new-world Season of Conquerors: Seasonal World PvP Breakdown

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Take a deep-dive into all the details of the new "always on" PvP server coming to New World: Aeternum.

The all-new, always-on PvP seasonal world is coming to New World: Aeternum on January 21, 2025 - will you be participating? The team just released additional details of what you can expect to see in these unique seasonal worlds, including some all-new weapons and armor pieces that will have a drastic impact on overall combat.

During the Season of Conquerors (Season 7), the introduction of new seasonal worlds will be introduced, with the first being PvP-oriented servers. Within these servers, once a player reaches level 15 or selects a faction, they will then be permanently flagged for PvP, allowing any and every other player in their surroundings to attack. 

The overall thought process behind this first seasonal world is to help encourage an engaging risk vs reward gameplay loop, allowing players to not only craft all-new, extremely powerful weapons and armor, but also allowing them to lose it if they get defeated by another player!

From character creation, players will be able to craft powerful Ethereal and Conqueror versions of weapons, armor, jewelry, and tools. These items have curated PvP-focused perks, high gear score, low level requirements, and have special perks that allow players to generate Wrathstones from specific activities. Ethereal gear is incredibly cheap to craft but comes with the risk that they are dropped-on-death and will eventually break with enough play.

Examples of some of the new weapons (and their new perks) being introduced to this seasonal world includes the greatsword and warhammer below:

Crescent's Wave (Greatsword)

• Crescent Wave - while above 50% health, heavy attacks consume 20 mana to cast a wave projectile forward dealing 150% weapon damage.
• Refreshing Move - Light and Heavy attacks reduce your active cooldowns by 2.5% (0.2s cooldown).
• Leeching Crosscut - Heal for 72% of the damage dealt by the final strike of crosscut.
• Trenchant Strikes - Heavy Melee attacks deal +23% Damage.

Yeeterson's Hammer (War Hammer)

• Yeet - +400% push distance, and +30% base damage to all War Hammer knockbacks. Clear out will ignite the first target hit, turning them into a projectile causing 150% weapon damage to all enemies they pass through.
• Sundering Clear Out - Inflicts 24% Rend for 7s on targets hit with clear out
• Plagued Strikes - Heavy attacks inflict disease for 8s, decreasing incoming healing by 27%, and outgoing healing by 14%.
• Refreshing Move - Light and Heavy attacks reduce your active cooldowns by 2.5% (0.2s cooldown)

In order to support overall progression of characters on this seasonal world, the following changes will be implemented:

• All player XP, weapon mastery, and tradeskill XP gain is increased by 25% on this world.
• We have created a new resource called Ethereal Dust. This resource can be obtained by refining core resources or by salvaging Ethereal gear. The higher value the resource or item is, the more dust you get. This resource is also the primary way you discover and unlock new Conquerors gear crafting recipes by crafting Ethereal Animus.
• All Ethereal gear has a level 15 requirement and Conquerors gear has a level 20 requirement to use. That means if you manage to kill and take someone’s gear or you have powerful friends, you can be competitive even at lower levels with the right gear.
• Ethereal gear is considerably cheap to craft and has a high gearscore at every tier. The crafting cost for ethereal items is half the material cost of the same tier item equivalent. T2 Ethereal items are gearscore 350, T3 are 600, T4 are 700, and T5 are 725.
• Mount Skill is unlocked automatically at level 15 without having to do the quest. Craft your first mount and special Ethereal mount food at any camp to get riding ASAP. You can also obtain high end mount straps and horseshoes from Ethereal Animus.
• The Heartrune equip slot is unlocked by default on this server without having to do the quest. You have a chance to earn top tier heartrunes from consuming Ethereal Animus, though you will still need to be level 65 to equip these.

When the season ends, players won’t lose their progress. Instead, they can transfer their characters to a pre-existing server of their choice, ensuring the effort invested on Seasonal Worlds carries over.

The all-new weapons and gear gathered by their characters will be converted to competitive item replacements with perks focused on PvP and gearscore that will have an impact at the tier level of gear. As an example, Conquerors gear will be converted to GS 715 items, while T5 Ethereal gear will convert to 705 GS.

To learn more about all of these changes, view the video below.