Introduction

This New World Butcher PvE DPS build features the artifact, the Butcher. This build revolves around applying bleed damage to your targets. The bleed damage is enhanced with the artifact, and when paired with the spear provides a lot of utility for your team.

*IMPORTANT* – Check out our Expedition builds info guide for the full breakdown of damage types versus mob types and consumables you should utilize within each expedition.

Mastery Points

The Butcher

Spear

Attributes

Attribute	Beginner	Experienced	Advanced	Pro
Strength	300	350	350	350
Dexterity	150	150	200	250
Constitution	150	100	50	5

New World Butcher PvE Equipment

Item	Weight	Attribute	Perk 1	Perk 2	Perk 3	Perk 4
Helmet	Medium	Strength	Health	Refreshing	Enchanted Ward	N/A
Chest – Featherweight	Light	Magnify	Health	Refreshing	Physical Aversion	Weightless
Gloves	Light	Strength	Health	Refreshing	Enchanted Ward	N/A
Pants	Medium	Strength	Health	Refreshing	Shirking Energy	N/A
Boots	Medium	Strength	Health	Enchanted Ward	Bleeding Sweep	N/A
Amulet	N/A	Str / Dex	Health	Protection Perk (Depending on Mutation)	Empowered	N/A
Ring	N/A	Str / Dex	Slash Damage	Hearty	Blood Letting	N/A
Earring	N/A	Str / Dex	Refreshing Toast	Purifying Toast	Nimble / Regenerating	N/A
Spear	N/A	Dexterity	Enfeebling Skewer	Vicious	Keenly Jagged	N/A
Sword – The Butcher	N/A	Magnify	Bloodletting	Jagged Whirls	Empowering Whirling Blade	Keenly Jagged
Shield	Round	N/A	Shield Aggression	Keenly Empowered	Keen	Vicious

Note: Bloodletting on the butcher does stack with bloodletting on your ring. Also, Bleeding sweep does NOT have it’s duration extended by either bloodletting perk.

Artifact Additions & Magnify

You will want to add a gem slot to the butcher artifact at the gypsum kiln. The featherweight’s additional perk will be health as listed above.

Be aware of how much magnify you have added into your build. This can cause your attribute point distribution to not be ideal. However, with that in min there are several pieces of equipment for this build you can farm out if you choose to do so:

Item	Type	Obtained	Attribute
The Butcher	Sword	Zhou Taiying Mutated Dynasty Shipyard	Magnify
Featherweight	Chest	Ner’Mur Elysian Wilds	Magnify
Hearty Pants	Pants	Ennead Expedition or Gypsum Kiln for 3,500 Dense Materia	Magnify
Pirated Spear of the Brigand	Spear	Barnacles & Black Powder (Mutation 3)	Dex / Con
Lifering Spear	Spear	Edengrove Named: Abiogenesis, Baines, Malevolence, Entropy	Dex
Syncretic Spear	Spear	Open world mobs – Brimstone Sands	Dex
Keratin Spear	Spear	Brimstone Sands – Heliopolis or Castrum Principium	Dex
Privateer’s Heriloom	Ring	Nereid Barnacles and Black Powder or Gypsum Kiln for 3,500 Dense Materia	Strength
Azoth Crystal Gear	All Armor Types	Mutation 2+ Expeditions or Gypsum Kiln for 3,500 Dense Mutator Materia	Magnify

Heartrune

For this build, you’ll use the  Brutal Heartrune of Detonate. Detonate gives a passive increase to DPS without interrupting your DPS rotation. You will take additional damage while it’s charging so be aware when activating the ability.

Gems

For your armor, you will want to slot the appropriate gem to mitigate the damage for that particular mutation.

If you feel comfortable with your survivability you can also opt to slot all opals in your gear and then utilize a mutation-specific gem in your amulet. This will give you more overall elemental resistance but less mutation-specific resistance. However, you will not have to switch gems for each mutation. You would then only need to swap your amulet to match the mutation type.

For your weapons, you can utilize either an opal or a diamond. If you’re in a group with a good healer and you feel comfortable that your health will be topped off then diamond is a great option. However, if you’re running with a pickup group (pug group) or want more direct control over your damage then an opal would be the ideal option.

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