We will be ranking all the best weapons in New World for both PvP and PvE so that you can prepare better.
Amazon’s New World introduces some unique combat and leveling system in their MMO. Unlike most MMORPGs, New World focuses on character development through grinding and leveling up your weapons. Hence, every weapon in the game offers a lot of skills and abilities to unlock and master. But some of them provide more use than others in different circumstances.
How many weapons are there in New World?
As of now, there are 11 types of weapons of varying uses and a huge range of skills and abilities. A player’s skills are leveled up heavily depending on the weapons they use, and one has to think wisely about the types of build they want.
All the weapons in New World
1) One-Handed
- Swords and Shields
- Rapiers
- Hatchets
2) Two-Handed
- Spears
- Great Axes
- War Hammers
3) Ranged
- Bows
- Muskets
4) Magical
- Fire Staves
- Life Staves
- Ice Gauntlets
Best Weapons for PvP in New World
- Best (S-tier): Ice Gauntlet, Rapier, Great Axe, Void Gauntlet, Bow
- Good (A-tier): Spear, Warhammer, One-Handed Sword and Shield, Life Staff
- Average (B-tier): Musket, Fire Staff, Hatchet
Hatchet
Although not the fanciest, it is certainly one of the strongest weapons in-game, especially PvP. In addition to the combo of Berserk and Raging Torrent, the Spring Attack can easily break through enemy armor. Hatchet combined with passive healing can make it unstoppable as it is tough to counter with its stagger-preventing traits of Berserker.
Void gauntlet
The Void gauntlet can be used for both melee and ranged combat. Furthermore, its skill is based around debuffs and resetting ability cooldown, making this one dangerous gauntlet.
Ice gauntlet
The Ice gauntlet is possibly the most op weapon in New World PVP, and its Ice Shower will almost always damage opponents. When combined wisely with other weapons, the Ice gauntlet is unstoppable. It can be used to stun, slow, and hence exert great damage.
Rapier
Rapier’s quick thrusting, damaging and bleeding attacks make it one of the strongest weapons in the game. However, it takes some practice to master this slender sword.
Life Staff
Life Staff is what you would expect from it, combines several healing and boosting abilities to give your allies the edge they need. But one needs to practice the combos and timing right.
Sword and Shield
A well-balanced weapon set. Great for beginners just starting New World. The Sword and Shield’s abilities like Final Stand and Final Countdown can reduce damage taken. Additionally, it offers healing abilities too so that you can stand your ground efficiently.
Bow
The Bow is a perfect long-range weapon for players wanting to exert long-term damage as well as stat-boosting. On the other hand, it takes a while to master aiming and ability combos.
Fire Staff
The Fire Staff is another great ranged weapon, and it deals immense AoE damage with its different skills as well as individual damage. The Fire Staff can only scale by increasing intelligence, so some sacrifices have to be made. But its costly mana usage has to be dealt with patient grinding and leveling up. For PVP, there are better options to play with.
Great Axe
Although Great Axes can damage multiple targets and offer a good deal of self-healing, its slow speed and reliance on certain abilities make it hard to wield for most players. Most abilities can also be easily interrupted. Not bad but not too fun to play either. However, its grapple and charging attack can be used for a nice beating, and it can be easily outplayed if not used wisely.
Spear
The Spear is a great option for technical users but not perfect for players looking for flat damage. Spear’s most abilities produce debuffs on enemies which can be combined to make the weapon deadly. Hence, it takes a lot of practice, especially in PvP.
War Hammer
The War Hammer has the most base light attack damage in-game but also the slowest. It sounds like a bad trade-off, but its defense buffs and stun ability can be combined with other weapons to make it too deadly, especially with Ice Gauntlet or even Fire Staff.
Musket
The Musket is a good weapon, but it is heavily based on specific circumstances. You need to settle onto good position and angles for maximum effect. On the other hand, you are almost powerless when enemies close up on you and start combo-ing their abilities.
