PvP Armor Guide: Updated Damage Formula, Perks Tested, Best Gear Explained [New World]

[@KutsuuG]

Thanks so much for this, very thorough without overloading us with math. Going to be directing a lot of YT questions I get to this video

[@MMXLIVE15]

Dead game

[@pinquintv]

Merry Christmas Morrolan. Your contributions to the games you sink your time and effort into are invaluable to the likes of me who wouldn't even know where to start. Stellar work.

[@antagonist372]

How have I never heard of you before? The quality of this video is nearly immeasurable. Thank you!

[@dess3910]

Thanks, wish there were more videos like this instead of "TOP BEST PERKS YOU NEED NOW" and "ULTIMATE GUIDE TO ARMOR" that basically do 0 testing and are just there to be 'youtube stars' This video is quality content

[@MrBalrogos]

1. Since musket have 2.0x crit multiplier full resilient then reduce this crit dmg only by 24% 2. Refreshing Ward for tank Players in wars is must have your defiant stance cooldown just going down in second and it also work when shield blocking. Thx for calc and video Mr Morrolan.

[@elmhurstenglish5938]

What? Musket doesn't have a 2x crit multiplier (it has a 2% crit chance, and 1.3x crit multiplier). Unless you're stacking Vorpal (0.14), Sniper (0.15), and Hit Your Mark (up to 0.15) and assuming that you're only hitting hs at more than 100m - then you'll be at 1.74x crit multiplier. Full resilience + con perk gives 34% crit reduction, so even in this situational perspective above, you'll take around 1.14x damage on crit.

[@MrBalrogos]

@@elmhurstenglish5938 Oh maybe i watch it wrongly sorry for that, dunno why i rmember ranged weapon having 2x Multiplier

[@roccosakai8206]

Awesome! You deserve a gold medal for easy explaining the brain crushing issues all of us face on daily basis. I wish Amazon did that - they should hire you and other guys who prepared the input!

[@MostlyHarmlessGuildcom]

Fantastic analysis as always. Thanks so much. We recommend your videos to our entire guild!

[@SuperLeeBa]

amazing video my dude. with the amount of things I have to juggle on NW sources of info like this are a game changer, thankyou

[@AllAmericanZ]

This is the best in depth video I’ve seen for new world. You’re the best!

[@mattn7415]

Been tuning into TTV and heard snippets along the way. Thanks for putting it all together in one spot and the spreadsheet so we can play around. Merry Xmas.

[@danielZ90X]

Great Info! Thank you very much!

[@chazcon5133]

JUST found your channel, what great, detailed information. Thanks so much!

[@Cauldronb0rn]

The Meteor sound at 19:15 got me good, i was super confused because I'm in the middle of shattered mountain.

[@mercutiobr3814]

Wow, this was simply great stuff. Pure gold!

[@viktordimitrov8982]

Best video ever! This explains a lot!! Thank you so much, you deserve recognition for that,ill spread it in company discord

[@yipp_yippee]

Great information! Getting armor built this week... so this is timely!

[@Haginkaz]

Very good job. As a fresh 60, this video seems to sum the very critic information i need to understand at least what people are talking about. I have some friends in the company that help me a lot but these explenations are a lot clearer when you see them actually. I also was wondering why i hit very little on outpost rushes while people around were hitting me like a truck. Thank you for the good work.

[@stanvanberkel9813]

love the vid, great resource/information about the differentses between 520 and 600 gs but i think its important to tell everybody that its not just armor that i increasing. the amount of attribute point is also going up from 20 per piece on 520 to 25 per piec on 600. this will than add 25 extra point to your build

[@Neillyy]

Mixed Nuts came into my stream the other day when I had his calc up, was very random haha really nice dude

[@Monkeypuzzle]

This was excellent information! Thank you!

[@snoopeeh4307]

We shared it in our discord. great work. keep doing this nice work

[@bertod6387]

Did my own theory crafting and it’s nice to hear someone else doing the same and not too far off of what I was thinking. Great stuff!! Either way still can’t decide medium or light lol

[@Cybyr]

I’d highly recommend med. it’s not worth the 10% dmg and getting killed so pretty fast

[@NaldiGames]

I use both, I crafted two sets light and medium, I prefer using light because I can run after squishies in OPR but sometimes I feel that I need to use my medium armor in PVE stuff, Wars and even sometimes in OPR when I feel the need

[@bertod6387]

@@NaldiGames yeah mostly pve stuff, getting one shot while locked into ability animation but seems I still get one shot in medium anyways

[@kylew1385]

Amazing video per usual, thanks!

