SPEAr Great sword
Warrior
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Weapons
Armor
Jewelry
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Serenity
Great Sword (Artifact)
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Great Helm of the Frigid Dawn
Heavy Head (Named drop)
Amulet
(Random drop or crafted)
700
+38 Magnify
Balanced Blade: Offense stance: +2%
empower per attack for 5s. Defense stance:
+2% fortify when hit for 5s.
Trenchant Strikes: Heavy melee attacks
deal +23% damage.
Trenchant Crits: Heavy melee attacks deal +34% critical damage.
Refreshing Move: Light and Heavy attacks reduce your active weapon cooldowns by 2.5%.
Random final perk
Gypsum Kiln Final Perk Upgrade:
Empty Socket*: Replace the random final
perk with a gem slot using the Gem Setting
Pins craft mod from the Faction Vendor.
*Slot in a Cut Pristine Opal for Gambit IV: +15% damage while your Stamina is not full.
700
+32 Magnify
Enchanted Ward: -4% damage from light
and heavy attacks.
Empty Socket*: Attach a gem to add its
effect.
Elemental Aversion: Receive 4.5% less
damage from ranged, elemental attacks.
Random final perk
Gypsum Kiln Final Perk Upgrade:
Health: Replace the random final perk with
Health using the Adamant craft mod.
Health: +2.4% max health.
*Slot in a Cut Pristine Opal for Elemental Ward IV: +2.5% Elemental Damage Absorption.
700
+32 Constitution
Empty Socket*: Attach a gem to add its effect.
Health: +7% max Health.
Protection Perk**: Receive -15% incoming damage of a particular type.
Stamina Recovery: When you are hit while
below 50% Health, gain 105 Stamina.
*Slot in a Cut Pristine Malachite for Spectral Ward IV: +1.9% Elemental and +0.63% Physical Damage Absorption.
**The ideal Protection Perk varies depending on the type of enemies you are facing. Having an amulet for each damage type, such as an amulet with Void Protection, an amulet with Slash Protection, an amulet with Lightning Protection etc, is a good goal to aim for.
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Featherweight
Light Chest (Artifact)
Ring
(Random drop or crafted)
Spear
(Random drop or crafted)
700
+38 Dexterity
Empty Socket*: Attach a gem to add its
effect.
Enfeebling Skewer: Skewer hits apply
Weaken, reducing the target's damage by
47% for 8s.
Vicious: +7% critical damage.
Keenly Jagged: Inflicts Bleed on critical hit,
dealing 10% weapon damage per second
for 6s.
*Slot in a Cut Pristine Opal for Gambit IV: +15% damage while your Stamina is not full.
700
+38 Magnify
Weightless: This armor is weightless.
Empty Socket*: Attach a gem to add its
effect.
Refreshing: Reduce max cooldowns by 4%.
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Physical Aversion: Receive 4.5% less
damage from ranged, physical attacks.
Random final perk
Gypsum Kiln Final Perk Upgrade:
Health: Replace the random final perk with
Health using the Adamant craft mod.
Health: +2.4% max health.
*Slot in a Cut Pristine Opal for Elemental Ward IV: +2.5% Elemental Damage Absorption.
700
+32 Strength
Empty Socket*: Attach a gem to add its effect.
Hearty: +10% max Stamina.
Keen Awareness: +7% critical chance.
Leeching: Heal for 7.1% of the damage you
deal.
*Slot in a Cut Pristine Malachite for Spectral Ward IV: +1.9% Elemental and +0.63% Physical Damage Absorption.
Earring
(Random drop or crafted)
Gauntlets of the Frigid Dawn
Heavy Hand (Named drop)
700
+32 Magnify
Enchanted Ward: -4% damage from light
and heavy attacks.
Empty Socket*: Attach a gem to add its
effect.
Elemental Aversion: Receive 4.5% less
damage from ranged, elemental attacks.
Random final perk
Gypsum Kiln Final Perk Upgrade:
Health: Replace the random final perk with
Health using the Adamant craft mod.
Health: +2.4% max health.
*Slot in a Cut Pristine Malachite for Spectral Ward IV: +1.9% Elemental and +0.63% Physical Damage Absorption.
