In the new MMORPG New World, the so-called Paladin build is currently causing a lot of frustration among PvP players. Such a Paladin is virtually immortal, which poses a significant problem for balancing.
What kind of build is it? The Paladin builds are not necessarily an exact build. They can vary slightly but always lead to the same problem. One relies on heavy armor because it provides the most damage reduction.
In addition, a life staff and an axe are used as weapons, or alternatively, simply two life staffs. The attributes are then predominantly allocated to focus, the main attribute of the healing staff. A bit of constitution can also be included. Everyone is free to experiment here.
The life staff creates the healing fields and is the main weapon of the Paladin, while with the axe only one specific skill is used. The skill “Defy Death” allows you to become effectively immortal for a short time.
You can use these seconds while waiting for mana or cooldowns of the healing staff to continue healing yourself.
Due to the healing abilities and the heavy armor, the build comes closest to a Paladin, which is where it gets its name. But what is the problem with it?
This is the problem: The Paladin builds make you nearly immortal. Several videos are already circulating on YouTube and Reddit, demonstrating just that.
In one of the videos, you can even see a Paladin in PvP taking on three DPS players simultaneously and hardly taking any significant damage. The important factor is the trait that allows you to heal from attacking enemies and the healing field on the ground.
The Paladins themselves do not deal damage, but they do not need to. Often, their enemies simply give up because they cannot defeat them.
Here you can see one of the videos:
Thus, the balance suffers: The obvious part is that you likely have little chance against such a Paladin in PvP. At least in 1v1 situations, the build seems unbeatable.
But the balancing problem does not stop there, as it also affects PvE. Especially in expeditions that are designed to function in a Holy Trinity between healer, tank, and DPS.
With the Paladin build, however, you no longer need a healer since the tank of the group can heal itself, and all others will not take damage anyway.
This leads to creating a group with 4 DPS players, beating bosses significantly faster than planned. Or you simply go into the expedition with 5 Paladins and survive all enemies. This is not particularly fast, but effective.
“With a different build, PvP just feels pointless”
What does the community say? The fans of New World are uncertain about the Paladin builds. Many are calling for them to be weakened. Others see no problem with the healing tank and argue that it is simply optimizing a game mechanic.
However, many are sure that the problem needs to be addressed and bring sensible ideas to weaken the Paladin without making it useless.
- The healing that you can apply to yourself should be reduced with heavy armor
- The weapon damage could be reduced when wearing heavy armor
- DPS weapons could receive effects that reduce healing on their enemies
Others in the community believe that weakening the Paladin builds would have a negative effect. They support that “DPS players finally need to be forced to use tactics and teamwork.”
What are the comments saying? Under the video where a YouTuber discusses the problem with the Paladin build, opinions are accumulating on the issue. We would like to briefly reflect them (via YouTube).
- User Jacob Walker writes: “Exactly that. I spent 300 hours building the perfect hunter build with spear and bow. I have weapons with a 580 gear score, but PvP feels pointless. Completely. […] My entire server turned into a war between Paladins and fire staff players. That’s it.”
- User Amur Ika is also shocked: “As a support healer, it’s really, really important to pay attention to where you stand. But with this build, you are just an immortal god who stands still. What the hell…”
- User qNa, on the other hand, doesn’t understand the excitement: “Rock, paper, scissors. I don’t see the problem. The build counters the current meta, but I have no problem with that personally. Play smarter, not harder.”
What do you think? Have you ever encountered a Paladin in conflict? Do you think the build is too strong, or do you find the excitement unfounded? Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments here at MeinMMO.
