Top 1 FUN Build / WindChill Mastermind / New World Aeternum

[@ThaCousin]

3:39 Build STATS: 25 dex 350 int 25 focus 200 con (Extra points use it in Con. or Int. In Con. u will get better value from it, but up to u or magnify). It's NOT a left-click spam build. You actually need to make use of all the interactions between IG-VG to get the maximum value from it. As a result, you can enjoy high sustain in everything (HP, stamina, mana, and fun). Block with IG, cleanse debuffs and DoT's (like poison arrow) with VG's right-click. Use VG's auto-attacks to trigger Refreshing Moves and/or heal yourself. You can also use Windchill Grit just to avoid CC's and cancel it to perform other actions. The Ice Storm perk is pretty much a must-have to ensure you can easily root people with IG's heavy attack. Play smart, and you'll have way more than enough tools to outplay others, whether they're ranged or melee. Winchill has: - Grit - High emotional dmg power - Root after 1.2sec (=to 6 ticks) - Strong push back - Effective at discouraging anyone from dueling you ever again.

[@cdubyaxvi3614]

this made me laugh, great job!

[@Artanthos]

"High emotional dmg power" lmao! I love it!

[@TheEsitante]

oh rly, u need to press 3 buttons, NOT a left-click, yes🤣

[@ThaCousin]

​@@TheEsitanteI mean it's still NW, not StarCraft xD And I'm not talking about the amount of buttons, it's more a disclaimer that if u just smash all the ability keys like other builds, it will not work, like other builds.

[@DukeSloth]

W I N C H I L L I N Windchill has got to be my one of my favorite abilities with how fun it is without being outright broken. Love the way you made use of walls and roots to minimize the weaknesses

[@ThaCousin]

Yeah, windchill it's just a fun ability and the pushback + the new root also open a lot of possibilities in terms of support and gameplay. I saved a lot of teammates just with windchill, or situations where I may not have directly taken down the enemy, but I often put them in situations where Windchill sealed their fate haha

[@Rambow808]

Guy was ice skating trolling also 😂😂Lol

[@Charlie-lx9mg]

This is great. This is one of those underrated very unpopular builds that finds success in a niche way lol. I’ve never really liked playing meta or the most popular builds, always tried unpopular ones. Will definitely try this out thanks!

[@vicuna9083]

Same. I love making off meta builds kinda sorta work. Excited to try this one out

[@jontaylor-xf4yw]

i found an IG the other day with windchill buff so i kepted it and thought i might be good since flamethrower is used alot. good thing i saw this. thanks man

[@xXTheMustXx]

if that skill just could crit :c

[@ThaCousin]

Yeah, WC counts as a DoT, for example, it do not proc empowering breaker, It can't crit either, but still I take the 25 dex for crit chance because we gain stam on crit (15) and 1.3 crit is enough to get a bit of extra dmg vs light players. And definitelyu want WC perk on weapon if u want to use the ability, good that u save that IG so u can give it a try, and if u like it u can just roll 1 seal with Alacritous Punishment or Keenly Empower + Windchill perk, and whatever u get will be fine (except the mortal shit, but u have 96% to roll a decent IG :P)

[@devilduckietu]

I have so much ice gear to farm now! Thanks for the great vid!

[@Rainmakerinho]

you've earned a new sub just by ur awesome music choice over here my person

[@ThaCousin]

Thank you! And I'm glad to know you like the music. For me, it's one of the most important aspects of editing. It usually takes me days (many) just to find the right track for a video, even for under 1-minute videos 😄

[@Rainmakerinho]

@@ThaCousin ha, yes, i feel you 🤌🤣 I mean i'll login rn see if i got any gear to be windchillin as well haha

[@d3knot]

This is great, definitely gonna have to try this out.

[@Eidorian510]

that triple kill was so funny LOL

[@FwRHaiiL]

Hi ThaCousin, is this still a valid build? or what changes would to be made or is there something that no longer made this viable?

[@ThaCousin]

Yeah 1000% viable. I'm working in this build in Fresh. 😄

[@PreeshIsGood]

@@ThaCousin Any reason not to run Deep Freeze over Life Taker? I ran Abyss/IG for a little bit, but felt like I could never drain my mana low enough to take advantage of Abyss.

