There was some good stuff in the expansion, but it wasn't enough to get me excited. What I'm really hoping for is a new pvp game mode or something to make opr and 3v3s less repetitive

@@AmbrielNW I understand that point of view for sure, just thought you would’ve been hyped about the buildcraft! Sword that has bloodletting on it!

@@DerrekU2ber The changes they made to gear are amazing for buildcrafting. I will have to check it out eventually, but there have just been so many new games to play lately

@@AmbrielNW what have you been playing instead?

@@DerrekU2ber Mostly Baldurs gate 3 actually. I had a break from gaming before it released and now I'm excited for the upcoming Avatar game. Maybe it's back to NW afterwards. How about you? Played anything besides New World?

Hey, I don't remember the name 😞I bought it from the store. I think it was a limited time skin like 5 - 6 months ago, but those do pop up in the store again every now and then

Glad to hear it! I'll keep coming back every new season and doing a few new builds or updates to my old ones. Already a little bored of NW, so I might take a break again until season 2 😆but we'll see, always refreshing to return to NW after taking a break. Thanks for watching!

Hey, blood rapier with VG? That might be cool 😀

@@AmbrielNW thanks) I hope you will be able to do this soon) and yet, can you make two different fighting styles in one video at once? bleeding rapier and standard rapier. and of course, show both builds at the end of the video) I will be very grateful. I love the rapier, so I want to try some unpopular build. I hope with your help I can do it!

​@@Borzeto. Actually, I can't promise anything. It's a lot of testing and theory crafting to make these vids, and I might not have the motivation for another build this season because i'm kinda bored of New World xD But for an off-meta blood rapier/VG build I would probably try 100con, 250int, 150dex and a similar build to my earlier blood rapier videos. Full resilient, refreshing and elemental aversion with onyx gems. I would get a void gauntlet with the petrifying scream perk on it and maybe change some refreshing or elemental aversion for the 2 other vg ability perks. For the vg abilities, I would start with scream, oblivion and orb. The idea behind the build is this combo: Scream to root an enemy, so they can't move, then Orb to reduce their armor and apply a 30% slow, then Oblivion to give yourself empower(and also remove a buff from the enemy if you get the oblivion perk), then swap to rapier and do the super quick tondo > evade > finish combo. I could see this being a decent way to combine the weapons, using the vg to set up for a massive combo, and I think, if done fast enough, the entire combo can be done before the root from scream expires. I can't think of a cool combination with vg/standard rapier though, but probably something similar. 👍

@@AmbrielNW I roughly understood this combo, but I wanted to see it in your performance, since you would do it perfectly) and when you see how it really works, it's easier to repeat) but if later you have a desire, then try to do it. Like I said, there is nothing like this on KZfaq. and one more request, please can you send a link here how would you spend 19 points for the ability of VG. I just have no idea what passive skills would be more useful for such a build. because my English is bad) in any case, thank you. love watching your videos. You're good Man!

@@Borzeto. imgur.com/a/rUWUcuL Here's how I would do the void gauntlet

Thanks! Yeah I feel the same way, I usually try to apply tondo while they are stunned by kick or knocked down by sweep just so they can't block it, and I use coup when all my stuff is on cooldown to keep up the pressure. Coup triggers the heavy attack cooldown reduction perk combined with the cd after dodge perk, so it works well with all of the refreshing. The additional bleed from coup is also nice against good healers, as it makes it even harder to cleanse tondo when I need to stack more than 1. That's why I like coup, but it's all personal preference. If coup does not suit your playstyle, then that's 3 perks you can place somewhere else to strengthen your own 💪(Coup de grace, strong conditioning, refreshing reach)

@@AmbrielNW it's just about that one perk point. Sweep is insanely good. With 2 lights instead you can proc double light atk cdr and will also get 2x invig crit Stamina since you can Position for back atk while they knocked. Cant reposition with coupe so no secured crit and only one invig crit proc if at all. That doesnt Sound much but it rly makes the difference to me. True with the Cleanse though.

