General News

New World Aeternum received a small update on the evening of November 3rd, and it's great to see that the game is still being maintained.

This might not be the last update, as the promised new weapon hasn't been released yet. However, given the current situation, will it even appear? So let's take a look at the main content, the issues addressed, and the overall direction of this update.

Main Content Updates

Reekwater Area Enhancements

A major update to Reekwater area was performed, including fixes to Siren Skull, and Barrel Explosion Systems, as well as improvements to overall stability. This was originally part of a planned large-scale overhaul of Reekwater.

Perks Fix

• Disdain Infliction I: The power of Disdain Infliction I perk has been reduced, possibly removing the additional damage it previously dealt to monsters.
• Beloved II: Fixed an issue where the extra damage from Beloved perk wasn't working.
• Life Stealer's Draw II: Added a 0.1-second cooldown to Life Stealer's Draw II perk to prevent a single activation from triggering multiple life steals.
• Protector's Blessing: Fixed an issue where Protector's Blessing foot and leg items had duplicate perks.

Perk Balance Adjustments

• Nerfed the maximum strength of the old Enchanted Ward, making it weaker than the new Enchanted Ward, but both can still stack.
• Buffed the new Refreshing Move II effect (from 1% to 2%) and increased the activation time of the old Refreshing Move (from 0.2 seconds to 0.4 seconds).
• Reduced the duration of the old Sundering Shockwave (from 10 seconds to 7 seconds).

Mechanistic Adjustments

The trigger conditions for all Protection Perks have been changed from "not equipped" to "on active." This means that these effects no longer apply when the shield is put away (e.g., when switching off-hand weapons), fixing a mechanism that could be abused.

The maximum effect of Grit Ward II has been increased to 2.4%, and the maximum effect of Grit Ward I has been reduced to 1.8%, allowing two Toughness Armor perks to negate additional damage from other perks.

Elemental Aversion II perk has also been updated to match the values of Physical Aversion II. Finally, an issue where the elemental damage of Sapphire Damage Conversion Gems did not scale with attributes has been fixed.

Expeditions Fixes

• Fixed a bug affecting the first raid boss, Jester, along with pathing issues that caused bosses to get stuck and reset raids.
• Progress issues in Dynasty Shipyard Expeditions have been fixed.
• Fixed issues with Minor Heartrunes not dropping from dungeon bosses and incorrect Umbral Crystals reward amounts in PvP tracks.

Economy

Nighthaven Faction Influence Race has finally been implemented, and the level 65 main quest chain is no longer blocked after abandoning push quests. Additionally, the reward expenditure for Territory Wars has been adjusted; the reward for occupying Nighthaven has been increased to 15%, while other areas have generally seen a decrease.

The tips earned from playing instruments have been changed from Primary Input to Secondary Input. This was actually to prevent players from earning large amounts of New World coins from other players by auto-playing at monster farms.

However, this change now feels somewhat ironic, as very few players come those farms anymore. It also indicates that the developers once tolerated the behavior - they simply didn't want players profiting excessively from it.

That concludes the main content of this update. Aside from some game content fixes and balance changes, there's nothing new. So, is there still hope for the promised new weapons?

The Future Of New World Aeternum

Currently, the most pressing question for New World Aeternum player community is whether any other company can acquire it. While it is technically available for sale, significant practical obstacles exist.

Firstly, as an original IP, New World lacks brand recognition and carries the negative reputation of its disastrous launch, making it far less attractive to potential buyers than established IPs like The Lord of the Rings.

Secondly, New World uses a custom engine (originally CryEngine, then Lumberyard, and finally Azoth). This engine is highly niche, requiring external development teams without prior experience to learn how to use it effectively. Any company acquiring the game would almost certainly have to take over the original development team as well, requiring them to train new employees.

However, the official announcement of development halting coincided with the layoff of most of the team, significantly reducing the project's value and likelihood of being acquired.

Finally, if the parent company sells the game to another company that successfully operates and revitalizes New World, it would prove the parent company's operational and marketing failures, rather than the game itself, causing even greater damage to its brand reputation.

Given the improved state of New World Season 9 and Season 10, its chances of success in someone else's hands are not low, and someone within the parent company could already be aware of this, making a sale even less likely, as the company likely wishes to avoid player ridicule and humiliation.

