New World Bow/Spear PvE DPS Build - Odealo (2024)

A fast-firing ranged weapon that offers a deadly mix of Single Target and AoE Damage, while also offering a nice boost to mobility(in the form of active abilities and passives). It has a great burst damage potential and can apply vicious damage over time effects to multiple targets at a time. Forthis build, we focus on Bow's burst damage andits damage over time effects but take only minimal crowd control.

Active Skills:

1. Rapid Shot (Hunter): Fires a burst of 3 arrows; the first two deal 100% weapon damage each and the third one deals 125% weapon damage and causes a knockback. This is a powerful skill that lets you deal a nice burst of single-target damage or split the damage between up to three enemies. You should take both of its corresponding passives as they increase damage and can potentially cut Rapid Shot's cooldown in half, which is ridiculous.
2. Poison Shot (Skirmisher): An AoE skill that creates a 3m wide cloud of poisonous gas that lasts for 6 seconds. Enemies that enter the cloud will be poisoned for 10% weapon damage per second for 20 seconds. This skill offers one of the longest DoTs in the game - you can't skip on that. You should also take both of the corresponding passives for even better DoT and some extra burst damage.
3. Rain of Arrows (Skirmisher): A powerful ground-based AoE skill that fires a barrage of arrows at the targetted area. It's great for Expeditions as it works wonders against packs of enemies; it loses out in solo PvE, however. If you upgrade it with its related passives (and you should), it will also apply a DoT and slow all affected enemies down. If you like playing solo or want the build to work better in PvP, you should swap Rain of Arrows for the Evade Shot.

Core Passives:

1. Concussion (Hunter): With this, Headshots made with a Bow deal 20% extra damage. All you need to do is aim well.
2. Bullseye (Hunter): This one increases the Critical Strike Chance of all Bow shots by 10%, which is universally good. This passive has a prerequisite, but it also happens to be a rather good one - Arrow Range that increases the arrow's flatness (it travels for longer before it starts to be affected by gravity).
3. Long Range (Hunter):With this passive, you will deal 20% more damage to enemies that are at least 10 meters away. This is a "free" 20% damage increase, just mind your range.
4. Battle Precision (Skirmisher): This passive makes Debuffs and Damage over Time effects last for 20% longer. It makes Poison Shot and Rain of Arrows much more efficient.

A fun-to-use melee weapon that offers high reach, and a deadly mix of debuffs, damage over time effects, and sustained damage. It works wondersin the combination with a Bow as both of them use Dexterity as their primary stat and their skills supplement themselves very well. For a melee weapon, Spear is rather difficult to master and will require some practice, but the effects are definitely worth it. For this build, we focus on the Impaler skill tree to maximize sustained damage by reducing cooldowns and boosting up DoTs.

Active Skills:

1. Perforate(Impaler): A skill that makes 3 quick piercing strikes to your target, each one for 70% weapon damage. It also applies Rend, which is a debuff that reduces the target's damage absorption by 5% for 10s. This is your Spear opener, as using it first will make the other two spear skills deal more damage. You should take both of the corresponding passives for doubled Rend effectiveness against wounded enemies and stagger effect after landing 3 hits on the same target.
2. Skewer (Impaler): A charge-like skill that impales your Target for 125% weapon damage and applies a 10-second Bleed effect for 10% weapon damage per second. This offers great sustained damage, especially when combined with all three of its corresponding passives.
3. Vault Kick (Impaler): A stunning blow that deals 75% weapon damage. You might think that this skill is sub-par until you realize that its Continuous Motion passive reduces cooldowns of all other Spear skills by 30% (!), and its Relentless Blows passive gives you a 20% Damage buff against enemies below 50% health. You should use this after you use your other two Spear skills.

Core Passives:

1. Refreshing Reach (Zoner): This passive makes your successful Heavy Attacks with a Spear reduce all Spear Cooldowns by 15%. With this, if you make a single Heavy Attack after you use the Vault Kick, you'll get a 45% Cooldown Reductionwhich is simply ridiculous.
2. Refreshing Jabs (Impaler):Another Cooldown-reducing passive. This one cuts 10% off all your Spear Skill Cooldowns after you make a second hit with your light attack chain.
3. Exacerbating Crits (Impaler): From now on, your Critical Hits extend the duration of your Spear debuffs and DoTs by 20%. This passive is a must-have as it makes all your skills much more efficient.
4. Exploited Weakness (Impaler): This one provides +10% damage per debuff on the target, for a maximum of +30% Damage. You can easily apply multiple debuffs without breaking your rotation, so this is just free damage.