New World: Aeternum Items

Like most RPGs, New World: Aeternum's main quests are essential for continuous game progression, unlocking crucial endgame content and potentially dropping powerful items essential for participating in advanced challenges and dungeons.

But while we're rushing through these main quests, don't overlook the picturesque side quests. Completing them is often crucial for earning valuable New World Aeternum coins, XP, faction reputation, and unique gear.

More importantly, side quests often take you across the open world, encouraging spontaneous exploration beyond the main storyline and deepening your understanding of the game's lore and environment.

So, here we're diving into the fantastic side quests in New World: Aeternum Season 9, offering not only bountiful loot but also immersive interactions with characters across diverse areas.

Even better, these quests are incredibly quick, taking just over ten minutes to complete once you've completed the prerequisites. This means that completing these fun side quests is a great way to unwind when you're tired of the main storyline!

1. Secrets Of The Heartgem

Secrets of the Heartgem might sound like the title of a romance novel, but don't be misled. This quest will unlock one of the most powerful tools in New World - Heartrune.

Think of Heartrune as your character's ultimate ability. It's a flashy, powerful gem that charges over time, allowing you to use it at the right moment. Whether you prefer to create massive explosions with Detonate or defend yourself with Stoneform, Heartrune adds a whole new layer of power to your combat.

Secrets of the Heartgem quest itself unlocks as you progress through the main storyline and is definitely worth the detour. If you've reached level 60 and have made sufficient progress in the main quest, you'll unlock this quest northeast of Brimstone Sands.

To complete the quest, you'll need to travel extensively to collect special materials, learn about the ancient technology behind runes, and piece them together like a puzzle.

But as we mentioned before, it's not a very long quest, and the rewards are well worth it.

Once completed, you'll receive your first Heartrune and unlock the ability to equip and charge it in battle. So, if you're the type of adventurer who enjoys blowing things up and wants to gain more attack power or survive longer, Secrets of the Heartgem is a side quest you definitely don't want to miss.

By the way, if you want to upgrade your Heartrune and unlock more powerful abilities, then searching for Writ of Adventure is the next step. These Writs of Adventure can be used to upgrade some very commonly used Heartrunes, making them more powerful, allowing you to inflict greater damage on enemies or better protect yourself.

You can acquire Writs of Adventure daily from your faction's store, but there's a daily limit. Luckily, there's a way to stockpile them without spending a penny: complete quests in the Brimstone Sands.

There are 22 different quests scattered across the sands, each rewarding you with Writs of Adventure for free. So explore Brimstone Sands as soon as possible, you'll thank me!

2. The Silver Crows

The Silver Crows is one of the few side stories in New World that feels like more than just busywork.

Completing the first quest in this quest chain rewards you with a Tier 5 bag, which has some pretty cool perks, most notably Lasting Consumption, which extends the lifespan of Food, Honing Stones, and Ward Potions. Combined with the added encumbrance, this bag isn't just a free upgrade; it's a genuine quality-of-life enhancement.

So, if your inventory is always full, your Azoth stacks are low, or you simply want to get more regeneration during mid-battle rest, don't miss The Silver Crows questline.

When you're ready, fast travel to any Silver Crows location on the map and speak to Grace O'Malley. After about four minutes, you'll receive your bag.

3. Sand Walkers

Some side quests reward you with equipment, others with New World Coins. Sand Walkers quests, however, offer the chance to unlock hidden treasures in the open world and are definitely worth doing.

Completing this quest rewards you with a Runeglass Case, which not only looks cool but is also a highly sought-after item that fetches a good price at  Trading Post. Of course, the exact profit will vary depending on your server's economy, but this small case is likely to yield a substantial return.

Thus, completing Sand Walkers quest is a perfect side hustle for any savvy adventurer looking to make some quick bucks.

4. My Kingdom For A Horse

If you own Rise of the Angry Earth expansion, then My Kingdom for a Horse quest is definitely a must-do. Completing it unlocks a mount. Once you reach level 25, you can complete this quest in Everfall.

As we all know, New World mounts aren't just for looks; they significantly increase your speed across the vast island of Aeternum, allowing you to enter combat faster and making foraging or escaping tricky situations a breeze.

In short, mounts make once-tedious tasks a breeze, freeing you up to collect loot, complete quests, and defeat bosses.

These are some of the most exciting quests in New World: Aeternum. Whether you're looking to earn 725 gear score items, earn more gold, or simply want to relax and experience a different pace from the main quests, these quests are definitely worth your time and will make your adventure even more exciting!

Although we're already halfway through New World Aeternum Season 9, you can still continue developing more builds. This will help you accumulate more resources now, saving time exploring new builds or farming basic materials in Season 10.

