Rend Bot Build – New World Season 9 DPS Guide

The Rend Bot Build is a highly requested role in New World Season 9 for the Hive of Gorgons raid, providing empower for your group via Leadership, and reducing the enemies armor through various Rend abilities and perks. 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.

Gear Score

Only important for hitting attribute splits, but less important than having the right perks on 700 gear. If you don’t have the Gear Score to hit the attribute splits above, take the needed points out of Dex but keep 200 at least for the backstab damage.

Attributes

STR	350
DEX	fill the rest
INT	55
FOC	5
CON	5 (add more from DEX if needed)

Mainhand Weapon

Butcher is the easiest to obtain high-DPS sword, you’d probably spend too much gold getting something that’s close or only situationally better.

Offhand Weapon (options)

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.

• Hammer
• Greatsword
• Spear
• Hatchet

Armor 

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 9, the recommended artifact changes to either Creed Boots or Lich Gloves.

The priority perks to aim for in armor (not weapons):

• Sundering Shockwave
• Contagious Upheaval
• Fortifying Shield Rush
• Enchanted Ward
• Refreshing
• Empowering Breaker
• Health/Slash Conditioning where available

Jewelry

Pick the best Protection amulet that matches the most common damage you will be taking in the activity you are in. For example, Echidna from Hive of Gorgons uses Strike Damage, so you’d want a Strike Protection Amulet. Luckily there are easily farmable amulets for the 3 main damage types in the Gorgon raid.

Strike Protection Amulet

Slash Protection Amulet

Nature Protection Amulet

Ring options are usually Elemental Band, Azoth Crystal Ring, or an equal Gorgon ring.

It’s important for the Earring to be Dexterity in this build to hit the correct attribute splits.

Heartrune

Brutal Heartrune of Grasping Vines

Typical Buffs and Trophies

In order to do maximum damage, the correct trophies and damage boosting buffs should be applied. You should be able to count 5 buffs above your health bar before boss fights.

• 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 17.5% 
• +48 food Steamed Abaia Serpe

How to Play

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:

• 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

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

Empower is pretty easy to hit the 50% cap with on Sword with the built in abilities and teammate abilities that should be getting frequently rotated in. To know where your current Empower total stands, check out the Empower Calculator.

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

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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