Great Axe Gems and Consumables for New World

The table below illsutrates one of the best ways to utilize gems within your build to be the most effective in PvP gameplay. Further explanations of this set-up can be found below.

Slot	Gem
War Hammer or Other Weapon	Runeglass of Abyssal Opal*
Great Axe	Runeglass of Abyssal Opal*
Helmet	Cut Pristine Onyx
Gloves	Cut Pristine Onyx
Chest	Cut Pristine Onyx
Legs	Cut Pristine Onyx
Boots	Cut Pristine Onyx
Amulet	Cut Pristine Opal
Ring	Cut Pristine Opal
Earring	Cut Pristine Opal

The combination of gems within your armor above, paired with the utilization of Slash Protection on your amulet allows you to be very effective in clump fights. Typically if you are in the "front line" as a bruiser, you will encounter a large amount of bruisers on the opposing side, where they typically are utilizing slash damage. Utilizing these gems and this perk will allow you to withstand slash damage against your enemies, while also having a decent amount of elemental protection with the Cut Pristine Opals you're also using within your gear.

You can utilize any opal runeglass you prefer, but it is typically recommended to utilize abyssal opals for the additional void damage. Void damage is usually preferred, as the Gravity Well ability naturally already deals void damage. It's best practice to use opal runeglasses, as the DoT effects it provides helps you charge your heartrune ability quickly.

Additionally, these opal runeglasses can provide you with an additional +9% damage while your stamina is not full. In PvP situations, you should be utilizing your stamina as much as possible without getting exhausted, allowing you to not only dodge attacks, but also take advantage of these additional damage boosts.

Please note: It's best practice to use these in your weapon, rather than your armor. Since you are a bruiser, you will be taking a good amount of damage, and you will want to ensure you can survive these hits as much as possible. If you find yourself being "too tanky", feel free to experiment with adding some of these gems into armor slots for additional damage output.

The primary dictator of your resistances and how to manage your total gem count is based on the jewelry that you are able to acquire. Remember, you can use any gems that allow you to get close to this split, or achieve the desired resistance split. Also, it's important to note that runeglass gems cannot be slotted within jewelry.

If you are unable to follow the example above, or if you have jewelry that prevents you from doing so, use a mix of Cut Pristine Diamond, Cut Pristine Opal, Cut Pristine Diamond, and Cut Pristine Malachite, to get as close as you can to balance resistances.

You may use gems such as Cut Pristine Emerald, Cut Pristine Moonstone, Cut Pristine Aquamarine, and Cut Pristine Ruby in your build if you feel that you are taking increased damage from thrust (Bow and Musket), slash (Great Axe and Greatsword), ice (Ice Gauntlet), or Fire (Fire Staff and Blunderbuss).

In PvE it is advantageous to slot your gear full of specific elemental resistance gems that match the mutation for that week. For example, when there is a Fire damage affix, you should use Cut Pristine Ruby within your armor.

For your weapons, it is recommended to use a cut pristine diamond, as you will likely be behind aan enemy or boss when dealing damage (and not taking damage in return, as that's your tank's job).

• Cut Pristine Diamond (Weapons) + Elemental Resistance Gem x8 + Amulet Protection Perk (Depending on mutation damage type)

• Infused Health Potion — These are necessary to use in all situations. It will quickly provide you with 2400 + 7% of your health back, which can save you in any content.
• Infused Regeneration Potion — These are a fundamental aspect to your consumable kit thanks to Purifying Toast. Take advantage of these for a slight amount of healing, but the real focus is to get yourself out of roots, slows, or removing any other type of debuff.
• Infused Mana Potion — You will not consume mana, so these should not be used.

• Energizing Hearty Meal — This food can be used to stack onto other food buffs that will increase mana regeneration rate by 30% in addition to 1% max health every 2.5 seconds. This will never be needed with a Blunderbuss.
• Hearty Meal — This food also provides a 1% max health ever 2.5 seconds, but is not as viable in the healing role. It does provide a 220 health per second buff that can be used for a small amount of healing over time for those without access to a healer. In all cases, an Energizing Hearty Meal will be consumed before a PvP or PvE event instead.
• Desert Sunrise — Overall, this is a valuable PvP and PvE consumable that can be stacked on top of other food-related buffs. It will reduce the duration of damage of time effects by 17.5%, so it is important to consume at the start of an event.

• Roasted Rabbit with Seasoned Vegetables — 48 Constitution
• Gremolata Tenderloin — 40 Constitution
• Roasted Gnufish — 48 Strength
• Beef Braciole — 40 Strength

The attribute bonus food you select will depend on how your attribute points are distributed within your character. For example, you may not have a large amount of Constitution, or you may be a few points away from receiving additional buffs at the next attribute threshold. If this is the case, you will want to use Roasted Rabbit with Seasoned Vegetables.

There are a number of consumables in New World: Aeternum that increase damage output, or reduces damage taken. These are the general damage modification consumables that can be used in PvP or PvE.

