Solo Healer Build – New World Season 9
The New World Solo Healer Build is a highly specialized setup for advanced teams tackling challenging content like the Hive of Gorgons raid in New World. Centered around a Life Staff with Blessed and Refreshing Move, paired with the Fracture artifact with Refreshing Rupture, this build is designed for a single healer to provide heals for a 10-man raid all by themselves, while also supporting through damage buffs, and debuffs. Tailored for groups with strong self-sustaining DPS, this build relies on precise ability rotations, optimized attributes, and carefully selected gear to keep the tank alive while empowering the team. Below, I outline the key components, including weapons, armor perks, jewelry, and gameplay strategies, to master the role of a solo healer.
Weapons
Mainhand
Blessed
Refreshing Move
Keen Beacon/Fortifying Sacred Ground/Refreshing Divine Embrace
Offhand
Fracture with Refreshing Rupture
Skill Tree
Lifestaff skill tree is dependent on how confident you are in your Tank. If you are confident in your tank, use Orb of Protection. If you are not confident in your tank, use Divine Embrace. The Aegis upgrade for Orb of Protection is arguably better than the Divine Blessing ultimate in the Healing tree, which is why no ultimate is used.
Attributes
| Strength | 25 |
| Dexterity | 5 |
| Intelligence | [fill the rest] |
| Focus | 350 |
| Constitution | 25 |
Armor
Prioritize armor perks in the following order:
- Enchanted Ward x4-5
- Refreshing x4
- Weapon Perks
- Fortifying Sacred Ground
- Nullifying Oblivion
- Voracious Blade
- Freedom, Hardcore Parkour
Jewelry
Pick the best Protection amulet that matches the most common damage you will be taking in the activity you are in. Healers commonly take a lot of ranged Thrust damage.
Amulet Perks:
Health
Protection
Empowered/Divine
Ring Perks:
Hearty
Sacred
Healing Breeze
Earring Perks:
Nimble
Refreshing Toast
Empowering Toast
It’s important for the Earring to be Intelligence in this build to hit the correct attribute splits.
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. For example:
- 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
- Oblivion
- Essence Rupture
- Orb of Protection on Tank
- light attack
- Keen Beacon on DPS clump
- light attack
- Sacred Ground on Tank
- light attack
- Void Blade
- light attack x3
Running one healer requires the overall team to be more advanced, as they will be more reliant on their own DPS for healing via the lifesteal from Fracture.
Empower details
| Empowering Proximity x3 | 30% |
| Forsaken Pact | 10% |
| Oblivion | 15% |
| Empowering Toast | 10% |
| Powerful Honing Stone | 7% |
| Total | 72% |
Empower is capped at 50%, but having more than 50% can help you manage to stay at cap at all times. To know where your current Empower total stands, check out the Empower Calculator.
Tips to remember
With an advanced team, they will be healing themselves a ton as long as Essence Rupture stays active on bosses, so they will mainly only need your damage buffs from Keen Beacon, Oblivion, and Rend from using Void Blade. Tank is the exception because there is some damage that is unavoidable to take.
Make sure you have your Healer targeting settings dialed in and that the Tank is in your preferred slot of the group for easy targeting. This will help with Sacred Ground targeting, and Divine Embrace targeting is you use it.
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