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New World Aeternum Season 9 Free-For-All PvP Zone Changes: How To Earn 725 Gear Score Items With These New Buffs?

Posted: Aug 12, 2025 Views: 73

New World: Aeternum Season 9 update brings a host of new content, including new artifact weapons, combat changes, and new Arena maps. The most notable changes are to Free-For-All zone.

Free-For-All zone is a typical PvP zone, specifically Cursed Mists zone in Cutlass Keys map, designed for open-world PvP and featuring a gathering mechanic.

When players enter this zone, they are marked as PvP and can fight anyone, even those from the same faction. Players can find a wealth of rare resources, chests, and treasure maps here, but dying in this zone has severe consequences: they lose all found resources and half of their Doubloons.

Once you die, the treasure chests you find can be looted by multiple players, and progress isn't reset. This makes chest stealing possible, emphasizing the PvP combat element of this zone.

However, because this zone encourages PvP combat, it inevitably leads to malicious team-building and loot-stealing, significantly diminishing the PvP experience for some solo players.

To address this, the developers introduced a team-building debuff system in Season of the Banner. This system aims to discourage players from getting too close, adding another layer of complexity to combat and team formation. So, let's take a look at how this FFA zone change will affect your gameplay experience.

New World Aeternum Season 9 Free-For-All PvP Zone Changes: How To Earn 725 Gear Score Items With These New Buffs?

FFA Zone Debuff Effect

First, let's take a look at how this debuff works.

In this free-for-all PvP zone, if you get too close to other players, you'll automatically receive a debuff. This debuff increases in strength as you get closer, causing you to take more damage from them while dealing less damage.

Then, if you continue to stay close to other players, the debuff's duration will continue to stack and increase. If you hover over a debuff, you can see its specific stats.

Now, if you want to escape this new debuff, you can either kill other players, stay away from them and hide, or simply leave the area. But remember, this can be a bit tricky, so try to avoid being close to other players when entering Cursed Mists zone.

Free-For-All Zone Chest Buff

Now, here's the kicker. When you claim Cursed Storage Chests and various rewards within this Free-For-All zone, you'll claim them faster. Furthermore, each chest provides more Doubloons. For example, here, Cursed Hoard (Large) gives us an average of around 50 Doubloons, while Cursed Stash (Small) gives us 25 Doubloons.

While there are a lot of players engaging in PvP at the start or entrance of Free-For-All zone, it seems that the number of players actually decreases the deeper you go. This means that by collecting these treasure chests, we can stock up on a lot of free Doubloons.

New World Aeternum Season 9 Free-For-All Zone Chest Buff

Remember, there are also some small challenge quests, which can be identified by the beams of light emanating from the treasure chests. However, keep in mind that these areas are crowded with players, especially in Season 9, and they will definitely challenge you if they see you there.

So, be careful and be prepared for a fight at any time, as someone might challenge you even while you're trying to open a treasure chest. Furthermore, fighting another player while surrounded by NPCs can be much trickier. Trust me, it's not impossible.

Again, the reason I'm highlighting these different methods of obtaining Doubloons is because you'll need a lot of them if you want to maximize your chances of getting those potential 725 Gear Score items in The Well of Fortune. Even if you don't get the high-GS gear you were hoping for, selling them can still earn you some extra New World Coins. So, having a few Doubloons on hand is never a bad idea.

What Are Doubloons For?

So, let's move on to The Well of Fortune, and I'll explain what I'm talking about in detail.

In New World, The Well of Fortune is a shop located in Cutlass Keys settlement, near the town project board. Here, players can exchange Doubloons for a variety of items, including weapons, armor, crafting materials, and consumables. It also offers daily Epic crates, with a slight chance of dropping a 725 gear score item.

If you have some Doubloons and are ready to start using them, then when you open the Well of Fortune and scroll down, you'll immediately see these Apex Goldcursed Crates. These crates guarantee a 725 gear score item, but they cost 1500 Doubloons and a Goldcursed Coconut. So, it might take a while to get the gear you want.

New World Aeternum The Well of Fortune

How To Upgrade The Gear Score?

But there's also some decent gear with a gear score of 710 that only costs 750 Doubloons. Afterward, we can upgrade it to 725 GS.

To upgrade your gear score, you'll need a Goldcursed Coconut, which can be obtained weekly in Cursed Mists PvP zone, as well as materials like Gypsum Orbs, Dark Matter, and Chromatic Seals to upgrade your gear. Please note that before upgrading, make sure the gear is unlocked in your inventory and not equipped in a gear set.

Personally, while 725 gear offers slightly more stats and perk values, 710 gear with good perks is still very effective. So, if you're short on Doubloons, don't worry; getting decent gear for less is better.

In short, if you're looking to wander around and want to pick up some 725 gear score items, consider collecting chests in Free-For-All zone.

The new buffs in Season 9 make it easier to obtain Doubloons and reduce the risk of ambushes. So, not only can you quickly get Doubloons by collecting some chests, but you can also try your luck and save tons of New World coins because you won't have to spend more money on acquiring or crafting certain items you want!

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