New World Season 3 DPS Builds & Weapon Combos - Best DPS, Healer, Tank Builds For Expansion

With the upcoming season 3 expansion, New World players will have more build options than ever to optimize their playstyle and team contributions. Today, we’re going to show you the top 3 best New World season 3 DPS builds and weapon combos.

New World Expansion DPS Build Guide - Top 3 Best DPS Builds In New World Season 3

In our New World season 3 DPS build guide, we bring you the 3 best DPS, Tank, and healer builds. Whether you prefer melee damage-dealing, ranged burst attacks, or a versatile tank build, we've got you covered. First is an iconic Void Gauntlet Ice Spike combo build harnessing critical hits and resets for massive single target damage. Second is a Spear/Bow build excelling as a mid-range healer-hunter, locking down enemies with bleeds and slows. Finally, we unveil a Blunderbuss build with breakout potential. Leveraging the Void Gauntlet for extra damage and debuffs, it delivers potent AOEs or singles out targets with spontaneity and survivability. All three prioritize fun, cohesive strengths over pure numbers.

1. New World Season 3 Best DPS Build

Stats

• 100 Focus

• 350 Int

• 150 Con

Skills

• Annihilation: 4 Keen Humility, 5 Bone-Chilling Voice, 1 Forsake Pact, 6 Empowering Proximity, 7 Refreshing Frailty

• Decay: 18 Void Blade, 13 Baleful Tether, 14 Tethered Refresh, 15 Tethered Focus, 16 Soul Eater, 17 Radiant Efficiency, 9 Orb of Decay, 10 Draining Orb, 11 Slowing Orb, 12 Detonating Orb, 19 Glimpse of the Void

• Ice Tempest: 11 Wind Chill, 12 Enduring Chill, 13 Chilling Blast, 9 Cold Reach, 10 Heavy Freeze, 1 Ice Spikes, 2 Refreshing Spikes, 3 Empowered Spikes, 4 Deadly Path, 5 Spiky Reach, 14 Ultimate Chill, 6 Ice Storm, 7 Weakening Gust, 8 Storm Summoner

• Builder: 17 Frozen Touch, 19 Defiant Freeze, 15 Quick Frost, 16 Empowered Frost, 18 Refreshing Frost

This is the best New World expansion DPS build. You’ll have so much fun playing. It's got low cooldowns, and high burst damage, is adaptable, and is very rewarding when you play it at a high level. You have the ability to reset your VG abilities with a glimpse of the void combo, and multiple ways of starting up the combo, either with the ice storm or with the tether but it all comes down to the burst damage of the ice spikes. This build provides amazing kill potential on single targets but also keeps the core values of what a VG IG is. Debuffs utility the ability to assist clumps and the artillery on this is just astonishing.

The key thing here is this build you're going to need to run the 100 focus alongside the 350 int, it's not just because of damage scaling on the VG but because it's very minor dependent and it is required to play this build. A lot of it comes down to the fact that they've changed the 200-end perk it used to be every time you shift give 10 mana. The problem is that it does not trigger your own AOE abilities. So even if you create two players with the orb at the same time, you're only going to be getting the 10 Mana. Combining it with the energizing hearty meal, you'll never feel like you need the monopods.

2. Best New World Season 3 DPS Healer Build

Stats

• 200 Strength

• 250 Dex

• 150 Con

Skills

• Zoner: 17 Invigorating Crits, 18 Strong Conditioning, 7 Deadly Reach, 19 Evasive Maneuvers, 16 Merciless Strength, 8 Sweep, 9 Tenacious Sweep

• Impaler: 4 Perforate, 5 Rupturing Strikes, 6 Impactful Strikes, 13 Unerring Precision, 1 Skewer, 2 Deadly Ambush, 3 Follow Through, 17 Exploited Weakness, 15 Finishing Blows, 12 Aggressive Maneuvers

• Containment: 1 Net Shot, 2 Fast Hands, 3 Apparatus, 4 Bared Netting, 5 Deep Load, 6 Claw Shot, 7 In and Out, 19 Fortifying Aggression

• Chaos: 8 Future Planning, 9 Bite Back, 19 Last Chance, 16 Extended Chamber, 18 Double Down, 10 Buckshot, 15 Artillery, 14 Lingering Flow, 12 Blast Shot, 13 Preparation

The second-best New World DPS build season 3 is going to be the spear BB since this actually has been heavily buffed. This is one of the best healer hunter builds in the upcoming expansion that has great damage, slow CC's disease, and the ability to gap close or escape. It's a build that you can immediately feel the impact and is quite fun to play as well. For this best NW expansion DPS build, you will utilize the BB artifact for the disease application which you also will be locking the exhaustive net shot perk. You can have the 60 stamina exhaust on the enemy healers including the disease on your basic attacks. This is implemented into your spear as well. Combined with the medium dodge upgrade in the coming patch, it's the main reason why this feels so good to play. In general, this build provides you a lot of uptime in your heartrune because you're going to be able to combine it with the keenly Jagged on the weapon bleeding sweep perk, and you at the very least will have four different types of dots.

3. New World Expansion Best DPS Tank Build

Stats

• 100 Strength

• 350 Int

• 150 Con

Skills

• Containment: 1 Net Shot, 2 Fast Hands, 3 Apparatus, 13 Run and Gun, 18 Unload, 17 Fortifying Aggression, 4 Azoth Shrapnel Blast, 5 Reach, 6 Discord, 7 Refresh, 8 Azoth Bomb

• Chaos: 14 Future Planning, 12 Incendiary Bursts, 16 Last Chance, 9 Splitting Grenade, 10 Soften, 11 Delayed Escape, 19 Buckshot, 15 Artillery

• Annihilation: 9 Keen Humility, 10 Petrifying Scream, 18 Bone-Chilling Voice, 19 Fortifying Echoes, 8 Forsake Pact, 12 Empowering Proximity, 11 Refreshing Frailty, 15 Keen Confidence, 14 Refreshing Precision, 13 Leeching Agony

• Decay: 17 Deadly, 5 Baleful Tether, 6 Tethered Refresh, 7 Soul Eater, 16 Radiant Efficiency, 1 Orb of Decay, 2 Draining Orb, 3 Slowing Orb, 4 Detonating Orb

Last but not the least is a BB Main and it's a range DPS build with a ton of burst damage utility and debuffs. You can easily set up single-target kills assist clumps and keep the core values of what a tanky medium BB is. For this build, we're going to be running the VG artifact, it amplifies your Blunderbuss left click damage. You can lock that screen perk to provide the 40% disease, you're also going to be combining it with the exhaust of net shots and the slowing tether perks, so you're going to have a lot of slows and a lot of ways to gap close and facilitate your kill potential. But it's not just about single target kills, you can destroy clumps. It's also an extremely tanky build because it is a medium BB build. After all, you have the last chance perk the fortifying aggression, the net shot to get out of trouble but also the fortifying from the screen. If you like adaptable builds, this is the best!