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Are you interested in learning how to smash and slice your foes to death in New World? This Guide will provide a deep review of everything Sword and Shield in Amazon's MMO!
This guide dives deep into the Skills, Passives, and some of the most powerful designs to use your Sword and Shield in New World. This guide can be viewed as an advanced variation of our New World Guide to Weapons for beginners. When you finish this guide, you will have a thorough understanding of how to use the Sword and Shield and with practice be able to fully grasp the skill.
Sword and Shield Overview
The Sword and Shield are a pair of weapons that are flexible and offer a good mix of offense and defense. The Sword and Shield are very easily to make just about any combination of abilities work. It is equipped for almost every situation, it's hard to stop this weapon from being effective.
The Sword and Shield is primarily played in a more defensive oriented Tank play style. Between cleave damage, crowd control and defensive buffs and buffs, the Sword and Shield end up being a highly balanced weapon in general.
If you opt to focus upon Sword Skills, the Sword and Shield are an efficient DPS also. You end up sacrificing the value of at least one Shield skill, but you gain an additional damage skill, which is usually.
Shield and Sword Skills, Passives and Perks
We'll start with the skills and passives. We'll go over each, their uses and the effectiveness they have. There's a lot to cover here which is why we'll break it down per tree to help keep things in order.
In addition to the general information In addition to the general information, players will be awarded an assessment from C to the S tier, for both PvP and PvE. C Tier is reserved for passives that aren't amazing, or have been made to upgrade by another or generally useless. These two tiers are mid tiers, putting them in between the poor passives and the best, leaning one way towards one or other. S tier are the good passives, which are the ones you'll almost always choose if you pick up an ability or wish to as it can be useful in numerous situations.
The Swordmaster Tree
The Swordmaster Tree is where all of our main attack options are. The active skills available for this Swordmaster Tree are Whirling Blade Reverse Stab, Leaping Strike. Let's discuss these skills and their upgrades, before talking about the different passives accessible on this side of the tree.
Reverse Stab
Stab reverse Stab is a potent stab attack that deals 175% Weapon Damage.
The long animation of this skill makes it harder to use in PvP, however it could be a good successor with Shield Bash.
With a Cooldown to 20 secs, Reverse Stab isn't up often. In light of the amount of damage it could cause with, it's a fair trade off.
Reverse Stab Rating: A+ - PvE (S in Solo play), A - PvP
The reverse Stab is the hardest hitting ability for those who have the Sword and Shield. Most of the time in PvE this is highly appreciated. When Tanking the game, it's advised to utilize Whirling Blade due to the AoE. As a tank, it also suffers a little of its value due to it's final passive, which is a little less powerful overall, as it can only affecting this skill.
In PvP It's a great as a follow-up to any hard impact on crowd control. You can lock someone down using some similarity to previously mentioned Shield Bash, get behind them and hit the person with this, and it'll be like hitting the truck.
Sword and Shield Construction
These builds concentrate upon the Sword and Shield, they do not take into account other weapons. The use of other weapons can allow for longer combinations and also other unusual combinations.
Leveling Build (15-19 Points)
This is a very typical Sword and Shield build that is focused on dealing huge damage for soloing as well as being able to manage both PvP and Expeditions. It employs its Whirling Blade, Shield Bash, and Defiant Stance skills.
Although the direction of leveling is mostly static but you can change the order in which you grab certain passives, taking ones that have immediate value first or saving those with greater risk for the last.
In order to get the highest level, we need to acquire the three skills, starting by Whirling Blade, which costs us 4 points. In the next step, we will take Counter Attack along with Whirling Blade's Upgrades. We then grab Shield Bash upgrade. At this point we've allotted 8 points.
The order that I found to work the best and also be the most consistent with the other passives was the following. Grab Empowered Stab followed by precision and Confidence. This provides us with a decent damage boost, which helps us conquer mobs. Then we pick Achilles Heel, Opportunist, Freeing Justice, and finish up using Leadership starting with 15 of the points.
We do not want to upgrade the Defiant Stance immediately, as the effect that is built into it is enough to aid in the scenarios it'd be needed in. We'd like to opt for Leadership, as it's the most consistent and widely appropriate Ultimate Even though it's Tank.
Now to continue this build towards the fully equipped Sword and Shield, we'll be spending the remainder of points in the Defender Tree. The Final Tree is shown below.
