What is the focus of the Solo Healer Build in New World Season 10: Nighthaven?

The Solo Healer Build is designed for a single healer to support a 10-man raid in the Isle of Night and Hive of Gorgons Raids with healing, damage buffs, and debuffs, tailored for teams with strong self-sustaining DPS.

What mainhand weapon should I use for the Solo Healer Build?

Equip a Life Staff with Blessed, Refreshing Move, and Keen Beacon, Fortifying Sacred Ground, or Refreshing Divine Embrace perks.

What is the offhand weapon for this build?

Use Fracture with Leeching and Enchanted, or Refreshing Rupture for lifesteal and debuff utility.

What skill tree should I use for the Solo Healer Build?

Use Orb of Protection with Aegis upgrade if confident in the tank; use Divine Embrace if not. No ultimate is used.

How should I allocate attributes for the Solo Healer Build?

Set attributes to Strength 25, Dexterity 25, Intelligence 253, Focus 300, and Constitution 25.

What armor perks should I prioritize?

Prioritize Weapon Perks (Sundering Essence, Nullifying Oblivion, Voracious Blade), Gem Slot with Onyx, and Fixed Perks (Lifestealer's Draught, Prolonged Favor x4, Shirking Energy, Shirking Fortification, Quick Revive).

What jewelry should I choose for this build?

Select three Protection Amulets matching the activity’s damage type with Well-Being and Gem Slot perks (II versions). Use a Ring with Enchanted Totality, Sacred, Keen, Enchanted, and Gem Slot perks. Equip an Earring with Beloved, Refreshment, Leeching, Offensive Socket, and Gem Slot perks.

Which Heartrune is best for this build?

Use Stalwart Heartrune of Fire Storm, Stalwart Heartrune of Bile Bomb, or Stalwart Heartrune of Stoneform based on the situation.

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

Apply Energizing Hearty Meal (30% mana regen), 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 Solo Healer Build?

Follow this sequence: 1. Use Oblivion, 2. Use Essence Rupture, 3. Use Sacred Ground on Tank, 4. Perform a light attack, 5. Use Keen Beacon on DPS clump, 6. Perform a light attack, 7. Use Void Blade, 8. Perform 3 light attacks, 9. Perform a heavy attack with Void Blade to restore mana. Save Divine Embrace for when the tank is low.

What are some tips for optimizing this build?

Rely on Essence Rupture for DPS self-healing, focusing buffs like Keen Beacon, Oblivion, and Void Blade Rend on the team, while prioritizing tank healing for unavoidable damage. Optimize Healer Targeting settings and position the tank in your preferred group slot. Use the Empower Calculator to track your 72% Empower total (capped at 50%) from Empowering Proximity, Forsaken Pact, Oblivion, Empowering Toast, and Powerful Honing Stone.

Solo Healer Build - New World Season 10

The New World Solo Healer Build is a highly specialized setup for advanced teams tackling challenging content like the Isle of Night and Hive of Gorgons raids in New World. Centered around a Life Staff with two skill slots, paired with the Fracture Artifact with Leeching and Enchanted, this build is designed for a single healer to provide heals for a 10-man raid all by themselves, while also supporting through damage buffs, and debuffs. Tailored for groups with strong self-sustaining DPS, this build relies on precise ability rotations, optimized attributes, and carefully selected gear to keep the tank alive while empowering the team. Below, I outline the key components, including weapons, armor perks, jewelry, and gameplay strategies, to master the role of a solo healer. Updated for New World Season 10: Nighthaven

Weapons

Mainhand

Life Staff with:
Fortifying Sacred Ground
Keen Beacon
Diamond Gem
Savior
Resurgence

Offhand

Fracture with:
Enchanted
Leeching
Diamond Gem

Skill Tree

Lifestaff skill tree is dependent on how confident you are in your Tank. If you are confident in your tank, use Orb of Protection. If you are not confident in your tank, use Divine Embrace. The Aegis upgrade for Orb of Protection is arguably better than the Divine Blessing ultimate in the Healing tree, which is why no ultimate is used.

Attributes

Strength	25
Dexterity	25
Intelligence	253
Focus	300
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.

Weapon Perks
- Sundering Essence
- Nullifying Oblivion
- Voracious Blade
Gem Slot
Fixed Perks
- Lifestealer’s Draught
- Prolonged Favor x4
- Shirking Energy
- Shirking Fortification
- Quick Revive

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 x3
Well-Being
Gem Slot

Ring Perks:

Enchanted Totality
Sacred
Keen
Enchanted
Gem Slot

Earring Perks:

Beloved
Refreshment
Leeching
Offensive Socket
Gem Slot

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

Heartrune

Stalwart Heartrune of Fire Storm

Stalwart Heartrune of Bile Bomb

Stalwart Heartrune of Stoneform

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:

Energizing Hearty Meal – 30% mana regen
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

Oblivion
Essence Rupture
Sacred Ground on Tank
light attack
Keen Beacon on DPS clump
light attack
Void Blade
light attack x3
Heavy Attack

Running one healer requires the overall team to be more advanced, as they will be more reliant on their own DPS for healing via the lifesteal from Fracture.

Heavy Attack with Void Blade with restore needed Mana.

Save Divine Embrace for when tank is low.

Empower details

Empowering Proximity x3	30%
Forsaken Pact	10%
Oblivion	15%
Powerful Honing Stone	7%
Total	62%

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

With an advanced team, they will be healing themselves a ton as long as Essence Rupture stays active on bosses, so they will mainly only need your damage buffs from Keen Beacon, Oblivion, and Rend from using Void Blade. Tank is the exception because there is some damage that is unavoidable to take.

Make sure you have your Healer targeting settings dialed in and that the Tank is in your preferred slot of the group for easy targeting. This will help with Sacred Ground targeting, and Divine Embrace targeting if you use it.

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Solo Healer Build – New World Season 10