Greatsword Life Staff Leveling Build

Introduction

Many people love playing the Paladin Archetype in MMOs. Our Greatsword Life Staff Leveling Build allows people to play that role, providing both High levels of AOE damage and Survivability.

Mastery Points

The Greatsword Life Staff build looks to create a combo that deals massive amounts of damage while providing Elite sustain and Survivability. Below is how you will spend your mastery points as you level up the two weapons.

Weapon Level	Greatsword Mastery	Life staff Mastery
2	Crosscut	Absolved
3	Relentless Rush	Sacred Ground
4	Perfect Vigilance	Orb of Protection
5	Roaring Rupture	Beacon
6	Keen Posture	Protectors Blessing
7	Critical Comeback	Shared Protection
8	Unstoppable Cuts	Aegis
9	Unflinching Blade	Holy Ground
10	Aggressive Shift	Anointed
11	Relentless Power	Bend Light
12	Step and Strike	Protectors Strength
13	Cross Execution	Desperate Speed
14	Heavy Blade	Revitalize
15	Unrelenting Onslaught	Intensify
16	Purifying Roar	Sacred Protection
17	Intimidating Roar	Enchanted Justice
18	Adaptive Rupture	Blissful Touch
19	Relentless Refresh	Divine Blessing
20	Giant Slayer	Protectors Touch

Attributes

The Attribute Spread in the Greatsword Life staff leveling build is unlike any other build in New World. You will be splitting your Attributes between 4 different Attributes.

Early on you will want to try to increase your STR and FOC to provide decent damage while also increasing your healing. Later on, you will go back and add DEX to scale up your damage output and improve your crit chance. Eventually Round out the Build with a little bit of constitution.

Below is a breakdown of how you will distribute your attributes. These are baselines and will include the attributes from your gear as well (more on this below). These are guidelines for attribute distribution. You will have a lower health pool with this build. Your survivability comes from the Life Staff healing and the defensive buffs of the Great Sword.

NOTE – Each attribute has a base of 5 which is considered in the total # of attributes category as well as attributes you obtain from armor

Attributes	STR	DEX	FOC	CON
25	5	5	10	5
50	20	5	20	5
75	30	5	35	5
100	40	5	50	5
125	50	20	50	5
150	50	45	50	5
175	50	50	70	5
200	50	50	95	5
225	50	50	120	5
250	50	50	145	5
275	70	50	150	5
300	95	50	150	5
325	100	50	150	25
350	100	50	150	50
375	100	75	150	50
400	100	100	150	50
425	113	112	150	50
450	125	125	150	50
475	138	137	150	50
500	150	150	150	50
525	175	150	150	50
550	200	150	150	50
575	200	175	150	50
600	200	200	150	50

Equipment

While leveling it’s difficult to get the perks and equipment you need to run a particular build. For this build, you will want to stay in the light or medium equip load. The light equip load will give you more damage and healing output but make you susceptible to burst damage. The medium equip load will provide more mitigation but you will deal reduced amounts of damage/healing.

Since this build uses 4 out of the 5 attributes, it should be easy to find gear that fits the build as you level. Make sure to check your gear for weapon perks that would enhance the build as well! You should use your attribute points to compliment your gear. Utilize free or cheap attribute respecs to do so as you level, to ensure they’re dealing as much damage as possible.

Below is a list of perks you can look for on your gear as you level, but as stated above, just make sure the gear has one of the four attributes:

How to use the Greatsword Life Staff Leveling Build

This build excels at survivability and allows you to solo multiple mobs at a time. Below is a breakdown of how to use the abilities to maximize survivability and damage.

Ability Rotation

The Rotation for the Greatsword Life Staff Build has two parts: Laying down AOE healing and Using your Greatsword “dance” to deal large amounts of damage while buffing yourself.

First, Pull the mob(s) with life-staff heavy attacks, dodge, then lay down Sacred Ground, Beacon, and splash Orb of Protection.

Next, Weapon swap to Greatsword and use Relentless Rush. This will give you a stack of empowerment AND prepare your Keen Posture. Use Rupture which will group up the mobs for Crosscut AND will give you grit on all attacks for the next 5 seconds.

From here you can use a light attack to charge heavy to finish off the remaining mobs. Below is a simplified version of the Rotation for each pull.

Start with Life Staff Heavy Attacks to Pull Mobs

Dodge > Sacred Ground > Beacon > Orb of Protection > Weapon Swap > Relentless Rush > Rupture > Crosscut