Blunderbuss Gems and Consumables for New World

Important Note: The Blunderbuss can be an interesting weapon when deciding what gems should be used.

The reason why Blunderbuss uses Runeglass of Ignited Ruby is because it primarily scales with Strength. This will give more damage weight to scaling with Intelligence. But, since this weapon's abilities deal Fire damage, it has great scaling with the 150 Intelligence passive, and then it also scales high damage for both weapons. If you put Strength in the build, it would be wasted on the Ice Gauntlet.

Even in a hybrid damage build with the War Hammer, a Runeglass of Ignited Ruby is still more beneficial and can be put in both weapons. Even for builds purely focusing on Strength it is still a good option because it will still scale the Blunderbuss well, but now it makes more of its damage elemental, specifically Fire, which most people do not stack gem resistances for, so you will do more damage still after mitigation.

Slot	Gem
Blunderbuss	Runeglass of Ignited Ruby
IceGauntlet	Runeglass of Ignited Opal
Helmet	Runeglass of Ignited Onyx
Gloves	Runeglass of Ignited Onyx
Chest	Runeglass of Ignited Onyx
Legs	Runeglass of Ignited Onyx
Boots	Runeglass of Ignited Onyx
Amulet	Cut Pristine Opal
Ring	Cut Pristine Opal
Earring	Cut Pristine Opal

*: You can play whatever resistances you are comfortable with. The primary component to this is having the proper type of Runeglass (Ignited) in your gear because of your emphasis on your Blunderbuss.

If you prefer focusing on Ice damage with Ice Spikes you can use Runeglass of Frozen Opal and Runeglass of Frozen Onyx instead. This is up to personal preference and how you choose to play with each weapon.

Slot	Gem
Blunderbuss	Runeglass of Ignited Opal
WarHammer	Runeglass of Ignited Opal
Helmet	Runeglass of Ignited Onyx
Gloves	Runeglass of Ignited Onyx
Chest	Runeglass of Ignited Onyx
Legs	Runeglass of Ignited Onyx
Boots	Runeglass of Ignited Onyx
Amulet	Cut Pristine Opal
Ring	Cut Pristine Opal
Earring	Cut Pristine Opal

*: If you choose to run a build with full Strength and no Intelligence, you can use Runeglass of Ignited Opal instead.

The goal is to take advantage of Slash Protection since you are commonly in the frontline with these builds, or have focus from melee enemies using weapons like Great Axe. As such,it is most advantageous to set your resistances to prioritize slash resistance, higher physical resistance, and less elemental resistance. Keep in mind when using Runeglass gems that your overall resistance will be lower than if you were using regular gems.

Also remember that Runeglass can only go into armor and not jewelry.

The primary dictator of your resistances and how to manage your total gem count is based on the jewelry that you are able to acquire. Remember, you can use any gems that allow you to get close to this split, or achieve the desired resistance split.

If you are unable to follow the example above, or if you have jewelry that prevents you from doing so, use a mix of Cut Pristine Diamond, Cut Pristine Opal, Cut Pristine Diamond, and Cut Pristine Malachite, to get as close as you can to even resistances.

Remember that any gem can be made into a Runeglass variant, so if you need to use whatever gems will get you close to your desired resistance distribution. This decision will typically be made as a result of your current jewelry since gems will be locked into some, speciifcally crafted items.

In PvE it is advantageous to slot your gear full of specific elemental resistance gems that match the mutator for that week. For example, when there is a Fire damage affix, you should use Cut Pristine Ruby.

• Cut Pristine Diamond (Weapons) + Elemental Resistance Gem x8 + Amulet Protection Perk (Depending on Mutator damage type)

In mutated expeditions there will be rotating elemental effects combined with a variety of innate elemental effects native to the expedition you are in. Nonetheless, elemental damage is the primary concern. While you can specifically gem for something like a fire affix using Cut Pristine Ruby, you receive more overall defensiveness from all elemental types by simply using all Cut Pristine Opal in your gear.

