Sin Build – New World Season 9 DPS Guide
This New World Season 9 Sin Build focuses on building upon the strengths of Sin, which are keeping debuffs applied on the enemy for longer periods of time, enabling higher damage by the rest of your team. This is considered one version of a Rend Bot Build, but not quite as good as Sword and Shield with Leadership. The DPS this specific build applies is usually a bit lower than the Hatchet DPS Build due to comparing weapon perks, and skill tree differences, but it is a large utility job while still outputting viable DPS if you keep yourself alive.
Mainhand Weapon
Sin with a gem slot for Runeglass of Punishing Onyx
Offhand Weapon (options)
Hoplite War Hammer with Sundering Clear Out and Sundering Shockwave on armor
Spear with Enfeebling Skewer and Sundering Javelin on armor
Greatsword with Trenchant Rend
Bow with Enfeebling Poison Shot
Attributes
| Strength | 350 |
| Dexterity | fill the rest |
| Intelligence | 25 |
| Focus | 25 |
| Constitution | 25 |
Since this build focuses on applying debuffs and keeping them on the enemy for longer, it’s more important to stay alive, which is why we atleast go for 25 Constitution. I would even recommend bumping this up to the point where you feel comfortable living in most situations, and taking those points from Dexterity.
Armor
Prioritize armor perks in the following order:
- Enchanted Ward
- Refreshing 4x
- Weapon Perks
- Keen Berserk
- Sundering Shockwave or comparable offhand perk
- 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.
Perks to aim for in a ring:
Hearty
Keen Awareness
Leeching
Perks to aim for in an earring:
Nimble
Refreshing Toast
Empowering Toast
It’s important for the Earring to be Dexterity in this build to hit the correct attribute splits.
Heartrune
Brutal Heartrune of Grasping Vines
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 17.5%
- +48 food
How to Play
- Quickly use offhand abilities
- Berserk
- 3 light attacks
- Rending Throw
- 3 light attacks
- Infected Throw
Ideally you want to rotate 3 light attacks between each ability, and with Refreshing Move on Sin, this helps keeps cooldowns active at most times. Rending Throw comes first because we want to get the Rend activated as soon as possible, so other teammates can do more damage sooner.
Empower details
| Berserk | 20% |
| Accumulated Power | 20% |
| Elemental Affinity x1 | 4% |
| Empowering Toast | 10% |
| Powerful Honing Stone | 7% |
| Ambush | 10% |
| Total | 71% capped at 50% |
To know where your current Empower total stands, check out the Empower Calculator.
Tips to remember
Without Raging Torrent and the perk Refreshing Torrent on this hatchet build, the Berserk cooldown can feel much longer, so keep up the light attacks between abilities to get hits with Refreshing Move in often.
Build made using the free tools at New World Buddy.
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