Introduction
Welcome to our New World Catacombs guide. In this guide, we’ll take you through everything you need to know about the Catacombs end-game activity.
What is Catacombs?
The Catacombs is an end-game activity joining the content pool as of Season 10: Nighthaven. The experience takes you on a procedurally generated dungeon-crawling adventure. Each room completion generates a new room, however, you’re also provided roguelite-like features such as power-ups to change the experience further. Each run lasts 30 minutes as a capped timer.
Inside, there is several main loops to the progression of the dungeons and recurring key themes:
- Twists and turns that allows for future rooms to generate procedurally
- Boss room encounters that act a bit like a milestone within your run, this can return you back to the original room and continue on your next path to another boss
- Forking paths
- Locked gates & key puzzles
New World Catacombs Gameplay Flow
This dungeon-crawling mode is an experience made for 1-3 players. As a result, the experience is a speedy, intimate experience compared to larger scale activities like Raids.
Each room is a new experience, with various rulesets, mobs, bosses and more. You’ll have a maximum of 30 minutes to explore, push and loot for rewards.
Before the 30 minutes is over, you’ll have to look for a way to extract to secure everything you’ve earned mid-dungeon. However, the further into the dungeon you go, the more difficult it becomes. You’ll also have a limited amount of Instant Respawns per run. As a result, explore each room at your own peril, clear them, check on the time, and get out when possible.
Depending on how the seed is generated, you could end up getting as far as 100 rooms! Prepare yourself for some deep diving adventures.
Aspects
Aspects are power-ups you can find and enhance yourself with throughout the dungeon, there is 18 total that change your combat experience.
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New World Catacombs Guide Conclusion
This concludes our Catacombs guide for New World. As we learn more and play through the Catacombs, we’ll ensure this post is updated for your convenience. For more New World guides – check out our home page.