29 articlesIf you’re wondering what the top 5 best weapon combos are in Season 10 of New World: Aeternum, you’ve come to the right place.
While we’re still early into this new season, it’s already easy to see which weapon combos are doing best in the meta. Some of them are just a bit too dominant, currently!
Which ones are those? Well, read on and we’ll let you know all about them.
Top 5 Weapon Combos in Season 10 | New World: Aeternum
5) Life Staff + Void Gauntlets
To kick things off, we wanted to give a shoutout to all the healers out there with the Life Staff and Void Gauntlets combo. Almost every party wants at least one healer, after all!
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The Void Gauntlets further help cement the support playstyle. They provide a lot of crowd control, buffs to allies, debuffs to enemies, and even some extra healing!
So, if you want to fulfill the role of a healer or support, Life Staff with Void Gauntlets is definitely a great combo. It deserves a spot on our list due to how important healers are in this game.
4) Sword + Flail and Shield
Tanks are also as important as healers, so we wanted to give them a spot here as well! The combination of Sword with Flail and Shield is a very strong tanking weapon combo right now. As a tank with this combo, you offer a lot of utility to your team.
The Sword can be used to do damage and keep aggro on you, while also providing buffs to your party. Meanwhile, the Flail is there to help you weaken and disrupt your foes, as well as provide some minor healing to yourself and allies.
Simply put, a tank with this weapon combination can be a great asset to any party. They can greatly help the whole party’s survivability, and even their damage output with the right spec!
3) Hatchet + Fire Staff
Hatchet with the Fire Staff is another very powerful weapon combo currently, although saying the Fire Staff does much is a bit disingenuous.
The Hatchet is a very strong DPS option, as it has the ability to easily apply Rend to lower an enemy’s defenses. In party content, this also means increasing your entire party’s damage output!
This, combined with the Hatchet’s other abilities, allows you to deal a lot of damage with relative ease. Plus, it’s a fairly solid weapon for survivability as well!
The Fire Staff? Realistically, in this combination, the Fire Staff is mainly an enabler for the Hatchet.
Thanks to the Inferno Artifact and the Hatchet’s playstyle, you’ll get a nearly permanent +15% damage buff when combining these weapons together. We even have a guide about this build, if you want to try out dishing out some insane DPS!
2) Rapier + Bow
This is another weapon combination that is shining in the current meta. Both of these thrusting weapons synergize with each other surprisingly well and have a lot of options when put together!
First, the Rapier. This is mainly used as a defensive tool, thanks to its Evade and Riposte skills. It’s used to get out of a bad situation, such as when enemies close the gap while you’re trying to use the Bow.
As for the Bow, it’s your main damage dealer in this build. Bows are extremely strong currently and are capable of dishing out massive damage with single shots. We even have a one-shot Bow build as an example of their damage potential!
However, as you might imagine, Bows are less than ideal when enemies get too close… but that’s not an issue when you have your Rapier to fall back on. You can either use it to finish an enemy off or evade until you’re back into a favorable position for the Bow.
This is a very powerful and versatile weapon combo. It’s also extremely annoying to deal with in PvP, as it allows you to be extremely skittery while dealing massive damage.
1) Blunderbuss + Fire Staff
Finally, we have the Blunderbuss and Fire Staff at the number 1 spot on our list. This weapon combo instantly became one of the strongest in Season 10, and we even have a PvE build based on it as an example.
The main reason that this weapon combination works so well is once again due to the powerful Inferno Artifact for the Fire Staff.
However, in this case, it’s not just there to buff your main weapon! It’s an actual worthwhile here weapon due to the Inferno changing the Fire Staff scaling to STR and INT. This matches perfectly with the Blunderbuss’s Attributes, conveniently.
That said, the +15% buff from the Inferno is definitely welcome. It works extremely well for the Blunderbuss, making its DPS potential skyrocket.
All of that while also having two weapons that give you a lot of versatility! This is definitely one of, if not the, strongest weapon combos you can currently use in Season 10.
So, there you have it. That’s our top 5 of the best weapon combos in Season 10 of New World: Aeternum. This is, of course, all subject to change! We’re still early into the season, so the meta could develop differently in the long run, especially when patches are released.
