Most of the ranged mobs in Brimstone are pretty dangerous too. Ancient archers have a rapid shot that hits incredibly hard. Corrupted archers can land their aoe on you while being barely visible, which is ok if its just the archer but is pretty rough if you’re distracted in a fight with other mobs. Lost archers alert at a long range and are kind of squirrelly, and its really easy to end up with several on you at once in Neapolis or the Great Bazaar.
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i feel this ive tried running different setups im over 600 GS and still struggle oddly the most success ive had is running GS and GA with a light build. having refreshing on everything has been huge
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@Suevo if you struggle with mobs use a Greatsword with the perk trenchent recovery, every heavy hit from this weapon restores 40% of the damage done as life for you. Also try to find a ring with lifesteal and an amulet with devine.
This will help you greatly soloing PVE content. You can also look for an greataxe or Hammer with tranchent recovery.
If this isnt enough for you to survice consiger upgrade to medium or heavy armor instead. Light users have to dodge alot of hits because Ancient bowman will kill you in arround 2 Hits.
If this also isnt enough keep an eye on your gear, there is a perk calles XXXX Ward. So you take less damage from specific monster type. Ancient Ward for most enemys in Brimstone. 
But i can asure you with the right setup you are able to solo all Brimstone content including elite zones and bosses. Just takes enough life leech and ward + armor. 
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Critical comeback (Onslaught) with Keen Posture is also very good for health recovery.
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As silly as it sounds…if you are just running around solo (unflagged), just wear heavy armor and deal with the outgoing damage reduction…well, I mean… not getting the outgoing damage bonus. If your gear score is below 600…might should get that up first. Otherwise, it is totally doable in medium…and even light…it just scales the difficulty. Honestly, the archers in BS make LA kinda rough.
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Good suggestion. OP might what to make sure they are taking advantage of as much “sustain” as possible from the GS.
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Drop the GS for now and go with spear. At least you will have some form of CC when they get to melee range.
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In the beginning I ran heavy for survivability. Once dodging became second nature I switched to light and have never looked back. I use bow/spear. When you get the perks/gems/runeglass configured, all but the elite zones should be doable. Play style is just as important as equipment. If your dodging is “dodgy”, stay with heavy until you get better skills and weapons.
Bows do not work to good for crowd control. Too slow reload. Great Axe, Great Sword, Spear, Hatchet and sometimes War Hammer are much better in the right hands.
Youtube is your friend. Go there often. Tons of “how to” New World videos.
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It’s definitely this. Even at nearly max gearscore, I can die pretty easily in Brimstone if I’m not careful (probably in part because of being in light armor, too).
Personally, I love the fact that overworld mobs can actually kill me. It’s far more interesting than just plowing through hordes of baddies like some superpowered hulk.
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you do not need heavy armor for pve lol
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Heavy armor fits my playstyle. Press Mouse1 to attack and Key1 for Health Potion. If the monsters wants to hit me thats okay.
Rolling around with Light armor like Dark Souls / Elden Ring is not fun to me.
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it might fit your play style but it’s not needed like you said
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use TROUPHIES & WEAPON COATS.
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Few things you can do to make it much easier.
If you aren’t good at I-framing then perhaps grab some medium or heavy armor to have better mitigation.
Mostly though just search the market for a GS (since you already playing bow/gs) that has “trenchant recovery” perk on it and enjoy healing back most of the damage you take. It really does make PVE so much easier it’s ridiculous.
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I had picked up some bad habits prior to BS where I would carelessly run into a zone and pull whatever mobs I could into groups. I needed to step back, go slower, and actually plan through BS zones. It was a nice change of pace and made it more enjoyable.
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Oh yes, I totally forgot about trophies. 3 major combat trophies make a HUGE difference in whatever activity you are engaged in. At a very bare bones minimum get the minor and go from there. Make sure your first house is the 20k one. You get a 50% discount on the first house. You will eventually upgrade so why not save 10k at the start? The other two can be the smallest just to have the ability to post 3 trophies.
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get good
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neither 150const 
, 5 is just fine
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Had the same happen to me, wandering into Brimstone trying to hunt some jackals getting my ass handed to me 
Figured out, my gear score is low under 530 and need to buff it in order to be competitive there.
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Do yourself a favor and switch to more con and replace light armor to either medium or heavy so you can tank more hits. Low con light is fine IF you know exactly what to do.
If I were you I would go with BoW/GS in medium, 150/200 con, pull with bow, finish mobs with GS. You want trenchant recovery on GS for sustain. Once you learn how to dodge/mob patterns, you ca go light or lower your CON
Don´t try to play the same light low CON builds Youtube shows you. These players know exactly what to do, how to avoid dmg etc. If you don´t know it (yet) you will struggle hard.
I did whole Brimstone as 150 CON heavy sns/hatchet and gosh it was so easier than with squishy light dps build. At lvl 60 I bought full heavy 590+ gear (ideally with ancient ward/corrupted ward) for like 3-4k coins and went Brimstone at around 540 GS.
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