With New World‘s highly anticipated "Brimstone Sands" expansion launching Season 3, players are eager to blast through endgame activities with hard-hitting DPS builds. This comprehensive guide will outline the top damage-focused setups to help you shred elite enemies and bosses in mutated expeditions, arenas, and outposts.
According to prominent New World YouTuber and expert BagginsTV, the undisputed best single target DPS build centers around the mighty Greatsword with a Spear secondary. Let‘s break down the key components to maximize your damage potential in Season 3.
Greatsword: The Pinnacle of Burst Damage
Veteran players recognize the Greatsword‘s immense capacity for dishing out devastating critical strikes. Properly built, the Greatsword delivers unmatched burst damage through abilities like Whirwind Blade and Mortal Cleave.
Baggins emphasizes investing primary attributes into Dexterity for critical chance and damage, with secondary points in Strength for raw power. Constitution gives needed survivability for a glass cannon build. The ideal stat distribution is:
- Dexterity: 350+
- Strength: 200
- Constitution: 100
You‘ll also want to stack the weapon-specific Keen Dexterity and Enchanted perks for even more savage criticals.
In terms of abilities, Baggins strongly recommends the following combo for demolishing elites and bosses:
- Relentless Rush – Gap closer that applies Rend and generates resolve
- Skyward Slash – Spammable AoE attack to build stacks
- Whirling Blade – Massive damage channeled spin attack
- Mortal Cleave – Extreme burst damage to finish targets
With proper timing of damage buffs from keenly Empowered weapons and player buffs like Frenzy, this deadly rotation will erase bosses in seconds when you catch them with their shields down.
Spear: Exceptional Backup & Debuffs
The Spear naturally complements the Greatsword as a secondary weapon, providing excellent debuffs through abilities like Perforate and Sweep plus solid AoE damage on Skewer. Key recommended abilities include:
- Perforate – Shreds armor and reduces damage
- Skewer – Strong AoE damage
- Sweep – Knocks down targets
- Vault Kick – Gap closer that generates resolve
While the Greatsword should be your main source of damage, the Spear gives terrific flexibility as a backup option. Perforate helps you shred resilient enemies by reducing their damage and defense. Adding more Spear abilities like Flurry for sustain or Cyclone for grouping enemies can further expand your toolkit.
Maximizing Damage: Gear, Perks & Gems
You‘ll want to utilize every advantage possible to pump up damage, so pay close attention to synergies with perks, attribute bonuses and weapon gems:
- Keenly Jagged – Primary weapon perk for triggering bleeds
- Enchanted – Boost elemental damage on crits
- Keen – Provides a dexterity percentage bonus
- Rogues – All-around strongest DPS armor perk
- Refreshing – Reduces ability cooldowns
- Keen Awareness – Further cooldown reductions
As for gems, I suggest slotting Tendril Opals, which have a chance per hit to trigger a 30% haste buff. Alternatively, the recently introduced Gambit Topaz also provides exceptional offensive potential by granting escalating buffs as you spend stamina.
Recommended Gear & Attributes
I recommend wearing medium armor for the 10% bonus damage and added mobility. Prioritize gear with offensive perks like Rogue along with Resilient to prevent staggered hits.
For weapons, greatswords with Keenly Jagged and either Keen or Enchanted are ideal. Thrust damage, Refreshing Move, and refreshing toast are other prime bonuses.
For jewelry attributes, focus on boosting max health alongside damage-oriented bonuses like thrust damage or weapon skill cooldown reductions. Hearty on amulets is particularly noteworthy to expand health.
Finally, keep health recovery food and honing stones equipped and use weapon coatings to maximize perks like Rogue and Enchanted. Top-tier food like Lox Meat Stew combined with the Desert Sunset armor set will take your DPS to the absolute bleeding edge!
Mutations & Arena: Offense is Defense
When tackling challenging mutations and arenas with high damage enemies, your number one priority should be killing them before they kill you.
However, staff users and mages able to frequently interrupt your combos warrant some survivability precautions. In these cases, I suggest swapping some offense-focused weapon mastery and ability perks for more resilience from Freedom, Divine, or Elemental Aversion. Prioritize physical and elemental damage absorption shards.
Against certain enemies, consider swapping armor gems to counter their primary damage type. For example, switch to diamonds for void defense against Varangian Knights or rubies against flamecasters. Top players dynamically adjust gems depending on the field of battle.
Master aggressors will also stock different weapon coatings and elemental tonics to exploit enemy weaknesses. The key is quickly analyzing threats and overcoming them through superior offense and targeted defense.
Conclusion: Overwhelming Fury
The dexterity-focused Greatsword build outlined here provides overwhelming burst potential to dominate Season 3‘s challenges. While minor adjustments may be needed for specific activities, the core trifecta of high weapon damage, critical strikes and cooldown reduction fuels a nigh-unstoppable DPS machine.
Let me know if you have any other questions! I wish you glorious conquests in the Brimstone Sands my friends. Now get out there and wreak havoc!