique in that they grant a unique perk called Refreshing Toast, which shortens the cooldown of potions, giving you a chance to turn the tide in long battles.

How To Invest In Attributes?

For bow builds, choosing and investing in attributes primarily depends on how you plan to use your secondary weapon.

If you want to focus your secondary weapon on keeping distance from enemies, invest all of your Dexterity after reaching 50 Constitution to ensure agility and evasion.

If you're aiming for more damage with your secondary weapon, especially with our recommended rapier, you can focus on Intelligence, providing both increased damage and the bow's elemental attack bonus.

Note that the first stat investment option is only suitable for advanced Season progression, as you'll be proficient with the bow and arrows at this point, and 50 Constitution is generally sufficient. Using this method too early may result in additional losses.

That's all for this guide. If you happen to have a good bow or prefer a bow build that prioritizes agility, give it a try!

While crafting builds, you'll also need to constantly consume coins or materials to upgrade your gear. To save time, you can directly get safe New World gold trading at IGGM to skip the tedious farming process and jump right into the excitement of Season 10!

If you're a veteran New World player with at least two years of experience, you'll undoubtedly be familiar with Umbral Shards as you explore the new content released in Season 10 in 2025. They were actually removed from the game in 2023.

Also known as Umbral Crystals, these items were used to further increase your gear score. However, because of poor mechanics, they became redundant in the late game and were ultimately removed.

The return of these items in Season 10 suggests this issue has been resolved, or at least the positive impact far outweighs the negative impact. Therefore, obtaining sufficient Umbral Shards in Season 10 is essential.

Next, we'll explain how to farm these items based on Season 10 gameplay and modes.

Umbral Shards In Season 10

The main purpose of this item remains unchanged in Season 10: it aims to increase your gear score from 700 to a maximum of 800. Please note that to address previous issues, you can now only earn a maximum of 4,000 Umbral Shards per week.

Therefore, after completing your weekly Umbral Crystal farming, you'll need to plan your use to maximize their value.

Why Should You Farm Umbral Shards?

Umbral Shards increase your gear score, significantly increasing your gear's base damage and perk effectiveness. This will grant your character more combat bonuses and unlock more endgame content to earn rewards.

It's important to note that while your gear score can currently reach 800, it's best not to exceed 785 unless you're truly devoted to a particular piece of gear, as its effectiveness diminishes with increasing levels after 785.

Farming By Playing PvP Modes

While PvP modes haven't changed significantly in Season 10, most gameplay modes offer Umbral Shards as rewards.

Capture The Flag

This mode officially launched in New World in Season 9. Each round consists of two teams of 10 players, each lasting ten minutes. Your goal is to capture the opposing team's flag. In addition to Umbral Shards, you also earn PvP XP.

It's important to note that compared to other PvP modes, CTF is more fast-paced, requiring you to be quick and agile in both flag-grabbing and combat. Therefore, it's important to consume New World coins for gear with these bonuses to increase efficiency.

Outpost Rush

This PvP mode actually has some PvE aspects. After reaching level 60, you can join any 20-player team and compete with another team for control of three outposts to earn points. The first team to reach 1,000 points wins.

3v3 Arena

This is the smallest PvP mode currently in the game. It pits two teams against each other in a best-of-five 3v3 format on a random map to determine the winner. It's worth noting that Ancient Guardian Arena is a PvE mode.

Farming By Playing PvE Modes

Season 10 introduces several new PvE gameplay modes to New World Aeternum, including the new Catacombs mode and the new Isle of Night raid. However, not all of them drop Umbral Shards, and the farming value varies.

Catacombs

As the main new gameplay mode in Season 10, Catacombs is truly remarkable in terms of playability. Not only is it challenging, but each dungeon you enter is a new one, and as long as someone in your party successfully leaves, you'll receive a large amount of loot.

Unfortunately, the drop rate of Catacombs for Umbral Shard farming is quite low, making it unsuitable as a mainstream PvE farming method. It should only be used as a supplement to other materials you're looking to earn.

Mutations

Mutations are essentially mutated versions of standard Expeditions, enhancing the enemies and bosses in standard Expeditions. Therefore, they are essentially endgame content. Three Expeditions will mutate weekly, each with three difficulty levels.

Undoubtedly, farming the most difficult Mutation will yield the most Umbral Shards, but given its high difficulty, it's difficult to unlock them quickly, especially since Season 10 has only been online for a week.

As for the first two difficulty levels, the current problem is that the challenge isn't proportional to Umbral Shard drop rate, making them unworthy of your full effort.

Elite Chest Runs

This event takes place throughout the day in New World Aeternum. Simply send a message in the world channel to invite other players to join you in clearing Elite zones or Strongholds to obtain chests and unlock the desired rewards.

Currently available zones include:

• Imperial Palace
• Attalus's Foundry
• Mangled Heights
• Scorched Mines
• Myrkgard known
• Malevolence known
• Eternal Pool
• Forecastle Drift
• Cayo De La Muerte

Compared to the previous two PvE modes, Elite Chest Runs are easier to complete and yield approximately 150 Umbral Crystals per 10 minutes of play, a very good drop rate!