[@amayahiko948]

Bob Head agrees. *bobbing to music*

[@Rambow808]

This was funny and incredible

[@ThaCousin]

Thank you for ur comment bro! really appreciate it

[@Ersb99]

Brother 🎉 thanks You soo much for sharing 😊

[@ThaCousin]

❤ thank you for your comment! I really appreciate it :)

[@GenDrake3]

Had someone on valhalla light me up with windchill one night. I play ls/flail and can usually tank a lot of stuff but the storm into windchill straight up surprised me. Probably bc it's off meta and i dont have ice gemmed anyways. Typically im fire gem, slash and some opals. Nice bulld though!

[@ThaCousin]

Yeah no one runs Ice protection (and no one should do it, in general is a bad idea xD) and this build takes advantage of that, windchill dmg can be scary. Not even close to BiS I carry several arenas with this build and I think my record in dmg was like 600k/700k or something like that, not a joke haha And push back people out side the final ring and root them there is fun af, ez win hahaha Btw, thanks for ur comment bro :D

[@brianjones278]

Love your builds man. Always full fun and far from meta.

[@ThaCousin]

Thank you mate! I really appreciate your comment 🙏 I'll continue working to bring more unique builds :D

[@BrohunGaming]

found my next build. i was always wondering if this ability is any good. thanks a lot for sharing the build, you really inspired me to build this myself

[@ThaCousin]

Yeah, try it out! Feel free to hit me up if you've got any questions or run into snags while building or playing it, It's pretty unique, so it might be a bit tricky at first. (Just in case, my discord is "thacousin" :D ) And thank you for your comment brother, very appreciate it ❤

[@BrohunGaming]

@@ThaCousin build it 2 days ago after finally getting my nimble coat. still missing petrifying scream but otherwise im set and this thing is an absolute pleasure to play. very complex as you said, especially at first, but very strong and cool, i even get friend requests from people asking about it - i direct them to this video ;)

[@ThaCousin]

@@BrohunGaming What a legend, ty mate! Glad to know u are enjoying it. And get ready because, from what we've seen so far on PTR, S4 is all buff for this build :D I'm mainly playing this build tbh, the more I play it the more I like it. Feels tanky, good dmg, A LOT of utility and outplay potential, feels very nice to play in group, we provide so much value with all the roots, slows and shit we apply + the push back. If you play it smart, for example in Areas, you'll feel like you're running the show xD I want to try to put the ice dmg on runeglass and change harnessing for sh heals, that could improve the build and make us very hard to kill.

[@Alticroo]

ah yes the blue flamethrower

[@thermitejapan]

what kind of runeglass would you use btw on your armors and IG

[@ThaCousin]

If u have decent gear u could put Ice dmg runeglass on it. But keep in mid that empower cap is 50% and we have a base of: 7% honing stone 7% ice dmg ring + 10% harnessing 10% runeglass + 15% Oblivion 20% tether Last 2 are not always active but I mean, u can play with those numbers and maybe have less harnessing and add another perk on armor, like run a sh heals set up and use 5% runeglass instead or harnessing. Or mix some harnessing + 2/3 runeglass. There is room to min-max it taking different paths :) And we don't worry about getting extra empower to counter weaken because we can clean any debuff with tomb or just VG's right click. I'll try to make a video explaining more in depth about all these options of gearing :)

[@Bjarke899]

love the build! it really gets the salt flowing in people xD

[@ThaCousin]

🤣 Yeah it does haha When they are at 1 hit to kill someone (or kill u) and u push them back to death, omg, u can feel the enemy frustration through ur screen. And u can send on Area chat: "brrrrrrrrrrrrr chiillll", and they will suddenly disconnect haha

[@geeek200000]

Hey man why don’t use the void blade on vg could be useful no ?

