August 24, 2021
-Build created

October 14, 2024
-Build updated for NW:Aeternum
-New weapon trees added
-Accounted Fire staff and Ice Gauntlet changes

As you could already find out in other articles we like Firestaff a lot, as do most of the game community. The Fire Staff is a great choice for a primary weapon in New World because of its powerful ranged attacks and high damage output. It allows for a versatile playstyle, enabling you to deal damage from a distance while also causing lots of DoTs on your targets. The Fire Staff's abilities can be particularly effective in both PvE and PvP situations, making it a strong choice for players looking to excel in different aspects of the game. Additionally, the Fire Staff synergizes well with various secondary weapons, allowing for diverse and effective combat strategies.

Let's take a look at the Firestaff weapon tree:

Favor charging your base heavy attack in between casting your abilities to get cooldowns faster and replenish your mana. Remember to use abilities right after the animation of the attack ends to keep great DPS. Keep distance from your targets and in case you feel in danger use your Ice Gauntlet to make distance.

Active Skills:

1. Fireball: Not needing any introduction is our favorite type of ball. Ranged, 3-meter radius explosion. Just aim below your enemy and there is no chance you will miss. Use it between your basic heavy attacks.
2. Meteor Shower: One of two Area Denial skills you will have at your disposal using this build. For PvE, we will skip its upgrades in favor of more damage from passives in the right tree.
3. Flamethrower: Turn your Staff into a raging flame, move in a circle to stack your enemies together, and make their world burn. Remember to constantly reposition yourself while using it and don’t let the enemy stagger you with active skill. It is better to turn it off, use block, or any other skill. When your flamethrower is active and you get staggered it will trigger a 6s cooldown.

Core Passives:

1. Spell focus: Fire staff is a mana-hungry weapon, you need to have a mana recovery mechanic and this passive is a reliable way to make sure you have control over your mana bar.
2. Fiery Restoration: There aren’t many unconditional cooldown reductions as potent as this one. Stacking this with passive above your basic heavy attacks has insane damage and utility.
3. Pyromania: Flat out 10% more damage for you as attacking enemies will trigger the burn ailment on them.
4. Backdraft: This passive works almost like another ability in your kit. After stacking 3 smolders on your enemy, the next heavy attack will trigger an AoE explosion on the target location on a cooldown of 6 seconds.

The Ice Gauntlet is a popular secondary weapon choice in New World, offering powerful crowd control capabilities and a unique damage option for your main weapon with Ice Pylon ability. With its focus on freezing and controlling the battlefield, the Ice Gauntlet provides a unique playstyle that complements the Fire Staff perfectly. Whether you're looking to freeze enemies in their tracks or deal devastating area-of-effect damage, the Ice Gauntlet is an excellent addition to your arsenal. we'll dive into the active skills, core passives, and recommended playstyle for maximizing the potential of the Ice Gauntlet as a secondary weapon in your build.

Speaking about our Weapon Tree choices:

Active Skills:

1. Ice Pylon: will shoot enemies in 20m radius, with each hit increasing its duration by a second to a maximum 45 seconds. That almost doubles your DPS and what is important it will still shoot (but slower) when you swap to your Fire Staff. Remember to dodge with your IG in hand to increase its fire rate.
2. Ice Shower: it is the most dangerous crowd control skill in the game, both rooting and leaving 50% slow on enemies for 3 seconds. Use this to cut off enemies getting close and use all AoE skills on their heads to get maximum value.
3. Ice Storm: an AoE attack, slow that increases its damage based on the amount of enemies within its range. When you get more upgrades on it, try to cast it first to reduce the cost from 25 mana to only 5.

Core Passives:

1. Refreshing frost: while casting IG spells in a frosted area around your Ice Pylon or in Ice Storm all your IG cooldowns will decrease by 20%.
2. Heavy freeze: each heavy attack on a frozen enemy will end up as a root, great to slow enemy coming at you and making it easier to land Fire Staff abilities
3. Cold Reach: your base attacks will hit like a truck when you are within 15 meters of your target
4. Ultimate Chill: straight-up damage increase on enemies hit by your abilities (except the pylon) this has insane synergy with the Deep Freeze artifact when you pick it up in the game

Weapons:

• Firestaff: 

Perks: Flame attunement, Keen, Distained Infliction, Keen Speed

Gem: There are some viable choices, we would recommend Opal if you like to dodge often, try Diamond if you stal full hp most of the time

You can use either Deep Freeze or the Inferno Artifacts on weapons. The first will boost the damage of both weapons but it is harder to use and the second one favors Fire Staff and will always work within 15m of the enemy.

• Ice Gauntlet: 

Perks: Distained Infliction, Pylon burst, Refreshing Move

Gem: Gems I mentioned above are also viable with the addition of Malachite which will boost damage on slowed enemies which two of your skills guarantee.

Most preferably use light equip load as it offers the most damage and best dodges. Medium is also viable when you find yourself fighting more up close with the flamethrower.

5 x Enchanted Ward or Elemental Aversion
2 x Refreshing
1 x Accelerating Flamethrower

Gems: Split gem resistances evenly or use more elemental protection. If you are going to play Mutation dungeon, slot gems that correspond with the mutation.

Amulet: Health, Divine, Stamina Recovery

Ring: Hearty, Refreshing, Fire Damage

Earring: Regenerating, Fortifying Toast, Refreshing

If you get an Endless Thirst artifact earring from Savage Divide mutated dungeon, it would be perfect.

You can pick any of your liking, our recommendations would be:

Stalwart Heartrune of Stoneform -  Immunity to CC and healing

and

Cunning Heartrune of Cannon Blast - Unblockable burst damage that penetrates enemies.

ENDNOTE

Let us know how is the build working for you. Remember to try out all the skills in weapon trees to get an understanding and toggle your skills to the activity you are taking part in. Make sure to check back for more up-to-date articles and guides for New World: Aeternum at Odealo.com