With a large number of core personnel leaving, it will be difficult for the current maintenance and operation staff to continue developing new weapons. Therefore, the new weapon - the dagger - may become a promise that New World can never fulfill to its players.

If you've had a general overview of all the new content in New World Season 10, you'll know that most of the new playable modes are PvE and best completed in a team. But have you considered the possibility of tackling them solo?

Season 10 adds new PvE modes, including Catacombs and Isle of Night raid. The raid retains the 10-player group system and is extremely difficult, it's best not to enter solo. However, Catacombs completely allows you to try solo play.

Theoretically, a three-person team is the best composition for exploring Catacombs - DPS, tank, and healer, perfect. But the game doesn't actually force you to always stay with your teammates.

So if you have the time and are willing to challenge yourself, you can try leaving the group and exploring Catacombs dungeon solo, following our upcoming guide, and see if you can successfully bring back the rewards!

Catacombs Mode Mechanics Overview

This mode has a 30-minute time limit. During this time, you need to enter the corresponding dungeon and continuously kill enemies to unlock the boss. Defeating the boss will advance you to the next level, and this process repeats until the time runs out.

Increased levels not only mean facing more dangerous enemies and bosses, but also granting you more rare rewards upon victory.

The boss's room is marked with a skull icon on the dungeon mini-map. You need to thoroughly explore other rooms to find levers to open the door to the boss battle.

Each run of Catacombs features several bosses, but their combat mechanics are not entirely original to Season 10; rather, they are designed based on all the boss battles in the game so far.

To successfully collect all the rewards from the dungeon, at least one person in the party must leave alive. This means that if you're exploring solo, you must survive to the end. Alternatively, you can choose to retreat before the timer expires to avoid additional losses.

How To Explore Catacombs Solo?

You'll need to make various preparations to solo successfully, such as upgrading your character's gear, mastering additional tips based on the inherent mechanics, and more. We'll introduce the specifics below.

Memorize All Map Layouts

Each time you explore a Catacombs dungeon, you'll face a completely new map, but this "new" only applies compared with the previous exploration; the total number of maps isn't infinite.

If you explore with a team, you can split up when encountering unfamiliar dungeon layouts, reducing the probability of encountering unknown dangers and finding the boss faster.

However, if you go alone, exploring unfamiliar areas will consume more time. Therefore, it's best to play a few times in a team or check relevant guides to familiarize yourself with all Catacombs dungeon maps, saving time and getting straight to the boss fight.

Ideally Obtain All Buffs

In addition to various enemies and boss rooms, there are rooms within the dungeon where you can obtain additional combat buffs: Idol of Ascension and Aspects.

Defeating enemies yields an item called Splintered Souls, which can be used to exchange for damage and maximum health boosts when entering rooms with Idol of Ascension.

Aspect rooms feature multiple statues offering various buffs. At a party, everyone should prioritize the best buffs for their playstyle. However, if exploring solo, you can choose based on your character's strengths and weaknesses.

Leave Bosses For Later

Since the difficulty of subsequent levels increases with each boss defeated, it's recommended not to rush to kill them after unlocking them. Prioritize defeating weaker bosses to avoid failing early on due to overly difficult regular levels.

Once you've acquired sufficient buffs through exploring the rooms, you can focus on clearing bosses!

It's important to note that since dungeon layouts change each time, and a boss's difficulty depends not only on its level but also on whether you possess attributes that counter it, there's no absolute priority ranking for boss challenges.

Possible bosses in the dungeon include:

• Snorok Ice Fist
• Grundgul The Regent
• Soul Eater
• Neishatun
• Kurok
• Hadish Azar, Keeper of Flame
• Nereid
• Fulgoris

Crafting Suitable Build

Since Catacombs is a PvE mode, craft builds should prioritize improving PvE attributes in skills, gear, and perks.

In solo mode, without support, your build needs to achieve a balance between damage output, defense, and self-healing. A deficiency in any one area will hinder exploration.

Since each boss is different, we recommend using a general solo Catacombs build crafting approach, then combined with different skills and armor to target specific damage outputs or switch to more flexible/stable movement methods.

Don't Be Fixated On Solo Play

The solo playstyle we describe assumes all party members are split up, as the system will force team matching. While you can explore the entire Catacombs solo, if you encounter danger after running out of respawns, it's best to call for your teammates immediately.

Summary

In general, completing Catacombs solo is entirely feasible, but it's not the most efficient way to obtain rewards.