Thanks to the addition of new artifacts, most effective Season 9 builds, whether for PvE or PvP, rely on these artifacts. Hammer of Yeet Hatchet build we're introducing this time is no exception.

So, what is its role as a PvP build, and how can you craft it during Season 9? We'll explain.

What Is Hammer Of Yeet?

In New World Aeternum, the effectiveness of a build largely depends on the gear it's paired with. The more powerful the gear itself, the more New World Aeternum coins you can save on acquiring additional gear and redeem them for more useful consumables.

The most important piece of gear for Hammer of Yeet Hatchet Build is Hammer of Yeet, a War Hammer-type artifact with the following basic stats:

• 90 Base Damage
• 6.0% Critical Hit Chance
• 1.20 Critical Damage Multiplier
• 64.0 Block Stamina Damage
• 64.0 Stagger Damage
• 27% Block Stability
• 295 Strike Damage
• +38 Magnify (selectable attribute)

This artifact also grants you random perks and the following specific combat effects over time:

• Yeet: Increases push distance by 300% and base damage of all war hammers by 10%. After Sundering Clear Out ignites the first enemy hit, turning it into a projectile, dealing 100% weapon damage to all targets it passes through.
• Sundering Clear Out: Inflicts a Shred effect on enemies, reducing their armor by 24% for 7 seconds.
• Plagued Strikes: Allows you to inflict Diseases effect lasting 8 seconds with your heavy attacks, reducing the target enemy's healing received by 26% and its output healing by 13%.
• Alternating Enchantment: Within 5 seconds of hitting an enemy with a basic attack, the base damage of your next skill hitting the enemy is increased by 10%, and the base damage of your next basic attack is also increased by 10%.

If you've been playing New World Aeternum, you've noticed a lot of negative effects. Hammer of Yeet can shorten the duration of these negative effects, improving your survivability.

Djinn Headwrap

This is a worthwhile medium headwear armor artifact that provides protection against elemental and physical damage and also provides additional perks. Its other combat uses are as follows:

• Shrug Off: While you're affected by non-crowd-control negative effects, the base duration of the effect is reduced by 20%.
• Empty Socket: Allows you to insert a gem for additional benefits.
• Vigor: Reduces the base duration of your Burn, Bleed, and Poison effects by 22%. Invigorated: Your base duration of Weaken, Disease, Exhaust, and Rend is reduced by 15%.

As you can see, this armor further reduces your susceptibility to enemy debuffs, building on the benefits of Hammer of Yeet. Given the increased uncertainty and danger of PvP combat, this benefit is extremely valuable.

Artifact Synergy

After completing the initial Hammer of Yeet Hatchet build with the above artifacts, a healthy synergy will increase your stamina regeneration by 15% when your health drops below 50%. Furthermore, when your stamina drops below 50%, your healing is increased by 15%.

So, if you want to continuously heal, you can intentionally let your stamina drop below 50% to receive the extra 15% healing, which then triggers the regeneration. Repeating this process will allow you to continuously receive the extra 15% healing throughout the fight.

The Importance Of The Hatchet

Optimizing your hatchet's stats is another key element of this build. The hatchet is essentially a DPS weapon in the game, dealing significant AoE damage, and its effectiveness increases the more enemies around you.

Since the hatchet's stats scale with your Strength and Agility, it's recommended to maintain a balanced balance between Strength and Agility while aiming for 350 points of Strength. If you need more Constitution, you can also take 50-75 points from Agility.

The final hatchet's stats are determined by your highest gear score. Therefore, you'll need to maintain sufficient Constitution to survive as you level up, aiming to reach critical breakthrough points as close as possible.

Other Gear Selections

After obtaining the two most important artifacts, other tips to keep in mind are: First, when choosing boots, try to choose ones that provide sufficient speed bonuses to ensure you can dodge or escape quickly if you're outmatched in PvP combat.

Second, when pairing other armor, avoid overly lightweight or overly defensive items. The right weight will help you achieve the benefits of the medium gear loadout we'll introduce later.

Choose The Medium Gear Loadout

If you choose a medium gear loadout, you'll gain a balance of damage, survivability, and mobility in combat, including a 10% damage bonus, side-jump evasion, and increased crowd control duration.

However, to complete a medium gear loadout, you must ensure that the total weight of your combined armor pieces falls within a specific range. To do this, you'll need to determine your armor perks and then mix and match armor pieces of varying weights.

That's all for this guide. While the game will change with the release of Season 10, this build is expected to remain effective with the appropriate adjustments! So if you haven't found a PvP build that works for you yet, give it a try!