Best Solo Class for New World Season 10

Starting Season 10 of New World: Aeternum and planning to play solo? Choosing the right class is key. Some classes are better equipped to handle challenges on your own, offering better survivability and damage output when you’re farming resources or completing quests. This guide will show you the best solo class build for Season 10, allowing you to succeed without needing a group.

Weapon Artifacts

I suggest using the Serenity weapon artifact, which you can earn through PvP. It allows you to build up to a 20% fortification bonus, making it an excellent choice for tanking and significantly increasing your defenses.

Here is what the Serenity setup should look like:

Slash Harnessing perk: Gives more slash damage (percentages depend on your gear score).
Enchanted perk: Light and Heavy attacks deal extra damage (percentages depend on your gear score).

Dealing more damage also means you’ll heal more, which is incredibly useful when fighting computer-controlled enemies or playing without a dedicated healer.

On your sword, you should have slotted:

A Gem slot.
Rend: Like Sundering Stack or Trenchant Rend.
Three offensive charm slots that will boost Serenity’s damage.

Heartrune

Heartrunes gain power during combat, both when you attack and when you’re attacked. There are three special, powerful versions: Stalwart focuses on defense and healing, Brutal is for players who like to attack, and Greater simply boosts your stats.

The best Heartrune ability for this character build is the Stalwart Heartrune of Stoneform. It provides both healing and Fortify, significantly boosting your armor and allowing you to recover health equal to about half of the damage you deal. When activated, it transforms your character into stone, making you immune to being staggered or affected by most crowd control effects.

This skill is a fantastic way to protect yourself, and it’s essential for anyone playing alone. You can use it to quickly get out of a fight or dodge a lot of damage at once.

Jewelry

Your jewelry should match your build. Here is a full breakdown of what to run with this build.

Amulet

The Lifering Amulet is a strong choice because of its gem slot, which lets you add extra benefits, as well as its Health and Divine bonuses. The Divine bonus improves your healing effectiveness, and the Health bonus simply increases your overall health.

I prefer this amulet over newer ones this season because it can prepare me for all damage types. The new content you’ll be experiencing features a wide range of damage types, making it extremely challenging to build around just one type. So, by just increasing my health, I can ensure I stay alive during battle, no matter the type of damage incoming.

Ring

The Blooddrinker, equipped with Leeching and Enchanted, is a must-have. Leeching restores health based on the damage you inflict, and its effect can stack up to five times.

Enchanted works just like a bonus on your Artifact, increasing your damage output. Essentially, the harder you hit, the more health you regain.

Earring

I recommend using the Exemplary Earring. You can customize it, but aim for four beneficial perks and one charm that boosts your attack power. Here’s what I suggest it includes:

Healing Heart perk that links to your Heartrune. This increases your healing while you use your Heartrune form. Combining this with the Stalwart form will almost heal your whole HP in a dungeon.
Despised for taunted enemies or Beloved if you are playing solo. Despised gives you a damage boost to taunted enemies. Beloved is great when playing solo because you generate less threat but deal more damage than Despised, to taunted enemies. Remember, each percentage of boost is based on your gear score.
Either Fortifying Toast, Refreshing Toast, or Empowering Toast. This is essential to your gameplay, as it will reduce the amount of time between uses of consumables like potions.

Gems, Charms, & Perks on Gear

Gems

For gems, I suggest using Turquoise with the Hardened effect. It’s better than gems that just reduce damage from one type of attack, because Hardened actually boosts your overall armor.

Add Punishing Rune Glass for 1% added melee damage to all melee weapons.

Perks

Focus on adding just one or two beneficial attributes to your equipment. These enhancements will significantly improve your survivability, healing ability, and damage output. Here’s what you should focus on first:

Lifestealer’s Draught: Hits gain lifesteal. And the power of that lifesteal is also increased if you haven’t used a survival potion in the past 13 seconds.
Vital Synergy: When your health is below 50% you will gain a 15% stamina regeneration rate. And when your stamina is below 50% your healing will be increased by 15%.
Mortal Aggression: Your hits grant lifesteal. And on a kill, you will gain a percentage of your max health, stampina, fortify, and empower.
Sacrificial Empowerment: This is the best perk to have on ALL of your gear. This gives more base damage but decreases your armor when below 50% HP. This shouldn’t be a worry because you won’t be below that for more than a second, as you can pop a potion or your Heartrune.

You want to ensure you have a gem slot on every single armor piece.

Charms

For this character build, several charms can significantly improve your ability to survive and withstand damage.

5x Leeching – You want this on every gear piece, thus stacking it five times. As you do damage, this heals you.
Enchanted Ward – This reduces light and heavy damage incoming.
Slash Harnessing – This is if you are running solo, as it gives you an increase in slash damage.

Armor Artifact

For your armor, the Void Darkplate is the best choice. It boosts your armor by 20%, and this benefit combines exceptionally well with the fortify effects from Serenity and the Fortifying Toast earring – giving you a total of 40% increased armor. To maximize this even further, here are two essential charms you’ll need.

Keenly Fortified: Fits in a defense slot on your gear and gives bonus Fortify on critical hits.

Keenly Empowered: Fits in an offensive slot on your gear and gains extra Empower on critical hits.

Consumable

Consumables help you reach your full potential in combat. Here’s what we recommend using:

Honing Stone: Provides 5% increase in weapon damage for 30 minutes.

Coating: Gives a flat increase in damage.

Ward Potion: Gives a flat decrease in damage.

Health Potion: Restores a flat rate of health.

Regeneration Potion: Restores health over a fixed period.

I’d recommend bringing +48 food items and an Energizing Hearty Meal for consistent mana recovery over 40 minutes. Don’t forget Desert Sunrise – it’s really important for shortening the length of any damage that happens over time.

Attributes

When you run this version, keep in mind that some settings are more crucial than others. Focus on these key areas:

Nothing below 250 for strength. But you want to evenly split your points between strength and dexterity.
50 Constitution
Harder Content:
- 100 Constitution
- 200 Constitution MAX for the hardest content.

Weapon Tree

Things have shifted this season when it comes to weapon builds, particularly for Greatswords. Your old strategies might not be as effective now, especially if you’re using a specific build.

For the Greatsword, you need to run:

Roaring Rupture: Generates threat without a taunt gem.
Steadfast Strike: Also generates threat without a taunt gem.

For your Sword and Shield, you should run:

Upheaval: Unlocks a path to Upheaval, which gives us a major cooldown reduction on other sword abilities.
Shield Bash: Deals damage while stunning and staggering enemies.
Defender’s Resolve: Reduces incoming damage and the attacker’s stamina.

This complete guide will help you dominate dungeons in Season 10 playing solo. With this build, you’ll easily take on tough bosses and large groups of enemies while staying strong and durable. It’s the ideal combination of power and resilience, letting you truly conquer the world of Aeternum.

2025-10-23 14:08