New World Aeternum Best Jewelry Guide

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In New World Aeternum, understanding and optimizing your jewelry's perks can make a substantial difference in both PvP and PvE scenarios. Below, we delve into the best perk combinations for each type of jewelry—amulets, rings, and earrings—and how to align them with specific builds, game modes, and encounter requirements. 

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Amulets: Essential Perks for Survival and Flexibility

When it comes to amulets, there are three core perks that most players should aim for: Health, Stamina Recovery, and one protection perk of choice. Here's a breakdown of these must-have perks:

Health: This perk provides an extra health buffer, essential for reducing the frequency of deaths, making it universally beneficial.

Stamina Recovery: While it has seen nerfs, Stamina Recovery remains powerful. Dropping below 50% in health grants back half of your stamina bar, offering additional dodges (sometimes even two) that can be life-saving in various situations.

Protection: The third perk should be flexible, depending on the enemies you anticipate facing. Flame Protection is ideal when dealing with fire-based foes, Frost Protection for ice-based attacks, and Thrust Protection when facing foes with thrusting weapons, such as bows or specific bosses. For example:

Against Captain Thorpe (final boss of the Depths), Slash Protection becomes invaluable due to his high slash damage. Pairing this with a Moonstone gem for an additional 15% Slash damage absorption (totaling 20% reduction) can greatly improve survival.

In the Empyrean Forge against the fire snake and Commander Meatball, Fire Protection and a fire-resistant gem will boost your resilience against fire attacks, particularly useful for tanking fire-staff-wielding enemies.
Long-term Strategy: To be well-prepared, build a set of amulets that each have Health, Stamina Recovery, and different elemental or physical protections. This variety will ensure you're ready for any encounter, be it PvP or PvE.

Rings: Key Perks for Enhanced Offense and Defense

Rings offer a blend of offensive and defensive capabilities, with some perks being essential across most builds.

Hearty: This perk is a staple on nearly every ring due to its universal usefulness. It grants an extra dodge roll by boosting stamina, which can be crucial in PvP or high-mobility PvE encounters. Hearty's effectiveness may diminish for players in heavy armor, but it remains generally useful.

Leeching: Leeching provides health regeneration based on damage dealt, which is beneficial for sustained combat. If using builds with high health-damage synergy, like Void Gauntlet, you might replace this with Infected to increase disease duration.

Damage-Specific Perks: The third slot can be customized based on your weapon. For example:

Slash Damage: Works well with the Hatchet.
Thrust Damage: Ideal if using a bow.
Fire Damage: Complements a fire staff build.
Specialized PvP Option - Invigorated Punishment: This perk boosts your damage against enemies with active buffs, making it potent in PvP scenarios where buffs are frequently applied.

Healer Rings: For healers, an ideal ring combination might include Hearty, Sacred (boosts healing output), and Healing Breeze (provides additional healing when using Heart Rune). Despite recent nerfs, Healing Breeze remains a solid choice, ensuring greater healing efficiency.

Earrings: Perks for Utility and Sustain

Earrings tend to offer more support-oriented perks. Here's a look at the best options:

Refreshing Toast: This perk is beneficial for all players, as it shortens the cooldown on potion use, which can be a lifesaver in extended fights.

Refreshing: Adding Refreshing on an earring allows you to free up perk slots on your armor for other useful attributes, as some perks (like Enchanted Ward) aren't available on earrings.

Optional Third Perks:
Regenerating: Grants health regeneration over time.
Despised: Crucial for PvP tanks, this perk generates additional threat.
Fortifying Toast or Empowering Toast: Provides temporary defense or offense boosts when using potions.

Special Earring Options for 3v3 Arenas and Outpost Rush: Some unique earrings, like those from the main story questline, provide strike damage absorption from gems that usually only apply to weapons. This weapon-equivalent absorption is extremely valuable, particularly in arenas and Outpost Rush where gear score scaling levels the playing field.

Unique Gear from the Sandworm Raid and Other Rare Finds

New World has introduced some truly rare and powerful items, especially from challenging content like the Sandworm raid. Here are a few noteworthy examples:

Savior Perk on Helmets: Normally exclusive to life staff, the Savior Perk (found on Sandworm helmets) significantly benefits healers, as it allows critical health-saving opportunities in tight situations.

Keen Perk on Armor: Armor from the Sandworm raid can sometimes include Keen, which increases crit chance—usually reserved for weapons. Finding Keen on armor pieces provides an edge in both offense and defense.

Frigid Dawn Armor: Earned through mutated glacial expeditions, this armor offers a rare combination of Enchanted Ward and Elemental Version, making it a prime choice for mixed defensive builds. Attributes like Health and Conditioning can also be stacked, allowing for tailored builds that are extremely resilient in both PvP and PvE.

Legacy Items with Multiple Rare Perks: Legacy rings, like the Legate's Ring, offer a unique combination of Slash Damage and Keen, which isn't usually available together. This type of ring is ideal for heavy armor players who don't benefit as much from Hearty but still want a powerful offensive combination.

Keepspeed on Boots: Another Sandworm raid item, boots with Keepspeed grant a significant movement speed boost, useful for mobility-focused builds or escaping dangerous situations.

With New World's vast number of gear combinations, finding the optimal setup can feel overwhelming. Keeping core perks in mind—like Hearty on rings, Refreshing Toast on earrings, and Health on amulets—will provide a reliable foundation to build. For specialized encounters, adapting your third perk for elemental or physical protections on amulets and damage-type perks on rings can significantly boost your effectiveness.

For those looking to dive deeper, a perk ranking spreadsheet is updated regularly, offering an overview of perks graded by their usefulness in PvE, with PvP updates planned in the future. Links to this and additional guides can be found below. Tune into streams for in-depth discussions on New World gear, giveaways, and expert insights into optimizing your build.

Whether you're a seasoned New World veteran or a returning player exploring recent updates, these optimized gear setups and specialized perks will help you navigate New World's toughest challenges.

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