@@Iluin90 That's a good point. However, there are pros and cons: - Dodge > Sweep > coup = Pros: 35% cdr. Cons: Animation locked, unreliable invig crits, so maybe +20 stam. - Sweep > Dodge > 2x lights in the back = Pros: Guaranteed 10% cdr and +40 stam, and no animation lock. Cons: Little cdr. This is because Refreshing Jabs only trigger on the second hit of the light attack chain, whereas a dodge into coup triggers Aggressive Maneuvers plus Refreshing Reach. So both are situational. In some situations coup might be better, and in others 2x light attacks might give the stamina needed to reposition and turn a fight around. I will definitely use the 2x light attack combo in low stam situations though, it sounds great for its purpose.

@@AmbrielNW evasive maneuvers seems irrelevant here. And reach is 15% cdr no?

@@Iluin90 They are different perks , but they sound similar: Evasive manveuver: 20% cheaper dodge backwards after a hit Aggressive maneuver: 20% cdr for all spear cooldowns on ability hit after a dodge. Refreshing reach: successful hits with heavy attacks reduce all spear cooldowns by 15% Refreshing jabs: reduce all spear cooldowns by 10% on the second hit of the light attack chain. Aggressive maneuver is triggered by sweep after a dodge, then refreshing reach is triggered by coup de grace, because it somehow counts as a heavy attack. One could also utilize the aggressive maneuver perk with the 2x light attacks combo for 30% cdr, but that'd cost two dodges (dodge > sweep > dodge > 2x lights). But don't get me wrong, it's still a great combo, because you can do it while actively repositioning compared to being animation locked in coup de grace, so it's all personal preference

Only gemstone dust, and I swap it to oakflesh if i'm about to fight 2+ melees. Sns is a pretty hard counter to mages if you apply pressure and stay very aggressive. It is very hard for them to hit you with anything other than aoes and flame thrower when you are on top of them. Mages is only really dangerous if they are allowed to stand in the back casting. There's also the stunlock combo, that will kill off most light players if done when they're at 70-60% hp or less. Full onyx allows this build to brawl with medium and heavy melees👌

@@AmbrielNW cool man nice vid and thanks for the explanation! 👍

Great questions! Yup, the similar build(The Paladin) relied on trenchant recovery and heavy warhammer attacks, but the recent changes to trenchant rec and the changes to crowd control, it became unreliable to charge up heavy attacks as the stun from shockwave does not last long enough. With this version of the build, I do not use heavy warhammer attacks, instead I rely on a full stunlock combo. Even with freedom, people can't get out of it, and the best thing, it is aoe. With 10% lifesteal plus the warhammer lifesteal passive perk, the healing becomes pretty good. Combined with shirking heals, there's so much sustain that allows for a lot of mistakes. Yes, it does not have crazy damage at only 215 str, however, this build has grit from the 300 con passive, so it has pretty persistent damage. There's also the warhammer combo, that has enough damage to kill a healer alone at 2:46, hence the name "doomhammer" 😆

Ah this makes a lot of sense, thank you! Does this even work against full freedom medium/heavy?

@@samo7780 I have yet to see anyone get out of it by freedom alone😉

Thanks! The 5 con version would be harder to play after the changes to cc, and nerf to crit. Hemorrhage relied on just brutally blowing people up before they could react xD So I think I would do similar stats to this build if I were to swap spear to sns

Yeah, a little. If you want that nasty damage, 150dex, 250int and 100con is the best, but this "dex version" sacrifices some damage for more attribute flexibility, such as going 150con which were pretty good during the musket era

@@AmbrielNW fair. I’m running bleed/ig right now in medium armor, 150 dext 250 int 100 con. It’s a lot of fun when no FS is involved.

Going to try swapping out IG for SnS to see if the extra utility helps me with FS

🔥🔥

NW can get pretty boring, but it feels great to return after a couple of months👌

Thanks, I'm on Nysa atm

filthiest combos on youtube, i swear!

Yes, but it is technical to play, and it takes practise on training dummies to get the timing right for the tondo > evade > finish combo. This build brings a lot to the table for a 3v3 team, it can kill healers alone, and it has a lot of mobility, so other light players will have a hard time trying to get away. the 44% weaken from skewer can shut down a damage dealer on the enemy team, and the cc from the spear can be used for synchronized combos with your team

300 con light melee is feeling surprisingly good this patch, going to experiment more with it this season!

good job bro! Go again!

