A Guide To Spartan | New World PvP | 625 SnS Spear

[@Deformography]

Well, this kinda made me decide about how i want my current build to be made properly. Thank you kind person.

[@Telarius]

Yes! im new to the game, found your build very quickly for some reason from 1 month ago. thank u for the guide bro

[@NWSwill]

Welcome to the game and thanks for checking it out! I will say this - be very patient with this build. It's an advanced build that's hard to learn and play, so give yourself time to get good at it if its something you really want to play.

[@dbdmack]

I've come back to this a few times. A big help for others might be to bookmark gems/gear/build separate.

[@Sshampayne]

Awesome guide video, helped me understand a lot being newer to PvP.

[@marcusk5046]

Great Video, great guide. Spartan build brought back my fun with the game.

[@dracs5929]

been playing this build since launch, first time i saw this game's trailer, "Spartan" is all i could think. finally its at a strong spot. Most ppl the usual GA/WH so it was tuff, now they too getting shield bashed in the face and poked full of hole while remaining extra slippery. SPARTANS!!!!

[@Venatis]

Always great to see a fellow Spartan! I run something similar and it’s awesome to see other Spartans in the wild 😈

[@Lexuuu997]

Very well done guide - was waiting for it for seazon 1

[@danl1924]

Very well done guide. Thank you!

[@1ucky1ux]

I love this build! Although I made a few tweaks with the spear passives but overall its a build im gonna run for a while :D

[@KodamikoGaming]

Great guide, have you thought about using the “Motherwell Wisher’s Coin” shield? It has rogue and refreshing move to open more perks up for the sword.

[@NWSwill]

No Motherwell. The lightning ward on it is a completely dead perk and not worth having rogue on the shield. If that’s the best shield you currently have, you can certainly use it and do fine with it, but ideally, you’d want something with vicious/enchanted, keenly jagged and sturdy/shield perk.

[@Bayrain]

i love your build perfect!

[@Zeheroth69]

This build is pretty fun to play! Fantastic job. Are you gonna keep it updated for season 2? Love how well and fluid both weapons work together.

[@NWSwill]

Definitely will do another update for season 2 👍🏻

[@Zeheroth69]

@@NWSwill Cool beans!

[@matiasrivas8251]

hey mate , maybe you can anwser this , if in my sword ive got the perk leaping strike and in my shield ive got the perk fortifyng shield rush works both??

[@NWSwill]

Yep, that's correct.

[@Brawur91]

one more thing :D personally I prefer javellin in the gear (still 19% armor reduction), and enflebling skewer in my spear for extra weakness

[@niccolodeon2397]

Really want to use this build and try it out as my first pvp setup and i literally cant craft these gear setups or find them on the market. How do people get the gear for this? Im like also still trying to find gear for me pve build im doing and can hardly find ahit for that. I hve like 130k gold and dont see anything on the market thats useful. Sigh.

[@NWSwill]

My spear is the only thing I crafted. Everything else I either found, bought on the TP, or got from OPR crates. Just be patient and keep checking the TP and eventually you'll piece it together.

[@TehKahnGaming]

Nice! Good fights OPR!

[@carlosechevarria3315]

NICE VIDEO! Could you tell me whats the difference about having sundering javelin on your spear and on a piece of armor?

[@NWSwill]

When Sundering Javelin is on the Spear, you get a greater reduction to enemy armor (25%) versus when you have it on a piece of armor (19%).

[@carlosechevarria3315]

Thanks mate! Do you know if the best place to drop shadow's edge is in chests doing acid chest runs and helio?

[@NWSwill]

@@carlosechevarria3315 Honestly its been several months since I've played NW so I'm not exactly sure where it drops these days. But if you go to New World Database and search for it there, it will tell you where you can find it.

[@spiritwyrmk8622]

This guide is amazing. Clear explanations. I personally believe the Javelin nerf is garbage. It's not hammer or another heavy CC. It takes skill to land and it's single target. Same with leaping strike.

[@heitz18]

Spear is by far my favorite weapon in the whole game and to this day I struggle finding the perfect secondary weapon that fits my playstyle. Definetely gonna try this. But let me just say that I would gladly give up on a secondary weapon if there was an option to grab all 6 skills from.a weapon and run spear only lol

[@NWSwill]

Give it a run, it’s fun and challenging/rewarding to play.

