What is the focus of the Evade Rapier Build in New World Season 10: Nighthaven?

The Evade Rapier Build focuses on mobility, rapid cooldowns, and high DPS for the Hive of Gorgons Raid, making it a top-tier, affordable, and commonly needed role for PvE.

What mainhand weapon should I use for the Evade Rapier Build?

Equip a Rapier with Keen Tondo, Leeching Flurry, Diamond Runeglass gem slot, End, and Rogue perks for high DPS and survivability.

What are the offhand weapon options for this build?

Choose from Inferno, Pestilence, Ice Gauntlet, Void Gauntlet, Spear (5% build), Musket, or Bow, based on team needs to avoid duplicate offhands.

How should I allocate attributes for the Evade Rapier Build?

Set attributes to Strength 5, Dexterity 350, Intelligence 150, Focus 25, and Constitution 5.

What armor perks and gear should I prioritize?

Prioritize Weapon Perks (Omnidirectional Evade, Fortifying Incinerate), Gem Socket with Onyx, and Fixed Perks (Lifestealer's Draught, Sacrificial Empowerment x2, Prolonged Favor x2, Empowering Breaker, Shirking Energy, Shirking Fortification x2). Replace weaker fixed perks with set piece infixes.

What jewelry should I choose for this build?

Select a Protection Amulet matching the activity’s damage type with Protection, Well-Being, Leeching, Keenly Fortified, or Divine perks (II versions). Use a Ring with Enchanted Totality, Critical Infliction, Vicious, Leeching, and Offensive Socket perks. Equip an Earring with Beloved, Refreshing Move, Leeching, Offensive Socket, and Defensive Socket perks.

Which Heartrune is best for this build?

Use Brutal Heartrune of Grasping Vines for a 3s Root, 8s Weaken, and 5s Rend, ideal for rooting Corvids in the Typhon fight.

What buffs and trophies should I use for Hive of Gorgons Raid?

Apply 3x Major Angry Earth Trophies (15% Angry Earth Damage), Infused Angry Earth Coating (15% Angry Earth Damage), Infused Angry Earth Ward (10% less damage from Angry Earth), Powerful Honing Stone (7% Empower), Desert Sunrise (25% reduced DoT duration), and +48 food. Aim for 5 buffs above your health bar.

What is the combat rotation for the Evade Rapier Build?

Follow this sequence: 1. Drop Oblivion with Void Gauntlet and swap back to Rapier, 2. Use Evade for bonus damage and Empower, 3. Use Flurry, 4. Perform light attacks to reduce Evade cooldown until Flurry is available. Repeat Oblivion when off cooldown if not provided by the healer.

What are some tips for optimizing this build?

Use Inferno’s Strength-scaling abilities for ranged damage when not in melee range. Benefit from Inferno’s Keenly Empowered perk for Rapier crits. Avoid duplicate offhands by coordinating with your team. Spam abilities for maximum DPS and use offhand abilities (e.g., Void Gauntlet’s Oblivion, Ice Gauntlet’s Ice Storm/Pylon, Spear’s Rend, Hatchet’s Rending/Infected Throw, Fire Staff’s DoTs, or Bow’s DoTs) based on team needs. Use the Empower Calculator to track your 52% Empower total (capped at 50%) from Powerful Honing Stone, Omnidirectional Evade, Keenly Empowered, Leadership, and Oblivion.

Evade Rapier Build - New World Season 10 DPS Guide

The Evade Rapier Build is a top-tier DPS option in New World Season 10: Nighthaven, emphasizing mobility and rapid cooldowns for Rapier abilities in raids and PvE. This guide covers everything from attributes to gear setups. Evade Rapier build is currently the most commonly needed slot filling raid slots, like for Isle of Night, and provides some of the highest DPS possible while also being one of the easiest to obtain and more affordable builds. There are variations to this build depending on your current gear, but there are good enough alternatives that are easy to acquire. Gear score for this build is more important for weapons, but still less important than having the right perks.

