Inside New World, there are no classes. Your role will be determined by what type of weapons armor, and stats you decide to go with. The first thing you should pick is your weapon.
There are 11 weapons to choose from. Do you want to be a range person? Pick the bow. Do you want to be a tank? Hammers and axes may be right for you.
So which will you pick? There are 11 in all (10 if you don’t count the shield). They are as follows:
Swords
Shields can only be used with Swords. You can block attacks and do well in close-quarters combat. Sword abilities, however, have a long cool down.
Bows
Of course, bows excel in long-range. Bows damage scales with Dexterity and have two mastery trees, Skirmisher and Hunter.
War Hammers
Hammers have the highest damage of any melee weapon class and their heavy attacks cover a large range. They counter enemies that are blocking. On the flip side, they are the slowest melee weapon class.
Spears
Spear is a melee weapon that has a far reach and some ranged/projectile capabilities. It scales primarily on Dexterity but also benefits from Strength. It has a skill tree that allows it to be used as a projectile.
Muskets
Muskets deal high damage, especially on the head. You do need ammo and good aim. Plus watch out for the reload time.
Shields
Pretty self-explanatory. Blocks attacks. Can only be used with swords.
Life Staffs
Staffs are primarily a support weapon. Life magic gives players sustainability during boss fights and minimizes downtime between fights.
Hatchets
Hatchets have two skill trees, Berserker and Throwing. Berserker is pretty much stat increases during certain conditions and throwing is just as the name implies.
Rapiers
The Rapier is a melee weapon designed for quick piercing attacks. The attacks scale off of the Dexterity score of a player.[1]
Ice Gauntlets
The Ice Gauntlet is good for crowd control with its slows while adding on some nice damage. I hear players already requesting an Ice Gauntlet user for their squad.
Fire Staffs
Fire Staff is good for strong DPS and helps with a large area of effect spells.
Great Axe
The Great Axe excels at close-ranged combat and provides good self-healing and crowd control. It’s a great weapon to play tank or provide DPS.
Those are all the weapons. At least for now. Maybe they’ll add more later. I personally want great swords.
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