New World PvE Rings & Perks

In This Section of the website we will help you know what Jewelry to run but also show you the logic behind it so you can adjust things to work for your playstyle.

The way armor perks work in New World means that, across all roles, builds, and armor weights, you’ll generally be looking for the same core perks, with adjustments for build-specific needs. Early on, focusing on these essential perks will help you decide which pieces of armor to keep. As you progress through Aeternum, the perks you seek won’t change much, except when transitioning between PvE and PvP; you'll want to aim for the best gear score available with the recommended perks for each build.

Perks

Leeching works as it says giving you life steal %, the amount of which is attached to the items gear score, leeching is great for sustaining yourself and is a hard perk to turn away.

Hearty is mandatory on all builds as the extra stamina allows you to have an extra dodge.

Sacred is mandatory on healers asit increases the over all healing output

There are many damage types for physical and elemental damage types , this is classed as an empower and goes towards the empower cap. Almost all builds will want a ring to match their damage type.

It is important to reach your limit of 4 stacks of refreshing, if you do not have space on your armor it is viable to have on your jewlery to free up perk space on your armor

Examples

Keen awareness is in the same bucket as damage boosts on rings so usually isn’t the preferred option but can be good for the likes of greatsword & void gauntlet that are already near empower cap.