The best dungeon clearing strategy is to first split up and eliminate enough regular enemies to collect a large amount of Splintered Souls, then regroup to defeat the boss with additional buffs. This will increase everyone's survival rate.

That concludes our introduction. If you are confident in your abilities, please follow our suggestions and start experiencing solo Catacombs exploration now!

First of all, R.I.P. to New World Aeternum. Although it will no longer be updated, the servers will continue to operate for about another year. At least during this final period, you can continue to enjoy the game.

So, to allow you to enjoy the last moments of this game, here's a guide to the equipment and techniques needed for New World Aeternum Season 10 Bruiser PvP gameplay.

Attribute Points

Two recommended configurations, which can be quickly switched using Gear Sets:

• Configuration 1: 318 Strength and 250 Constitution
• Configuration 2: 350 Strength and 200 Constitution

The combination of 350 Strength and 200 Constitution may result in slightly higher damage, but will also make you more vulnerable. You can adjust it according to your own preferences.

Artifacts

For Season 10 PVP Bruiser, there are three artifact options in the current version:

• Djinn Headwrap: Its Invigorated II and Vigor II reduce the duration of negative status effects, stacking up to 5 times.
• Tumbler Feetwraps: Enhance evasion and provide healing after dodging.
• Unyielding: Reduces critical hit damage taken and increases critical hit chance in PVP.

Djinn Headwrap is highly recommended, while if you don't have it, the other two artifacts are also good choices.

Heartrunes Gems

Three recommended options:

• Brutal Heartrune of Detonate: Accumulates explosive energy and detonates, dealing 100% Heartrunes damage within a 5-meter radius (highest damage).
• Brutal Heartrune of Grasping Vines: Summons vines to surround the user, dealing damage and immobilizing enemies within a 4-meter radius for 3 seconds.
• Cunning Heartrune of Phantom Blades: Inflicts Sluggish on hit, making it impossible for the enemy to dodge.

Armor And Perks

To ensure compatibility with both Goldwrap Headband and Thumba Anklets, the recommended Loot Bias gear combination is:

• Head: Medium
• Body: Heavy
• Hands: Light
• Legs: Heavy
• Feet: Light

Wearing this gear will make it easier to obtain equipment of the corresponding weight and slot from chests and rewards.

Armor Core Perks

Shirking Fortification Perk should be present on every piece of armor; it grants a significant amount of armor after dodging.

Other Recommended Perks

• Excellent: Slash, Strike, Flame, Arcane, Shock.
• Normal: Thrust, Void.
• Not Recommended: Nature, Frost.
• Defensive Slot: Prioritize Invigorated, Keenly Fortified, and Freedom; alternatively, choose Enchanted Ward or Elemental Aversion.
• Gem Socket: Prioritize Punishing gems to increase melee damage.
• Offensive Slot: Can be placed in Penetrating Backstab.

Weapon Mastery And Skills

The two recommended weapons for a PvP Bruiser are both melee: Great Axe and War Hammer. Besides their considerable damage, they also offer good control and damage reduction capabilities.

Great Axe Abilities

Essential and important skills are as follows:

• Maelstrom: Spin attack that pulls enemies closer.
• Storm's Reach: Increases the range of the spin.
• Absorb: Spin and block projectiles.
• No Reprieve: Gain Grit while spinning and can launch additional attacks.
• Gravity Well: Creates a 10-meter vortex that pulls enemies closer and immobilizes them.
• Crowded Well: Increases burst damage when an enemy is caught in the vortex.
• Unyielding: Increases the buffs received by allies standing in the vortex.
• Enduring Strike: Gain Grit on heavy attacks.
• Mauler's Resolve: Automatically regenerates stamina when health is low.

War Hammer Skills

Acceleration and Quick Recovery: Use light and heavy attacks to reposition and reduce cooldowns.

Note: Avoid taking Exhaustive Attacks, as they are incompatible with Djinn Headwrap.

Core Perks

• Attunement Perks
• End II
• Shirking Perks
• Intangible Charge II: Allows charging through most obstacles except ice walls (Great Axe).
• Insatiable Gravity Well (War Hammer).
• Weapon Gem: Can use Cut Pristine Turquoise, providing armor penetration, synergizing with Penetrating Backstab skill.

Jewellery

Amulet

Abandon Ankh, and Pursue multiple protections, ideally a combination of: Slash Protection, Strike Protection, Arcane Protection, and Well-Being.

