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New World: Best Armor Sets, Ranked

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If there's anything people love about MMORPGs, it's the ways players can customize their characters. Naturally, players are already planning out their New World: Aeternumarmor sets. There are several gear sets to choose from, and the game has plenty of crafting options available for impressive, high-level gear along with clothing for gathering resources.

The concept of building characters and classes from the ground up, including discovery the perfect armor set for every unique build, continues to be one of the finest features of New World. The Trading Post and various crafting stations present various opportunities for collecting and crafting along with the armor sets available from each faction according to the player's rank, level, what Expeditions they've visited, and the faction they've chosen.

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Updated on December 6, 2024, by Kristy Ambrose: Each piece of armor in Ne

New World Equip Load System

The Equipment Load system in New World defines your character as light, medium or heavy based on their equipped armor weight and then gives you bonuses based on that type.

For example, with mostly light pieces of armor equipped and perhaps one medium piece, your build will fall into the light Equip Load category.

Each category of Equipment Load in New World provides different benefits and drawbacks:

Light – grants you 20% increased damage, 30% increased healing, and gives you the best form of dodge possible: the roll dodge.
Medium – grants you 10% bonus damage, 15% bonus healing, as well as a 10% bonus to crowd control durations and turns your dodge into a quick hop instead of a roll.
Heavy – grants no bonus damage or healing, but does offer a 15% bonus to block and a 20% longer duration to crowd control effects. Heavy builds have the weakest type of dodge in the game which is a basic sidestep.

Your character’s Equip Load is based on the combined weight of your equipped armor and shield.

Light Range: 0-13 total weight
Medium Range: 13-23 total weight
Heavy Range: 23-50 total weight

You can easily track your character’s Equ

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Introduction

Armor in New World Aeternum plays a huge role in how your overall character functions in the game. It doesn’t just provide mitigations but also determines how agile or slow your character becomes during combat. It can also provide your character with special bonuses and additional attribute points through the use of perks and gem slots. We cover all this and more in our New World Armor Guide.

Tiers & Rarity

The gear system in New World Aeternum is based on different tiers and gear scores. However, all gear including armor has a specific level requirement as well. The level requirement for a specific piece of gear is based on its gear score.

Tier 2 – Level 1-19
Tier 3 – Level 20-39
Tier 4 – Level 40-59
Tier 5 – Level 60+

Also worth noting is that higher rarity gear has a lower level requirement than lower rarity gear with the same gear score, which makes the rarity of gear even more valuable.

Armor Rarities

There are different gear rarities in New World Aeternum, and armor is no exception. The progression of rarity in gear is as follows:

Common (Gray)
Uncommon (Green)
Rare (Blue)
Epic (Purple)

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This armor is the biggest joke in the complete game. Is so useless that is practically good for nothing.

It is useless in pve for dungeons, etc and also in pvp.

The damage mitigation is a joke. It is 100% times better to play light with a lot of mobility and the ability to engage and disengage of combat than have to take damage.

It is better to have low hp, evade more damage, flee from combat, do more damage, kite and etc than trying to catch anyone using medium and mitigate damage like if you're actually wearing a paper bag as armor.

Not even for bruisers is good because then just play with heavy armor if you want to tank or be a bruiser. Is 100% better.

My question is: is AGS aware that 80% of the players uses light armor, the 18% heavy and maybe a 2% only medium?
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The New World Equip Loads system involves the sum of all your armor weight. This sum determines which bonuses you will receive from the Equip Weight system. In this New World guide, we will go through the weight of each piece of armor.
Benefits of each Equip Load
Before we look at the best way to optimize mitigation for each equip load, let’s look at the benefits of each of the 3 equip loads. Below is a chart that summarizes what you’ll earn while in each equip load.
Equip Load Weight Damage Modifier Incoming CC Duration Outgoing Healing Block Stability Delay in Run after hit Dodge (cost) PvP Crit Damage Taken
Light Under 13 None 1.0s Delay Roll (-50 Stam)
Medium From 13 – 22.9 None None None 0.75s Delay Hop (-50 Stam)
Heavy Over 23 0.50s Delay Step (-55 Stam)
Heavy armor also has increased threat generation from taunting gems and perks to account for the decrease in damage output.
The amount of Mitigation you’ll earn from each equip load varies depending on damage types and the type of armor you’re wearing.
Optimal Light and Medium Equip Loads
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Equip Load	Weight	Damage Modifier	Incoming CC Duration	Outgoing Healing	Block Stability	Delay in Run after hit
Light	Under 13	None	1.0s Delay	Roll (-50 Stam)
Medium	From 13 – 22.9	None	None	None	0.75s Delay	Hop (-50 Stam)
Heavy	Over 23	0.50s Delay	Step (-55 Stam)