Introduction
Progression in New World Aeternum is tied to several different components. Your first objective is to reach level 65. Once you are maximum level the goal for progression is to then reach gear score 725. You can achieve this through various methods. It is possible to upgrade certain pieces of gear to gear score 725 by utilizing dark matter, gorgon’s eye, and a few other components. You can also obtain 725 gear score by crafting, participating in PvP, and the Hive of Gorgons Raid. This guide will walk you how to get to 725 gear score in New World Aeternum.
Dark Matter & Upgrading Gear
Dark matter can be obtained by completing quests, mutations, salvaging gear, the PvP reward track, invasion caches, war caches, looting elite chests and stockpiles, and by obtaining a cache of gold-n-matter from the gypsum kiln each week. It’s also rewarded from the following encounters:
You can make your way over to a gypsum kiln once you have obtained an upgradeable item and the following ingredients:
- Applicable Matrix (Weapon, Armor, Jewelry)
- Dark Matter x250 (500 for artifacts)
- Gypsum Orb x1 (5 for artifacts)
- Chromatic Seal x3 (1 for artifacts)
- Desired Craft Mod
This method will upgrade your items to gear score 700. This also allows you to adjust a perk on a gear score 700 piece of gear. You’ll need to scroll to the bottom of the kiln menu. Here you will see all the items you have available in your inventory that can be upgraded. You MUST have the item in your inventory to see it listed at the kiln. It can not be equipped or in a gear set slot.
It’s important to note that not all items can be upgraded to 700 utilizing this system. You must own the Rise of the Angry Earth Expansion. To see if an item can be upgraded simply have it in your inventory and head to the kiln.
Along with upgrading the item’s gear score you will also be able to choose your final perk on the gear. Essentially all named items have 2 fixed perks, and one perk that can be added or changed. After it’s upgraded you can also go back and change the final perk again if you choose. However, it will still cost the same resources as before.
How to Get to 700 Gear Score in New World
There’s several different methods to obtain 700 gear score items. You can do this through the Main Story Quest, PvE, PvP, crafting, and more.
The Main Story quest for the Elysian wilds will bump your gear score up to roughly 640-650 depending on how many extra side quests and other activities you do as you progress through the story. This will bump your gear score up enough in order to open up some additional content for you, such as the base level expeditions. These expeditions are basically story mode expeditions and are fairly easy to complete. These base expeditions will drop gear that caps at gear score 685. Getting up to 685 will allow you to do some of the mutated versions of the expeditions.
Mutations
Any mutation level can drop up to 700 gear score gear. However, the minimum gear score that drops from a mutation increases as the level of mutation increases. This means you are much more likely to obtain gear score 700 gear from a mutation level 3 than you are from a mutation level 1.
However, bear in mind that the difficulty and required gear score to run mutations increase with the mutation level as follows:
- (1) Intermediate – Requires 650 gear score
- (2) Hard – Requires 675 gear score
- (3) Elite – Requires 695 gear score
So, in reality Elite mutations, or tier 3 mutations, will be utilized to obtain variations of gear and artifacts versus grinding your gear score up to 700.
Open World PvE & Corrupted Portals
The open world drops depend on the difficulty of the enemy. If you go to the highest level zones in the game you will be able to obtain drops up to 690 from normal high level mobs. The named enemies and chests in those areas will drop up to 700 gear score gear. This means going on chest runs though those zones can be a very lucrative activity when trying to obtain higher gear score gear.
High level corrupted portals (level 65) also have a chance to drop up to 700 gear score from the reward caches.
PvP
It is possible to obtain 700 gear score solely from PvP. However, it will be much slower than some of the other methods. The reward caches from both OPR and Arena have a chance to drop up to 700 gear score gear. However the range of gear dropped from those caches is very wide. This means the likelihood of getting a 700 piece is fairly low. So, you would need to obtain a ton of caches in order to get to 700 by only utilizing this method.
The influence race will also reward a cache and quite a lot of PvP experience and PvP salt. It also has a chance to drop up to 700 gear score gear.
The PvP reward track is also another method to obtain gear score 700 gear, and named items. Every 10 levels you are guaranteed to get a level 690 piece of gear. As mentioned before, those named items can be upgraded to 700 utilizing the gypsum kiln.