Optimal Farming Strategy

Based on the above methods, we recommend completing various PvP modes and clearing Elite zones as your primary method of farming Umbral Shards in the early stages of Season 10. If you're lucky, you might also find unexpected gains in Catacombs!

Regardless of which farming method you use, you ultimately need to fight to achieve your goal. To ensure you can successfully defeat your enemies, be sure to stockpile enough coins in advance so you can exchange them for more powerful gear.

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New World Season 10, Nighthaven, will begin on October 13th. Due to changes to the weapon system, only weapons with a Gear Score of 700 or higher can be upgraded to 800. So, in preparation for the next season, whether you're a new player, a veteran, or a returning player, it's crucial to level up your weapons now.

Double Weapon XP Week is happening from now until September 29th, making it the perfect time to farm weapon XP. Here are some of the best locations to farm weapon XP.

No.6 Commander Thorpe, In Great Cleave

You need to travel to a designated location on Great Cleave map to participate in Thorpe world event. This event involves waiting for and defeating several waves of monsters before ultimately killing the boss, Commander Thorpe. Defeating him will earn you New World coins, XP, and Weapon Mastery.

This is the least recommended area. While it may have been a good place in the past, it has become a common raiding location and is now frequently overcrowded, significantly impacting the farming experience. Furthermore, changes have increased monster spawn intervals, further reducing farming efficiency.

No.5 Elite Chest Runs

Elite Chest Runs are a variety of activities where you join a group and travel to a high-level elite area like Brimstone Sands. The group will follow a fixed route, clearing all elite monsters along the way and unlocking a large number of Elite Chests.

The main advantage of this method is the additional rewards. You can get a large amount of equipment and crafting materials from the chests, while weapon XP is more of a secondary benefit. Therefore, this method is not very efficient. However, during Double XP Week, groups tend to clear all monsters. If your primary goal is to obtain equipment and upgrade your weapons as a secondary goal, then this event is a good choice for you.

No.4 Brightwood Isle

In the elite area of ​​Brightwood Isle, players can freely and repeatedly clear monsters to gain experience. This area is very suitabe for new players who have just reached max level. As it's a lower-level elite zone with relatively easy monsters, it's a great place for players who've just reached level 65 to get used to the game and accumulate gear before moving on to the more difficult elite zones. However, its downside is that it's well known, so it might attract a lot of players.

No.3 Restless Shore Pirate Encampments

There are two Pirate Encampments located very close together in Restless Shore. First, you need to reach the first encampment, gather all the monsters within, and then quickly clear them with powerful AoE abilities. You'll need to wait for the monsters to spawn, but if you have a mount, you can skip this wait.

You'll need to immediately ride to the second encampment and repeat the gathering and AoE clearing process. By the time you've cleared the second encampment, the monsters in the first encampment will have mostly spawned, allowing you to return and continue the cycle.

No.2 Eden Grove, Tor To-Riven (Lifering) Farming

This farming location is located in Eden Grove area. You'll need to join a Lifering farming group through the recruitment channel. Your team will gather at a fixed location to fight a constant stream of monsters together.

In team mode, you can quickly clear large groups of monsters with AoE skills. Besides weapon XP, your primary goal is to obtain Lifering equipment, which is very valuable and useful. Elite chests and other rewards are also available around the area. Overall, this location is highly efficient for farming and provides valuable equipment, making it highly recommended.

No.1 Brimstone Sands, Glob of Ectoplasm

This is currently the most recommended method. Located in Brimstone Sands, you'll need to recruit a Glob-related team on the recruitment channel. The team will gather in a very small area, where monsters spawn at a high frequency and density, allowing you to fight almost non-stop from one location.

This area offers the fastest monster spawn rate of the centralized methods, making it the most efficient. Monsters killed in this area also consistently drop a material called Glob of Ectoplasm. This material is required for advanced crafting and is currently in high demand, selling for around 90 coins each. This makes it a perfect spot to kill two birds with one stone: you can quickly level your weapons to level 20 while earning tons of New World Gold.

Notes

• 1. Double Weapon XP Week event runs until September 29th. Players who need it can take advantage of it.
• 2. There are also Weapon XP Booster in Season 9 Pass, and use them immediately before you start farming to avoid wasting their duration.
• 3. Whether farming solo or in a group, you should use your AoE skills frequently. Once you hit a monster with your skills, you'll share the weapon XP upon its death.
• 4. Since the currently held weapon gains full XP, the off-hand weapon gains a portion. If you want to prioritize a particular weapon, always hold it in your main hand.

These are the fastest ways to farm weapon XP. You can actually combine these methods. For example, you could farm in Restless Shore while looking for a group you could join. I'm sure you'll be able to win in Season 10 Nighthaven. Upgrade your weapons to the maximum level before arriving.

In addition to increasing your weapon's level, upgrading your weapon's Gear Score also requires a significant amount of materials and coins. Many players don't have the time to farm these materials, but other players will sell them.

If you also need to increase your Gear Score but don't have enough coins, IGGM.com offers a variety of quick and reliable New World coins for sale, saving you the time of farming for coins.