New World Season 1 Best DPS, Tank & Healer Builds - Top 3 Best PvE Builds & Combos In New World 2023

We are going to go over the best New World season 1 builds for DPS, tanks, and healers. Now these builds will be specifically aimed at PVE and group PVE with that in mind. So we're talking about Expeditions or Mutated Expeditions in particular. 

New World Season 1 Best PvE Builds - Best DPS, Tank and Healer Build In New World 2023

New World Seasons last approximately 3 months and introduce new features, gameplay experiences, and a Season Pass with two reward tracks. Choosing a build in the New World season 1 can be a personal preference based on your playstyle and goals in the game.  Determine what role you want to play in the game, whether it's a tank, healer, or damage dealer. This New World season 1 PvE build guide can help you with the appropriate weapon choices. Next, let's break down the gear, armor, weapon mastery and attribute for the top 3 best PvE builds and combos in New World season 1.

New World Season 1 Best Tank Build

The common tanking build in the New World is something that hasn't actually really changed that much over even so like the past year. Since Mutated Expeditions were introduced, we've seen tanks running heavy armor with a sword and shield and typically their second weapon is a Warhammer and that's exactly what we are going to debut. Weapons of choice are going to be the sword and a tower shield in particular. Because it gives you the highest amount of block stability which means that when you hold up your block, you can take more damage before your stamina gets completely broken. Tower Shield is going to be the best for this heavily armored tank build in New World season 1. The second weapon of choice is going to be the Warhammer there are a few other weapons that you can run in this slot as a secondary for a tank but Warhammer is just one of the best weapons for providing lots of crowd control.

Gear

Sword - Defined Longsword of Barbarian

War Hammer - Batheqet’s Cudgel

Tower Shield - Aegis of Mourning of the Cavalier

Heavy Headwear - Fireproof Fur-Lined Orichalcum Helm of the Sentry

Heartrune - Stalwart Heartrune of Stoneform

Amulet - Fireproof Pristine Ruby Amulet of the Sentry

Ring - Simon’s Hacksilver Ring

Earring - Molten Earring

Weapon Mastery

Sword and Shield

War Hammer

Attributes

Strength - 266

Dexterity - 50

Intelligence - 5

Focus - 5

Constitution - 200

New World Season 1 Best DPS Build

There are quite a lot of different options you can go for on DPS build again. The New World Season 1 best DPS build that we’re going to recommend is great sword and spear, but this can also be great ax and spear or you can also do great sword and great ax. The two-handed melee weapons are typically the strongest when it comes to the DPS roll for expeditions. For this particular build, we are running the great sword and we're also going to go with spear here as well and the equipment weight that you want to go for can be either light or medium. It's very rare that you'll see a DPS playing in heavy, it can be done, but most people would expect you to be in light because you get the base damage plus. so you get an extra 20% damage bonus and you also get access to the very powerful dodge roll which is really good for moving out of certain mechanics as well. However medium is also an option.

Gear

Greatsword - Blade of the 19th

Spear - Scheming Ironwood Spear of the Ranger

Heartrune - Brutal Heartrune of Fire Storm

Light Headware - Arboreal Shadewalker Mask of the Soldier

Medium Chestwear - Arboreal Tempestuous Chestguard of the Ranger

Light Footwear - Arboreal Shadewalker Shoes of the Soldier

Light Glove - Arboreal Shadewalker Handwraps of the Soldier

Amulet - Arboreal Pristine Amber Amulet of the Sentry

Ring - Legate’s Ring

Earring - Arboreal Old Earring of the Ranger

Weapon Mastery

Spear

Greatsword

Attributes

Strength - 201

Dexterity - 210

Intelligence - 5

Focus - 5

Constitution - 100

New World Season 1 Best Healer Build

The best New World Season 1 healer build that involves the life staff and void gauntlet. Unlike with the tank and DPS builds, there's only one weapon choice that works for healers when it comes to PVE group content. These two weapons are just hands down the best support weapons in the game and this is what you're going to be running as a Healer in New World. When it comes to armor choice for the Healer, there is only one choice and that is a light equipment load. So you can maximum is a little bit on the armor value by running a medium chest, medium chest will give you more armor than a light chest but it will still keep you in the light equip load. So we're looking at a light helmet, medium chest, light gloves, light legs, and light boots.

Gear

Life Staff - Nightveil Life Staff of the Sage

Void Gauntlet - Scheming Ancient Void Gauntlet of the Scholar

Light Footwear - Iceproof Padded Molten High Boots of the Sage

Headwear - Iceproof Padded Molten Cowl of the Sage

Medium Chestwear - Iceproof Infused Leather Coat of the Sage

Light Legwear - Iceproof Shadewalker Leggings of the Sage

Light Footwear - Iceproof Padded Molten High Boots of the Sage

Light Glove - Iceproof Shadewalker Handwraps of the Sage

Amulet - Iceproof Pristine Aquamarine Amulet of the Sentry

Earring - Iceproof Pristine Aquamarine Earring of the Sentry

Ring - Stonehewn Ring

Weapon Mastery

Life Staff

Void Gauntlet

Attributes

Strength - 5

Dexterity - 5

Intelligence - 50

Focus - 325

Constitution - 140