[@peretv76]

Great info ! Thank you for this, you just answered a bunch of my question :)

[@Mordarim]

You can use a Medium chest and medium head/hands/feet piece with all other slots light to still keep the light armor bonus. This however makes it impossible to use a shield.

[@bestbuds7556]

Id like to see the comparison of the damage increase you gain from the extra perk/attributes on 600 GS minus the scaling. If I had to guess I'd say it still ends up being more damage with 600 GS wep. Also Id say when starting to gear get resil first, then try to get pieces with your build perk + resil to upgrade voidbent.

[@Eas_the_Planeswalker]

This was a huge amount of work. Thx!

[@BRUHGITTAH]

Thank you for taking the time to get this info for us

[@ned1232]

this video was so good even i didn't know a few of these and i loved the math part. 10/10

[@superformOG]

one of the most helpful new world videos i have ever seen - ty

[@JboJackson]

Great video, you got a new subscriber. Thank you for the work

[@BeeRho]

I'm not a priest but I do make armor for alot of them so this was a great help. Thanks so much!

[@6foot7dad]

Incredible video. You did an outstanding job explaining this. Liked/subbed

[@Malachaidc1]

Quality content and excellent presentation. Really nicely done.

[@Opethfan79]

Amazing work guys. Things like this help people like me that don't have the time to do stuff like this. You got a sub and like from me man. Looking forward to dives into wep perks and maybe even shorter videos on a whole build around each weapon bis perks for wep and gear. So many perks now its hard to know what to do. I have armor 200 so that dryad gear is going to be something I might give a go and see how lucky I am.

[@chrisdava6948]

damn johnny sins doin gods work

[@tylerstylor2921]

thank you for this informative and entertaining video ;) Merry Christmas

[@iamthemonkeynudist]

amazing work from all of you

[@wellplay7637]

base crit rate of any hero is 10%, so weapon+perks+ring perks+ skill abilities ... thats the reason why crit more often than it's should be. not all know about this 10%. Great video,thx for a work!

[@fatalisarx931]

Source of this 10% base crit rate?

[@joshuasmith1597]

Having extensively tested crit rate I can tell you that the base crit chance of a completely naked no stat applied character is 2%. Thousands of punches and kicks math out to 2% crit rate. The crit rate gets really confusing when you start adding weapons and individual skills. The short version is you are getting roughly 1.5x more crit than what is on paper

[@wellplay7637]

@@fatalisarx931 just some video on youtube, it was on russian, and in patch before 1.2 So may be AGS decrease of this base crit amount to 2% like @joshua smith saids. may be some another bug. Like base crit stil 10%, but for some reason it's looks like 2% on naked hero and works correctly like 10%+weapon+ring on equiped. Idk, i didn't test it.

[@fatalisarx931]

I tested this out, and yes we still do have around 10% base crit chance in patch 1.3. What I found more important is that, keen perk on weapon is also bugged! I tested out 2 weapons tyes so far, and its around 20. But maybe someone else can double check this to verify my finding.

[@wellplay7637]

@@fatalisarx931 let me sure. if base crit 10% and weapon crit with out additional wepapon perk 3% ur attack crits 20% ?

[@czpro8094]

Very good content and please do a weaponsmiting one, same as the armoring, it will be fired. 🔥🔥🔥

[@jpsc1995]

Awesome video! It shows that thankfully I’ve been on the right track. Just one observation: I’m pretty sure FREEDOM DOESN’T STACK! I did some testings and found out that wearing a full set of freedom gave me the same CC reduction as wearing 1 piece. Anybody else found the same thing? And also, since I play as tank, I highly value Refreshing Ward

[@dabzsy8529]

Freedom does stack

[@tornadao]

freedom is bugged, absolutely no difference being stunned in full freedom and no freedom at all. Test it yourself to confirm :)

[@dirtpoorchris]

I dunno im a fresh level 60 and i use the 490 pvp gear. I do pretty good in wars for being a noob. The refresh cooldown stacking + crit reduce damage is pretty nice. Plus after you have a whole suit of pvp gear you can use the class tokens to change the stats in case you wanna switch to different mainstat so its GREAT for experimenting. I use medium armor so I will definitely strive for 600 gs for the extra 6% but that lowbie pvp armor is still worth it as a starter, at least for me. Thanks for all the maths.

