I’ve played for a few days now and wondering about the following:
–Crafting is fun, but getting mats is taking up the bulk of my time. The cycle I’m in right now seems to be get a quest for the town, go get mats, fight off things, live most of the time but go through mana and health food pretty fast and run out of repair stuff before I can find some of the mats. Briar things are crazy - still haven’t found a one. What am I doing wrong here?
–My gear is wearing down super quickly. I’m doing my best to block as well as not die but going to collect X number of things from dead mob chests breaks all my gear before I’m able to get to X things. Which means salvaging, which means getting gear and I’m just never on the right side of the numbers. I feel like I’m doing something wrong yet again here. Any ideas?
–I am running a healer because that’s the class I love to play. Is that a poor choice? I’ve slotted an axe with a healing staff on the second bar but it’s still super tough to kill things. Should I shift to another class?
–I got the deluxe edition and see the art book in my menu, but not the woodsman skin or the house pet. How do I get those?
Thanks for your help in advance. The game overall seems like it could be super fun, but I’m getting pretty bogged down right now getting started and would love some info on how to do this a bit better.
levelling up phase especially under 40 (lvl req to use starmetal tools) is bad idea to gather mats. at least you need starmetal tools to do some gathering with not so much time wasted. even me dont care too much about gathering until i get to 60 cuz that’s where everything actually started
use hatchet and use the berserk skill on it. autoheal, great damage and sustainability overall. best weapon to lvl up until you get decent gears for other weapons. you dont even have to use potions most of the time
Crafting is fun… at the start. But don’t get it over lvl 50/100… after that, the grind becomes so much that you will get tired of it. It will cost you way more than 100.000 gold coins to level up a profession. Without counting the trophies and specific gear. And in the end, it’s not worth it at all because you cannot sell 99.9% of the things you craft. Briars are along rivers.
Don’t care too much about your gear until you are level 55+, you will change it all the time anyways while leveling because quest rewards or drops. Don’t really know why your gear breaks that much tho… Guess you just need to keep repairing it. (don’t use repair toolkits, it’s a waste, just pay the gold)
If you are a solo player… Healer is indeed not the best class for leveling. The best class for solo leveling is Hatchet without a doubt. That weapon got everything you need, damage, invicibility, healing… Get a life stealing perk on your hatchet and on your ring and you will be golden for PVE. It’s also a really versatile class because it uses 3 stats, dex, str and const, so you can equip almost anything you drop or craft.
Don’t know about that.
The game is hyper fun up until lvl 45/50 … after that… It becomes hellish and the fun is replaced by grind. Good luck tho !
Briars only alongside rivers, if you have trouble Findling it, check out New World Map (simply Google it, there are a lot of maps where you can Filter for briar and it Shows you the closest spawn)
The repairing Sounds odd to me, dont know what Happening there. And for the weapon, if you go to Mainly play lifedtaff and there for have much points in Focus, you need to place a gem wich converts with Focus in your secondary weapon (in your case its an amber gemstone)
Dont know if this solved your Problem, but try rightclicking a Piece of gear you wear and then choose change skin. The list is Not sorted, but some where in there should be your skin. If Not, write to Support.
Crafting is very expensive and time consuming Just Do it, if you love it xD
Grab all Mission you can Get (Story Mission, townboard, faction - then run a circle, complete everything and Pick up stuff alomg the way and return to town. That Was my fastest way to lvl
You probably will not see the dog until you buy a house, since it is considered a peice of furniture. Then when you are in decorating mode the dog will show up.
ABC - Always Be Chopping Trees. Easy gold from charcoal… nonstop.
If you’re running missions and all the in-betweens by yourself, I wouldn’t start with the healing class. You can always get this leveled up very quickly when you get to level 60 or so. Try great axe and Warhammer if you like the kit… or sword and shield. Anything that can provide you sustain, AOE, single target damage, etc… all in one for PVE.
Live by these two rules when leveling. NEVER leave town with a full inventory & NEVER return to town with an empty inventory.
DO NOT sell your craft mods at all, wait until you fully understand what you have and the true value of it and have far more hours into the game.
It sounds like you could be taking too much damage and/or dying possibly? If you seem to be having these issues just find some gear that has durability on it and roll with it, it can save you some gold on your path to level 60.
Healer is one of the most requested class in New World and in my opinion compared to other healer classes in other games very very fun and interesting.
If you are leveling don’t worry about gear because that’s all provisional.
Crafting system is very fun and even if personally I don’t like the control you have about legendary gear and perks I think is anyway a matter of time till AGS make some changes there. I think they have other priorities but I’m pretty sure is on their list.
I think you should play what you like, every combination in this game is possible but there are setups that are more optimized. I think the best with life staff is the void gauntlet, but if you are leveling you will run out of mana fast. That’s why I think you can use GA if you like
I have some questions for you. What level is your character right now? Which region/server are you playing on? Which territory did you spawn in? There are some very easy things that you can do at low level to get foods and some basic materials, at very low risk.
I love to help folks, so here is one thing I learned from a friend. If you want to post a screen shot here on the forums, there are a few ways to do this, one is to hit the print screen button, then alt tab out of the game, right click on the desktop, and create a new bitmap image (if you are using windows), then select ‘edit’ and hit “Control V” to past the screen shot into the bitmap image. Then select ‘save as’ and save it as a jpeg image, and then you can use the upload button on the tools bar within the forum post interface, and post your image here.
