Invasion Musket Build – New World Season 9
This Invasion Musket Build for New World Season 9 utilizes the headshot skill tree and prioritizes high damage on elite enemies. This build can net very high damage and Invasion scores; enough to get you in the top 10 for leaderboards if you practice enough, and almost guaranteed top 50. For help with understand Invasions better, check out the New World Invasion Guide.
Mainhand Weapon
Offhand Weapon (options)
Attributes
| Strength | 25 |
| Dexterity | 350 |
| Intelligence | 300 |
| Focus | 25 |
| Constitution | fill the rest |
Armor
Prioritize armor perks in the following order:
- Enchanted Ward
- Refreshing 4x
- Weapon Perks
- Refreshing Power Shot
- Empowering Shooters Stance
- Omnidirectional Evade
- Leeching Flurry
Jewelry
In order to hit the correct Attribute splits for this build, you’d need a custom Intelligence amulet. Otherwise, expect uneven Attribute splits. Amulets in Invasions are extremely dependent to what you get hit by. As a ranged player you will commonly get hit by snipers, but the biggest threat is a Commander’s charge, so I use a Slash Protection Amulet to account for this, which results in being able to survive the Commander’s spin attack. Otherwise try a Thrust Protection Amulet like: Tanglevine Amulet.
Ring options are usually Elemental Band, Azoth Crystal Ring, or an equal Gorgon ring.
Perks to aim for in a ring:
Hearty
Keen Awareness
Leeching
Perks to aim for in an earring:
Nimble
Refreshing Toast
Empowering Toast
It’s important for the Earring to be Intelligence in this build to hit the correct attribute splits.
Heartrune
Brutal Heartrune of Cannon Blast
Typical Buffs and Trophies
In order to do maximum damage against Corrupted in an Invasion, the correct trophies and damage boosting buffs should be applied. You should be able to count 3 buffs above your health bar. Wards and Desert Sunrise are typically not needed for Invasions, unless AGS makes Mutated Invasions or Invasion difficulties.
- 3x Major Corrupted Trophies – 3×5%(15%) Corrupted damage
- Infused Corrupted Coating – 15% Corrupted Damage
- Powerful Honing Stone – 7% Empower
- +48 food
How to Play
We aim for the headshot tree in this build because the corrupted spawns happen far enough away that headshots are much easier to land on most elites and the Skulls. The rotation is very simple and should go something like this when spawns happen:
- Enter Shooters Stance
- Powder Burn
- Power Shot
- Light attack until cooldowns are back
Empower details
| Mortal Power | 12% |
| Empowering Shooter’s Stance | 43.28% |
| Heightened Precision | 18% |
| Empowering Weakness | 5% |
| Empowering Headshot | 10% |
| Initial Engagement | 10% |
| Elemental Affinity x1 | 4% |
| Empowering Toast | 10% |
| Powerful Honing Stone | 7% |
| Total | 119.28% |
There is a ton of forgiveness with the total Empower of this build, since many of them come from situational Empowers. To know where your current Empower total stands, check out the Empower Calculator.
Tips to remember
Rapid and consecutive headshots will reduce reload time and increase DPS significantly.
Musky shots can go through targets, so try to line up shots on the low level mobs.
Use finisher when elites get in melee range since headshots will be harder to hit then. (Except for Spriggan – trying to squeeze in the headshots is more valuable). Personally I also avoid getting close to Commanders, since they have a lot of 1-shot potential.
If you are in the front lanes, position yourself so you can see other lanes Trebuchets and Cannons when you have downtime.
Enough muskets can destroy Skulls very quickly so be sure to focus them when they spawn
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