[@Bnol730]

Another great video, really appreciate the work.

[@delamain2077]

accurate concise information gotta love it

[@m0rk18]

Wow awesome video yo! This was very helpful and informative! I was legit about to impulse voidbent last night (already have the heavy chestpiece) and I decided not to and I am so thankful!!! I am not sure if you have made a video on it or not but you should try making a vid on highest dps and best damage output weapons!

[@Khonen]

Didn't know about the freedom tooltip bug, that's way better than I thought. 👍

[@VULFEN2012]

I wish you had also covered a little into the new perks that were added to physical/elemental reduction. While freedom and resilient may be best in slot in some cases, i think these new perks also have a place in this formula. if im right they would go into the same section as fortify/rend, which is good because that would mean that it would be possible to create a build with 40% damage reduction to both physical and elemental damages (before any balm or dust) Also can you clarify the max value of rend, for example i believe the game has 50% is max rend, but then there is also 15% that can come from the VG version degenerate making the total 65%

[@Judawi]

I'm afraid some of the knowledge shared here is oudtated as i did not play for a long time. Any similar channel you could recommend ? Thanks for your hard work and time.

[@_J0KER_]

Great testing and information on the game was very useful thank you 😊 👌

[@TanvirBhulcrap]

Excellent video! thanks for providing an update for 1.2 your video should be on AGS's update page lol

[@madafaka3587]

I don't even play this game anymore, but still watched the full video, amazing work

[@Alexnizzle1]

Amazing insights! Love these vids!

[@jackearle9431]

I am using voidbent heavy chest and helm, med VB gloves and boots and a 597 light legs with empowered fireball. Seems to be a really easy to aquire and powerful armor set up for a mage using FS and Rapier.

[@xeticus5435]

I am really interested in running a full heavy set with 300 con and resilient and freedom. I really like the idea of trying to be as unstoppable as possible.

[@xXShakenXx]

Very nice analysis.

[@keeblar209]

Absolutely loved this video

[@dtjkmagic]

Just a thought and I really hope you see this because probably only you’re capable of doing this testing. We always talk about BIS gear but it’s actually always about pvp. What about BIS for pve? Does resilient work for pve; do mobs deal critical damage? BIS for pve are perk enhancement, luck, and resilient; assuming resilience applies here because mobs do critical damage? (We don’t know if pve has crit dmg)

[@MorrolanTV]

Mobs can crit if they hit you in the back but otherwise it's not much of an issue. I would go for "Ward" type perks, luck if you think it actually works, and cooldown reduction for PvE

[@dtjkmagic]

@@MorrolanTV thank you for the response!! Ward types would be too much of an hassle, there’s too many types. So I guess refreshing or resilience with luck is the way to go; I was unsure if mobs can actually do crit or rng crit

[@banjokazuya2913]

Holy shit, it's Johnny Sins playing NW! Jokes aside, very informative video. Thanks for your hard work.

[@McDudes]

your a legend for all your testing

[@Steve-fw2yf]

Which perks can and can not be stacked? Is there any place to check that?

[@MorrolanTV]

Everything stacks except for duplicate skill perks

[@xlRaTeZz]

god this was such a well put together and descriptive video, hard to come by. everyone click that sub button right now!

[@Sorainen-]

Merry Christmas !

[@Knapweed]

This is a great series but I'm unsure of the calculator that only includes 'focus' and intelligence' gems. What about attributes like the 'brash' line on Onyx, how does that scale? Is tier 2 better than tier 5? Subbed.

[@robin3487]

awesome video. thank you.

[@dingabinga2723]

Solid work again my man

[@liquidmojo1439]

super helpful.. .tyvm

[@Casual_BackPacking]

Bruh I gotta watch this a couple times , wish they could make this system more simpler

[@xXSk8erDXx]

Love this!