• Infused Health Potion — These are necessary to use in all situations. It will quickly provide you with 2400 + 7% of your health back, which can save you in any content.
• Infused Regeneration Potion — These are a fundamental aspect to your consumable kit thanks to Purifying Toast. Take advantage of these for a slight amount of healing, but the real focus is to get yourself out of roots, slows, or removing any other type of debuff.
• Infused Mana Potion — Although your mana is consumed by some secondaries, like an Ice Gauntlet, these will never be used..

• Energizing Hearty Meal — This food can be used to stack onto other food buffs that will increase mana regeneration rate by 30% in addition to 1% max health every 2.5 seconds. This will never be needed with a Blunderbuss.
• Hearty Meal — This food also provides a 1% max health ever 2.5 seconds, but is not as viable in the healing role. It does provide a 220 health per second buff that can be used for a small amount of healing over time for those without access to a healer. In all cases, an Energizing Hearty Meal will be consumed before a PvP or PvE event instead.
• Desert Sunrise — Overall, this is a valuable PvP and PvE consumable that can be stacked on top of other food-related buffs. It will reduce the duration of damage of time effects by 17.5%, so it is important to consume at the start of an event.

• Roasted Rabbit with Seasoned Vegetables — 48 Constitution
• Gremolata Tenderloin — 40 Constitution
• Steamed Abaia Serpe — 48 Intelligence
• Ancho Masala Scorpion — 40 Intelligence
• Roasted Gnufish — 48 Strength
• Beef Braciole — 40 Strength

The attribute bonus food you select will depend on how your attribute points are contributed to your character sheet. For example, you may not have a large amount of Constitution and you do have a large amount of Intelligenceon your gear, so you will need to use Roasted Rabbit with Seasoned Vegetables. Note that it will be generally more cost effective to use Constitution or hybrid stat foods than a pure single stat food.

There are a number of consumables in New World that increase damage done or reduce damage taken. These are the general damage modification consumables that can be used in PvP or PvE.

• Powerful Gemstone Dust — This is a very valuable PvP consumable, but it still has viability in PvE. It will increase absorption of elemental damage by 35% for 20 seconds, or until hit 15 times. Primarily, this will be used when taking heavy magic damage, or it can be used proactively when trying to push through choke points in a war or when you assume magic damage will be incoming.
• Powerful Oakflesh Balm — This is the physical damage version of Powerful Gemstone Dust. It will increase absorption of physical damage types by 35%. It has less viability as it only applies to physical weapon types. Since most attacks will be some type of magic variant, and because most physical damage has a skewed elemental component to it, this consumable goes below any gemstone dust on a priority list.
• Powerful Honing Stone — To increase damage output in both PvP and PvE a honing stone acts as a valuable commodity to improve performance. In the healer role it is less of a priority, but it is still beneficial to increase damage output to secure kills and help your team. Overall, the highest tier of honing stone will increase damage by 7%. This will not increase your healing output on friendly targets.

In a War you will acquire tokens from gameplay that allow for you to purchase war specific consumables. There are some incredibly important consumables that will significantly increase your survivability when used correctly. There are also many forms of utility-based consumables to aid with mobility and other aspects of war gameplay.

• Cleansing Elixir — When used it will remove all current debuffs and provide a 5 second window of immunity to debuffs. These are best used when overrun by multiple targets and being afflicted with slows, damage over time effects, exhausts, etc. You can then freely reposition and reduce incoming damage. Alternatively, they are incredibly useful when used preemptively to push through doors into fort or trying make your way through large clumps of enemies. It can be consumed, then you take advantage of the 5 second window to avoid crowd control effects and get into an advantageous position.
• Haste Elixir — This will increase movement speed by 50% for 20 seconds, or until you are hit or perform any combat action. This is important to use when respawning in War combat, trying to make an initial push to a point on offense, or to reposition in any situation and regroup with your army. Be careful, if you are hit, take fall damage, roll, or weapon swap, this effect can be canceled.
• Healing Elixir — This is a free Infused Health Potion if you do not want to use your own, or forgot to bring them. It is tied to the same cooldown as any other health potion.
• Mana Elixir — This is a free Infused Mana Potion if you do not want to use your own, or forgot to bring them. It is tied to the same cooldown as any other mana potion.