Weapons

Mainhand

Rapier with:
Keen Tondo
Leeching Flurry
Gem slot: Diamond Runeglass
End
Rogue

Alternative:
Finisher with Keen Tondo

Evade Rapier for New World Season 10 DPS Guide

Offhand (Options)

Inferno
Pestilence
Ice Gauntlet
Void Gauntlet
Spear 5%
Musket
Bow

Evade Rapier offhand for New World Season 10 DPS Guide

Skill Tree

With Hatchet mainhand, we take Raging Torrent over Infected Throw, and with an optimal team Accumulated Power passive is not needed. With Fire Staff offhand, we take the weaken from Incinerate and quick caster abilities like Fireball when we are not in melee range, or to start fights.

Attributes

Strength	5
Dexterity	350
Intelligence	150 [fill the rest]
Focus	25
Constitution	5

Armor

This gear serves as a starting point to build upon as some of it may get replaced when you come into Set pieces with infixes. Infixes should replace your least favorite fixed perk on each piece. The Gem slot serves as your defensive piece with an Onyx.

Weapon Perks
- Omnidirectional Evade
- Fortifying Incinerate
Gem Slot
Fixed Perks
- Lifestealer’s Draught
- Sacrificial Empowerment x2
- Prolonged Favor x2
- Empowering Breaker
- Shirking Energy
- Shirking Fortification x2

Jewelry

Pick the best Protection amulet that matches the most common damage you will be taking in the activity you are in. Assume all perks are the new “II” or “2” versions.

Amulet Perks:

Protection
Well-Being
Leeching
Keenly Fortified
Divine

Ring Perks:

Enchanted Totality
Critical Infliction
Vicious
Leeching
Offensive Socket

Earring Perks:

Beloved
Refreshing Move
Leeching
Offensive Socket
Defensive Socket

Some of the Offensive and Defensive sockets are flexible for your to pick the your preferred perk.

Heartrune

Brutal Heartrune of Grasping Vines will be best well-rounded tool for this build, providing a 3s Root, 8s Weaken, and most importantly a 5s Rend. In the Hive of Gorgons Typhon fight, for example, you can root Corvids to prevent them from jumping backwards, allowing your team to kill them faster.

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

Drop Oblivion, then immediately swap back to Rapier
Evade to get bonus damage and Empower going
Flurry
Light Attack to get Evade off cooldown faster until Flurry comes off its cooldown

You should be spamming abilities as much as possible and when repositioning into doing damage spam offhand abilities.

When enemies move and if Oblivion is back up swap to Void Gauntlet and run back into place to drop Oblivion for the team and repeat the cycle above. Be aware if your healer drops Oblivion for you, this is not needed so you can stay on Rapier to DPS. Oblivion drops should ideally be rotated between this player and the healer.

Empower details

Powerful Honing Stone	7%
Omnidirectional Evade	8%
Keenly Empowered	12%
Leadership (team)	10%
Oblivion (team)	15%
Total	52%

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

In this exact build, Inferno will scale with Strength, making its abilities still viable for ranged damage if you are not able to be within melee range, which maximizes damage uptime.

Your Rapier in this build will still benefit from the Keenly Empowered perk from Inferno from crits on your Rapier,

For Offhand options, all of the below are viable, and what you end up picking should depend on what your team is missing. It’s generally bad for 2 people on a team to be using the same offhand.

Void Gauntlet – mostly just for dropping Oblivion
Ice Gauntlet – passive damage with Ice Storm and Ice Pylon
Spear – 5% rend spear build to apply Rend
Hatchet – Rending Throw + Infected Throw for weaken
Fire Staff – apply quick ability rotation which stacks DoTs
Bow – apply DoT abilities

Build made using the free tools at New World Buddy.

For unfamiliar terms, please refer to our terminology guide.

Evade Rapier Build – New World Season 10 DPS Guide