[@austeno5576]

Have you tried stacking the leaching perk ? Ive noticed you can only get it on a weapon and a ring at 5% each for a total of 10% leaching but I cant tell if they stack

[@PoleVault]

HES BACK

[@wowildwes]

amazing content, thank you

[@cujoegaming5277]

Awesome video and godly theory crafting / reverse engineering! Question: with the scaling, is my mitigation influenced by my whole gear score or just the GS from my armor? If using jewelery or weapons of lower GS would that influence my mitigation against a GS 600 weapon user?

[@Kuratius]

Technically the gs of your armor isn't directly involved in the scaling anymore, so just use whatever pieces give the most armor regardless of gearscore. It's just that all else being equal, a higher gs piece will always give more armor.

[@Nixon9000]

This is really helpful. Earned a comment

[@kennethjensen6601]

Thank you! Much love! Some feedback; You are missing the new Physical / Elemental Aversion. For damage reduction these are BiS after Resilient especially in OPR. I want all my non ability perk to be either Resilient/Freedom or Resilient/Physical Aversion…. Secondly, for the recommend of Refreshing Evasion i disagree. Because of two major things; 1. It does not count double dodge. You MUST exit the animation. And i THINK it only works on the active cooldowns - meaning on the actual active ability bar. You need to dodge ALOT to make up the ground to basic Refresh. With that said - THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! I have been waiting for someone to calculate this!!!

[@rifie1495]

ive found the same things about refreshing evasion, doesnt apply to both weaps and is inconsistant, could be viable on some weapons with high cooldowns and medium armor and its still not a bad perk. For physical aversion. they are okay. it only affecting regular attacks, ive tested physical aversion vs musket user with a elemental gem and it doesnt reduce the dmg of the elmental portion. i would personaly still rather have resil+ either freedom or refreshing than the aversions, and if u rly want to try em out, i think the magical one is beter, helps against 50% of musket dmg(ele gem) and everyone runs onyxes or diamonds still, heavy attacks from fire staff are its strongest attack, not the skills, sorta similar with ice gauntlet always trying to land heavies on you to stun, however ice spike wont get reduced and will still oneshot anyone

[@zxccvb4462]

Not bis because it's very situative. Because it's only against ranged.

[@reggieledeux8591]

The aversion is not bis lol

[@MorrolanTV]

Aversion is kinda decent if you have a musket spammy OPR meta but ultimately it's just not that broadly useful. Resilient, freedom, and CDR are all going to consistently make a difference between winning and losing in a large number of scenarios

[@itinkthereforeiiz]

Nice one mate!

[@Kazgoth1]

thx for the top notch info

[@zeronexx7647]

EXCELLANT WORK!

[@kittnsaver9563]

Morrolan amazing content man there’s rumors that freedom isn’t working at the moment, any thoughts on this?

[@aaronsmith4273]

Liked, subbed, shared, and commented. I'd love a suggested perk video for all the weapons. Sundering shockwave, grav well, what about other weapons?

[@newns9649]

You need to put the game in the front of your title man I had no idea what game this guide was for till I clicked the video.

[@vasquezv244]

You went full nerd on this. And I love you for that xD

[@KA0S3FX]

Hell yah , thank you

[@paintedblack_]

Hello, thank you very much for the pretty instructive video with a lot of preparation. I got a question. I'm 22.9 middle armored Hatchet and Spear player. I really love my build. All my PVP gears are +590 GS(upgraded them to +619) Epic items. 3/5 pieces have skill perks with Resilient, 1/5 has CDR(Refreshing Evasion) and Resilient. The remaining piece is gonna have skill perk too. Should I combine this with Resilient or Refreshing Evasion? If I pick Resilient, it will be full Resilient with 1/5 CDR. Otherwise, 4/5 Resilient and 2/5 CDR. I'm dodging a lot and love that Refreshing Evasion. But Resilient is essential too. I'm having hard time to decide which is better in general..

[@Blackcraneo]

good vid bud. thumbs up!

[@Raveman-oc8uf]

Great video as always. Quick question, do you know the hard cap on rend?