[@ThaCousin]

For voidblade I have some plans for S4 with the LS artifact (last video is a quick demonstration) But voidblade is another ability that u need to build all around it to make it work properly and get good value, like WC, so have both in the same build as main ability is probably bad idea. I'm running oblivion tether because both are sources of empower and weaken and we need the empower to make windchill work. We could sacrifice Scream, buuut I don't think it is a good play, like there is no chance to trade with voidblade in light armor vs serenity, or weapons like sns or spear. Also, running voidblade in this build would make it weaker vs range in a heavily range meta.

[@F3L0]

FINALLY ACKNOWLEGDIGNNG W I N C H I L L

[@EspherMercury]

Takes me back to my Mei time in very early Overwatch. Got a sub from me.

[@ThaCousin]

Thank you mate! :D Playing Mei in OW 1 was a blast, and the block/wall utility was HUGE. (idk about OW2 because I didn't play it more than a few casual games, F OW)

[@Checkyoursyx]

I’d assume WC is considered ranged thus proccing negative energy on VG? I only ask because they don’t exactly tell you if an ability is ranged or melee even though it’s obvious in most cases but for example, ice spike was changed to be melee for what perks need it to be so.

[@ThaCousin]

WC is a bit weird, it is a DoT, so there are many things that don't proc, for example: Leeching/lifesteal Empowering breaker It can't crit either, so any on crit perk It does not "hit", so it shouldn't proc conditioning perks. And as far as I know WC does not proc sh heals, sh fortification, etc. I'm not sure if elemental aversion is reducing the WC dmg properly, I think they change it but I'm not 100%, I'll test it later. Thank you for your comment mate! :D

[@Checkyoursyx]

Ya it’d be awesome if they gave us a QoL stat sheet for the in depth players for everything and the option to toggle it on or off. Like Diablo, I want numbers!! Lol

[@ThaCousin]

@@Checkyoursyx Yeah bro, same feeling, get detailed info in NW is annoying af. Not to mention that now the dummy takes more dmg than players. Imagine having custom dummies to test any perk, any armor type, etc. Or when the status bar is bugged and showing nothing, GL to know what's active and what isn't haha In many cases u need to go full nerd and just look at the files to know what's happening, QoL lvl -100 xD

[@TheSpociak]

How do you get the ring with Ice Dmg ? I rolled with materia and got luck :x For Ice Damage is like 1% chance to roll

[@ThaCousin]

U can just pick the 3rd perk. I think the recipe is 250 dark matter, 3 Chromatic Seal, the azoth crystal ring, 1 jewelry Matrix and the charm for the perk u want (for ice dmg we need Patch of Corrupted Cloth)

[@brunnosalani9563]

Did you see the ig artifact? Will this build work with her? or is the vg artifact essential?

[@ThaCousin]

Yeah IG artifact is a big W for this build + the new int gem changes, ultra buff for us. I'm planning to bring back the WC/hammer I showed in the previous WC video and some other annoying combinations hehe

[@brunnosalani9563]

VG/GS? we have all defensive side from GS hehe

[@ThaCousin]

@@brunnosalani9563 Yeeeah. I have some plans for VG + melee. Initially with spear/sns/ and GA but I'll definitely try some combos with GS. GS defensive side is solid af, for sure. VG/GA is more common but I tried it in S2 without the artifact and now I want to try my Whirlwind version with the void axe, fun guaranteed xD

[@digytl]

This looks amazing. Thanks for the video. Will have to try it out though I dont have the chest artifact. what would you say is BIS IG for this build?

[@ThaCousin]

The medium pants are pretty good too, it should work fine :D And I think BiS would be WC perk + Alacritous Punishment and 3rd perk: Refreshing move or shrinking frost (I'm not sure ) But u can just craft with 1 seal WC perk + Alacritous Punishment and if u get: Refresh moves, any shirking dmg, KE, keen, vicious, enchanted or keenly speed u are gucci :D

[@digytl]

@@ThaCousin thanks! I will have to see what I can do. Not maxed out on my crafting as of yet but regardless looks like a lot fun.

[@ThaCousin]

Actually I forgot about attunement, if u want to really invest in it and unleash the maximum power of the build, u can craft with the azoth inductor and pick WC perk+punishment+frost attu. But before that, craft the 2 cheap perk with Seal, and if after playing the build for some time u really love it, go for the BiS expensive craft.

[@ThaCousin]

@@digytl by any chance do u play on Delos? I have an extra IG for this build that I can give u for free :)

[@digytl]

@@ThaCousin lol no unfortunately! I am on CoS just getting back into playing. Thank you though!

[@jbgangsta20]

What would your finalized build look like ?

[@ThaCousin]

Something like; ARMOR: -Health/ ele aversion / weapon perks -Health/ ele aversion / refreshing x4 (but u can use 1 refreshing on earring/ring to have extra slot on armor for defensive perks) -Health/ ele aversion / sh energy (pants) In the final form is better use ice runeglass and change harnessing for any other defensive perk, it could be conditioning perks or freedom. -Weapon perks on armor: *Ice Storm, Mandatory* Scream is good to have but not mandatory to make it work. And oblivion is in the middle, isn't mandatory but it's REALLY good to have. JEWELRY: -Amulet / Health, Stam Recovery, Fire/Thrust protection. -Ring / Hearty, Ice dmg, (last perk isn't a big deal could be leech, refreshing to use something else in armor, or Purifying Heart) -Earring/ Healthy Toast, Regenerating, (same that ring) WEAPONS: -IG / Windchill perk, Alacritous Punishment/ Refreshing moves or Shrinking ice -VG / Lifetaker with Tether crafted on it I hope it helps :D Out of curiosity, have you already played the build for some time? you like it? I would like to know other people's experience with this build 🤓

[@synergyexe]

Love the flow chart. Top notch.

[@ThaCousin]

:D Hours of complex drawing haha

[@DeqzNW]

been playing WC in my fire ice build for a few weeks, people get pretty mad pretty fast 🤣 Only thing I would say is try get Invig punish on your ring in place of leeching.

[@ThaCousin]

Yeah u right. invig increase the dmg a bit, but I would need use azoth inductor for it and I was trying to keep the build cheap, like my amulet cost me 500g :V Are u running flamethrow + WC, u are evil bro haha

[@DeqzNW]

@@ThaCousin no flamethrower lol, fireball, pillar and burnout 😄

[@sirnicholibraden86]

Can you PLEASE do an updated video on this build? But a bit more noob friendly mate? I'll donate 100$.

[@ThaCousin]

Hi mate, I thought I answer the other comment but maybe I closed the tab before send it lol Yeah I'm actually working in a full spreadsheet with ton of info and builds updates. I'll be also testing all kind of stuff as usual. I'll be playing a new character in some new server but I have like unlimited resources to test with my main character, so it wouldn't be a problem (3 long years of grinding with only 1 character xD)

[@ThaCousin]

But somethings that I can tell in advance is that they buff Windchill vs mobs (PvE) 25%, and maybe one of the new perks will work with Windchill (because Windchill is consider a damage over time, it never actually "hit" the target) and it would be a 15% buff for pvp and extra 20% for PvE (being a total of 45% buff in PvE!!!) I think Windchill will be better than ever 🥶 And is one of my favorite builds so I'll 100% update this to the new patch in a budget version and a min-max version.

[@stg_104]

suscribed

[@ThaCousin]

Thank you mate! much appreciate it 🙏

[@sevyxuoir6714]

Where I can find this build plz

[@ThaCousin]

@@sevyxuoir6714 you can find more info here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1szul6q5Jj0HN7K_l3ivPPxqkycDk1_MuvHHuVccMPHw/edit?usp=drivesdk If you have any questions just let me know :)

[@preemptivefaceplant5277]

This was beautiful.

[@ThaCousin]

Thank you mate! Glad to know u like it 😁

[@NeptalyC]

MA BOYYYY IS BACK!!!!

[@ThaCousin]

Oh yeah! 😎To many fun builds to play in S3

[@daemonkisure2952]

top picked song

[@ThaCousin]

Glad to know! Sometimes, finding the perfect track and syncing the video to the music took me longer than the entire editing process 😂 For the throwing hatchet video, I'm pretty sure I spent more time searching for the right track than anything else haha.

[@matthew8720]

I mean anything that resembles flamethrower is gonna bring the salt lol.

