New World: Best Healer Build

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A healer build is one of the best builds in New World, both for leveling and for running endgame PvE and PvP. Our best healer build combines the Life Staff and the Void Gauntlet for damage, heals, debuffs, and more.

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This guide will cover the path you should take through your masteries and attributes, as well as how you can effectively use a support build to level up your character fast. We will also include some variations on the build, so you can experiment with your playstyle.

We updated this guide on September 16 to bring it more in-line with the current meta of New World ahead of the 2022 Brimstone Sands expansion. A lot has changed, and so has our guide to the best healer builds in the game.

The main focus of this build is a combination of the Life Staff and Void Gauntlet. It can be tricky to level up with this combination at the start of the game, but by the time you reach Expeditions and beyond, it should make for a very effective healer build.

The Life Staff is going to be your main source of healing and support. You want to focus on these three abilities:

This is one of the biggest sources of AoE healing at your disposal. The base-level ability creates an area of healing (which does not move) that heals for 20 percent of weapon damage every second for 15 seconds. It tiers into Holy Ground (buffs mana and health regen up to 100 percent while stood in Sacred Ground's aura) and then into Blessed (all allies get an extra 50 percent buff to all incoming healing.)

Arguably one of the best abilities for the Life Staff, this is going to be one of your biggest sources of damage and healing. It grants Fortify to allies, healing, and also deals up to 146 percent weapon damage when