A new season system weapon and perk balancing gear sets and the new dungeon. Here’s what’s new for season 1.

Seasons were taking the season model and bringing it to New World. Best thing about seasons is that there is now a regular patching cycle every three months when the majority of new continent features as well as balance updates get released. So, whenever you get tired of the game or the current meta, you now have a fixed state to look forward to.

Additionally, to the patching cycle, each season will also include a new storyline and a season pass. For Season 1, that story is a quest line, which takes about two hours to complete.

The season pass doesn’t add any content but additionally rewards you for playing the game. It has a free and a premium reward track. The highlights of the Free Track are the Scarlet Wing Armor skin set and an additional gear set slot at a level 100. The Premium Track costs 20,000 Marks of Fortune and the highlights include weapon skins, tool skins, a tent skin and the Cardinal armor skin.

Now, is it worth buying the Premium Pass? If you want the cosmetics of the Premium Pass, then get it or if you want to support the game, then get it. But otherwise, you’re not missing out on much.

However, with that new dungeon comes a new Heartrune, the Fire Storm and the new enemy type the humans, which also brings a new human trophy as well as new Human Ward and Human Bane gear to collect. So, now that you’ll have 30 different armor sets to carry around, it’s quite convenient that they’re introducing gear sets.

But don’t get too excited. They’re actually pretty underwhelming what players wanted was a feature for swapping gear, adjusting attribute points and the skill trees of your weapons. Now, gear sets can only do a third of that and to make matters worse, you only get three slots for free and need to pay more New World Coins if you want more.

The next part of the main story quest got Revamp. Throughout Brightwood in Weaver’s Fen, all the NPCs in relevant Corlew pages now have voiceovers. There are new cut scenes and a whole new story that climaxes in a new Soul Trial. It might not look as impressive as the previous Revamp they did because their only minimal changes to the cities and pois, but questing and story-wise, it is on the same level.

To make mages more relevant in Mutations, there will no longer be penalties to elemental damage. And to make ranged weapon damage more relevant in PVE, ranged weapons will get a higher bonus from Bane perks than melee weapons. Weapons and armor out of OPR Invasion and War Crates can now be upgraded to 600 gear score to roll for a third perk.

The Dolphin dodge dive nerfs. You lose all of your momentum as soon as you crouch. Player Collision got disabled after death, so no more dead bodies eating your projectiles. There are new text indicators if you dodge an attack red markings on enemy AOEs expect some bugs on those. Target dummies can no longer be attacked during wars, so no more free heartburn charging. Cranberry Compote can no longer be used or abused in arenas.

You can finally find better ammo in Elite areas and you can search for 5 perks on the Trade Post. Scarabs can now be used to craft bags and tools. The crafting screen will remember your previously selected ingredients. And the first craft bonus got increased from 200 to 300, resulting in a slightly faster trade skill progression.

There are massive nerfs to fortifying rent. Fortify no longer absorbs a percentage of damage but increases armor by a percentage, making it way less effective, especially on light and medium uses. While Shirking Fortification used to be best in the slot for most builds, this is no longer the case. There has been a slight nerf to the achievement perks and a significant nerf to Mortal Empowerment and Trenchant Recovery.

The free grit on basic attacks has been moved from the 300 strength perk to the 300 constitution perk. While the 300 strength perk now only adds some extra damage to heavy attacks.

Slight adjustments to how crits work long story short: a few less crits and a little less crit damage. To make heavy armor more viable, it gets a 20 reduction on being Calamity Counter and medium Armor gets a 10 reduction.

Any skill that has any form of hard Calamity Counter had their damage reduced and every skill that’s mainly a damage skill had their Calamity Counter removed. So, throughout all of the weapons: a bit less damage and a bit less Calamity Counter.

In this article, I will talk about sets you can collect in New World. This is especially important because of the new raid being added in the next few months. So, taking the time now to get it and having it upgraded would be a great use of your time.

The set I am talking about is the Harbinger Set or rather in this case sets. The Harbinger Set as you probably know comes in three variants: light, which is Intellect, medium, which is Dex, and heavy, which is Con.

What I especially like about this set is that you can mix and match the pieces to your desired attribute benchmarks. Some elect mix with con or some decks mixed with con. It makes the set as a whole a lot more unique. And I think it's important for people to focus on now, especially the newer 60s, who may not have a ton of war gear. Because I'm quite sure that the sandworm is going to be Angry Earth. And I had speculated at one time that it may be a beast but it is looking like Angry Earth now. Time will tell, of course, but better to be prepared than not. In any event, this is a very cool set and an amazing set to get you started on the angry Earth. So, why not take the time now when things have slowed down to complete it?

Next, I plan to share with you how I farmed it. In some cases, I went back and recorded farming pieces I already had because people have commented that they may not potentially still work, but I have tested them today and they do still work.

First, the easiest pieces we will be going to farm will be the helmet in the booths. For these you will want to head to re-quarter to the Siren's Stand, you can get to this area quite easily by simply running in and avoiding the attacks. I will show you the entire route now because in the past people have gotten confused about where to go and ended up dying.

Now, once you're here simply target this NPC, who is called Sirensong Lackey. Shoot her and then walk back to this area here and she will reset and then repeat. If you want to kill her faster, you can use New World Coins to equip yourself.

After about four or five kills, simply run up here and jump up and collect your loot again. I will point out here this wall requires you to block jump. How you do this is to hold the block while jumping. Hold it the entire time as you jump. It is in a buggy wall. It just requires this to be done.

There is also if you wish a second option and that is by killing the brute. He also drops these you simply aggro him and run into this Canopy, which also still works as I tested it today. It works much the same way as the Wilderness Ward. Simply stay under the Canopy and you'll be fine.

Next, we have the chest pieces and gloves. This is the most annoying part of the farm simply because there are six possible drops. Three gloves and three chests and that's on top of getting them to drop. But it is more than doable. I did it in one day of farming, so you can also do it. Just be patient.

You're going to want to come here to the mines in Embossed inferior and the things you're going to want to be killing are the Scorchvein Supply Guards and the Snipers. These are the only two mobs that drop them. I do recommend posting and looking for a group to farm these and you'll get it done in no time.

Finally, the pants. These are also easy ones. For these, you will want to head back to rick water and enter into the pools. Once here, you can then run through and get to this location where I'm standing.

From here, you can range the boss Root Bound relatively safely and the pants should drop quite quickly because he always drops a bag. In between spawns, if you're strong enough, you can also farm the surrounding mobs as they will also have a chance to drop the pants.