10 New World tips I wish I knew sooner

The MMO New World celebrates its release on September 28th. We at MeinMMO have put together 10 tips for you that can be very helpful for getting started with the game.

What is this about? In this article we have collected New World tips and tricks. This article originally appeared on August 29, 2020 and was last updated on November 2, 2022.

We’ve also put together a guide of rookie mistakes to avoid: New World: 7 rookie mistakes to avoid.

All guides from MeinMMO to New World can be found in this overview:

1. Try all weapons early

There are no classes in New World. Instead, your weapons determine what skills you have, and your gear gives you stats that match (or don’t match). You can also distribute attribute points with each level-up.

Up to level 20 you can reset your distributed points for free. That’s why it’s a good idea to test all weapons and different skills early on, after all you don’t have any losses as a result.

Since the latest update, all weapons are already available to you in the starting area.

For leveling, it is advisable to attack opponents with a ranged weapon in order to have an initial advantage. Many enemies attack you in melee, so a melee weapon is useful. To help you find your way around as a newcomer, we have put together some beginner builds here:

New World: 3 entry-level builds ideal for PvE and leveling

2. Use campfire to respawn

Every player can place their campfire almost anywhere in the world. This is cheap and gives you the opportunity to craft at your current location. But the campfire has a much more important function.

It can be used as a respawn location.

So if you know that you will be collecting and questing in the area for a long time or you are facing a big challenge where you can die, you should place your campfire early.

3. Decide on a faction and join a company

Between levels 10 and 13 you will get to know the three factions in the game and you should join one of them:

• Marauder – A faction reminiscent of pirates. Much of this is about freedom rather than power.
• Covenant – These are Crusaders focused on fighting evil and the Corrupted.
• Syndicate – A faction of alchemists who focus on potions and magic.

Only after you have joined a faction can you create your own company or join one. But you should definitely do that, after all, New World is an MMO and that’s just more fun with a lot of players.

You can also conquer or defend a fortress with them. Participation in a PvP war in New World is possible as soon as you join the faction.

4. Collect everything and disassemble it

New World uses a weight system for its inventory. If you carry too much around with you, you will slow down. The found equipment that you carry around with you also burdens the inventory. But you can easily avoid that.

Simply use the right mouse button + the “S” key and the found equipment will be dismantled. This will give you materials that you can use to repair your current gear.

As a rule of thumb: If the equipment is weaker than yours and is not worth selling in the AH, then disassemble it immediately.

Basically, however, you should pick up everything you can find along the way, as you can use it to craft your first new equipment.

5. Use the camps in the cities

Another tip to avoid unnecessary weight in the inventory is to store the raw materials in cities. The cool thing is that you can automatically use the stored items for crafting.

So you don’t have to get them out of storage at all unless you want to change cities.

6. Always equip ammunition and food

In the course of your adventures you will also fill your inventory with arrows, ammunition for guns and various types of food. However, when you equip these items, they actually don’t take up any more inventory space, even if you don’t intend to use the arrows at all.

A useful tip to save a bit of space, although ammo is no longer necessary to use a ranged weapon since the latest patch in March.

7. More bags are available with higher level

A final inventory tip revolves around more bag slots. You unlock this automatically when you reach levels 30 and 45. So if you’re about to hit those milestones, do them for extra carry along the way.

8. How fast travel works

In New World you can quickly travel to a settlement if you want to save yourself long walks. Simply open the map, select the respective settlement and click on fast travel.

With a patch in Spring 2022, the Azoth cost of fast travel has been drastically reduced.

Another useful tip: You cannot fast travel with a full load. However, you can die and then respawn in the city. Thanks to MeinMMO reader Thomas Lauterbach.

9. More XP through PvP

If you want to be a bit more risky on the road in New World, you can activate the optional PvP. This allows other players to attack you, but you get 10% more experience points for all your activities.

But make sure that you can only activate and deactivate PvP in settlements.

10. For housing you need area levels

To increase your storage space in cities or simply to build your own home, New World offers an interesting housing system. In order to own your own house, you must reach level 15 in the respective area.

After that you can buy 1 house per area and 3 houses in total in the game. However, every house costs weekly maintenance, which can sometimes be expensive.

You can find more useful information about New World, the current test and the release of the MMO in our large overview.