• Powerful Gemstone Dust — This is a very valuable PvP consumable, but it still has viability in PvE. It will increase absorption of elemental damage by 35% for 20 seconds, or until hit 15 times. Primarily, this will be used when taking heavy magic damage, or it can be used proactively when trying to push through choke points in a war or when you assume magic damage will be incoming.
• Powerful Oakflesh Balm — This is the physical damage version of Powerful Gemstone Dust. It will increase absorption of physical damage types by 35%. It has less viability as it only applies to physical weapon types. Since most attacks will be some type of magic variant, and because most physical damage has a skewed elemental component to it, this consumable goes below any gemstone dust on a priority list.
• Powerful Honing Stone — To increase damage output in both PvP and PvE a honing stone acts as a valuable commodity to improve performance. In the healer role it is less of a priority, but it is still beneficial to increase damage output to secure kills and help your team. Overall, the highest tier of honing stone will increase damage by 7%. This will not increase your healing output on friendly targets.

In a war, you will acquire tokens from gameplay that allow you to purchase war-specific consumables. There are some incredibly important consumables that will significantly increase your survivability when used correctly. There are also many forms of utility-based consumables to aid with mobility and other aspects of war gameplay.

• Cleansing Elixir — When used it will remove all current debuffs and provide a 5 second window of immunity to debuffs. These are best used when overrun by multiple targets and being afflicted with slows, damage over time effects, exhausts, etc. You can then freely reposition and reduce incoming damage. Alternatively, they are incredibly useful when used preemptively to push through doors into fort or trying make your way through large clumps of enemies. It can be consumed, then you take advantage of the 5 second window to avoid crowd control effects and get into an advantageous position.
• Haste Elixir — This will increase movement speed by 50% for 20 seconds, or until you are hit or perform any combat action. This is important to use when respawning in War combat, trying to make an initial push to a point on offense, or to reposition in any situation and regroup with your army. Be careful, if you are hit, take fall damage, roll, or weapon swap, this effect can be canceled.
• Healing Elixir — This is a free Infused Health Potion if you do not want to use your own, or forgot to bring them. It is tied to the same cooldown as any other health potion.
• Mana Elixir — This is a free Infused Mana Potion if you do not want to use your own, or forgot to bring them. It is tied to the same cooldown as any other mana potion.

When using a Haste Elixir in a war, you should never place it within a hotbar slot. This becomes a wasted opportunity to take another consumable that could save your life. The difficulty becomes that haste potions may have a lot of mid combat value to reposition with your team. To most easily use these you will need to take advantage of the search feature in your inventory. Before the war starts, type "Haste Elixir" into the search bar. This will leave your inventory filtered for only haste elixirs, so it will be significantly easier to find mid war and use when needed.

In PvE content, general consumables such as food or damage modification items will still be used. But, specific to PvE, there are damage reduction and improvement items for each type of enemy in the game.

When using a coating, you will need two of the type you have chosen. One coating will go on each weapon, so be sure to swap weapons before applying, and this will improve damage done to that respective enemy type.

• Infused Corrupted Coating
• Infused Angry Earth Coating
• Infused Ancient Coating
• Infused Lost Coating
• Infused Beast Coating

When consumed these will improve damage absorption against the potions respective enemy type or damage type.

• Infused Ancient Ward Potion
• Infused Angry Earth Ward Potion
• Infused Ancient Ward Potion
• Infused Beast Ward Potion
• Infused Corrupted Ward Potion
• Infused Lost Ward Potion
• Infused Fire Absorption Potion
• Infused Arcane Absorption Potion
• Infused Nature Absorption Potion
• Infused Lightning Absorption Potion
• Infused Void Absorption Potion

• Powerful Incense — When consumed, this will increase all resistances to afflictions by 50. This will increase your overall total for receiving corruption damage, blight damage, or acid debuffs to a cap of 100 instead of the normal 50.
• Infused Blight Tincture
— When consumed, this will remove the Blight Afflication and provide maximum resistance to Corruption for a short duration.
• Infused Corruption Tincture
— When consumed, this will remove the Corruption Afflication and provide maximum resistance to Corruption for a short duration.

Since you only have four total consumable slots available to you, it is important to manage your hotbar across different types of content. In PvP there are crucial consumables that can completely alter the course of your gameplay. In PvE there is a long list of consumables that prove to be valuable as well. No matter what, you do not have the time to dig in your inventory and pull out the consumables quickly. So, it becomes a major priority in your gameplay to know what consumables you should be using.

In war you gain access to Cleansing Elixir, so it is crucial to have these incorporated to your toolbar loadout. In all roles, it is best to prioritize Powerful Gemstone Dust over Powerful Oakflesh Balm because you are more likely to benefit more due to the types of damage incoming and the way that your resistances are set. An example War hotbar would look like so:

• Infused Regeneration Potion
• Infused Health Potion
• Cleansing Elixir
• Powerful Gemstone Dust

• Infused Regeneration Potion
• Infused Health Potion
• Powerful Oakflesh Balm (Any tier to save money)
• Powerful Gemstone Dust (Any tier to save money)

In PvE content Powerful Gemstone Dust and Powerful Gemstone Dust become less powerful since you are able to benefit from Ward Potions and Absorption potions, such as Infused Angry Earth Ward Potion or Infused Fire Absorption Potion. This makes PvE hotbars very flexible, in general it could look something like this:

• Infused Regeneration Potion
• Infused Health Potion
• Powerful Gemstone Dust or Powerful Oakflesh Balm
• Ward Potion/Absorption Potion

• Infused Regeneration Potion
• Infused Health Potion
• Hearty Meal
• Low tier Gemstone Dust or Oakflesh Balm