Earring

Endless Thirst is your best choice. If you don't have one, you can choose earrings with Regenerating, Refreshing Toast, and Refreshing Recovery as alternatives.

Ring

You need to choose a ring with Unstoppable as core. It provides a grit effect at the start of light and heavy attacks, greatly enhancing your pressure.

In Open World PvP (OPR), your Gear Score automatically increases to 775, so low-score gear is viable. However, in War mode, Gear Score is crucial. You should prioritize upgrading your weapons, artifacts, and amulets to 800 to maximize damage and survivability.

Consumables

To further increase damage, you'll need to prepare some consumables. These can be replenished at any time using New World gold or crafted yourself.

Consumables like Sharpening Stones and food can provide temporary attribute buffs, increasing attack power or reducing DoT effects.

You can keep Regeneration Serum and Cleansing Elixir in your hotbar, and they are essential.

If you don't have an Unstoppable Ring, carry an Infused Grit Potion. For defensive potions, choose Gemstone Dust, Fire Absorption Potion, or Arcane Absorption Potion.

Combos

When the team is focused down, use potions and crowd control removal abilities beforehand, then use Brutal Heartrune of Detonate (or other Heartrunes skill), and use Charge to escape after the explosion.

You can pre-stack Mauler's Fury stacks with normal attacks, then unleash a Grav Well and Shockwave combo to deal damage in one go.

That's all for Bruiser PVP. It has high gear requirements, but there probably won't be many more opportunities to fight in the future. So use up your coins and materials, and enjoy the battle while your in-game friends are still here.

New World: Aeternum is dead! While players are still enjoying Season 10, and even seeing a rebound in player numbers since Season 9, the end is hanging over New World.

New World: Aeternum Season 10 was just released two weeks ago, and Rise of the Angry Earth DLC was released for free, and everything seemed to be getting better. Why did New World: Aeternum come to an abrupt end? We need to see the latest announcement.

What Happened?

In the announcement on October 28th, the developers stated that New World will cease providing new content updates at the end of 2026. The servers will continue to operate until 2026 (possibly until the end of the year), or even early 2027, but will eventually shut down. The official announcement promised to notify players six months in advance before the closure.

The recently released Season 10: Nighthaven will be the last major content update for the game on PC and console platforms. The game will enter Maintenance Mode, meaning the official team will only perform necessary bug fixes and server maintenance, and will no longer develop new content.

Current Game Status

The game is no longer available for sale on Steam, but it may still be available on the official website. In-game currency and micro-transactions will remain open, allowing players to trade items and New World coins with other players. Players with PlayStation Plus Extra or Premium memberships can continue playing.

Halloween Event will be the last holiday event; subsequent winter events and similar events will not be held. The official team will perform necessary bug fixes to maintain server stability, but there will be no new content.

Before the announcement, the total number of players on PC and console platforms was approximately 80,000. After the announcement, the player count has plummeted.

Why Is It Shutting Down?

The primary and most direct reason for the closure of New World: Aeternum is massive layoffs at its parent company, with some reports suggesting up to 30,000 employees affected.

The video game division was severely impacted, with 2 studios developing New World: Aeternum being almost entirely shut down. A game project based on Lord of the Rings IP was also cancelled.

New World: Aeternum's parent company announced a shift in resources towards AI, calling it "the most transformative technology since the internet." However, they didn't completely eliminate the game division; instead, the focus shifted to developing AI casual games, such as Snoop Dogg game mentioned in the announcement.

Other retained projects include the mobile game March of Giants, a new Tomb Raider title under a publishing agreement, and an open-world driving game.

New World: Aeternum's Own Problems

New World: Aeternum received significant resources from the company from the outset, boasting top game developers and a highly skilled workforce. It garnered tremendous attention before its release, even reaching a peak of 1 million players at launch.

However, due to management issues, New World: Aeternum was practically a half-finished product upon launch, suffering from optimization problems and insufficient content, leading to a significant loss of players.

After reaching a peak of 1 million players at launch, the game's player base never returned to that level. Although Season 10 performed well and player numbers rebounded somewhat, in the long run, the game failed to achieve the expected commercial success.

Player Reactions And Impact On The Game

New World: Aeternum Season 10 was actually of high quality. Its content design was excellent, and the combat system had no major bugs. The main problem was insufficient loot, forcing players to repeatedly farm ECRS in the late game.