[@zergnub7426]

Thanks for the guide. So, if I craft this and end up with a bunch of purple armour with ele aversion and resilence, I shouldn't be sad? It's still viable, and OK to invest umbral shards? Same with weapons? Thanks

[@NWSwill]

It could be. It depends on what armor pieces are available from PvE without crafting and what balancing changes they make to weapons through each season. To be honest, I haven’t played in over a month and don’t intend on playing any time soon, so I don’t know how this guide would fair with season 2. Sorry 😩

[@balditohashshashin2058]

Amazing video! Now i understand why im dying all time even if I run away! xd

[@arsmadrifut8931]

what would you change if i would like to go medium?

[@NWSwill]

I wouldn’t play this in medium, as it makes it worse. The best thing about SnS Spear is mobility and the ability to get around/on top of people very quickly, which you can’t do nearly as well in medium armor. You might as well just play bruiser, since it does a better job at medium melee. However, if you absolutely insist on doing it, you’d want to get rid of javelin and kick and go with sweep/perforate so you can be more of a melee build rather than a combo build.

[@arsmadrifut8931]

@@NWSwill we are playing with a friend who is GA/BB medium, thought it will be good combo to go sns spear medium.

[@leejones9338]

Would you stay light armour for arena? I used a very similar build back when VG was released. Never ran it with light before. Returning player so unfamiliar with arenas.

[@NWSwill]

I would, but I also would never ever play medium or heavy for anything anyways.

[@Andarath69]

Do you generally wanna play full ranged and or full melee? Like is using GS and Bow not good?

[@NWSwill]

I don't understand your question. Are you asking if GS and Bow are good or not?

[@Andarath69]

@@NWSwill yeah. I've heard some people saying a mix of melee and ranged isn't good, so was just curious. I played when the game first game out, and just started again with fresh start servers.

[@NWSwill]

@@Andarath69 Both are good, and you can play them together or separately with other weapons.

[@planetg2125]

Lot of thrust in the spartan build and most are running 25% min thrust. I run a 200 con build vg/ig with thrust res and an sns/spear is annoying but not deadly, i would have to be severly outplayed or caught off guard to lose under this setup I love the concept of the spartan build but i dont think its as efficient as other melee

[@Kerek77]

Use a heavy strike into leaping at the same time, you get a lot more distance.

[@AzuraBlight1]

Do you think this build would work in medium gear? Because I have some medium-heavy BIS gear and would like to use it

[@NWSwill]

It would not. You don’t have enough mobility. If you play SnS-Spear in medium, you need to switch to sweep/perforate instead of kick/javelin to be less combo-y and be more melee.

[@ArjKm]

first of all I want to say what a high quality insane guide. I am tired of playing light mage for 2000 hours and was looking for a change of build. Thank you for this and you have a new subscriber for life. Secondly, I want to add, you did not have a section where you discuss pros and cons of light vs medium version of sns+spear. But from the part where you discuss spear abilities, I was able to understand what the difference might be. I guess if I am looking to play medium build, I could go sweep/perforate? As someone who is going to melee for the first time in 2000 hours. Would you suggest me going med, or light is the way to go for this weapon combo ? Huge thanks again for this insanely well put guide!

[@NWSwill]

Appreciate the kind words and thanks for checking it out! As for medium - you cannot play this build in medium. You simply do not have the mobility and movement needed from light armor. If you want to play SnS-Spear in medium, then yes, you’d want to replace Kick/Javelin with Sweep/Perforate and become more of a straight up melee build rather than a combo build like this one. Personally, I would never ever play medium. I just couldn’t ever play something that doesn’t have the ability to roll and have that movement and mobility from light armor. Hopping around in medium armor and being hamstrung on movement would just drive me nuts.

[@dracs5929]

i played spartan from Launch to now, i can tell u this, meduim build works if u have a pocket healer then ur almost un-killable, time those hops (3 of them) and deal dmg 2v6-8 ur gonna win cuz of ur healer (long as u can sync) however for maximum efficiency and mobility (slippery like a wet fish, they just cant hold u once u have 5x freedom and haste pot/cakes) light is the way to go for dmg and survivability (and alot of laughs).

[@eduardoluiz5052]

Thats a great guide What do you think of Heart of Aviva instead of Champion's Ring? Thank you for the effort!

[@eduardoluiz5052]

Also, would it be better viable use amethyst instead of opals in the weapons for the armor's runic glasses damage boost?

[@NWSwill]

Heart of Aviva may be decent, I haven’t tried it. But Invigorated Punishment is strong and not having that seems like a big loss. Ideal world, you’d want an IP/Thrust Damage/Keen ring.

[@NWSwill]

@@eduardoluiz5052 Amethyst might work, I haven’t tried that either. I may make some and give it a run to see how they do.

[@liryczny]

where shirking eneregy? :c

[@NWSwill]

I don't use it.