[@MorrolanTV]

Absorption, the category rend belongs to, caps at +50 or -30

[@alexnoname1100]

Hey, very nice vid! Quick Question (maybe i missed that part, sry if so): Does your Mitigation get affected when wearing full Heavy + a Shield on your Back which brings you to 36.8kg, because I know there used to be KG specific stuff in 1.0 but now im confused ^^

[@MorrolanTV]

Shield will only benefit you if you have a sword equipped and selected, otherwise it's just extra weight

[@skypz7]

thanks

[@cheetos1546]

Happy Holidays Morrolan! Quick question, as a light user (mage) would you prefer stacking onyx's or something else like thrust/slash dmg reduction, or a mix? What do you think

[@MorrolanTV]

I like diamonds all around right now, but it really depends on your server's meta and what is causing most of your deaths

[@TikiShootah]

16:33 uh we got another "voidbent is best in-game" guys. Also shocked on the lack physical aversion mention. Freedom is showing not working in slot of videos

[@Neon-Lines]

20:23 Morrolan but what about Vigor and Invigorated? Aren't those crucial too?

[@Wes-mv9zj]

Thanks for the work. One question... Is any of the data in your previous part 1/2 vids still relevant? Or has everything changed with the numerous updates since then?

[@MorrolanTV]

None of the old armor data is really relevant anymore since most of it was the result of the old formula. As for other findings it's really case by case, some stuff is fixed and some isn't

[@datapirate3169]

Have you tested if the freedom perk stacks? I tested it before 1.2 and it was not stacking.

[@Mikihsa]

Hello ! You did not mention Physical and Elemental Aversion perks. These are potentially very good perks for builds that are scared off muskets and bow specificly. I know you guys love to do testes so maybe you could dive deeper in this topic, I'm curious to know how these perk works. Especially I'm curious to know if the Physical Aversion perk reduce Musket standards shot, EVEN if the musket is playing with elemental conversion gem. It is possible that this perk reduce the full shot beside it being half physical/elemental. As a musket myself my biggest threat in PvP are other muskets/bow and I'm looking toward building around countering these dude, so that I win the musket game and it makes a significant difference in wars when your army have 5 musket alive free to hit enemies healers while enemy army have dead musketers.

[@FunElite]

Great video. You should have mentioned however, that faction gear is still amazing and absolutely worth getting, if you don't get those percs on higher GS gear. Depending on a server, that can be never.

[@rifie1495]

no faction gear is now pretty dogshit with the new changes to armor scaling. the difference in mitigation between 520 and 600gs gear is abnout 9% more dmg taken, its massive.

[@FunElite]

@@rifie1495 Have u seen the video at all? It is 7% max. Resilient alone will more, then compensate. On to you get CDR.

[@rifie1495]

@@FunElite oh 7%, thats massive, almost the same difference as going from medium to heavy armor. you wants 580gs+ gear with resil or you are throwing. voiodbent is trolling for frontline cuz u get trash phys armor

[@FunElite]

@@rifie1495 Can you even read?

[@martinramirez4433]

good video but i have a question waht about if perks are no working in u server i mean cuse i have full heavy legendary armor with nice perks but i still get 3 or 4 shoted in duels and die in secs in groups lol

[@TheDavishers]

Can you explain why Refreshing Evasion is better than Refreshing please? 1% of existing vs 2.5% of full? I guess you can dodge roll a bit more often over the lifetime of a cooldown ?

[@sergioippolito]

Sorry but in the comparison in preset armor "increase vs no perk" the percentage of EHP in addition also takes into account the extra life that is obtained or is it calculated at equal life with only the bonus?

[@Athorell9]

Hey man, follow up question on split ratio gear. Is it true that the 100 CON perk scales off of physical resistance? If that is the case how much tankier are you from taking physically weighted pieces over elemental? Can this difference then be mitigated with absorption from Gems? Loved the video!

[@MorrolanTV]

Even in full phys heavy you're not gaining a lot of extra HP from the con perk. I think phys weighted pieces are good in the current meta but I would absolutely not go out of my way to prioritize them over attributes or perks

[@Athorell9]

@@MorrolanTV legend, thanks!

[@PatDuke_]

I noticed you didn't say much about elemental and physical aversion ? What's your take on those two?

[@crazyRyoga]

16:50 Is there some bug affecting Freedom? Because I tested with 2 pieces and a guy with VG rooting me and there was no difference at all in the root duration...I tested it with 2 different players btw.