Sword Leveling Tree 19 points used.
The key things we pick out are Defiant Stance Enhancements Recuperation, Defensive Training and Recuperation. When playing a Tank role is a great option for PvE. There's no reason not to max out Defiant Stance. It also gives it a more powerful option in PvP, by maxing it as well.
We will take Recuperation upon these upgrades , which gives us self-healing abilities that allows us to reap the benefits of outside of consumables. It will also make it more easy to heal by an healer.
Finally we grab Defensive Training. This was a bit of a debate, but I feel the Fortify effect is better especially for Open World or PvP compared to Sturdy Grip. Sturdy Grip will ultimately be more robust in Group PvE Tanking, but this tree is designed to even out the solo PvE and PvP aspects of it too.
Skills Perks, Usage and Rotations
As with other Leveling Trees, this build doesn't really feature any complicated skill usages or rotations making it easier to use.
Whirling Blade is your main offensive aggro-holding skill in PvE. The AoE and a decent damage/damage ratio make it a great tool for this purpose. This should ideally be utilized during cooldown. Two instances where it shouldn't be employed when it is removed from cooldown are the time when a boss is about to unleash minions, or when the boss is about to use a heavy attack. In these cases, Defiant Stance or Shield Bash are more appropriate to use.
For PvP battles, this will most often be used as a complement to Shield Bash for extra damage. If you do this the maximum damage you can get is the Full Heavy Attack followed immediately by Whirling Blade. It's not always necessary to be kept for this purpose, especially when it's a large-scale battle, as the potential cooldown reduction can be much greater and capable of being used more frequently.
Shield Bash is best used on cooldown to prevent aggro from the boss in PvE. The only time it shouldn't be used during cooldown is when a predictable and interruptible attack is about to happen. Also, it can be used to stop Defiant Stance's taunt when it's nearing its end. Since the attack has the ability to strike everything in an arc in the direction of you, it is possible to reapply a taunt to everything that is in front of you.
Defiant Stance is best used to prepare for a large damage, or when you are tanking several smaller mobs. The power of defense it provides allows you to survive almost any massive attack, as well as a longer sequence in weaker attack. One of the best ways to use it is to snare aggro from recent added adds that have been spawned during boss fights, as they're unlikely to be within the Shield Bash Range at first.
To Armor Perks; Empowering Whirling Blade Refreshing, Refreshing as well as Refreshing Ward are great picks for these perk slots. They can all boost your damage and cooldowns significantly when fighting large groups of opponents. The ward perks like Angry Earth Ward, Ancient Ward, as well as Corrupted Ward are all great pickups as well to tank. Resilient should be a major consideration for PvP, as Sword and Shield are rather mobile, making stuns as well as other such items easier to put up on you.
On your weapons, Enchanted and Refreshing move are essential when playing PvE tanking. You can even opt for a Bane mod such as Ancient Bane based on what you're playing to get the most damage. The Chain Element Perks are also useful for securing aggro over an entire group, as they'll give additional damage that is spread out among players. The Chain Element Perks can be matched with the faction which you're fighting to provide a powerful boost to damage. Keen is a great option if you want to be able to crit more often in PvE , and is highly advised for PvP.
To use with the Shield, Keenly Empowered is an excellent pick in general, but is more suited to armor. For PvE, Sturdy and Keenly Jagged are both good options for general use. The offensive options are much more reliable in PvE, in comparison to defensive options. For PvP, it's highly recommended to pick up Slash Shield Ward, Thrust Shield Ward and Fire Shield Ward. This three-pronged approach gives you good defensive coverage against at least 8 distinct weapons, with the exception of War Hammer, Life Staff and Shield capabilities that are available in Sword and Shield.
For the protection of your Amulet, Slash Protection and Thrust Protection will cover the majority of damage from PvP and PvE. Fortified Recovery can give you a nice fortify bonus if you begin to dip into lower health. Divine can be a wonderful pickup for PvE which enables you to be healed more easily by healers.
For your earring, Regenerating is a great option to get all the health you'll gain. Despised will help you maintain your aggro in PvE. Nimble can help you to deflect more attacks in the event of need. Crippling and Empowered both can be very beneficial to increase damage, as Empower effects and Slows both boost your damage.
In the case of Rings, Slash Damage and Keen Awareness are great options thanks to the damage they bring. Leeching is an excellent way to keep your own health in check.
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