New World: Professions Guide New World guide, tips
Professions in the New World allow you to collect and process crafting materials and thus create better weapons. In this guide page you will learn how to develop professions and which professions are the best.
Last update: 19 January 2022
Professions in New World are closely related to the whole system crafting. For example - Mining allows you to extract Iron Ore, Melting is used for turning them into Iron Ingots, and thanks to Weaponsmithing, you can create weapons using the Iron Ingots. That's why improving the professions is the core of the gameplay, and it allows you to get better items. On this page of the guide, you will find out which Professions are the best and how to level up them.
Which Professions are the best?
It is impossible to say unambiguously which Professions in New World they're the best because it is necessary to use all of them. Focusing on one skill makes sense when you want to quickly improve it to a specific level, for example, to create stronger weapons or to be able to gather better materials for crafting. During the game, it is worth improving all the Professions because the raw materials obtained thanks to them are related and are often required to produce the desired item. Of course, crafting materials can also be bought from other players, but this involves spending gold - and the easiest way to earn gold is selling crafting materials.
Using the Professions is also one of the ways to gain experience. Each item gathered or crafted provides additional experience points.
How to level up Professions?
The rules for leveling up the Profession are the same in each case. It is enough to use a skill to make the character become better in it. Reaching the next levels of a given skill unlocks the ability to gather or craft better items. For example, gathering the basic herbs will improve the Harvesting, which will make it possible to obtain rare materials for crafting from plants. In addition, leveling up the skills of the Gathering category allows you to search for raw materials more easily thanks to the icons on the compass.
Of course, the higher the level of a Profession, the harder it is to advance the next level. So it is worth looking for rarer animals, plants, or ores and creating better quality items - then, you will get more points to improve the skills.
All Professions
In New World, there are 17 different Profession skills divided into 3 categories - Crafting, Refining, and Gathering.
Crafting:
Refining:
Gathering: