New World: Guide For Returning Players

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New World is back. Player numbers are up, and the hype for the new Brimstone Sands expansion is getting bigger by the day. A lot has changed in the past year, including some fundamental tweaks to how you level, how you progress your gear score, and how you treat the endgame grind. This guide for returning players covers everything you need to know about jumping back into the game.

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We will cover the new Gypsum and Expertise system, how the new fast travel and storage system works, how you complete mutated versions of Expeditions, and lots of other tips, tricks, and useful info you might have missed.

If you're returning to the game after a long, long hiatus, there's probably a lot going on, and you're completely lost. That's fine, and to be expected, really.

This is probably the largest fundamental change to how New World's endgame works. In the days of old, the so-called "watermark" system was not something players loved. An invisible number that dictated your gear score? It wasn't great.

Now things are a lot better. There are two big changes: Gypsum and Expertise.

Gypsum is a new system that allows you to increase the gear score of your items by completing a range of different tasks. Gypsum can be crafted into Gypsum at the new Gyspum kilns at high-level Outposts in Edengrove, Shattered Mountain, etc.

There are multiple different Gypsums that you can unlock each day.

You can craft this Gypsum into Gypsum Orbs that have a one-day cooldown. This leads us neatly onto the next section of this guide: Expertise.

Expertise is a new gear score level that will dictate your overall gear score. Expertise is earned by opening Gypsum Crates from the Kiln, by defeating high-level