Life Staff Gems and Consumables for New World

Slot	Gem
Life Staff	Cut Pristine Diamond
Secondary(Void Gauntlet)	Cut Pristine Diamond
Secondary(Rapier)	Cut Pristine Amber
Helmet*	Cut Pristine Onyx
Gloves*	Cut Pristine Onyx
Chest*	Cut Pristine Onyx
Legs*	Cut Pristine Onyx
Boots*	Cut Pristine Opal
Amulet*	Cut Pristine Opal
Ring*	Cut Pristine Opal
Earring*	Cut Pristine Opal

As you can see, the specific gem on the Life Staff is NOT as complicated as typical DPS or Tanking weapons, as you are focused moreso on healing (rather than dealing damage). With that being said, we recommend using a Cut Pristine Diamond to pick up the benefit of +15% outgoing healing while at full health.

The goal is to hit an even split of physical and elemental resist. To hit a 20/10/10 split you can use:

• Cut Pristine Onyx x4 & Cut Pristine Opal x4 + Thrust Protection
• Cut Pristine Diamond x4 & Cut Pristine Malachite x4 + Thrust Protection

• * — You may freely place these gems anywhere in your gear, the total count of that gem type is what is important.

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 even 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). But, this is generally not necessary in the healer role and there is more value in a default gem setup due to the variety of incoming damage sources.

In PvE it is advantageous to slot your gear full of Cut Pristine Opal to mitigate the most elemental damage overall. As a healer you do not need to sacrifice Constitution for damage output, so you will innately have more, allowing you to go all Opals. This helps with split elemental damage Mutators. If you wish you can use gems like Cut Pristine Ruby if you want to spend more and have better focused resistances.

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

As a healer, there is minimal use for Runeglass gems on a weapon, or in your gear. These are used to increase damage output or utility, such as leeching or stamina return. When putting them into an armor piece they lose defensiveness in exchange for offensiveness. For example, you can increase nature damage by 2% but instead of getting 2.5% elemental resistance on a Cut Pristine Opal, you now receive 2.0% elemental resistance. The defensive resistance holds more value in the healer role.

The same idea holds true for weapons. On a weapon you can lose 3% of your healing output on a Cut Pristine Diamond and receive an 8% weapon damage per second DoT effect. In this case it is better to use the regular Cut Pristine Diamond for maximum healing effectiveness.

• 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 Mana Potion — As a healer without a voidgauntlet these will be very beneficial to have. These are escpeially advantageous when using Healthy Toast, which will give you a heal that is slightly weaker than a Infused Health Potion. When using both potions together, you can quickly return over half of your health bar.
• Infused Regeneration Potion — These are a generally beneficial consumable that provides a layer of universality. In both PvP and PvE it is a quick burst heal with healing over time and 3 mana per second over 10 seconds. These are generally not used in PvP while healing due to the strength of War specific consumables. They can be more beneficial if using Purifying Toast.
• Infused Focus Potion — When used they will restore a % of mana every 1 second for 60 seconds. In general, this regeneration is negligible and not commonly used on a hotbar. You can choose to consume one in between combat to pre-regenerate mana. This is not needed though due to the 300 Focus bonus, and because of Infused Mana Potion in combination with Refreshing Toast.

• Energizing Hearty Meal — This is an important food to stack onto other food buffs that will increase mana regeneration rate by 30% in addition to 1% max health every 2.5 seconds.
• 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 — 40 Constitution
• Gremolata Tenderloin — 40 Constitution
• Blackened Lava Barb with Corn Succotash — 40 Focus
• Armadillo Jocon — 40 Focus
• Smoked Rib Cap with Cabbage and Barley Soup — 24 Constituion/16 Focus
• Slow Roasted Bear Flank with Root Vegetables — 24 Focus/16 Constitution

The attribute bonus food you select will depend on how your attribute points are contributed to your character sheet. For example, you may not have a large amount of Constitution and a large amount of Focus on your gear, so you will need to use Roasted Rabbit with Seasoned Vegetables. Note that it will be generally more cost effective to use Constitution or hybrid stat foods than a pure single stat food.

As a healer, it is important to have mana regeneration food like Energizing Hearty Meal, defensive foods like Desert Sunrise, and an attribute food like Roasted Rabbit with Seasoned Vegetables. You can have all of these buffs at once as long as your eat them in this order:

• Attribute Food
• Desert Sunrise
• Energizing Hearty Meal

There are a number of consumables in New World that increase damage done or reduce 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 on healers 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 for you to purchase war specific consumables. In the healer role, 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 these should never take up 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, making it 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 Affliction and provide maximum resistance to Corruption for a short duration.
• Infused Corruption Tincture — When consumed, this will remove the Corruption Afflcation 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. As a healer, it is best to prioritize Powerful Gemstone Dust over Powerful Oakflesh Balm because you are more likely to take magical damage. An example War hotbar would look like so:

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

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

If you are not running Healthy Toast, you may find it useful to substitue in a Infused Regeneration Potion instead of a Gemstone Dust or an Oakflesh Balm.

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 Mana Potion
• Infused Health Potion
• Infused Regeneration Potion or Ward Potion/Absorption Potion
• Ward Potion/Absorption Potion