Healers play an important role in New World once it comes to group content. You need healers for expeditions, world events, and of course in instanced PvP content. MeinMMO editor Alexander Leitsch shows you a PvE and a PvP build that will welcome you with open arms in any group.
What are these builds? The two healer builds we present here are mainly designed for group content. While you can level up in the open world with them, you will take significantly longer than if you focus directly on damage.
- If you are looking for a leveling build, this guide will help you: 3 Builds for beginners that are ideal for PvE and leveling.
- If you are looking for PvP builds, check here: New World: 3 strong general PvP builds or 2 strong DPS builds for wars and Outpost Rush.
I myself have already played the healer variant in PvE and have been recommended the PvP build.
The completed skill trees that you see embedded as images come from the website nwdb.info, which already has a tool for creating builds.
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Life Staff and Ice Gauntlet – PvE (and optionally PvP)
Why is this combo played? The Life Staff is considered the ultimate healing weapon. Both the abilities and the various passive effects emphasize healing yourself or allies. Ideal, therefore, if you want to play as a healer in a group.
The Ice Gauntlet, on the other hand, serves to increase your party’s damage, slow down enemies, or make you invulnerable. It is only a supplement, as your primary playstyle focuses on the Life Staff.
The great thing about this build is that it is playable in both PvE and PvP. However, in PvP, the focus of your playstyle is more on utilizing the Ice Gauntlet and freezing enemies to keep them at bay. In this guide, we primarily describe the PvE playstyle.
How do I distribute the attributes? The focus of the build is on healing, so you invest your points in focus. Remaining points go into constitution for a bit more defense.
Which skills do I use with the Life Staff?
- Blessed Ground
- Beacon
- Embrace of Light
Your first skill point is invested in the healer tree in the passive Absolution, so you have no mana costs on attacks. After that, you go into the Protector tree. There, you unlock the abilities Beacon and Embrace of Light.
Generally, you heal with the Life Staff by attacking enemies. This happens through the passive of Touch of Bliss from the healer tree. It is also important that you and your allies stand in the ability Blessed Ground, as they receive additional healing from all sources there.
Moreover, the passive ability Divine Blessing at the very end of the healer tree is important. This allows you to heal allies who are below 50% health even more effectively.
Which skills do I use with the Ice Gauntlet?
- Ice Storm
- Ice Spike
- Ice Tomb
The Ice Gauntlet primarily serves to increase the damage of you and your group, and also offers a “panic skill” with the Ice Tomb, through which you can make yourself invulnerable and regenerate mana.
Through the ability Ice Storm combined with the passive Weakening Gale, your group’s damage against targets increases, as well as with Ice Spike and the passive Icy Shower, which reduces enemies’ defenses.
What does the equipment look like? In PvE, you primarily go for light or medium gear. Important for you is the diamond gem in the Life Staff, which increases your damage and healing as long as you have full health.
In PvP, however, you should opt for medium or even heavy armor to withstand more damage from enemies.
What does the rotation of skills look like? In general, you should stand such that your allies are between you and the enemy. You start with the Life Staff, which you mainly use.
At the start, it is important that you utilize your passive ability Intensification. To do this, you need to execute 3 strong attacks, which noticeably increases your healing. To maintain the 3 stacks, you need to land a strong attack every 10 seconds. Also, through the dodge roll, you passively increase your healing, so you should use that from time to time.
After that, you apply 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.
Through the passive Revitalization, your cooldowns are reduced whenever you execute a light attack. Since you heal with light attacks too, your primary task is to attack.
If the health of your allies is running low, use the ability Embrace of Light and definitely roll out beforehand to ensure you have maximum healing.
What about the Ice Gauntlet? You primarily use it when your group is so stable that healing is not needed, but rather more damage is required. Here, especially Ice Storm is useful, as it increases your damage and that of your group.
Additionally, you have the ability Ice Tomb, through which you can make yourself invulnerable in case of emergency and regenerate mana.
Life Staff and Sword+Shield – PvP (and optionally Open World)
Why is this combo played? Even in PvP, the Life Staff is the perfect weapon for healing allies.
However, you will be more often in focus here. Enemy players will specifically target healers, or you might suddenly land directly in several AoE fields or a trap. For this, the Sword+Shield works well to increase your defense and also to fend off in melee.
This build is primarily designed for PvP content, but can also be used in the Open World, for example for duels or world events. For dungeons, however, we recommend the build presented above.
How do I distribute the attributes? You also focus primarily on the value focus with this build. As a supplement, you take constitution to increase your health points.
Which skills do I use with the Life Staff?
- Blessed Ground
- Protection Sphere
- Beacon
In general, this healer build also allows you to heal allies through attacks and your abilities. Compared to the upper build, however, your healing power is somewhat lower to instead ensure your survival.
Thus, you skill the passive Defensive Light, through which you gain mana when you successfully block. Additionally, this time you take the Haste from the ability Beacon.
With the abilities, you swap Embrace of Light for Protection Sphere. This brings a buff, providing less incoming damage preventively instead of the healing from Embrace of Light.
Which skills do I use with Sword+Shield?
- Shield Bash
- Shield Charge
- Defensive Stance
With the sword, you focus entirely on the Defender tree. Here you skill the abilities Shield Charge, Shield Bash, and Defensive Stance. Passive abilities also play an important role here to ensure your survival.
Thus you skill Robust Shield, which passively gives you 15% more armor, Elemental Resistance, which reduces damage from magic by 10%, and Valor, which automatically grants you 10% additional health points when holding a sword.
Defensive Stance is your most defensive skill, as it reduces incoming damage.
You only skill one passive ability in the Swordmaster tree. With Achilles’ Heel, you can slow enemies down when you need to flee from them.
What does the equipment look like? You go entirely for heavy armor to survive in the midst of the fray.
What does the rotation of skills look like? This is generally harder to say in PvP. However, it still holds that you should generally stand such that allies are between you and the enemy. Then you heal them passively through attacks.
In this build, you should also again stack your Intensification through heavy attacks, and through the dodge roll increase your outgoing healing.
If you are besieged by enemies, you are now equipped for melee. With Shield Bash, you can stun an enemy and regain stamina, and you can jump away with Shield Charge. Defensive Stance reduces incoming damage and can secure your survival. Additionally, there is the buff Reinforcement when you successfully block.
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