New World Aeternum Great Sword Spear Build

In the ever-evolving world of New World Aeternum, maximizing your DPS is key to conquering dungeons, bosses, and any foes you encounter. This guide delves deep into one of the best DPS builds currently in the game, focusing on the Great Sword as your primary weapon and the Spear as your secondary. These two weapons offer a powerful balance of high damage, debuffs, and survivability, allowing you to dominate PvE content and high-end mutations. Let's break down everything you need to know, from abilities and weapon masteries to gear and consumables, to ensure you maximize your damage output and sustain in combat.

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The Great Sword is your main source of damage in this build, with abilities and masteries focused on Onslaught Stance, heavy attacks, and high burst damage. Here's how to optimize your Great Sword usage:

You'll primarily stay in this stance, as it increases your damage by 15%. However, it also increases the damage you take by 15%, making managing your positioning and timing crucial during fights. The benefit of Onslaught is further enhanced with Unrelenting Onslaught, which reduces all your active ability cooldowns by 10% whenever you hit an enemy with a charged heavy attack. This leads to insane cooldown reduction (CDR), allowing you to spam abilities frequently.

Skyward Slash: This is your go-to for dealing with massive damage. It applies two stacks of Ren (a debuff that increases damage taken by the target by 10%), with an additional stack if you're in Onslaught Stance, raising the damage increase to 15%. This is the primary ability you'll use for boss fights to shred through enemies with your group.

Steadfast Strike: A versatile ability that provides a small heal, stamina on hit, and a bleed effect on enemies. It also allows you to enter Defiant Stance, which reduces your damage taken by 15%, offering survivability when needed.

Relentless Rush: This mobility ability heals you for 15% of the damage dealt when used in Defiant Stance. It's also great for AOE (Area of Effect) clearing or getting some extra healing in boss fights.

The Spear complements the Great Sword by applying debuffs and buffs to both enhance your damage and reduce the damage output of enemies.

Key Abilities:

Skewer: A high-damage ability that applies a bleed, stacking with the bleed from Steadfast Strike, adding significant damage over time.

Perforate: This ability stacks Ren (further increasing the damage enemies take) and applies a Weaken debuff that reduces the damage enemies deal by 30%. This makes your entire team more survivable.

Cyclone: Provides decent AOE damage while healing you and granting extra stamina, adding to your overall survivability.

You'll want to acquire the artifact Serenity, which turns your Great Sword into a PVE powerhouse thanks to its unique perks:

Balanced Blade: Grants you 2% Empower (increased damage) per attack for 5 seconds, stacking up to 10 times for an additional 20% damage boost.

Trenching Strikes & Trenching Crits: This deadly combination allows your heavy melee attacks to damage enemies.

Opal Gem: Add this gem to boost your damage by 9% while your stamina is not full, providing a further edge in combat.

Keenly Jagged: Adds a bleed effect on critical hits, which synergizes well with Skewer and Perforate.

Enfeebling Skewer: Reduces enemy damage by 44% for 8 seconds when hit by Skewer, making this a key debuff for high-end encounters

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To ensure you're fully optimized for high-end PvE content, you'll need to gear up with the following essential pieces:

Run Divine and Health perks to maximize your survivability. Depending on the dungeon, you'll need amulets that provide resistance to the elemental damage type of that dungeon's enemies.

For example, if you're running a dungeon where enemies deal fire damage, equip a Fire Protection Amulet to reduce incoming fire damage by 40% or more.

The artifact Blood Drinker is highly recommended due to its life-steal properties. It features Leeching and Hardy perks, with slashing damage as a third perk, boosting your Great Sword's slash-based attacks. Blood Drinker will keep you alive even if your healer isn't pulling their weight, making it indispensable in tough dungeons.

Life Loop: This earring provides healthy toast, regenerating health when drinking Mana potions, and regenerating and reducing poison cooldown. These perks are incredibly strong for sustained fights in both PvE and PvP.

Aim for Elemental Aversion and Health on most of your armor pieces. The third perk can vary, but Refreshing (cooldown reduction) is a solid choice.

The Ton Leather Pants artifact is also critical, as it provides +10 to all attributes, letting you hit attribute milestones for increased damage.

Your attribute distribution is vital for squeezing maximum damage while maintaining enough health to survive challenging encounters. Here's a recommended start setup:

Strength: 150 – This gives you increased stamina regeneration while exhausted, useful for both Great Sword and Spear as both scale off strength.

Dexterity: 350 – Your primary damage stat, providing high damage and critical hit chance.

Constitution: 100 – This is non-negotiable. As a Great Sword user, you already take 15% more damage while in Onslaught Stance, so the added survivability from 100 Constitution is critical.

Intelligence & Focus: 25 each – If you're using the Ton Leather Pants, you can invest here for some extra backstab damage and cooldown reduction.

To perform at your best in every dungeon, you'll need to stock up on essential consumables:

Health, Mana, and Regeneration Potions should always be part of your loadout for sustained healing and resource management.

Honing Stones: Increase weapon damage for 30 minutes. Start with Tier 2 if you're on a budget, but move up to higher-tier stones when you can afford them.

Ward Potions: These increase damage absorption from specific enemy types (e.g., Angry Earth, Lost, Corrupted) by 10%.

Food Buffs: Always bring food that boosts your primary damage attribute (Strength/Dexterity) and Constitution food for extra health in tricky situations.

Start fights by applying Skewer and Perforate to stack debuffs on enemies.

Switch to the Great Sword and use Skyward Slash to apply Ren, then follow up with heavy attacks in Onslaught Stance to maximize your damage output.

Use Relentless Rush for extra healing or AOE clearing, and switch to Defiant Stance for survivability in tough situations.

Always aim to maintain high uptime on your buffs and debuffs for maximum damage and team utility.

Begin with Skewer and Perforate to apply bleeds and weaken the boss.

Use Skyward Slash to stack Ren, then spam heavy attacks with your Great Sword to deal massive damage. If you take too much damage, switch to Defiant Stance, use Relentless Rush for healing, then return to Onslaught Stance to resume your heavy attack spam.

This build offers incredible versatility and damage potential in both PvE and PvP environments. The synergy between the Great Sword and Spear allows for massive damage while providing enough debuffs and survivability to tackle even the toughest of dungeons. You'll become a DPS powerhouse in New World's Aeternum with the right gear, consumables, and practice. Happy hunting!

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