[@TheHollowGloom]

what server do you play on? your name looks pretty familiar. Make sure you buy some Desert sunrise to pop as well in OPR. The video is well put together, very good job you deserve some more subs

[@NWSwill]

Appreciate it man. I play on Valhalla. I don't use Desert Sunrise for OPR because the cost isn't worth it given how much I play it.

[@TheHollowGloom]

@@NWSwill that makes sense I have a character on val as well. You could just buy some T2 desert sunrise, with fire staff being so prevalent, taking there dots off a bit quicker is definitely worth, if I remember correctly T2 is pretty cheap. 🙏🏼

[@NWSwill]

@@TheHollowGloom Maybe, but honestly I've never felt dots were so bad that I needed to spend money on consumables to deal with them. If worst came to worst, I have a puryifying toast earring I can put on.

[@vynnski]

Nice guide, just a note that Abyssal Gambit won't stack between both weapons. Also, maybe I'm missing something but isn't the elemental runeglass on armor only effective when converting 40% of your weapon dmg to that element? Isn't the 10% extra dmg only increasing Abyssal Gambit to 8.8% and Attunement to 15.4%?

[@NWSwill]

I honestly don’t know the exact math, all I knew was that the elemental damage buff from the runeglasses on the armor buffed the elemental damage coming from the attunement and the elemental runeglasses on the weapons. Either way, it’s still better than the melee runeglasses in armor, at least until those are properly fixed and can be tested. Splitting up your damage is also beneficial because it gets around those with a lot of thrust resist. I’m actually looking into putting some amethyst runeglasses into my weapons and testing that out to see how I like it.

[@alviss13]

global chat going off at the end x)

[@matheuscoelho]

sundering javelin on armor is still 19% rend, so it's not that bad if you have a skewer spear...

[@alessiotranzocchi-o3o]

Why boosting the void dmg with the runeglass instead of the melee damage ? You are boosting like 10% of 300dmg vs 5% of, let's lowball, 1.2k, which is significantly higher. Am i missing something here ?

[@NWSwill]

Melee runeglasses are broken. They're not working the way they're supposed to and there's a hidden internal cooldown on them where you only get the damage buff essentially every other attack. Lastly, and this is personal preference - I'm a huge fan DoT's, so I like having some of my damage split into damage ticks.

[@alessiotranzocchi-o3o]

@@NWSwill So the elem damage bosts works consistently ?

[@NWSwill]

@@alessiotranzocchi-o3o Correct. Another reason why it's good to go with elemental runeglasses is because it splits your damage types and help get around mitigations a little. So if someone has a lot of thrust resist, the corrosion ticks from the runeglass won't be affected by it, allowing you to do more damage than if you had melee runeglasses in.

[@angelaraya9268]

this build works for pve?

[@NWSwill]

It can, it just depends on what you're doing. I wouldn't use it for expeditions for example, but I actually have a full Luck set for Spartan that I use when doing Luck chest runs and works great. So in essence - group pve content, no. Solo pve content, yes.

[@angelaraya9268]

@@NWSwill what do you use for expeditions? i'm new to the game and really liked this build

[@NWSwill]

@@angelaraya9268 It depends on the expedition. Different expeditions have different mob types and take more damage from certain weapons. If it’s a corrupted dungeon (Tempest, Dynasty etc) I’ll use bow/spear. It’s angry earth (Genesis) I’ll use great sword and great axe. If it’s ancient (Lazarus) I’ll use void gauntlet and Blunderbuss.

[@angelaraya9268]

@@NWSwill i see, ty!

[@Brawur91]

Perfect guide :) IMO I still think that 250 dex and 100 str is better than 200 str and 150 dex, because 250 dex passive is the same as 200 str, but you have another extra 10% dmg from dex 200 passive. In overall you have 1220 basic dmg on your sword, while I have like 1170, which I think isnt bad right?

[@NWSwill]

With 250 Dex, the spear hits for basically the same amount as it did at 150, but the sword deals a lot less. For me, it goes from 1225 to around 1165. So I prefer 200 Str. But again, either is fine I guess, you’ll just use your spear a lot more if you run 250 dex.

[@Brawur91]

@@NWSwill basically spear is my Main dmg dealer, i just catch with sns when they run

[@dracs5929]

i would run 200 str 150+ dex for that slow perk that applies to both weapon, increasing dmg

[@Brawur91]

@@dracs5929 I already respec for 200 str/160 dex and 150 con

[@ave.christus.rex.]