My friend had the same problem as you are describing, what with his equipment always getting torn up, and he was unable to repair for lack of spare parts, obtained from salvaging items that your enemies drop, note that humanoid enemies drop items that you can wear, while non-humanoids don’t drop such anywhere near enough. Also, his playstyle was to focus on advancing by questing, questing, questing, with never a stop to just go out and repeat places and foes that give good items, until he got his repair parts built up so he always had enough gold and parts to effect proper repairs when needed.
What sorts of things have you so far crafted?
Tell us where you are playing at, level and server wise, and we can be more helpful. For instance, my two characters are on Pluto and Maramma, in the US East region. Do you use discord voice channels when playing? That makes things so much easier on folks trying to help you.
You need a couple things, gold income from selling materials, and a steady supply of foods that you can gather yourself, at little to no risk, and you need these things BEFORE you run yourself completely out of gold and repair parts.
Doing nothing but quests will run you out of repair parts in the early game, but you can stop grinding quests non-stop and get yourself some foods and wood to make charcoal, and sell the charcoal in the trading post. Young trees make the best return for this. You said you were using a life staff, and that is the best weapon you can start off with to go “pig farming” with in the starter areas of Windsward, First light, Everfall, and Monarch’s bluff, all of which are level 1-25 areas.
I started off with sword and shield plus life staff, but swapped out the life staff for the Hatchet, as the hatchet w/berserk is a better fighting/healing item than the life staff is, and you don’t need to put points into Focus early on, and also don’t need mana foods/potions at all that way.
You are going to be much better off if you still work on your life staff at low level, as leveling up a life staff after 60 is NOT fun if you play mainly solo, because you start getting less and less experience from all but the toughest monsters in the game, and the life staff doesn’t lend itself to mob leveling.
Briar: go to a river and there you will find thorny bushes with briar. And reeds. No need to kill anything for it
Do not salvage the armor you use, repair it. Salvage everything else and you will have enough repair parts. Go to regions where the mobs are not higher lvel than you and dont die.
You can play healer no problem. Do not use an axe then, it scales with strength, you should have your points in focus as a heaer (you DO spend your points right?). Use a void gauntlet as secondary and use the void blade skill. As a healer with life staff and void blade you are almost unkillable.
–Charcoal! HAH!
–Void gauntlet as secondary - huge difference
–Found the skin thanks to the right click clue (thanks so much!) and will wait for the puppy dog to show up when housing does
–Have yet to find a river (!) for the briar but I don’t have a lot of the map explored yet.
–Getting gathering skills up to 50 then stopping until I’m higher level. It’s super hard to NOT harvest cause everything has a little dot… click click click gah bag overload! I found silver this morning /cheer!
Thanks again all. Heading in for more adventures today and appreciate the info.
As a prior Great Axe/Life Staff user, switching to War Hammer/Life Staff was the best I eever did. It moved my offense into crowd control-- imaginably, quite a useful tool for a healer trying to stop up damage. It keeps the same sweeping, arcing attacks of the Great Axe, though, so you don’t lose that 2-handed chuff in your fight. Additionally though, you get a lot of defense tools that will really, really help you keep through fights in the open world (coupled with a Life Staff as you are).
Currently running one of my alts as a Fire Staff/Ice gauntlet. A pretty fun build so far but I am not into pvp. I do not do OPR/Wars. Once I get better I may try out the pvp. My main problem is on a 4G Cell internet connection.
All the gameplay stuff I’m sure will be answered BUT the art book can be found in your NW game file folder, there will be a folder in there with multi language too. I had to find it myself …
I have around 900 hours in this game and here are some tips.
-im not a crafter so I can’t give too many tips here, but as for repairs and such. Loot every chest. Salvage anything that you are not about to equip as you will cycle gear very fast. As for health pots, food, mana pots etc. Ask company members or even in the help chat, at your level it’s very cheap to make.
-buy armor and weapons from the faction vendor person. It can carry you all the way to lvl60 and has decent stats. A tip for the armor use this to figure out what the best mix of armor to max out resistance but stay in the right weight class. If using faction armor you will need to buy one of the seals (also from vendor) and combine it with the armor piece to change it to the attribute points you need
-All weapons scale with different attributes. Use the page you go to when you slot points in after leveling up. Above the bar you can see what weapons scale with what attribute. Some have 2 that they scale off, when hovering over the weapon icon on the attribute page the one listen first scales it more then the second. As a healer you would want to put most of your points into focus to make your heals stronger and an ok amount in constitution so you don’t die. A good amount of healers normally run rapier for the mobility, to make this work they would slot in an amber gem into the weapon which makes x% (depending on tier of gem) of the damage scale of focus instead of dexterity.
–to see the deluxe skins hover over your armor and at the bottom of the pop up will say change skin. Click that and your good to go. As for the dog I’m not too sure but think it’ll be in the decorations tab when you are inside a house you buy
If you need any more help feel free to private msg me on the fourms hope this helped and have fun exploring aetrenum
Shift to heavy dps class(warhammer with full str+cons gear) until you hit to 60. Your all gear will become garbage after hitting to level 60 ,you will need to replace them all whether they are suitable with your fav. class or not. You can also level healing class by equipping life staff as a secondary weapon during this process; Do one hit with life staff to the mobs, do rest of the damage with wh. This will save you from mana cost + Xp will split between lifestaff and warhammer