Crafting
Crafters can obtain 700 gear score items if they have the maximum skill level in that particular craft. You will also need the appropriate gear, consumables, and buffs. You can see everything you need by checking the trade skills guides. The various methods of crafting used to obtain 700 gear score are as follows:
- Prismatic Scarab Crafting – This is the more expensive way and is on a weekly cooldown. However, this is a guaranteed method of obtaining a 700 gear score item along with every perk you want on the item. Therefore, a guaranteed method of obtaining a best in slot (BiS) item.
- Timeless Shard Crafting – There’s 2 different methods of timeless shard crafting. With a golden scarab and without a golden scarab. Utilizing on the timeless shard will allow you to lock in your attribute, and choose one perk. If you choose to utilize a golden scarab you will be able to lock in your attribute and 2 perks of your choosing.
- Normal Craft – It is also possible to craft 700 gear score items without the use of scrabs or timeless shards. However, with this method you can only lock in 1 perk. You can not lock in your attribute and the other 2 perks will be random.
How to Get to 725 Gear Score in New World Aeternum
The next step in your progress is to go from 700 gear score to the maximum gear score of 725. Gear score 725 can be obtained from the Hive of Gorgons Raid, or the Cursed Mists PvP zone. You can also get up to 725 gear score gear from Outpost Rush Caches, invasion caches, war spoil caches, and arena caches.
725 Gear From The Hive of Gorgons Raid
You can obtain 725 gear from the Hive of Gorgons raid simply from loot drops. These drops come in the form of the Hoplite weapons and armor sets, and the Gorgon’s gear sets. You can obtain the drops from defeating the bosses in the raid. There’s a total of 3 bosses, and each has a chance to drop 725 gear. You can see the full list of loot drops from the raid by visiting our Hive of Gorgons Guide.
Outside of drops, completing the raid will also reward you with 10 Hive of Gorgon’s tokens. You can save up these tokens and then utilize them at a gypsum kiln in order to craft a specific piece of 725 Hoplite gear from the raid.
Gorgon’s Eye
The raid also drops an item called Gorgon’s Eye. This is a crafting material that is dropped by all three bosses in the raid. You can utilize this crafting material to craft 725 gear score gear (along with other required material). However, in order to utilize the gorgon’s eye in its raw form you must have used a Gorgonite schematic. The schematics also drop from the Hive of Gorgons Raid.
If you do not have a schematic you will need to convert the Gorgon’s Eye into a Gorgon’s Essence. In order to craft a Gorgon’s Essence you will need the following:
- 1x Gorgon’s Eye
- 1x Gorgonite Inductor
- 3x Aquae Rejya
The Gorgonite Inductor can be obtained from the Hive of Gorgons Raid. However, it is a bind on pickup drop. This means you can not purchase one or obtain one outside of completing the raid.
725 Gear From The Cursed Mists PvP Zone
In order to obtain 725 gear from the Cursed Mists you’ll need to loot chests and kill enemies in the area to get cursed doubloons. You will also need to obtain a Goldcursed Coconut that can only be obtained from looting the cursed hoards within the PvP zone. Only one Goldcursed Coconut can be obtained every 7 days.
You will need to make it out of the PvP zone with the cursed doubloons on you in order to cleanse those doubloons and turn them into mystic doubloons.
The mystic doubloons, Gold Cursed Coconut, and dark matter can be exchanged at the Well of Fortune in Cutlass keys for 725 gear score gear. The Gold Cursed Coconut can also be utilized to upgrade artifacts to 725 gear score.
Mystic doubloons can also be found by looting chests throughout the Cutlass Keys zone.
Gear Score 700 to 725
You can also obtain gear score from 700 up to 725 in order to help aid you in getting 725 gear score gear. This can be done by completing the Sandwurm Trial, and using Mystic Doubloons at the Well of Fortune to craft gear score 710 gear.
The gear you obtain at gear score 710 both both of those activities can be upgraded at a gypsum kiln to gear score 725.
How to Get to 725 Gear Score in New World Conclusion
That does it for the guide on how to get to 725 gear score in New World. In summary, get to level 65 and grind gear to get to gear score 700, and then prepare for the Hive of Gorgons raid or the Cursed Mists PvP zone in order to obtain gear score 725 gear. You can also utilize the gypsum kiln to upgrade certain items to gear score 700 and 725 as well. Check out our New World Aeternum guide library for a your comprehensive source of New World Aeternum information.