However, knowing the game had no future, most players lost the motivation to continue playing, because the core appeal of MMOs lies in a continuously developing and evolving world.

Soon, you'll see the in-game economy (trading, auction house, guild activity) weaken due to the reduced player base, and community activities, group raids, and PvP participation decline.

And this current news may very well cause a temporary rebound in player numbers. Because players eager to enjoy the final season might return early or speed up their play, if you want to have a blast before the final moments arrive, it is the perfect time to squander your New World coins and items.

Potential Endings

The game is still running, and New World: Aeternum's fate isn't necessarily sealed. There are two possible outcomes:

• The game remains in maintenance mode until the servers shut down.
• The game's IP might be sold to a third-party company.

However, this essentially means its parent company will no longer develop MMOs. Currently, the entire game industry, especially the high-cost, high-risk MMO sector, is in a very unstable and pessimistic period. Most successful MMOs are currently based on existing IPs, and it's difficult for entirely new IPs to break through and achieve success. New World: Aeternum's early setbacks and its current ending exacerbate this predicament.

New World: Aeternum isn't the best, nor is it the worst MMO. Its focus on PvP and combat gameplay is unique among MMOs, but unfortunately, it's now lying in a coffin awaiting burial. If you still love this game, then this is its last moment of glory. Enjoy the game.

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!

New World Aeternum Season 10 Nighthaven is the season for vampires and werewolves, and the changes to equipment this season are enough to allow you to continuously steal the life of your opponents in combat, making you the vampire on the battlefield.

The following introduces a Light Armor Bow & Rapier build centered around Bow and Rapier, focusing on Lightning damage and lifesteal. Although this build's defense is not high, its powerful lifesteal can keep you alive on the PvP battlefield.

Attribute

• Strength (50): Invest for the first two Strength Attribute Milestones - Light Attack Damage Increase and Heavy Attack Damage Increase. 100 Strength is not needed because the physical damage of the third milestone is useless because all damage is converted to Lightning.
• Dexterity (500): Dexterity is the main attribute required for bows and rapiers, which can significantly increase the damage of both.
• Intelligence (25): Achieves the first milestone buff, granting 3% backstab and random damage, equivalent to the Vicious perk.
• Constitution (25 and above): To achieve the first milestone buff, it increases the effect of life consumables.

Gear And Perks

Although Bow & Rapier Lifesteal build does not require a specific set, the perks requirements are very strict. However, as long as you have some New World coins, you can trade perks with other players, so the equipment requirements are very low.

You must at least meet the following Perks requirements:

• Lifestealing & Anointed Lifesteal: Stack 5 times each, which is the main means of survival for this build.
• Vigor: Stack 5 times to prevent being burned to death by continuous damage effects, avoiding the embarrassment of having to show your head to attack to recover health.

Helmet (Medium Helmet)

Sighted Any Ward: Increases ranged damage and improves damage absorption of certain types.

• Lifestealer's Draught II: Grants 15% life steal for 13 seconds without using potions (at least this is required).
• Arcane Conditioning II: Absorbs Arcane damage.

You might also consider Old Crown, which provides bonuses to all attributes and decent defensive perks, but only has one gem slot, which may clutter your stats.

Chest

• Vital Synergy II: When below 50% health, gain 15% increased stamina regeneration rate. When below 50% stamina, increase healing received by 15%.
• Sturdy Energy II: When blocking an attack while below 30% stamina, gain 25% stamina regeneration for 5 seconds.

These two work together, so the lower your stamina is, the faster it regenerates. This PvP build relies heavily on constant attacks, which consume a large amount of stamina.

Gloves

• Sacrificial Empowerment II: Increases base damage, but reduces armor by 1% when health drops below 50%. This light armor build doesn't have much armor to begin with, so a small reduction won't have a significant impact.
• Mortal Aggression II: Gain bonus lifesteal and health on kills.

Attuned Leather Pants

In addition to providing +9 to all stats, Attuned Leather Pants also have Shirking Energy II fixed perk, which restores stamina through successful dodges, making it crucial for light armor. The remaining two gem slots can be used for the following perks:

• Anointed Lifesteal II: Increases the healing effect of lifesteal by 5.5%.
• Lifestealing II: Heals 5.5% of the damage you deal.

Boots

• Sacrificial Empowerment II: Increases base damage.
• Prolonged Favor II: Extends the duration of the buff.

