Beginner PvP Guide, Levels 1-15

A guide that shows you how to quickly and easily build a powerful setup for early game PvP from scratch! By the end of the guide, you should have a fresh level 15 with powerful weapons and gear, plus all the supplies you need to PvP. Thanks to the battle leveling system in New World this build will be competitive even against higher leveled players. If you want to check out the video version of the guide, you can here!

 
 
 

Starting Out

Of course, you will start by making a new character, completing the game tutorial (or opening the game menu and selecting “Skip to New World”), and then arriving on the mainland at an outpost by the sea. Your starting location is somewhat random, but will always be by the beginning of your main quest line.

By starting the main quest, you will be introduced to basic crafting and have to do a few combat-related tasks as well. After doing a few quests for the guy in the starting area, he will give you a quest to go inside a cave, kill a few things, and then fight and kill a corrupted miniboss. After you turn this quest in, you will be told to go to the nearest starting town to your location.

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Things To Collect

From this point on, try to keep your eyes open for these materials as you level up! They will be very useful for making food and potions for PvP.

  • Herbs & Bulrushes - The materials collected from these are used to make basic healing potions, a must have for any combat (especially PvP)! Bulrushes also provide the materials needed for making mana potions too.

  • Water - Needed to make all potions, easy to find and doesn’t weigh very much.

  • Lifebloom - These plants give you the materials you need to make regeneration potions. These potions can be used alongside healing potions, as they have their own cooldown! Lifebloom can be rare in some locations, so keep a sharp eye out for them.

  • Most Foods - Most food items in the game can be cooked into basic rations, so make sure you pick up whatever you find to make yourself some early game healing food!

  • Iron Ore - Some early iron is always useful for making iron tools (if you don’t want to wait for the main quest to give them to you), and for making yourself a more powerful early game weapon for leveling up.

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Acquiring Your Equipment

After arriving at the first town, you will continue to do main story quests until you get a quest telling you to talk to each of the three faction representatives in that town. Once you talk to them you will then get to choose a faction. You MUST choose a faction to continue this guide! After choosing a faction and doing the initiation quest you can now use the faction vendor!

Now, your goal is to amass the faction tokens needed in order to buy yourself the level 15 weapons and gear that your new faction vendor sells. You can do either PvP or PvE quests to get tokens. PvP quests will get you tokens faster, but will give you less EXP, while PvE quests give you more EXP and less tokens. It’s up to you which quests you want to do, but the PvE quests are much easier, simply because you wont be properly geared to fight a player quite yet.

Faction tokens have a maximum limit to how many you can have at a time, so make sure you are buying your weapons and pieces of gear as you go. You can also buy seals that allow you to change the attributes of your vendor gear. This is great for early build-crafting, but it does come with an Azoth cost. You should be able to amass a decent amount of Azoth by the time you’re level 15, but if not, you can do some main story quests for large Azoth rewards.

 
 
 
 

The Last Few Levels

Once you have finally purchased your last piece of level 15 faction gear, all that’s left to do is finish getting to level 15. Unless you did other activities, you should be around level 12 to 13 by now. You can either choose to finish leveling by doing story quests, which is one of the fastest methods to finish up. Or you can finish leveling by killing tons of lower level mobs (within 10 levels of your character so you still gain EXP). It will take al lot more time to finish leveling by grinding mobs, but you will also gain mastery levels. Weapon mastery is a very important part of making your character strong in PvP, so it’s up to you how you want to finish up!