Hatchet DPS Build – New World Season 10
This Hatchet DPS Build puts up top tier DPS numbers in New World Season 10. It provides high single-target damage and AoE damage on clumps of enemies, making it one of the top competitors of an Evade Rapier. This guide covers everything you’ll need from Skill Tree’s to Empower breakdowns to maximize your Hatchet DPS for New World’s raids like Isle of Night and the Hive of Gorgons.
Additional Hatchet builds:
Weapons
Mainhand
Hatchet with:
Keen Berserk
End
Mortal Aggression/Sundering Stacks/Attunement
Gem Slot
Vicious
Offhand (Options)
Inferno
Pestilence
Aconite
Spear 5%, Great Axe, Hammer
If you do not have a teammate running 5% Spear, you should pick that as your offhand.
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 | 350 |
| Dexterity | 150 [fill the rest] |
| Intelligence | 25 |
| Focus | 25 |
| Constitution | 25 |
Armor
Prioritize armor perks in the following order:
- Weapon Perks
- Compounding Torrent
- Fortifying Incinerate
- Gem Socket on each armor piece
- Offensive Sockets to fill the gaps
- Fixed perks, anything that’s not Conditioning works
Jewelry
Pick the best Protection amulet that matches the most common damage you will be taking in the activity you are in.
Amulet Perks:
Protection
Well-Being
Leeching
Keenly Fortified
Divine
Ring Perks:
Enchanted Totality
Critical Infliction
Keen
Leeching
Offensive Socket
Earring Perks:
Beloved
Refreshing Move
Leeching
Offensive Socket
Defensive Socket
Heartrune
Brutal Heartrune of Grasping Vines is the main one, although there are others that work for various fights/sitiuations.
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
- Activate Berserk to gain 20% empower
- Use Rending Throw to apply 20% rend for 10s to one enemy
- Hit with 4 light attacks
- Use Raging Torrent to refresh the light attack chain, and cooldown other abilities
- Hit with 4 light attacks
- Use next ability that is off cooldown
The key to this rotation is using a full 4 light attacks and following up immediately with an ability. Refreshing Torrent is key to being able to keep this rotation going smoothly.
Depending on which offhand weapon you pick will determine when you should use it. For example with Inferno, you may start the fight with Incinerate to apply Weaken first, and use this as a fallback when you are unable to use a Hatchet ability after a few 4 light attack sequences.
Empower details
| Keenly Empowered | 13% |
| Berserk | 20% |
| Powerful Honing Stone | 7% |
| Leadership (tank) | 10% |
| Oblivion (healer) | 15% |
| Total | 65% |
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.
Build made using the free tools at New World Buddy.
For unfamiliar terms, please refer to our terminology guide.