Exemplary Amulet

• Stamina Recovery: Recovers stamina when hit when below half health.
• Vigor: Reduces the duration of DoT damage.
• Penetrating Rapid Shot: Increases the armor bonus of weapons (especially bows). Since Boltcaster cannot carry weapon skill perks, this is placed on the necklace.
• Slash Ward: Provides resistance to slashing damage, the primary type of physical damage in the game.

Exemplary Ring

• Cursed Enchantment: Increases base attack damage and reduces skill damage (useful for bows).
• Unscathed Empowerment: Increases damage when not hit (mostly with bows).
• Enchanted: Increases light and heavy attack damage.
• Lifestealing II: Stacks and increases lifesteal.

You can also use Spectral Wrath Ring, which provides 20% life steal when below 70% health, but you may have to forgo Cursed Enchantment.

Exemplary Earring

• Refreshing Recovery: Resets all skill cooldowns when health drops below 50%.
• Slash Ward: Reduces the damage of slashing attacks.
• Vigor: Reduces the duration of DoT damage.
• Lightning Harnessing II: Increases lightning damage.

Weapons And Skills

Bow - Boltcaster

Boltcaster's Electrified perk converts weapon damage to lightning damage and increases basic attack lightning damage by 20%, making it the core damage of this build. However, it only has one offensive slot, so the following perks are recommended:

Keenly Jagged: Extends bleed/debuff duration.

Lightning Harnessing II: Increases lightning damage.

Bow Skills

Evade Shot: Provides movement, knockback (Stagger), and haste, offering exceptional versatility.

• Rain of Arrows: Unlockable area damage. Combined with life steal, it can simultaneously heal multiple targets. Its single-target and group damage surpasses that of Penetrating Shot.
• Rapid Shot: High single-target damage, particularly effective in PvE.

Rapier

• Sundering Riposte: Counterattacks with a rip, reducing the target's armor for 10 seconds.
• Leeching Flurry: Heals for 41% of the damage dealt by Flurry. Gain 0.5 seconds of invincibility when using Flurry.
• Runeglass Gem: Electrified Opportunist, Distained Infliction

Rapier Skills

• Flurry: A construction core. Multi-attacks, combined with Grit and Leeching Flurry, are your primary means of melee burst and health regeneration.
• Flourish & Finish (Combo): Flourish provides knockback and Grit, while Finish triggers the bleed applied by Flurry, dealing a burst of damage.
• Riposte: High risk, high reward. A successful Parry triggers a long stun and applies armor penetration to the target. Followed by Flurry, it can deal significant damage. If you prefer a more secure strategy, switch to Evade.

Weaknesses

This build is vulnerable to burst ranged classes, especially those with sustained damage, as it can't constantly regenerate health through lifesteal. This is especially true with Blunderbuss and Fire Staff, a particularly high burst damage combination in Season 10, making it extremely overpowered.

Also, against high-control or high-toughness melee classes, such as hammers and great axes, once you get stuck in close, you're easily controlled to death.

That's it for New World Season 10 Bow & Rapier Lifesteal build. It's strong in PvP, but can be a bit of a letdown in PvE. You can tweak it a bit to a medium armor or even a medium armor melee lifesteal build, which might be better suited for PvE.

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!

New World: Aeternum Season 10 Nighthaven features a significant overhaul of its equipment system. For example, the ubiquitous artifact greatsword from Season 9 has seen significantly less usage this season. With the overall power shift and an increased level cap, players are now looking for new locations to level up and farm better gear.

There are numerous locations for farming equipment in the game, each with its own advantages. Some are highly efficient, some are suitable for new players, and some are more suited to PvE. Let's take a look at each of these locations.

AFK Farm Spots

For busy players, AFK Farms are a popular option. Simply leave your character there for a few hours and return to receive a large stash of equipment. Fortunately, there are several AFK Farms to choose from. However, be mindful of the number of players in your area when choosing an AFK Farm. Avoid the areas with few active players (especially ones killing monsters), and you can't AFK in those locations successfully.

Tower Of The Sun

Tower of the Sun is currently a popular AFK farm, primarily because it's suitable for beginners and features a high monster spawn rate. It primarily drops 2-perk gear. While the value of the gear isn't high, it's sufficient for beginners and early gamers. Jewelry is almost non-existent, so farming here is not recommended for mid- to late-game players.

