Buff Bot – New World Season 9
The New World Buff Bot Build, often serving as a replacement for the second healer on a raid team, is a specialized setup designed for experienced groups in New World’s raids, such as the Hive of Gorgons. Built around the Power Stone with Sundering Stacks and a War Hammer with Sundering Clear Out, this build focuses on stacking debuffs and providing team-wide buffs to maximize team damage output. Success with this role on a team requires a skilled DPS group that can avoid damage without relying on a second dedicated healer. With high Strength and Focus attributes, optimized armor perks, and timed ability rotations, this build enhances your teams raid performance. Below, I detail the weapon choices, gear perks, jewelry, and gameplay strategies to excel as a Buff Bot in a high-skill team composition.
Mainhand Weapon
Power Stone with Sundering Stacks
Offhand Weapon (options)
War Hammer with Sundering Clear Out
Attributes
| Strength | 350 |
| Dexterity | 25 |
| Intelligence | 25 |
| Focus | 200 |
| Constitution | fill the rest |
Armor
Prioritize armor perks in the following order:
- Enchanted Ward x4-5
- Refreshing x4
- Weapon Perks
- Sundering Shockwave
- Mending Vortex
- Powerful Eruption
- Vital Synergy
Jewelry
Pick the best Protection amulet that matches the most common damage you will be taking in the activity you are in. Just like most melee builds, the best Protection perks for non-Mutation activities are either Slash or Strike protection.
Amulet Perks:
Health
Protection
Empowered
Ring options are usually Elemental Band, Azoth Crystal Ring, or an equal Gorgon ring.
Ring Perks:
Hearty
Keen Awareness
Leeching
Earring Perks:
Nimble
Refreshing Toast
Empowering Toast
It’s important for the Earring to be Focus or Constitution in this build to hit the correct attribute splits.
Heartrune
Brutal Heartrune of Grasping Vines
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
- Armor Breaker
- Clear Out
- Shockwave
- Bludgeon
- Vortex
- Eruption
- light attack until cooldowns are back to extend debuffs on target
Empower details
| Arcane Vortex | 10% |
| Best Friends | 15% |
| Leader of the Pack | 10% |
| Powerful Honing Stone | 7% |
| Empowering Toast | 10% |
| Total | 52% |
To know where your current Empower total stands, check out the Empower Calculator.
Tips to remember
This build is generally the replacement for the second healer, which allows the second Sword and Shield player to focus on DPS, and maybe run the 5% spear build. Overall this creates a clear team composition where you don’t have repeat weapon builds, ie two War Hammers or two 5% spear builds, since duplicates won’t stack debuffs in a team.
The Buff Bot build normally requires a skillful team with DPS who know boss mechanics enough to avoid damage almost entirely, which removes the need for a dedicated second healer.
Generally easy to play since you are just spamming abilities when they are off cooldown and light attacking during downtime.
Build made using the free tools at New World Buddy.
For unfamiliar terms, please refer to our terminology guide.
