As you level up your weapons, you assign mastery points, unlocking powerful abilities and buffs to increase your potency on the battlefield. Each weapon also scales off particular attributes like strength or intelligence, so working out a combination that synergises well is important. The hatchet scales primarily off strength, but also dexterity – this means there’s plenty of flexibility when it comes to customising a New World hatchet build.
The hatchet is a particularly formidable weapon due to the Berserk ability, which grants you a substantial attack damage boost, and can be upgraded to increase your movement speed, give you massive health regeneration, and grant immunity to crowd control. Here you’ll find the best New World hatchet builds for PvP and PvE, but we also have some for other weapons. For example, melee users can check out the best New World rapier builds, the best New World great axe builds, and the best New World tank builds. For magic users, check out the best New World fire staff builds.
The best PvP build for the hatchet is hatchet and great axe. This is a highly mobile, close-range build that enables you to hunt down your foes. It’s also an easy build to play in combat without many skills that require precision.
The abilities we recommend taking for the hatchet tree are:
For the great axe, we recommend:
The best New World hatchet PvE build
The above combination, hatchet and great axe, is also a formidable PvE loadout. However, if you’re looking for something a little different, we recommend hatchet and bow. This build mainly focuses on the bow as the main weapon for its ranged utility and uses the hatchet to heal, and deal with foes that get too close.
For the bow, take the following skills:
That’s everything you need to know about the best hatchet builds in New World – for more tips, check our New World PvP guide, how to get Iron in New World, and our New World leveling guide.
