This New World Great Sword PvE DPS build features the artifact, the Serenity. This build revolves around dealing tons of damage with your great sword and utilizing a back bar great axe for utility. The great sword damage is enhanced with the artifact, and when paired with the great axe provides a lot of value to your team. You can easily clump groups and deal tons of damage quickly.

*IMPORTANT* – Check out our Expedition builds info guide for the full breakdown of damage types versus mob types and consumables you should utilize within each expedition.

Mastery Points

The Serenity (Great Sword)

Great Axe

Attributes

Attribute	Beginner	Experienced	Advanced	Pro
Strength	300	300	300	300
Dexterity	150	200	250	300
Constitution	150	100	50	5

New World Great Sword PvE Equipment

Item	Weight	Attribute	Perk 1	Perk 2	Perk 3	Perk 4
Helmet	Heavy	Strength	Health	Enchanted Ward	Skyward Nullification	N/A
Chest – Featherweight	Light	Magnify	Health	Refreshing	Physical Aversion	Weightless
Gloves	Light	Strength	Health	Refreshing	Enchanted Ward	N/A
Pants	Light	Strength	Health	Refreshing	Shirking Energy / Enchanted Ward	N/A
Boots	Heavy	Strength	Health	Enchanted Ward	Relentless Freedom	N/A
Amulet	N/A	Str / Dex	Health	Protection Perk (Depending on Mutation)	Empowered	N/A
Ring	N/A	Str / Dex	Slash Damage	Hearty	Leeching	N/A
Earring	N/A	Str / Dex	Refreshing Toast	Purifying Toast	Nimble / Regenerating	N/A
Great Axe	N/A	Strength	Enfeebling Maelstrom	Vicious	Attunement	N/A
Great Sword – Serenity	N/A	Magnify	Balanced Blade	Trenchant Strikes	Trenchant Crits	Refreshing Move

Artifact Additions & Magnify

You will want to add a gem slot to the Serenity artifact at the gypsum kiln. The featherweight’s additional perk will be health as listed above.

Be aware of how much magnify you have added into your build. This can cause your attribute point distribution to not be ideal. However, with that in min there are several pieces of equipment for this build you can farm out if you choose to do so:

Item	Type	Obtained	Attribute
Serenity	Greatsword	PvP Reward Track	Magnify
Featherweight	Chest	Ner’Mur Elysian Wilds	Magnify
Swipe	Great Axe	Remnant of Simon Jeffrey – Elysian Wilds	Strength
Privateer’s Heriloom	Ring	Nereid Barnacles and Black Powder or Gypsum Kiln for 3,500 Dense Materia	Strength
Azoth Crystal Gear	All Armor Types	Mutation 2+ Expeditions or Gypsum Kiln for 3,500 Dense Mutator Materia	Magnify

Heartrune

For this build you’ll use the Brutal Heartrune of Grasping Vines. This will give yourself and your group additional utility in the form of both a rend and a weaken.

Gems

For your armor you will want to slot the appropriate gem to mitigate the damage for that particular mutation.

If you feel comfortable with your survivability you can also opt to slot all opals in your gear and then utilize a mutation specific gem in your amulet. This will give you more overall elemental resistance but less mutation specific resistance. However, you will not have to switch gems for each mutation. You would then only need to swap your amulet to match the mutation type.

For your great sword you will want to slot an opal. When you’re in onslaught stance you will consume 10 stamina for each heavy attack. This makes the opal the ideal gem for the weapon.

For your great axe, you can utilize either an opal or a diamond. If you’re in a group with a good healer and you feel comfortable that your health will be topped off then diamond is a great option. However, if you’re running with a pick up group (pug group) or want more direct control over your damage then an opal would the the ideal option.