700
+32 Strength
Empty Socket*: Attach a gem to add its
effect.
Refreshing: Reduce max cooldowns by 4%.
Purifying Toast: When you drink a
regeneration potion, lose 1 debuff.
Refreshing Toast: Potions cooldown 10%
faster.
*Slot in a Cut Pristine Malachite for Spectral Ward IV: +1.9% Elemental and +0.63% Physical Damage Absorption.
Legs
Light Leg (Random drop or crafted)
Shield
700
+32 Dexterity
Empty Socket*: Attach a gem to add its
effect.
Health: +2.4% max health.
Refreshing: Reduce max cooldowns by 4%.
Relentless Freedom: Activating Relentless
Rush removes Root and Slow. Increase
Relentless Rush's critical hit chance by 13%.
*Slot in a Cut Pristine Malachite for Spectral Ward IV: +1.9% Elemental and +0.63% Physical Damage Absorption.
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Boots
Light Foot (Random drop or crafted)
Brutal Heartrune of Detonate
Heartrune
700
+32 Dexterity
Empty Socket*: Attach a gem to add its
effect.
Health: +2.4% max health.
Refreshing: Reduce max cooldowns by 4%.
Bleeding Sweep: Sweep's Coup De Grace
now applies Bleed for 14% of weapon
damage for 8s.
*Slot in a Cut Pristine Malachite for Spectral Ward IV: +1.9% Elemental and +0.63% Physical Damage Absorption.
700
Detonate: Charge yourself with explosive
energy for 3s and then detonate, dealing
100% heartrune damage within a 5m radius.
Accelerating Charge: +30% movement
speed while charging.
Escalating Explosion: +20% Explosion
damage. Gain Rend while charging,
reducing your armor by 50%.
Strength 200
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Dexterity 350
Intelligence 5
Focus 5
Constitution 50
The Warrior is a close-quarters melee DPS build that is capable of outputting huge single-target and AoE damage with the Greatsword, whilst applying powerful debuffs to the enemy through the use of Spear abilities.
Warrior Build Pros:
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Greatsword (specifically Serenity) is one of the highest DPS weapons currently in New World, only outpaced by the Rapier, which only works well as a 1-of (stacking Greatswords in your team is fine!)
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By swapping to spear when its abilities are ready, you can provide important CC, Weaken and Rend debuffs to the enemy, majorly increasing your team's survivability whilst reducing the enemies!
Warrior Build Cons:
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Requires the Serenity artifact Greatsword in order to achieve the high-damage numbers this build is capable of.
When entering “Onslaught” mode via using Great Sword’s red abilities, your character increases the damage they take by 15%. -
Combined with the low constitution this build runs, inexperienced players may find themselves dying very often when first piloting the warrior build!
Ability Rotation
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Open by using Skewer on the enemy to apply a Weaken debuff, followed by Perforate and then Sweep. However, when up against boss enemies, skip the Sweep, as it will not knock them down.
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Perform a dodge roll (to keep your Opal gem active) then switch to Greatsword and use Relentless Rush to enter Onslaught* stance, followed by Skyward Slash** to apply a further 30% rend. Finish the ability stack with Roaring Rupture to clump-up enemies and pull in any near by ranged mobs. However, like with Sweep, when up against boss enemies, skip the Rupture as it will not pull them closer.
Finally, while waiting for your Skewer and Perforate abilities to finish coming off cooldown, follow up with a rotation of dodging (to keep your stamina under 100%) and using fully-charged heavy attacks with the Great Sword. Once your spear abilities are coming back off cooldown, repeat the rotation from the beginning!
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*When in Onslaught stance, heavy attacks will consume 10 stamina each, keeping the Opal Gem active. You will only need to dodge during the first phase of the rotation, and then after you use rupture (rupture takes you out of Onslaught) or when you switch back to Spear (Weapon swapping also ends the Onslaught stance)
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**During a Nature Mutation expedition, fully upgrading Skyward Slash in the weapon mastery tree to unlock Sickening Slash is advised, as with this upgrade it can reduce enemy healing.
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