New World: Life Staff - weapon abilities New World guide, tips

This page of the New World guide contains all the skills of the Life Staff and tells you how to increase the effectiveness of this weapon.

Last update: 22 November 2021

The Life Staff in New World allows you to become a healer, that is, a character who focuses on healing. You can heal both other players and yourself, so the Life Staff is a great secondary weapon. This page of the guide describes all abilities of the Life Staff.

• Related attributes
• Healing - active skills
• Healing - passive skills
• Protector - active skills
• Protector - passive skills

Related attributes

Expanding the Focus attribute increases the efficiency of the Life Staff.

Healing - active skills

Divine Embrace - restores the target's health as 150% weapon damage.

1. Privilege - Divine Embrace costs 20 mana.
2. Shared Struggle - if the target has less than 50% health, the ability restores the same amount of health to another ally within 8m.
3. Rebound - if the second target has less than 50% health, the ability heals another ally within 8m.

Sacred Ground - creates an area on the ground that lasts 15 seconds and every second restores health by 20% of weapon damage.

1. Holy Ground - mana and stamina regenerate faster by 100% on holy ground.
2. Blessed - allies located on the holy land regain 50% more health from all sources.

Splash Of Light - restores 50% weapon damage to you and all group members within 100 meters.

1. Shared Recovery - when you heal a target with less than 50% health, you gain 3% of the max. mana level.
2. Purify - Splash of Light removes 1 negative effect.

Healing - passive skills

Absolved - light and heavy attacks with the Life Staff don't use mana.

1. Mending Touch - heavy Life Staff attack removes 1 negative effect when passing through an ally.
2. Blissful Touch - Light Attack restores health of the allies it passes through, based on 20% of their weapon damage.

Desperate Speed - after healing an ally with less than 50% health, the Life Staff skill's recovery time will be reduced by 10% (can be used once every 5 seconds).

Revitalize - accurate light attack shortens all cooldown times by 5%.

Enchanted Justice - creates a Healing Aura around you when you get hit at 50% or less health; the aura heals you and your allies within 4 meters for 10% Weapon Damage per second for 6 seconds.

Sacred Protection - holding the Life Staff heals all allies in your group by 5% more.

Intensify - heavy attacks increase the amount of health restored by 10% for 10 seconds.

Divine Blessing - by healing an ally with less than 50% health, you restore 30% more health to them.

Protector - active skills

Orb Of Protection - shoot a glowing projectile that provides 10% Fortify for 20 seconds, restores health to an ally of 10% weapon damage, and deals 146% of weapon damage to an enemy after an accurate hit (Fortify reduces the damage you take).

1. Protector's Blessing - if the Orb of Protection hits an ally, they will also gain regeneration for 10 seconds (regeneration restores health at the rate of 7.5% of weapon damage per second).
2. Shared Protection - if you use the Orb to heal an ally, you'll gain Fortify and regeneration.
3. Aegis - if a projectile hits the target, it will cover all allies within a 3-meter radius.

Light's Embrace - restores the target's health at 100% of weapon damage and 30% for each bonus on the target.

1. Inspire - when you heal a target with Light's Embrace, they will receive 25 stamina points.
2. Connection - when you heal a target withLight's Embrace, you will receive 1% to the maximum mana level for each bonus that works on your target.
3. Magnify - light treatment extends the Life Staff's bonus duration by 2 seconds.

Beacon - shoot a glowing projectile that deals 146% weapon damage to enemies, sticks to the target, and heal all allies in it’s area of effect for 20% weapon damage per second for 10 seconds.

1. Infused Light - increases the Beacon's area of effect by 50%.
2. Radiance's Blessing - the Beacon lasts 5 seconds longer.
3. Speed Of Light - when the Beacon heals the target, it also provides them with 20% Haste for 3 seconds (Haste increases the moving speed).

Protector - passive skills

Bend Light - when you dodge, you restore 20% more health for 5 seconds.

Defensive Light - after blocking the attack, you will gain 5% to the max. mana level.

Protector's Touch - light and heavy attacks with the Life Staff provide 15% to Fortify for 2 seconds after hitting an enemy (Fortify reduces the damage received).

Protector's Strength - if a bonus works on you, you restore 10% more health.

Balance - when you have less than 50% health and get hit by an enemy, you gain 10% to Haste for 5 seconds.

Spirits United - 3% faster mana regeneration for you and the group members.

Glowing Focus - the bonuses you put on last 20% longer.