Single-Target Healer Build – New World Season 9

The New World Single Target Healer Build for Season 9, also known as the Tank Healer Build, is a specialized setup designed for Tank healing in end-game content like the Hive of Gorgons raid. Centered around a Life Staff with Refreshing Divine Embrace and paired with a Power Stone flail, this build focuses on delivering high-impact healing to keep the tank alive, Empower for your DPS, and debuffs for enemies through strategic ability and weapon rotations. With optimized attributes, armor perks, and jewelry, this build ensures reliable support for the tank and optimizes group performance. Below, we explore the key components of this build, including weapon choices, gear perks, jewelry, and gameplay strategies of a dedicated tank healer.

Mainhand Weapon

Offhand Weapon (options)

Attributes

Strength	fill the rest
Dexterity	5
Intelligence	5
Focus	350
Constitution	25

If you are struggling with staying alive, take points from Strength and put them in Constitution. Trying working your way down to 25 Con as you increase your comfortability.

Armor 

Prioritize armor perks in the following order:

• Enchanted Ward
• Refreshing 4x
• Weapon Perks
  • Fortifying Sacred Ground
  • Mending Protection
  • Mending Vortex
• Escape perks like Freedom and Hardcore Parkour

If you don’t have Nimble Coat, go for Attuned Leather Pants instead.

Jewelry

Pick the best Protection amulet that matches the most common damage you will be taking in the activity you are in. Common damage for healers is often ranged enemies which mostly do Thrust damage,

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

Heartrune

Stalwart Heartrune of Fire Storm – for Cleanse

Stalwart Heartrune of Bile Bomb – for Disease + group lifesteal

Stalwart Heartrune of Stoneform – for self survivability

Typical Buffs and Trophies

You should ideally have 5 buffs above your health bar, and Major trophies at each of your 3 houses matching the enemy type you are facing.

• 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

How to Play

1. Orb of Protection on Tank
2. light attack
3. Sacred Ground
4. light attack
5. When Tank has lost more than 50% health, Divine Embrace
6. light attack

Much of this Healers abilities are on demand when the Tank needs them, but try to do them in the order above. During downtime, you should be in the DPS clump to do extra damage and provide Empower buffs and some healing for allies with your Power Stone flail, following this rotation:

1. Bludgeon
2. Vortex
3. Eruption

Empower details

Arcane Vortex	10%
Best Friends	15%
Leader of the Pack (self)	10%
Powerful Honing Stone	7%
Total	42%

With other team bonuses like Oblivion and Leadership, you will be well above the Empower Cap of 50%. To know where your current Empower total stands, check out the Empower Calculator.

Tips to remember

The more you are on Flail the more buffs you are giving your teammates, and the more debuffs you are applying to bosses. This is largely dependent on the skill of your Tank, and if they are just face-tanking hits instead of dodging or blocking.

Becoming a skillful healer takes practice, and for many becomes easier by modifying your Healer Targeting settings for easier application.

Have the Raid leader move you to your preferrable location in the group of the Tank so that you can give them quick and easy heals without having to put in effort to ‘scroll’ to them in the group in the middle of a fight.

Build made using the free tools at New World Buddy.

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