It's nice to see you are making vids again :) As always pleasure to watch, greetings from Nysa :)

@@otaku131 Thanks man 😀It was nice meeting you in the game!

I tried it yesterday actually, after some changes it felt really powerful. With the 300 con changes this build is running around with grit in melee combat, so it kinda got buffed, lol. However, path of destiny got its damage nerfed, and the changes to trenchant recovery made them perform.. meh. So I changed path of destiny to clear out, and I changed defenders resolve to shield rush. that way you can do this nasty combo: shield rush > shield bash > knockdown > shockwave > clear out > light attack. I also got a new warhammer with lifesteal as well, felt much better for this patch, the 10% lifesteal plus built in lifesteal of the crowd crusher tree during such a powerful aoe stunlock combo is pretty awesome 😄

I haven't seen any big changes that would affect this build, so I think it would perform just as well today 👍 If they removed the stagger from reverse stab, I'd change that ability to shield rush though

Yup! So does the 300 con perk, so it is possible to extend net shot by a total of 50% with both if you want people to hate you 😆

@@AmbrielNW some body told me there is a weird interaction with Apparatus perk since the slow degrades over time. Im not sure if the degration is correctly lenghtened by crippling.

@@Iluin90 Interesting. I used a ring with mortal emp and crippling when I played this in opr with friends. It felt like people were getting properly locked down slightly longer, but I haven't done any real testing as I assumed it was working because it felt like it. Could easily be tested though, just find someone to test it with, and do two tests, with and without crippling where the guy you netshot simply runs straight ahead from the same starting position until the slow disappears from his debuffs. If he ended up in the same spot in both tests, then it's broken. I would test it for you, but I have quit the game

The stagger on FnF is like.. the most important part of this build. I honestly have no clue why they would even nerf blood rapier so hard, when all it takes to completely render a blood rapier enemy useless on live is to press block. I also used reverse stab specifically for the stagger, as the stagger lasted long enough to do a quick swap > tondo that they couldn't block due to being staggered. And now that flourish doesn't stagger, every player you fight is going to easily dodge finish, so it is going to be super hard to pop the tondo stacks. I haven't tried this build on the ptr, but from reading the patch notes, it doesn't sound good 😢

Thanks! A omnidirectional evade + keenly jagged rapier does the job just fine. Keenly jagged is just to make it harder to cleanse tondo. Go to a training dummy and just repeat the combos for a while, you'll get faster and faster. And whenever you log in, spend about 10 min practising the combos on the dummies before you venture into pvp. Training dummies are underrated 😆

@@AmbrielNW ... i managed to do your combo but a gamble :D... thanks brother, i'll do the dummy

This is one of the easiest builds I've played for 1vX, due to more enemies meaning more healing. This is the only sustain build I've experimented with, I did initially try heavy armor for a more "lore friendly" paladin, but light armor allows you to survive so much better than heavy. SnS doesn't bring that much to the table sustain-wise, however, it does bring a lot of mobility and pressure as a dps weapon, due to the passive slows (with+50% slow duration from 300con and crippling on ring) and light armor. Literally noone can run way, they have to commit to the fight against you. SnS and WH works very well together because it's easy to land shield bash and then follow up with a big damage, big heal WH combo. The cooldown reduction in this build allows for frequent path of destiny, which can heal upwards of 8k if it hits 3 targets. So I actually found it easier to fight multiple enemies than only one. But if I had to swap one of the weapons, it would be the warhammer. The mobility, pressure and dps from SnS is just too good to pass up, because it's easy to focus too much on the sustain part, and then become a punching bag that is no threat. SnS also has a 10% increased healing passive perk, and 13% bonus healing from defenders resolve shield perk, so I try to drink pots when those are active. I could imagine SnS with Greatsword being a very effective combination, even better than SnS WH in 1v1, but weaker in 1vX. I personally find greataxe to be one of the weaker weapons in the game, beause it's so easy to avoid pretty much all of its hits in small scale pvp. (Don't get me wrong though, greataxe is s-tier in war and bigger fights where a lot is going on) But maybe it could be viable with SnS. If one were to combine two slow weapons such as WH and GA, it would look something like this: kzfaq.infoHx43ygHg_Gk

@@AmbrielNW Thanks for your analysis!