Mercy Readout

If you feel the gear in Tower of the Sun isn't enough for you, then Mercy Readout is your next farming location. It drops 2- and 3-perk gear, jewelry, and 700 GS upgradeable gathering gear.

Jewelry is currently in short supply, making this a great AFK location for those looking to earn New World gold. However, it also has a drawback: monster spawns are slow, making it inefficient. If you're not looking for jewelry, this location can be a real waste of time.

Gorilla Farm

This farm is located on Isle of Zurvān. It also drops 2- and 3-Perk equipment, weapons, and armor, but no jewelry. Gorilla monsters are very numerous in this area, and the more players there are, the faster they spawn, making it almost guaranteed to yield equipment. This makes it the most recommended AFK farm for farming.

Elite Chest Runs

Elite Chest Runs are one of the most common ways to farm items. Players can team up to search elite areas or fortresses to efficiently loot Elite Chests. In addition to dropping equipment with fixed perks, Elite Chests often also include materials and coins, making for very high returns.

Here are some recommended Elite Chest Run routes:

• Cayo de La Muerte (CK Route): It has a consistent high density of chests, a good drop rate, and offers the chance to pick up Mystic Doubloons.
• Nighthaven Route: This route has numerous Elite Chests, and you can also kill Vampires along the way.
• Corrupted Monolith (MC Route): Elite monsters on this route drop fixed Perks, and the chests are densely distributed.
• Eternal Pool (ET Pools Route): This route is short and yields relatively low amounts, making it suitable for speed farming.
• Nightbreak Roost: A solo chest location that drops fixed gear, recommended for solo players.

Also, if you want to improve your farming efficiency, you can use some in-game items.

• Potion of Fool's Sight: This item grants you two extra chests in Nighthaven ECR.
• Luck Gear + Defiled Rabbit's Foot: Increases the chance of rare items appearing in chests.

PvP Track Rewards

PvP Track Rewards feature extremely powerful gear, including 4-Perk Gear and Set Bonuses. Players can accumulate rewards through PvP modes (OPR, 3v3, etc.).

PvP Track rewards are comprehensive, allowing you to easily obtain top-tier PvE gear even if you don't play PvE content. However, you'll need to find active PvP players.

Catacombs Dungeon

However, if you prefer PvE content over PvP, the new Catacombs dungeon introduced in Season 10 provides another rewarding alternative. The new end-game content for Season 10, allows three players to team up and explore a random dungeon and escape within 30 minutes. If at least one member of your team manages to escape safely, you'll all receive a reward.

Catacombs dungeon can drop Overcharge Set, which increases base damage by 15–25%. This set is a powerful build for boss fights and also includes two perk gear.

The more bosses you kill, the higher your rewards. Killing at least five bosses doubles your rewards. Additionally, you can trade Sterlings (dropped in Catacombs) for specific chests in certain locations.

Which Gear Should You Keep?

Much of the gear you farm won't be needed, so you can sell it directly to vendors. However, it's recommended that you keep some of your more valuable gear:

You should keep jewelry, 3-slot upgradable gathering gear (700 GS), and weapons or armor with skill sockets that directly suit your build.

Prioritize weapons with ideal rolled perks (high damage/survival affixes). Especially weapons with one skill slot and one gem slot (suitable for specific builds).

Pure heavy armor and gear with useless affixes, as well as duplicates of common gear with low GS and affixes, can be disassembled and sold.

These are the main methods of farming gear. Regardless of which method you choose, you must first ensure you can defeat monsters or avoid being easily killed by them. When AFK, you can choose equipment with appropriate resistances, and when in ECRs, you should join a well-matched team to maintain high efficiency and high returns.

Each method has certain level and equipment requirements. If you don't have time to farm equipment, you can buy trusted New World coins from IGGM, skip the boring farming process, and use your coins directly to search the market for the best equipment or materials you need.

Most of the time, New World players might assume that crafting offensive builds is more important and complex. After all, DPS roles are incredibly powerful, whether playing solo or in a group, making healer roles seem more limited.

But it’s important to acknowledge that if you’re playing multiplayer PvP or exploring dungeons with a group, a team without healers is simply fragile! The healing and special buffs provided by healers can ensure your entire team lasts longer in battle.

Therefore, if you’re not a staunch DPS or tanking enthusiast, we always recommend mastering the basics of healing builds. At least remember how to match weapons. If possible, it’s not too late to start learning in Season 10!