When using a Haste Elixir these should never take up a hotbar slot. This becomes a wasted opportunity to take another consumable that could save your life. The difficulty becomes that haste potions may have a lot of mid combat value to reposition with your team. To most easily use these you will need to take advantage of the search feature in your inventory. Before the war starts, type "Haste Elixir" into the search bar. This will leave your inventory filtered for only haste elixirs, so it will be significantly easier to find mid war and use when needed.

In PvE content, general consumables such as food or damage modification items will still be used. But, specific to PvE, there are damage reduction and improvement items for each type of enemy in the game.

When using a coating, you will need two of the type you have chosen. One coating will go on each weapon, so be sure to swap weapons before applying, and this will improve damage done to that respective enemy type.

• Infused Corrupted Coating
• Infused Angry Earth Coating
• Infused Ancient Coating
• Infused Lost Coating
• Infused Beast Coating

When consumed these will improve damage absorption against the potions respective enemy type or damage type.

• Infused Ancient Ward Potion
• Infused Angry Earth Ward Potion
• Infused Ancient Ward Potion
• Infused Beast Ward Potion
• Infused Corrupted Ward Potion
• Infused Lost Ward Potion
• Infused Fire Absorption Potion
• Infused Arcane Absorption Potion
• Infused Nature Absorption Potion
• Infused Lightning Absorption Potion
• Infused Void Absorption Potion

• Powerful Incense — When consumed, this will increase all resistances to afflictions by 50. This will increase your overall total for receiving corruption damage, blight damage, or acid debuffs to a cap of 100 instead of the normal 50.
• Infused Blight Tincture
— When consumed, this will remove the Blight Afflication and provide maximum resistance to Corruption for a short duration.
• Infused Corruption Tincture
— When consumed, this will remove the Corruption Afflication and provide maximum resistance to Corruption for a short duration.

Since you only have four total consumable slots available to you, it is important to manage your hotbar across different types of content. In PvP there are crucial consumables that can completely alter the course of your gameplay. In PvE there is a long list of consumables that prove to be valuable as well. No matter what, you do not have the time to dig in your inventory and pull out the consumables quickly. So, it becomes a major priority in your gameplay to know what consumables you should be using.

In war you gain access to Cleansing Elixir, so it is crucial to have these incorporated to your toolbar loadout. In all roles, it is best to prioritize Powerful Gemstone Dust over Powerful Oakflesh Balm because you are more likely to benefit more due to the types of damage incoming and the way that your resistances are set. An example War hotbar would look like so:

• Infused Regeneration Potion
• Infused Health Potion
• Cleansing Elixir
• Powerful Gemstone Dust

• Infused Regeneration Potion
• Infused Health Potion
• Powerful Oakflesh Balm (Any tier to save money)
• Powerful Gemstone Dust (Any tier to save money)

In PvE content Powerful Gemstone Dust and Powerful Gemstone Dust become less powerful since you are able to benefit from Ward Potions and Absorption potions, such as Infused Angry Earth Ward Potion or Infused Fire Absorption Potion. This makes PvE hotbars very flexible, in general it could look something like this:

• Infused Regeneration Potion
• Infused Health Potion
• Powerful Gemstone Dust or Powerful Oakflesh Balm
• Ward Potion/Absorption Potion

• Infused Regeneration Potion
• Infused Health Potion
• Hearty Meal
• Low tier Gemstone Dust or Oakflesh Balm