​@@AmbrielNW this build still viable?

@@brunodecarvalhobarbosa649 I tried it today actually, after some changes it felt really powerful. after the 300 con changes this build is running around with grit in melee combat, so it kinda got buffed, lol. However, path of destiny got its damage nerfed, and the changes to trenchant recovery made them perform.. meh. So I changed path of destiny to clear out, and I changed defenders resolve to shield rush. that way you can do this nasty combo: shield rush > shield bash > knockdown > shockwave > clear out > light attack. I also got a new warhammer with lifesteal as well, felt much better for this patch

@@AmbrielNW wow, thanks for answering me so fast :)

nwbuilds.com/predator#Attributes

It shows you went 50 int in attributes but doesn’t show if the BB itself is int or str.

@@moisttv_9469 Because it doesn't matter which piece of gear the attributes come from. For example, if you have a str bb, you could have one +26int armor piece, and then place 19 points in the attribute panel to reach 50int, or if you don't have any int gear, you could just place 45 int points to reach it, or if you have a 32 int bb, place 18 points

No worries, I am still on Nysa, just haven't played much lately. I began working on a website for my builds and it kinda devoured all of my spare time, haha. I'll start appearing more frequently in game once I finish the website 😅

@@AmbrielNW oh nice to know, some of us would apreciate those builds.

Thank you! Makes me really happy to hear that 🙂 Hoping to get a lot more done when I get home after visiting my family for the holidays (as well as posting the vid for this build)

Champions ring, invig punishment is amazing 👍

@@AmbrielNW thx! you know if it works with regular shots? description says abilities but I havent really tested

@@brunoferreira4429 I don't think so, because it says abilities. But I have not tested or done the numbers, so who knows🤔

220 str, 150dex, 50int, 5foc, 100con. That's including +40attribute food and 625 gs. I know the website is a little messy, but I'm working on a better layout 😅

@@AmbrielNW Thank you for the answer! :)

There is a small gap between the tondo damage and flourish stagger where the enemy can dodge, but the faster you can do the combo, the smaller that gap becomes. If he is spamming dodge, he needs to dodge within that window. I bound 2 of my ability keys to my mouse side buttons specifically to be able to do combos like these faster than someone can click a key on the keyboard

Thanks! Yes, there is a deeper thought. Azoth shrapnel blast deals fire damage, and with flame attunement on the blunderbuss, the 15% total additional fire damage becomes very noticeable. The spear+bb idea behind this build is practically to kick > azoth blast or sweep > bb basic attack > azoth blast. So once you get used to it, it is extremely easy to land every single hit of azoth blast. If the target is rended by perforate as well, the damage becomes obnoxious when you really go in for more azoth blast fire damage. You could of course split the ele dmg, but you would overall be hitting for roughly 15% less 👍

@@AmbrielNW Ah i see. Thank you! :)

Thanks! Watching, analysing and asking questions is a great way to learn! Every action you do during a fight has a price, and in this case you trade stamina for cooldown reduction. There's times when I do not want to make that trade. This is an example of how I decided between stamina or cooldown reduction during the beginning of the vid: I utilized dodge rolls before kick and sweep in the 1v1 during the first few seconds of the video, because I wanted to trade stamina for cooldown reduction, but when my teammates died soon after, I chose to trade all of my stamina to converge on the archer because I knew he was locked in the rapid shot animation. Then I needed to hit him as fast as possible before his teammates got to me, utilizing the spear mastery perk that gives +20stamina from crits to get my stamina back to full, so I could reposition. If I had chosen to spend my stamina on cooldown reduction instead, the archer might have survived, and I could have died. So in summary, it's not always best to trade stamina for cooldown reduction.

@@AmbrielNW outstanding! Thanks for the quick and precise response. I am still working on getting my expertise to 600 so I can level gear to compete properly but always learning

Invigorated punishment is indeed one of the top pvp perks. I picked heart of heka for this video because it is easily obtainable, but the champions ring is just as good as the ring of heka. If I could find a ring with slash damage + invigorated punishment + refreshing, I would have picked that, for maximum damage with both gs and hatchet. But if I were to choose between heart of heka or the champions ring, I would choose heart of heka, as all 3 perks on it are really good for both gs and hatchet