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- How Do You Level Up In New World?
- What Is The Best Build To Level Up Fast In New World?
- Other Tips For Leveling Fast
New World is Amazon's brand new MMO and it's currently in closed beta. While players are jumping into the game for the first time, some strong ideas about what sort of builds you should aim for at the start of the game have started to take shape.
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This guide covers how you level in New World, what build is the best build to level up fast, and how you can speed up your early questing to reach those higher levels quickly. Much of the game's large-scale PVP and Expeditions are accessed in the endgame, so you'll want to get there as soon as you can.
How Do You Level Up In New World?
Leveling up in New World is mostly based on how many quests you complete. The faster you complete the quests, the faster you'll level up. There are a variety of different quests that you can complete to earn XP, including the faction missions and town projects besides the main storyline quest.
- Completing the main quests will not give you enough XP to get to level 60. You will need to complete other quests to hit it.
- You'll spawn in one of the four starter regions, but some of them having higher-level mobs than others. It can be difficult, to begin with, and that makes it harder to level. Start with the sidequests in First Light when you first enter the game. The mobs are lower level there.
- You should take Town Project missions (like killing five rabbits or collect so-and-so) when you get a chance. Just don't take any quests that send you too far away from what you were meant to be doing.
What Is The Best Build To Level Up Fast In New World?
There are some big decisions to make about what sort of playstyle you want to have in New World. Because the game has a class-less system, you can mix and match a variety of different weapon types and armors. You can check out New World Fans as a resource to experiment with builds and masteries.
This guide covers one of our favorite builds for speeding up the leveling process in the early game: the Hatchet and Bow.
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Speed Is Everything
Like almost any MMO ever, getting started in New World means a whole lot of running. Running from quest location to quest location can add fifteen or twenty minutes to a quest sometimes. If you want to go fast, here's how:
- The Hatchet offers some of the best early game mobility with the Berserk mastery. Considering you're going to be running from quest to quest (before you have access to fast traveling) this little boost can help LOADS.
- Pair it with the Archer's Speed mastery for the bow (gives you a speed boost every time you switch to the bow) you'll be speeding all over the place.
Sustainability
Fighting waves of monsters on your own is going to deplete your health. If you have no means of sustaining yourself during combat, it's going to be a slow grind while you wait to recover.
- The Hatchet's Berserk mastery is back to save you again. In the third tier down you'll find the Berserking Refresh mastery. This gives you a small period of health regen while the Berserk skill is active.
- Sustain doesn't really happen with the bow until you've spent some time leveling up the mastery tree, as the closest you'll get is the Hawkeye mastery. This will heal you for 10 percent of the damage you deal, but only if it's a headshot. Pretty neat, though.
What Attribute Points Should You Use?
This is really up to your preferences. There are two major factors to keep in mind:
- The Hatchet scales off of Strength, and the Bow scales off of Dexterity.
It's likely that you will open with a Penetrating Shot with your Bow and then switch to the Hatchet for close-quarters fighting with Berserk. If that's the case, opt for more Strength than Dex, something like 150 in Strength and 50 in Dex.
However, if you find yourself using the Bow more often, or you're playing with friends, then you might want to spec further into Dex. Some builds will just stack all attribute points into one weapon. It's hard to recommend exactly what you should do with the points. It's a good idea to experiment and find out what suits your style of play.
- Put your points into Strength if you're regularly using the hatchet.
- Put points into Dexterity if you favor the bow.
- One other tip for Bow dexterity: you get boosts to skinning from the Dex attribute tree, which is a great way to make XP in the early game.
Other Tips For Leveling Fast
- Respawning – This is a simple trick that helps you cover large distances before you get access to fast traveling. Place down your camp, kill yourself (via the menu), and you'll respawn back at your camp.
- Don't worry too much about gear in the early game. You'll be getting so much new stuff that there's no need to worry about respawning durability loss.
- You can fast travel from certain shrines dotted around the map. They're only located in certain areas but they do make traveling faster if there's one nearby your quest.