With the new expansion Rise of the Angry Earth, the MMORPG New World has introduced a new weapon: the Flail. This weapon is primarily used in close combat, but is also excellent for tanks and healers. We at MeinMMO present you with 3 builds.
What can the weapon do? The Flail is a melee weapon with a slightly increased range. It offers a lot of support and many tank abilities. While you can also deal damage with it, its focus clearly lies on the other two roles in the Holy Trinity. This is not least due to the shield in the off-hand and of course the two skill trees:
- Cleric: This tree offers some damage abilities but also provides a lot of support for the group. You distribute buffs like Empowerment or heal teammates passively through attacks or via the ability Everything is Better Together.
- Bastion: Here you can grant yourself defensive enhancements and receive additional bonuses for your equipped shield.
In the video, you can watch some first gameplay of the weapon:
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Flail Build as Tank
How to play as a tank? Basically, your goal is to keep the aggro of enemies on you. This works quite well if you equip a taunt stone on the weapon. Then, the ability Protective Flail also provides taunt. The ability Arcane Whirl, on the other hand, roots enemies so they will initially stay close to you.
You also have some passive buffs for yourself and the group, but you must also actively block and dodge. The good thing is that you are rewarded with passive effects for blocking and dodging.
Especially important is the effect Courage. Because of the bonus in Constitution, you receive 10% less damage when you have this buff. However, you can grant this buff to yourself constantly, for example by using one of the three abilities.
Which attributes should I skill? Basically, you use:
- 350 Constitution
- 50 Concentration for more healing
- Rest in Strength for additional damage
As a very experienced tank, you can reduce Constitution to 200 and skill 150 Concentration instead. This noticeably increases your damage.
Which abilities should I skill?
- Arcane Shatter from the Cleric tree
- Arcane Whirl from the Cleric tree
- Protective Flail from the Bastion tree
Which weapons do I use as a combo? The best options are sword and shield, as this is also a strong tank combo. If you prefer to play a bit more offensively, you can tank with the axe or the spear.
Here you can find general, further builds: The 3 best Tanks Builds in Expeditions.
What does my equipment look like? You use heavy armor, where the perk with additional maximum life is important. On your weapons and jewelry, everything should also revolve around life or life-steal. This makes it much easier for healers. The perk Refreshing Move is also useful, which reduces the cooldowns of your abilities with your attacks.
Ideally, you use the new artifact Odo, a flail that passively heals you while you block. An ideal weapon for tanking.
What does my rotation look like? You start the fight with Arcane Shatter. Here you make a light jump forward and create an AoE field that weakens enemies. Then you need to use a heavy attack to give the enemy the debuff Damage. This activates passively through your Bastion tree.
Then you use Protective Flail for taunt and Arcane Whirl to buff yourself.
Otherwise, the build is very easy to play because you don’t have to land any special attacks to buff yourself. Many effects simply trigger passively.
Flail Build as Healer
How to play as a healer? As a healer, you combine the flail with the life staff. This way, you can effectively heal the group and have a lot of useful buffs on your flail for the group.
Which attributes should I skill? As a healer, you use:
- 350 Concentration
- The rest in Constitution
Which abilities should I skill?
- Arcane Shatter from the Cleric tree
- Arcane Eruption from the Cleric tree
- Protective Flail from the Bastion tree
What does my equipment look like? In PvE, you use light armor, which provides 30% additional healing. Important for you is the Diamond Gem in the life staff, which increases your damage and healing as long as you have full health.
What does my rotation look like? Basically, you should position yourself where you are near your ranged allies since you heal them passively. You start with the flail and the ability Arcane Shatter. This field weakens enemies and gives allies life-steal. Ideally, you place it right by the tank.
Through Protective Flail, you establish a special connection with the tank, causing him to take less damage. Arcane Eruption is your healing ability.
If you need to heal a lot, then switch to the life staff. There, it’s important that you use your passive ability Intensification. For this, you have to execute 3 strong attacks, which noticeably increases your healing. To maintain the 3 stacks, you must land a strong attack every 10 seconds. Also, dodging increases your healing passively, so you should use it every now and then.
Then, you place the ability Blessed Ground on your tank or in your group and use the ability Beacon. From then on, Beacon can be used permanently on cooldown.
Flail Build for PvP
How to play in PvP? In PvP, there are actually several ways to use the flail. One option is the healer build shown above, which also works great in Outpost Rush or in invasions. However, here Arcane Whirl is often used instead of direct healing with Arcane Eruption.
Another variant is a kind of offensive tank with sword and shield. This build is what we are looking at here.
Which attributes should I skill?
- 350 Strength
- 25 Concentration
- Rest Constitution
Which abilities should I skill?
- Arcane Shatter
- Arcane Whirl
- Charge
Which weapons do I use as a combo? As mentioned above, the combo uses the sword and shield along with the flail and shield.
What does my equipment look like? Here you have two options. If you are unsure and want to endure a bit, you should rely on heavy armor. This is generally a safe choice.
If you want to be a bit bolder, you can play this combo with light armor and deal a lot of damage.
What does my rotation look like? You either use the Charge or the Jump from the sword to get close to the enemies. Then use Arcane Shatter, a heavy attack, and Arcane Whirl.
Next, you use auto-attacks or another stun found in the sword abilities.
You can find all our guides to New World in this overview:
New World Guides: All tips, tricks, and builds in one overview.
