AoE Healer Build – New World Season 9

The AoE healer Build for New World Season 9 is a versatile and powerful setup tailored for New World’s demanding Hive of Gorgons raid. Centered around the Fracture artifact with Refreshing Rupture and paired with a Life Staff, this build excels at delivering area-of-effect (AoE) healing while contributing significant lifesteal through Essence Rupture and damage through Void Blade. By balancing high Focus and Intelligence with strategic ability rotations and optimized gear, this build ensures optimal team support and survivability in intense encounters. Below, I dive into the details of this build, covering weapon choices, armor perks, jewelry, and gameplay strategies to maximize its potential.

Mainhand Weapon

Offhand Weapon (options)

Attributes

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

The better your team is, the more points you can take from Focus and put into Intelligence, because they will be healing themselves while attacking a target affected by Essence Rupture.

Armor 

Prioritize armor perks in the following order:

• Enchanted Ward
• Refreshing 4x
• Weapon Perks
  • Fortifying Sacred Ground
  • Nullifying Oblivion
  • Voracious Blade
• Escape perks

Jewelry

Pick the best Protection amulet that matches the most common damage you will be taking in the activity you are in. Healers don’t have that great of artifact options in Jewelry, so in most cases it’s best with Named or crafted pieces.

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

Heartrune

Stalwart Heartrune of Fire Storm – Cleanse

Stalwart Heartrune of Bile Bomb – Disease + group lifesteal

Stalwart Heartrune of Stoneform – self survivability

Typical Buffs and Trophies

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 Steamed Abaia Serpe

How to Play

While it can be tempting to play at a distance as a healer, its not always the safest. Staying inside the damage clump will allow you to benefit from more Empower and Fortify sources, which will increase your survivability and damage, all while your DPS teammates are attacking everything with you.

1. Keen Beacon from Life Staff
2. Essence Rupture
3. Oblivion
4. Void Blade
5. 3 light attacks to quickly stack Disintegrate x3
6. Spam heavy attacks with Void Blade

It’s important to keep an eye on teammates health and boss ability timing to know when to drop a Sacred Ground or use Splash of Light for your team.

Empower details

Empowering Proximity x2	20%
Oblivion	15%
Empowering Toast	10%
Powerful Honing Stone	7%
Leadership (Team)	10%
Total	62%

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

Tips to remember

During certain boss phases, it may be more important you stay focused on healing.

A lot of your healer responsibilities depend on how good your DPS are at staying alive.

Build made using the free tools at New World Buddy.

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