[@ThaCousin]

haha yeah, and this one is even worst, we have grit and the pushback is SOOOOOO annoying. but in the other hand It require more than 1 finger and it has CD, so isn't like FT that u can just press 1 key and walk 4eva 😂 (with the due respect to my FT fellas haha some of them play with 150 ping vs 25 ping players so I'll not judge them)

[@matthew8720]

@@ThaCousin Yeah, no. FT is worse. This clearly takes set up. If people wanna try to bum rush you through ice storm/oblivion that deserve to wipe lol. Maybe try bb/ig next 😂. I am honestly surprised I don’t see it more

[@ggoddkkiller1342]

Hmm, if you had KE with 10% more damage it would even become better.

[@ThaCousin]

Yeah the initial plan was KE instead of Shirking, but I roll that one so I just keep it. But we still have high empower: 7% honing stone 7% ring 10% harnessing 10% runeglass (if u use it) 20% tether 15% obli and from time to times I get a bit more from empowering brake. So after play more with the build I consider just do not run KE and use shirk ice or even refreshing moves instead

[@ggoddkkiller1342]

@@ThaCousin Thank you very much for detailed answer! So it would be a waste for VG build but it would be useful for FS i guess. What about attunement? It should be close to KE.

[@niashiblader]

No way your doing all that dmg with 150 int ?!?!?

[@ThaCousin]

haha nono, magnify was doing his thing when I ran out of intelligence food during recording 😋 25 dex 350 int 25 focus 200 con

[@kain1255]

letsgooo!

[@MrFillman007]

This build can pve?

[@ThaCousin]

Tbh I have no idea, maybe with some changes maybe u could use it for some pve content. But I highly doubt anyone will accept windchill for M3 for example 😋

[@MrFillman007]

Is this the best item thing in this build?@@ThaCousin

[@MrFillman007]

If you could choose, would you change anything?@@ThaCousin

[@ThaCousin]

@@MrFillman007 BiS probably would looks something like; ARMOR: -Health/ ele aversion / weapon perks -Health/ ele aversion / refreshing x4 (but u can use 1 refreshing on earring/ring to have extra slot on armor for defensive perks) -Health/ ele aversion / sh energy (pants) In the final form is better use ice runeglass and change harnessing for any other defensive perk, it could be conditioning perks, freedom is really nice, enchanted ward. -Weapon perks on armor: *Ice Storm, Mandatory* Scream is good to have but not mandatory to make it work. And oblivion is in the middle, isn't mandatory but it's REALLY good to have. JEWELRY: -Amulet / Health, Stam Recovery, Fire/Thrust protection. -Ring / Hearty, Ice dmg, (last perk isn't a big deal it could be leech, refreshing to use something else in armor, or Purifying Heart) -Earring/ Healthy Toast, Regenerating, (3rd perk, same that ring) WEAPONS: -IG / Windchill perk, Alacritous Punishment/ Refreshing moves or Shrinking ice -VG / Lifetaker with Tether crafted on it I hope it helps :D

[@MrFillman007]

@@ThaCousin thank I want this build :D

[@kuroshin7395]

thats fkng perfect

[@tanniaz33]

🍾🍾

[@paramita340]

Still playable?

[@ThaCousin]

Yeah, better than ever. And in S5 they just buffed this build a lot. With a few changes we could have 30% extra base dmg and use orb instead of tether. (We'll max empower without tether). I'll try to show the updates of this build for S5 in the upcoming days :)

[@sirnicholibraden86]

@@ThaCousin Update video? Just got into New World.