Keenly jagged on both weapons is not that good since it shares the same cd rather have keenly empowered on the 2nd weapon

[@soulreaper2142]

Skew on weap always, jav on gear. drop final talent from jav, 3 other options that are better (dmg+into grit, stam regen under 50%, or 10% crit chance) otherwise, good video.

[@NWSwill]

This build doesn't care about weaken that much due to the CC and ability to finish people off quickly, so Jav on spear 100% always. Dmg into grit is useless now that 300 STR grit is gone, don't need stam regen passive and don't need extra crit.

[@jeannot8814]

Noone talks about fire adapt ? I can tell you that elemental aversion is so bad... cant protect you from Firestaff skills. Fire adapt protect you from both light/heavy attacks and skills

[@NWSwill]

Are you referring to Flame Conditioning? While it's probably better, I would never recommend anyone to invest in FC gear because if they nerf the firestaff someday, all that investment will now be useless. Ele Aversion at least mitigates all elemental basic attacks and many skills, so thats better in my view.

[@xKrazed]

Perforate is a pretty bad ability now. No longer gives fortify, rend has lost its value this patch, perf no longer staggers (huge nerf since its an animation lock), perf now provides weaken but skewer weaken already gets near cap so wasn't necessary.

[@NWSwill]

Yeah, I'm not high on perf at all. I agree completely.

[@scottybeats5328]

god, this game used to not matter what gear you had and only mattered if you were actually good at your rotations and combos and movement.. now it's like WoW where you need gear score, and a specific build to even utilize your potential. they ruined this game bad in comparison to what it was before they added VoidG, way back. it's been that long since it was good.

[@titmouse4915]

Even with 700GS you still can't beat Lookenpeepers at 620

[@NWSwill]

Yeah but he loves fondelling nutsacks so whose the real winner here?

[@amurika6336]

Sen si

[@devonrandall3149]

“Really high skill to play” bruh try play musket bow it takes a miracle to escape let alone do enough damage to kill anyone coming at you. Not throwing shade buuut if you hit the bash, it’s easy mode after that. You can’t tell me that a stun, into a stun, into a stun, into a auto targeting distance closer, into slowing auto targeting light attacks takes skill… positioning does, but once your stunned I just let go of the mouse at that loint

[@NWSwill]

1. If you play Bow/Musket, you’re creating your own problems for yourself by playing something that has zero close-range combat ability. 2. Like most things, SnS is very conditional. Most of the time, it takes a lot of skill to do well with as you not only have to have good awareness/positioning, but you also have to have good movement and skill rotation. In situations where you manage to come up on an enemy from behind and pull off the full combo, it’s of course much easier. But in most other situations, you’re getting blasted for half your health by Harry Potters and Robin Hood’s before you can even get close enough to touch them and you still have to find a way to excel. So yes, in the absolute best case situation with SnS, there’s not a lot of skill involved. But you can say that about literally every weapon, and most of the time with this build, you’re not fighting from a best case scenario position and you have to use a lot of skill to work for kills.

[@ZackVuldin]

@@NWSwill "you’re getting blasted for half your health by Harry Potters and Robin Hood’s" i laughed so hard at this LOL. so im new to NW and i wanted an easy 1v1 build to start with. i was thinking rapier/spear, sns/spear or fs/rapier. what are your thoughts?

[@NWSwill]

@@ZackVuldin Depends on your playstyle. If you prefer melee, I’d go with Hatchet/Greatsword or SnS/Greatsword. If you prefer mage, I’d go with FS/Blunderbuss. Blunderbuss is the best burst weapon in the game.

[@ZackVuldin]

@@NWSwill is SnS/GS alot easier than something like FS/rapier?

[@NWSwill]

@@ZackVuldin It’s not easier, no. Right now FS is one of the easiest weapons in the game because it’s overpowered and it’s ranged, so you can just sit back, lob fireballs at people for huge damage, and if someone comes near you, just burn out away.

[@VonBrachsenbruegge]

Unfortunately, your character doesn't look like a spartan.. he looks like a complete xxxxx. Like all New World characters..

[@NWSwill]

I know! Transmog later this year hopefully fixes that!

[@VonBrachsenbruegge]

@@NWSwill Nope.. who ever works in the cosmetics Departement is incompetent..

[@NWSwill]

@@VonBrachsenbruegge Cosmetics is different to transmog. I've found basically a full spartan set I'm saving for when transmog comes into the game.

[@alexandrcorbin]

This is trash. This build is not competitive

[@NWSwill]

Shit, you’re right. You’ve inspired me. Salvaging all my gear tomorrow.

[@matiasrivas8251]

do you have any livestream channel or discord??

[@NWSwill]

I do not, but I was thinking about getting started with streaming and seeing how that goes.