
Weapon wise, you want the bane perk for the mob type you’re fighting.
Secondary perks to consider would be freedom, vigor, invigorated, elemental aversion, and physical aversion. We choose our defensive ward perk based on the PvE instance we are doing (mob type we will be fighting), and Refreshing for some cooldown reduction! In terms of skill perks, we want whatever skill perks we can get to enhance the capabilities of our build. Finally, we go with Keen Awareness on our ring for more crit chance. Refreshing Toast is used for our Earring Perk, to allow us to use our potions much more frequently, thus increasing our HP/MP sustain by a ton.
Perks: For jewelry, Health tends to be the best Amulet Perk to help pad your max HP. You can mix and match the sets as you want, as long as your strength is as close to 300 as it can be with everything else in constitution. When no extra strength is needed, health is prioritized to help boost our defensive capabilities. Name/Set: We run a combination of set types in order to help us hit the maximum strength perk (300) without too much overflow, since the scaling dramatically drops after that point. This gives us the best of all worlds, giving us a decent amount of armor, a solid dodge (which we get 3 of), a 10% damage and healing boost as well as a 10% duration increase to our crowd control skills. Equipment Load (Medium): Medium armor, in my opinion, is the best equipment load for the build. NOTE: Ward refers to any of the defensive wards for mob types, such as “Corrupted Ward.” More details can be found below under “Perks.” If you don’t like something about it, change it to fit your playstyle. Keep in mind that builds are very personal. If you’re looking for a bruiser build with the ability to actually output some damage, this setup will be for you! However, with the way this build is setup, we are getting the maximum amount of damage that both weapons have to offer! The Greatsword is used primarily for applying Rend (and subsequently deal damage to take advantage of that), while the Hatchet is our primary damage and healing bar, and giving us access to some ranged damage. The Greatsword Hatchet build is a bruiser pve build, utilizing the Hatchet and Greatsword for two tanky weapon bars. Welcome to ’s Greatsword Hatchet New World PvE Build! This build is intended for general overland PvE and expeditions!