The weapon mastery system for New World is fairly complex and an interesting system overall. Each weapon in the game is entirely unique and boasts countless skills and abilities that increase their relative strength levels as you progress through Aeternum.

The hatchet is one of the most useful starting weapons in New World, combining throwing and melee damage in a single weapon. So this guide will help you master hatchet in New World.

Mastery Trees

The Hatchet mastery trees consist of the Berserker tree and the Throwing Tree.

Berserker

The berserker tree focuses on a fast-paced melee playstyle. The 3 active abilities in this tree consist of Feral Rush, Berserk, and Raging Torrent and the Key passive is Defy Death.

Feral Rush is a sprinting melee attack that allows you to leap forward a short distance and hit your target twice. The first hit deals 115% of your weapon damage and if you land the second hit, you’ll do 130% of your weapon damage, making this ability a hard-hitting ability.

Berserk is the staple ability of the hatchet. When you use this ability, it will trigger berserk mode for 15 seconds. While you’re in berserk mode, all attack damage will be increased by 20%. As you progress deeper into the berserk ability, you’ll also gain 20% movement speed. In contrast, in berserk mode, gain some self-healing every 5 seconds, while in berserk mode, remove all crowd control upon triggering the ability. Your attacks will become uninterruptible while in berserk.

The third ability under the Berserker tree is Raging Torrent. Activating this ability will perform 4 very quick attacks that each deal 90% of your weapon damage.

The Key passive for the Berserker tree is called Defy Death. When you take Defy Death, you’ll be able to avoid death once every 75 seconds. Upon receiving damage that would have killed you, you will instead be reduced to 50 HP and gain immortality for 3 seconds. The passives in the Berserker tree are heavily focused on enhancing your damage output, and reducing cooldowns and removing negative status effects on yourself when your health is below 30%.

Throwing

The throwing tree is focused around mid-ranged hatchet throws that deal damage and apply debuffs to your target. This tree is highly focused on maintaining the debuffs to obtain additional benefits when using your abilities on a target with an existing debuff. The three active abilities on this tree are Rending Throw, Social Distancing, Infected Throw, and the key passive in this tree is called Persistent Hindrance.

Rending Throw deals a small amount of increased weapon damage to your target if hit and applies to rent to your target for 10 seconds. Rend reduces your target’s damage absorption by 10%.

Social Distancing is an ability that allows you to throw an ax and dodge backward, creating a distance between yourself and your opponent. If you land the throw, it also deals increased weapon damage and slows your target.

The third ability in the Throwing tree is called Infected Throw. If you land this throw, you’ll do 150% of weapon damage s a target’s heating efficiency by 30% and weaken reduces the target’s damage by 10%.

The key passive, Persistent Hindrance, extends all hatchet debuff durations by 30% on successful throwing ax hits. This allows you to hit a target and maintain your debuff to gain the additional benefits mentioned above when hitting a target with an existing debuff already applied.

The recommended skills for the hatchet depend on what activity you are participating in and what role you wish to have within that activity. The hatchet can be effective as both a DPS and Tank weapon in PvE and is a great choice for melee PvP. Simply put, the hatchet is one of the strongest weapons to progress through Aeternum with.

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