Spear Warhammer Leveling Build

Introduction

While leveling in New World, it’s important to use the right weapons that allow you to take down mobs fast! Our Spear Warhammer Leveling Build combines ELITE CC, DPS, and Utility into one of the best leveling builds in New World.

Mastery Points

The Spear Warhammer Leveling Build is a powerful leveling build, even at lower levels. Below is a breakdown of how to spend your mastery points as you level up your weapon’s Mastery Points.

Weapon Level	Spear Mastery	Warhammer Mastery
2	Skewer	Armor Breaker
3	Perforate	Hardened Steel
4	Deadly Reach	Wrecking Ball
5	Sweep	Outnumbered
6	Deadly Ambush	Shockwave
7	Follow Through	Indomitable
8	Rupturing Strikes	Safety Measure
9	Exposed Wounds	Frailty
10	Tenacious Sweep	Lasting Trauma
11	Impactful Strikes	Hammer Time
12	Aggressive Maneuvers	Power Through Pain
13	Finishing Blows	Concussive Impact
14	Crippling Jabs	Exhaustive Attacks
15	Exploit Weakness	Quick Recovery
16	Coup de Grace	Epitome of Bonk!
17	Merciless Strength	Contemption
18	Refreshing Jabs	Prevailing Spirit
19	Invigorating Crits	Meteoric Crater
20	Deep Wound	Breathing Room

Attributes

Most of your damage will be dealt by the cooldowns alone initially until you get access to at least 300 Attributes. We will be using both STR and DEX to scale our damage until that benchmark.

With this build, the goal is to lock down your opponents while de-buffing them to deal max damage. This should eliminate the need for a large amount of constitution.

If you are having trouble with survivability you can distribute your attributes evenly between STR DEX and CON. You can also change your equip load (more on this below).

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)

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

Total	STR	DEX	CON
25	10	10	5
50	20	20	10
75	30	30	15
100	40	40	20
125	50	50	25
150	60	60	30
175	70	70	35
200	80	80	40
225	90	90	45
250	100	100	50
275	125	100	50
300	150	100	50
325	150	125	50
350	150	150	50
375	175	150	50
400	200	150	50
425	200	175	50
450	200	200	50
475	200	225	50
500	200	250	50
525	200	275	50
550	200	300	50
575	200	300	75
600	200	300	100

Equipment

While leveling it’s difficult to get the perks and equipment you need to run a particular build or equip load. For this build, you will want to stay in the light to medium equip load the best you can. The light equip load increases your damage and gives you greater dodge distance. The medium equip load can help provide increased mitigation to players that are having difficulty surviving.

The great thing about the build using 3 attributes is that it should be easy to find gear with one of the three or a combination of the three on them. As you level up, make sure to check your gear for weapon perks and the attributes that were using. You should use your attribute points to complement your gear. Players can utilize free or cheap attribute respecs to do so as you level, to ensure you’re dealing as much damage as you can.

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 three attributes:

Sundering Shockwave
Fortifying Perforate
Enfeebling Skewer
Refreshing Ward
Empowering Armor Breaker

How to use the Spear Warhammer Leveling Build

Using this build is pretty straightforward. You will use your abilities to keep your target locked down and rended so you can take them down quickly without taking damage. Below is a breakdown of your abilities and a simple rotation to follow so you can effectively use the build!

Ability Rotation

You will want to open up every encounter with a stun or knockdown. That means you will start each fight with Shockwave, or Wrecking Ball. Next, rend your target with both Perforate and Armor Breaker. Then you can use one of the other available stuns on the hammer or Sweep and light attack the target to finish them off. Once you unlock Coup de Grace you can use this combo to effectively kill a mob without taking any damage.

Wrecking Ball or Shockwave
Armor Breaker
Perforate
Sweep into Coup De Grace

When facing named bosses or elite mobs with larger health pulls you will also need to utilize the bleed from Skewer as well as the heavy attack of the hammer. The Hardened Steel passive on the Warhammer will add GRIT to your heavy attack and prevent you from getting CC’d while dealing damage.

For your boss rotation, you will want to immediately apply your rends, bleed and use the GRIT on your Warhammer.

Armor Breaker
Perforate
Skewer
Heavy attack with Warhammer