Freya’s Francisca Build – New World Season 9

This Freya’s Francisca Build for New World Season 9 prioritizes it’s use as a mainhand weapon and builds on its strengths with thrown hatchets. This is not considered a meta build, but can be very fun and still has some decent damage potential while providing Rend and Weaken sources. For a higher DPS build check out the Hatchet Guide.

Mainhand Weapon

Offhand Weapon (options)

Attributes

Strength	350
Dexterity	Fill the rest
Intelligence	50
Focus	25
Constitution	16

Armor 

Prioritize armor perks in the following order:

• Enchanted Ward
• Refreshing 4x
• Weapon Perks
• Vital Synergy and Empowering Breaker

Jewelry

Pick the best Protection amulet that matches the most common damage you will be taking in the activity you are in. For example, Echidna from Hive of Gorgons uses Strike Damage, so you’d want a Strike Protection Amulet.

Ring options are usually Elemental Band, Azoth Crystal Ring, or an equal Gorgon ring.

It’s important for the Earring to be Dexterity in this build to hit the correct attribute splits.

Heartrune

Cunning Heartrune of the Devourer

Brutal Heartrune of Cannon Blast

Typical Buffs and Trophies

In order to do maximum damage, the correct trophies and damage boosting buffs should be applied. The example below is for the Hive of Gorgon’s Raid, where you should ideally have 5 buffs above your health bar, and Major trophies at each of your 3 houses matching the enemy type.

• 3x Major Angry Earth Trophies – 3×5%(15%) Angry Earth Damage
• Infused Angry Earth Coating – 15% Angry Earth Damage
• Infused Angry Earth Ward – take 10% less damage from Angry Earth enemies
• Powerful Honing Stone – 7% Empower
• Desert Sunrise – reduce duration of incoming DoTs by 25% 
• +48 food Fried Albenaja

How to Play

1. Activate Berserk
2. 3x thrown hatchets
3. Infected Throw
4. 3x thrown hatchets
5. Rending Throw
6. Repeat 3x hatchets then 1 of the throw abilities. 

Keep Berserk activated as often as possible for the 20% empower. 

Can also start with Empowering Toast for the extra 10% empower. 

Empower details

Berserk	20%
Accumulated Power	20%
Powerful Honing Stone	7%
Mortal Power	12%
Empowering Toast	10%
Total	69%

To know where your current Empower total stands, check out the Empower Calculator.

Tips to remember

3 attacks make the next attack have +20% empower, which is why we save that attack for an ability since they do more damage than a regular thrown hatchet. 

Stay within 25m so Rending Throw does not miss.

Build made using the free tools at New World Buddy.

For unfamiliar terms, please refer to our terminology guide.