[@ThaCousin]

​@@sirnicholibraden86 Ey mate, welcome aboard. 😁 Now that we have all the info I'm working in update the builds, spreadsheets with info etc, to share soon. Stay tune! I'll comment here again tho, to let you know that the video is up or with the links for the documents with all the info in case I can't find the time to make a proper video. But this build in particular looks like isn't getting many changes anyway, some minimum weapon tree. And I'll need test the new perk Distained Infliction and they are buffing Windchill for PvE 📈

[@Fargusas14]

Saddly witht this setup i did find hard to fight heavy and with lots of hp bruisers who have great sword and great axe or spear ,maybe i am doing something wrong , but they just dont get enough dmg to be killed:(

[@ThaCousin]

If they use spear u MUST avoid or clean the skewer weaken, it reduces ur dmg in half (clean with tomb or VG's right click) U can use the same WC pushback to avoid skewer and perforate. Vs great sword, they take 15% more dmg during onslaught stance, but 15% less during defiance stance, so u need to put attention in which stance they are (in general depends what ability they use last). Also Relentless (the spin ability) removes roots, so u can expect they use it after root to timing it and dodge it. Vs medium players in general try to keep up the rend applied provided for lifetaker (up to 30% rend, is a noticeable amount of extra dmg) Also make sure to capitalise tether and oblivion empowers (and weakens). For example if at the moment of cast Ice Storm u are on top of oblivion, Ice Storm will continue doing dmg during all the duration of the ability counting the empower of oblivion (or any other source) that u had at the moment to cast it. That's why u want to try to first land tether, drop oblivion and then cast Storm. Not always possible, but if possible it makes the difference. If they play full sh heals, try to auto attack less if they are just waiting for ur autos to heal themselves. Windchill/oblivion/Ice Storm dmg do not proc sh heals. U can use auto attacks but u need be more careful, u can notice when they are just making time and waiting to dodge ur auto attacks to heal. To keep up ur cds with ig u can try to cast inside ur Ice Storm or any ally frozen area, it will reduce ur cd 20%. GA and spear are more easy to counter but GS can be tricky because they have grit on heavy attacks (so no push back with wc) and an ability to break root.

[@ThaCousin]

Lot of text but I hope it helps u a bit. It is a weird build so it can take some practice to get the trick, but u will beat them :D

[@Fargusas14]

@@ThaCousin Omg thanks for this epic respond ! I will keep practice , thank you very much for the tips & tricks !

[@DeityVengy]

🤣

[@Xthasys]

lmao i imagine metachads dont understanding wtf is going on

[@ThaCousin]

Windchill got a few quirks, but one of its strengths is how it humbles folks with fancy meta builds 😂

[@Kirkland_Drip]

Does this shit still work??

[@ThaCousin]

Yeah, better than ever! 🥶💪 Btw I noticed I still owe you a reply on one of your comments from the last video. I just got home from work and finally have some time to chill with my laptop. I'll make sure to catch up on all those pending comments and also shoot you a guideline on how to put that build together, sorted by priority 😁

[@Kirkland_Drip]

​This! My OPRs are so laggy rn I'm going 3v3 for awhile so I'm making this build most likely, maybe your hatchet one. Also. Bro. Made your pull my satisfaction sexecute build and rolled borderline BiS off golden scarabs crafting. Nutty. Having a blast! @@ThaCousin

[@ThaCousin]

@@Kirkland_Drip 'pull my satisfaction sexecute build' hahaha that should be the official name of the build 🤣 Glad to know u are enjoying it mate, is an awesome build. At this point I have like too many favorite build xD but that scorpion/ga build is just too good, is not only fun, is fucking effective everywhere. Like it could be a main build no problem. Actually the other day I started to war again and I played it in medium haha But mid war I swap from exe to maelstorm and kick for perforate, was so funny hahaha The terror of the range shooting from the wall. sad my laptop melt during wars so I can't make clips.

[@JauntsGaming]

Yucky 🤢... Tilt city bby

[@ThaCousin]

😂

[@Jacropora]

What attributes are you running, con seems so high lol

[@ThaCousin]

@@Jacropora Oh, yeah magnify doing his magic when I run out of int food... STATS: 25 dex 350 int 25 focus 200 con (Extra points use it in Con. or Int. In Con. u will get better value from it, but up to u or magnify).

[@grimetone]

Wind Chill is the most wonky ability in the game. Should be replaced asap.

[@Altarknight]

is not under rated i got eye on it just waiting for the right time to get out of it

[@smokedoggxxl]

what is "ig"?

[@ThaCousin]

Ice Gauntlet 😄

[@replay5557]

ive been killed by this an i find it so raging funny. fun>meta