What is the focus of the Rend Bot Build in New World Season 10: Nighthaven?

The Rend Bot Build focuses on applying Rend debuffs and providing Leadership empower to boost team damage in the Isle of Night and Hive of Gorgons Raids, enhancing boss kills and raid clears.

What mainhand weapon should I use for the Rend Bot Build?

Equip Butcher with Compounding Whirling Blade, Keenly Jagged, and Rogue, Enchanted, or Vicious perks. Use Sin with Keenly Jagged and Vicious, Rogue, or Enchanted if another Sword with Leadership is present.

What is the offhand weapon for this build?

Use a Hammer with Sundering Shockwave, Sundering Destiny, End2, Diamond Runeglass, and Keenly Empowered for Rend application.

How should I allocate attributes for the Rend Bot Build?

Set attributes to Strength 350, Dexterity 150, Intelligence 25, Focus 25, and Constitution 25. Shift Dexterity to Constitution for better survivability if needed.

What armor perks and gear should I prioritize?

Use all Light armor with a Round Shield for +15% damage and One With The Shield passive. Prioritize Weapon Perks (Omnidirectional Evade, Fortifying Incinerate), Gem Slot with Onyx, and Fixed Perks (Lifestealer’s Draught, Sacrificial Empowerment x2, Prolonged Favor x2, Empowering Breaker, Shirking Energy, Shirking Fortification x2). Use Creed Boots or Lich Gloves artifacts.

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, Refreshment, Leeching, Offensive Socket, and Defensive Socket perks.

Which Heartrune is best for this build?

Use Brutal Heartrune of Grasping Vines for crowd control and Rend application.

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 Rend Bot Build?

After the tank grabs aggro: 1. Use Shockwave (AOE Rend/Weaken), 2. Use Clear Out (AOE Rend), 3. Use Armor Breaker (single Rend), 4. Switch to Sword & Shield, 5. Use Shield Rush (AOE Weaken/Fortify), 6. Use Whirling Blade (AOE Damage/DoT), 7. Use Upheaval (Damage/Cooldown), 8. Perform heavy attack + 3 light attacks and sword abilities when off cooldown. Repeat when Hammer abilities are off cooldown.

What are some tips for optimizing this build in the Hive of Gorgons Raid?

Stay alive to maximize team utility. Use One With The Shield to extend debuff duration by 5%. In the Lights room, stand on a plate to spawn spiders. For Echidna, use Hammer for stamina damage, then apply Rend and switch to Sword after stamina break. For Typhon, save Grasping Vines for stunned phases, leading with Vines then Hammer abilities. For Broodmother Medusa, use a ranged offhand for eggs or apply Rend in melee if survivable. Use the Empower Calculator to track your 72% Empower total (capped at 50%) from Empowered Stab, Leadership, Honing Stone, Ambush, and Oblivion.

Rend Bot Build - New World Season 10 DPS Guide

The Rend Bot Build is a highly requested role in New World Season 10: Nighthaven for the Isle of Night and Hive of Gorgons raids, providing high amounts of Rend, decreasing your targets armor through various Rend abilities and perks, and allow your team to do more damage. This specific version of a Rend Bot also gives empower for your group via Leadership. The presence of a Rend Bot a raid team means all other teammates will be doing increased damage, which can speed up boss kills and enable smooth raid clears. War Hammer is the key weapon that makes the Rend Bot, since it applies 66% Rend between 3 abilities.

Some common versions of a Rend Bot include:

SnS / War Hammer
Sin / War Hammer
Flail / War Hammer (Buff Bot)

Weapons

Mainhand

Butcher with:
Compounding Whirling Blade
Vicious
Rogue/Enchanted

Alternative
Sin with:
Vicious
Rogue/Enchanted

If your team already has a Sword with Leadership on each group, you should pick Sin. Just be prepared that this changes which armor perks you need. A Hatchet build needs Keen Berserk at a minimum.

Rend Bot Build mainhand for New World Season 10 DPS Guide

Rend Bot Build shield for New World Season 10 DPS Guide

Offhand

Hammer with:
Sundering Shockwave
Sundering Destiny
End2
Gem slot with Diamond Runeglass
Keenly Empowered

Keenly Empowered on an offhand can be activated by the mainhand weapon, making it a great fit for many builds.

Rend Bot Build offhand for New World Season 10 DPS Guide

Skill Tree

Offhand for this build is purely to apply rend abilities then switch back to Sword & Shield, so you are giving the Leadership empower bonus to your group. Hammer applies the most rend of these options.

Attributes

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

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.

You should remain in a Light weight class for this build to get the +15% damage bonus. While using a Round Shield, you must use all Light armor pieces, and cannot have any Medium weight pieces to attain this. Shield is a must-have so you can have the One With The Shield passive in your skill tree. In Season 10, the recommended artifact changes to either Creed Boots or Lich Gloves.

Weapon Perks
- Contagious Upheaval
- Fortifying Shield Rush
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
Refreshment
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

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

Shockwave – AOE Rend/Weaken
Clear Out – AOE Rend
Armor Breaker – single Rend
Switch to Sword & Shield
Shield Rush – AOE Weaken/Fortify
Whirling Blade – AOE Damage/DoT
Upheaval – Damage/Cooldown
Heavy attack + 3 Light attacks + sword abilities when off cooldown
- One with the Shield perk – Round Shield – Hitting a target will increase the duration of all debuffs on them by 5%
Once all 3 Hammer abilities are off cooldown, repeat

The whole goals is to make your team do more damage by applying Rends, then give them the extra Empower while staying on your Sword & Shield and using your abilities there until all the cooldowns on your offhand are back up. The rotation with this build will start with War Hammer abilities after the Tank grabs aggro.

Overall this build is pretty easy to run. If you happen to die a lot and need more help surviving, remove some of the attributes from Dex and put them in Con. Since your main task is to help your team do more damage, it’s important you stay alive.

Empower details

Empowered Stab	30%
Leadership	10%
Honing Stone	7%
Ambush	10%
Oblivion (healer)	15%
Total	72%

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.

Hive of Gorgons Tips

During the Lights room, you should be the one to stand on one of the plates that spawn the spiders since you don’t have a ranged weapon.

Echidna – While the bosses stamina is still up, you should stay on the Hammer and cycle in all abilities and heavy attacks since these do the most stamina damage. Once stamina is broken, apply as much Rend as possible and switch to sword to do as much damage as you can. During spikes phase, you should also be using sword since that will be doing the most possible damage.

Typhon – Follow the original rotation and stay on Sword while Hammer abilities are on cooldown. Since other DPS should be using their vines Heartrune to lock down Corvids, save your vines Heartrune for the boss during extended damage phases, like when he gets stunned from breaking a pillar. In that scenario LEAD with vines, then Hammer abilities, since vines have a very fast activation time.

Broodmother Medusa – Bring a ranged weapon because very few teams melee this boss. Otherwise you will be focusing on killing eggs with your Sword. Many times it’s too risky to get close to the boss due to arena Poison and Sleep mechanics. Although if you are able to master surviving in melee range and applying rend to the boss, this could be a huge damage increase for the team. *just don’t become a burden to your healer.

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Rend Bot Build – New World Season 10 DPS Guide