Healing Build Basics

First and foremost, it’s important to understand that while Season 10 brings a lot of new content and general mechanics to New World Aeternum, there aren’t many new tips for healing builds. You should still keep a few basics in mind.

For healer roles, it’s crucial to avoid enemy attacks while healing. Therefore, it’s best to have a light equip loadout to avoid enemies and gain a 30% bonus to your healing output - a feature that medium and heavy builds don’t offer.

After ensuring this, the next key aspect to focus on is your weapon. This isn’t to say that armor or other aspects aren’t important, but your weapon is fundamental to your team’s effectiveness.

Overview Of Weapon Selection For Healing Builds

In Season 10, the best primary healing weapon available is still the life staff. It offers flexible builds, high burst and wide-area healing, and a personal defense boost that’s suitable for both PvP and PvE.

As for secondary weapon selection, the difference varies depending on PvP and PvE modes. Void Gauntlets and Flails are good choices for PvE, while Rapiers and Hatchets are suitable for PvP.

Compared to other seasons, the frequency of team-based PvE play in Season 10 has increased due to the addition of Catacombs and the raid Isle of Night. Therefore, we’ll focus on weapon selection for healing builds in a PvE context.

While the life staff’s healing effect scales with Intelligence, Intelligence itself doesn’t provide a healing bonus. Therefore, investing focus points in it will be more profitable, as it allows you to trigger additional buffs on your secondary weapon in PvE.

Typically, these buffs include increasing enemy damage or reducing armor, or increasing your teammates’ health and stamina, allowing you to play a wider role in combat as a healer, rather than simply restoring health.

How To Develop Weapon Mastery?

The mastery system allows you to increase your weapon XP by using your current weapon, unlocking its own active or passive skill tree. The available mastery skill trees and the skills that should be unlocked based on different combat role builds.

If you’re planning to upgrade your healing builds, the first mastery skills you should unlock are those that directly increase healing through passive abilities. Other mastery skills should focus on reducing cooldowns or increasing health and armor.

After that, you should decide which weapon mastery style to choose based on the weapons your DPS and tank teammates use. For example, players with bows and fire staffs aren’t suited to receiving full-area healing.

More specifically, the life staff has the following weapon mastery styles to help you decide which to use in combat.

• Group Healing (Beacon): Provides a mix of area-of-effect and targeted healing.
• Group Healing (Orb): Provides additional buffs.
• Targeted Healing: Ideal for small-scale group fights.
• AoE Healing: Utilizes continuous healing skills to heal large groups, making it ideal for large-scale exploration.
• Splash Healing: Allows you to easily heal everyone around you.

The above is for the life staff. As for weapon mastery for PvE secondary weapons, taking Flails as an example, the following mastery skills are worth unlocking first:

• Arcane Eruption: Drag Flails’ head to the ground, allowing you to burst arcane energy to hit enemies, dealing 120% weapon damage and two stacks of Impairment for 6 seconds.
• Arcane Vortex: Swing Flails overhead, dealing four rapid hits for 75% weapon damage in a 3-meter radius. Also provides bonus healing.
• Warding Bludgeon: Perform a spin jump, then swing Flails at enemies for 100% weapon damage.

As you can see, the primary purpose of a secondary weapon in healing builds isn’t healing, but rather providing bonus damage in addition to the triggerable passive buff. This allows you to protect yourself in combat, allowing your teammates to focus more on the fight.

What Artifacts Should Be Added In Season 10?

Regardless of your build, artifacts provide powerful additional benefits. While Season 10 adds several new artifacts, Nimble Coat remains the top choice for healers, and it’s now easier to obtain in PvP reward track than ever before.

This artifact’s most important perk is Highly Refreshing, which reduces skills’ maximum cooldown by 8%, allowing you to heal your allies more frequently during combat.

Obtaining Nimble Coat is your ultimate artifact farming goal. On this basis, obtaining other artifacts is just icing on the cake, not an essential task. After all, acquiring any artifact in New World Aeternum is no simple task.

But remember the point we mentioned at the beginning: make sure any artifact you equip is lightweight, otherwise it could inflict negative effects on you.

That’s all for this guide. While a complete build requires more than just weapons, it’s the foundation for further refinement. We hope these tips will be helpful as you progress through your healer roles!

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!