New World Preview – Hatchet and Musket Guide

This guide will help you on musket and hatchet in New World Preview.

Guide

Q skill:

Shooter’s stance (25 seconds cooldown): player enters a shooting aim stance to enhance shooting performance. Mobility is reduced to zero and the aim area reduced to 90 degrees. While in stance accuracy is increased by 10% and reload time is reduced by 50%. Mode will exit after three shots.
Shoot more: shots fired before exiting stance increased to five.r skill
Play dead (60 seconds cooldown): player can enter a state mimicking death to dump aggro and fake out enemies. Player name plate will be disabled entering this state.
Play action: shoot out of play dead, switch weapons, and place traps while in play dead. Must have traps ability to place traps. Press “t” button to set trap while playing dead.
Play reset: all cooldowns reset after play dead. Passives
Snipe: add 1.5x zoom to all musket aim shots. Use mouse wheel up and down to zoom in and out while aiming.
Head shot: increase headshot damage by 10%.
Greater accuracy: increase accuracy of all musket shots.
Armor piercing: increase armor penetration of musket damage by 5%.
Leg shot: any leg hit slows target by 30% for 2 second.

Trapper (10 points)

F skill:

Traps (25 seconds cooldown): sets a trap that immobilizes targets for 5 seconds. Target must move within the trap area to trigger. Traps despawn after 30 seconds.
Trapped damage: increases damage to trapped targets by 20%.
Double trap: ability to have two active traps.
Throwable trap: ability to throw traps.

Passives:

Beast damage: Increase musket damages by 20% vs beasts.
Weakened shield: Increases the amount of defense meter damage an enemy takes while blocking by 25%.
Damage resist: Reduce damage taken by 10%.
Slow resist: Reduces slowing effect durations on you by 20%.
First blood: Increase dmg by 25% on targets with full health.
Sacrifice: Ability to activate a bomb when at death’s door. Press any attack button to activate.

Q skill:

Berserk (45 seconds cooldown): Triggers a berserk mode that increased attack damage by 10% for every hit received. Berserk mode will be active for 15 seconds.
Berserking speed: Increases sprint speed by 20% while in berserk mode.
Berserking refresh: Decreases all cooldowns except berserk by 10% for each hit received while in berserk mode.
Berserking endurance: Kills while in berserk extends the length of berserk mode by 3 seconds.
Immortal berserk: player cannot die while in berserk mode.

F skill:

Purge (20 seconds cooldown): Removes all debuffs and provides 5 seconds of immunity.
Purged recovery: Each debuff purged will restore 15% of your maximum health.

Passives:

Cull the weak: Increase damage of light attack by 30% against targets lower than 30% health.
Relentless fury: Damage is increased by 10% for each successful consecutive light attack.
Rejuvenating kills: Hatchet kills restore 20% of your maximum health.
Iron splitter: Heavy attack’s armor penetration is increased by 20%.
Desperate refresh: All ability cool downs are reduced by 20% when health is below 40%.

R skill:

Aimed throw (7 seconds cooldown): An axe attack that activates aim mode for highly accurate throws.
On fire: Increase damage by 25% for every third throwing attack that hits an enemy.
Refreshing headshot: Successful head shots from throwing abilities reduces active cool downs by 20%.
Focused aim: Increases the damage of a throw by 20% if in aim mode longer than 3 seconds.
Double throw: Increased the number of throws before exiting aim mode to two.
Triple throw: Increased the number of throws before exiting aim mode to three.

Passives: