One of the best things when playing MMO games like New World is that players get to build their characters in different directions. It's not just essential to level up fast in New World but also fun to experience all the items and skills when building your own characters and playstyle.

However, it takes a lot of time and experience to make your own builds, especially if you are new. In the meanwhile, you can check out the 3 best New World builds to start with.

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1. Tank Build

First off, we are going to start with a build that many new players love, the Tank Build. This build has a great defense, healing, and AOE damage.
Tank build is the option many new players love.

Primary Weapon

Sword And Shield is the only option for the primary weapon for tank build in New World. Its skills are meant to be for tank builds and you will get extra armor as well as block stability for equipping a shield.

Secondary Weapon

As for your secondary weapon, you will need the Hatchet. The Hatchet offers great damage in both PvE and PvP. But on top of that, it gives you percentage heal and taunts all enemies around you, which is everything a tanker needs.

Gear

You are going to need as much physical and elemental resistance as possible, so wearing 5 pieces of Heavy Armor and equipping a Kite or Tower Shield would do the trick.

Attributes

For this build, you only need to focus on 1 and only 1 attribute, Constitution. It will give you more health, armor, passive damage reduction, and improved healing from potions.

Skills – Sword And Shield

  • Shield Bash: Stuns and taunt multiple enemies
  • Shield Rush: Leap forward and knockback enemies
  • Defiant Stance: Reduce incoming damage

Skills – Hatchet

  • Berserk: Increase damage output, healing, and AOE taunt
  • Feral Rush: Leap forward and deal damage.
  • Raging Torrent: Increase damage output.

2. Hunter Build

The second best New World build for beginners, Hunter Build focuses primarily on dealing damage from a medium to long-range, which excels in wide-open spaces.

Hunter can deal a lot of damage from far away.

Primary Weapon

This build uses Bow as the primary weapon. This weapon is best used at long range since you can fire several shots at the target before they can come close.

Secondary Weapon

Your secondary weapon will be used to finish off the enemy when they are close to using with little health left. The Hatchet is still a great option for this purpose.

Gear

A light equip load will you give the most damage. You can also opt for a medium equip load to get some more defense.

Attributes

You will be maxing out Dexterity for the Hunter build since it will boost up your Bow damage by a lot. You can also access some passive bonus milestones to increase the critical chance and critical damage.

Strength is also another important attribute as it increases the damage of the Hatchet.

Skills – Bow

  • Penetrating Shot: Shot an arrow that penetrates the target and continues for 100 meters.
  • Rapid Shot: Shoot 3 consecutive arrows and knock back the enemy.
  • Evade Shot: Leap back 5m and shoot an arrow.

Skills – Hatchet

  • Berserk: Increase damage output, healing, and AOE taunt
  • Feral Rush: Leap forward and deal damage.
  • Raging Torrent: Increase damage output.

3. Healer Build

In all MMO games, the Healer plays a crucial role that all parties need. That's why Healer build is also in top 3 most recommended New World builds. This build comes with a lot of healing as well as utility skills.

A healer will always be appreciated in any MMO game.

Primary Weapon

The primary weapon for this build will be the Life Staff. It offers players single target burst healing, heals over time, and AOE healing.

Secondary Weapon

The Ice Gaunlet will be your secondary weapon as if it provides Crowd Control effects and debuffs, especially Slows. This will make fights much easier for your team.

Gear

A medium equip load would be great as you can get more extra physical and elemental resistance. A light equip load is also an option if you want more healing and damage, but with the cost of less resistance.

Attributes

You would want to mainly add up your Focus because it will amplify your healing power. Some Constitution is also quite helpful to increase your health early on.

Skills – Life Staff

  • Light’s Embrace – Single Heal
  • Splash of Light – Group Heal within 100m area
  • Beacon – Area Heal over time

Skills – Ice Gauntlet

  • Ice Storm – AOE damage and slow
  • Ice Pylon – Create a pylon that deals damage automatically.
  • Entombed – Make yourself invulnerable and regenerate mana faster.

These are just a few simple New World builds for you to start the game. There are still a lot of other New World builds you can try, but these should be enough for you to go through most content of the game.

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