New World: Weapon Mastery New World guide, tips
This page of the New World guide deals with Weapon Mastery, skills that allow you to create character builds. Here you will learn how to develop and reset weapon skills.
Last update: 25 October 2021
Weapon Masteries in New World allow you to create specific builds. Since there are no character classes, your role is determined by the use of appropriate weapons. For example - to become a healer, you will need a Life Staff. Sword and Shield will be great for players who want to become tanks. Two-handed axe will allow you to inflict area damage. You can use two different weapons alternately, which allows you to create universal builds that work in both PvP and PvE. In addition, each weapon mastery is divided into two separate trees with different uses. On this page of the New World guide, you will learn how to develop and reset weapon masteries. You'll also find a list of all the weapons.
Developing weapon mastery
Developing masteries in New World is very simple - it happens when you are using a particular weapon. For example - if you want to develop Hatchet mastery, use it to kill enemies. Each defeated opponent increases your mastery for a particular weapon - the stronger the opponent (has a higher level than the player), the faster the development. After increasing the mastery level, you will receive one skill point - you can allocate it to active or passive skills. The maximum mastery level is 20, so it is impossible to discover all the skills for a given weapon.
Resetting weapon mastery
Weapon mastery can be reset (i.e. you get points back) in the weapon window. There you will find the Respec button. Resetting a weapon mastery up to level 10 is free. After reaching this level, you will have to pay with Azoth.
All weapon masteries
New World offers a dozen different weapon skills. Our guide has descriptions of each of them. The following pages contain all the active and passive abilities of a given weapon as well as information on which attributes to develop to increase damage.