Best Weapons for PvE in New World
- Best (S-tier): Warhammer, Life Staff, Void Gauntlet, Great Axe
- Good (A-tier): Rapier, Ice Gauntlet, One-Handed Sword and Shield, Bow, Fire Staff
- Average (B-tier): Hatchet, Musket, Spear
Void gauntlet
The Void gauntlet can be used for both melee and ranged combat. Furthermore, its skill is based around debuffs and resetting ability cooldown, making this one dangerous gauntlet.
Bow
For PvE, Bow is a go-to weapon in any game, not only New World. Its ranged, AOE, and poison attacks can dominate large crowds.
Fire Staff
Just like the Bow, the Fire Staff dominates PvE too with its wide range of AOE attacks, which can be used to deal greater damage than the Bow does. But playing it early requires a great deal of patience as the better moves require a lot of mana as well as a long casting time. If you can overcome this you are good to go.
Warhammer
Unlike PvP, the slow speed of Warhammer does not matter. You can focus on dealing damage to crowds of foes with multiple target damaging attacks and stunning abilities. Stuns can also be used to combo with teammates.
Life Staff
Probably the most important and must-have weapons in PvE, one needs to stand guard and support your teammates when fighting hordes of enemies.
Rapier
Like PvP, Rapier can be used to combine bleeds, debuffs, and quick damage too. Furthermore, its quickness can be made use of to kill many enemies in a short span.
Spear
The Spear is best used when teamed up with the Rapier, their combo of the debuff, bleed and enhancements are a force to be reckoned with.
Ice Gauntlet
The Ice Gauntlet works best when used in coherence with other weapons and mates. Not a bad choice but does not provide many options when used on its own in PvE. Its defense and mana regeneration abilities work well when used tactically. But when there is the Bow or Fire Staff dishing out easy damage, the Ice Gauntlet seems like too much work.
One-Hand Sword and Shield
Same as in PvP, its defensive buffs and healing abilities prove a deciding factor when you beat down enemies after enemies in PvE.
Hatchet
Hatchet in PvE is a useful choice, but it requires a lot of scaling and gear to be fully effective. It takes a while to unlock but its abilities can be deadly when used in good combos along with speed buffs.
Musket
A musket is a great option for PvE as it can stop enemies from great range. But one has to be always wary and not be too isolated. As musket wielders can easily be overwhelmed by a few enemies up close.
Great Axe
The Great Axe now has tremendous damage that affects an area. Easy to take down multiple enemies at once. Moreover, most of its skill also focuses on group attacks. Combine it with the life-steal perks and nothing can stop you.
Can you upgrade weapons in New World?
Although there are no straightforward or generic upgrading weapons in New World, the scaling of weapons is done through weapon Mastery. There are 38 skills for each weapon, and you gain Master XP when you kill enemies. As master levels up, you unlock up to 19 skill points, which you can use to unlock abilities for that weapon.
Best way to level weaponsmithing in New World
Weaponsmithing in New World takes a bit of time and some patience to go through with it. You have used various metals and materials to craft different weapons.
To get started, don’t forget to pick up any materials you find, especially iron. They are best found at large stone formations, mountains, rocks in caves and hollows, quarries, or mines. Using the Iron Mining Pickaxe is a good way to pick up those sweet iron ores faster.
Furthermore, other gathering skills except fishing needs to be upgraded to increase weaponsmithing in New World.
Use these iron ores to craft as many iron weapons as you can. Especially Iron Rapier, the Iron Round Shield, or the Iron Longsword. They use lesser ores but still gives a good amount of weaponsmithing points. Meanwhile, larger weapons like Iron Great Axe consume more Iron ores but slightly increase points. So it’s up to you to balance out. After crafting these, salvage them to get back some of the iron ingots back. Hence can be re-used.
Once you level up your gathering, mining, and smithing skills, you can harvest magic plants such as the Fire Motes from Dragon Glory. You can also use these to craft other times such as a Homing Block that adds some points to weaponsmithing. Even though they are relative points rewarded, they do not use your ores or ingots which can be used for later or other items.
As you level up, you can harvest and mine and create stronger and rarer weapons to further increase your weaponsmithing. But for the most part, the iron ore grinding is a sure shot method, especially early on.
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