New World Status Effects

New World has many status effects that can change the outcomes of battles in both PVE and PVP. The charts below are quick-reference guides to all Buffs, Debuffs, and Damage Over Time Effects in New World.

Buffs

Effects	Description	Effect Cap
Cleanse	Removes and provides immunity to all debuffs	N/A
Empower	Increase attack damage	50%
Fortify	Increases damage absorption	200%
Haste	Increases run and/or sprint speed	50% *
Heal	Restores health over time	N/A

* Haste Cap does not apply to the Haste Elixir from the Siege Armory in Wars

Debuffs

Effect	Description	Effect Cap
Slow	Reduces run and/or Sprint Speed	50%
Rend	Reduce damage absorption	70%
Weaken	Reduces attack damage of enemy	50%
Disease	Reduces healing	50%
Exhaust	Reduces stamina regeneration	N/A
Silence	Disables abilities but allows basic attacks	N/A
Root	Disables movement but allows basic attacks and abilities	N/A
Stun	Disables all actions	N/A

**In the Season 1 update, the Rend Cap on players was increased and rend now directly scales to the player’s Armor Rating.

Debuffs are extremely important in both New World PVP and PVE. Keeping max Rend stacks on your target is extremely important in expedition boss fights, increasing your group’s damage significantly.

Along with rend, disease can help weaken your target in PvP, making killing them more likely through healing and heavy mitigation.

It’s important to note that bosses in Mutator Level 2 and Level 3 expeditions have Debuff Resilience. The efficacy of individual Rend and Weaken status effects are reduced by 50% and 75% respectively. Debuff caps are not affected.

Damage Over Time Effects

Effect	Icon	Description
Burn		Fire damage over time
Bleed		Physical damage over time
Poison		Elemental damage over time
Shock		Stamina damage over time
Disintegrate		Weapon damage over time and reduces damage absorption

Damage over time is an easy way to increase the overall damage you can deal to a target. For example, Keenly Jagged is a great weapon perk you can obtain due to the amount of overall DPS it adds. It’s important to note that the reduction of damage absorption from Disintegrate counts towards max rend stacks.