New World Life Staff build guide: Staff skills mastery tree

The Life Staff is a fantastic weapon in group compositions within New World, so utilizing the weapon’s best build, skills, and abilities is essential. 

New World‘s vast universe offers a whole host of weapon classes in-game to choose from. Among the choices available are three magic weapons for MMORPG fans who love to run ranged DPS and healer builds. Enter The Life Staff, a weapon best used for healers and light-damage mages.

To maximize the Life Staff’s potential in New World, you’ll need to run with the right skills and abilities within the class’ Mastery Tree. We’ve put together the best Life Staff build in New World that you should definitely check out.

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Contents

• New World Life Staff build
• Life Staff build Mastery Trees
• Best skills for the Life Staff
• Alternative Life Staff skills
• Best Life Staff passives
• Best Life Staff PvP & PvE build

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New World Life Staff build

Being one of the four magical weapons within New World, the Life Staff takes on more of a support role, pairing nicely with the newly forged Void Gauntlet.

• Read More: New World Sword and Shield mastery tree guide

This is predominantly due to its healing ability, with a large portion of its abilities being centered around aiding other players during battle.

Life Staff Mastery Trees

For those looking to utilize the restorative powers of the Life Staff, there are two different branches of the Mastery Tree available to spend your points on: Healing and Protector.

These Masteries both provide a great range of skills that can turn the tide of a battle, each with a slightly different focus:

Best Life Staff skills

Despite this, The Life Staff can stand on its own when needing to switch to the offensive, but your main build should cater to support. Below are the skills you should spec into while applying points to your Life Staff mastery tree:

• Divine Embrace: A must-have for the Life Staff due to the 150% weapon damage heal. This is significant, especially when you’re in a battle against other players or a strong NPC.
• Sacred Ground: A stable AoE healing ability that’ll help you and your party out in a pinch.
• Orb Of Protection: Although not directly part of the healing line for the Life Staff, the myriad of effects this skill has — from granting Fortify through to enemy damage and ally heals — are ones you cannot be without.

Alternative Life Staff skills

While we’d recommend focusing on the above three skills, Splash of Light and Light’s Embrace are also viable alternatives to spec into.

• Splash of Light: Healing both yourself and your allies, taking some of the heat off of needing to micromanage everyone so closely.
• Light’s Embrace: This quick-heal skill will get stronger depending upon how many buffs are currently on a target, making it incredibly useful in tough battles to keep allies’ health topped up.

Best Life Staff passives

To make the most of the restorative Life Staff and its power, we’d recommend running with passives such as Protector’s Touch, Intensify, and Absolved. When utilized alongside the above skills, you’ll be able to aid your allies on the island of Aeternum with ease.

• Protector’s Touch: While we’ve already chosen Orb of Protection as one of the skills to utilize, combining it alongside Protector’s touch grants you a total of 25% Fortify for those 3 seconds when hitting an enemy.
• Intensify: Equipping this passive will increase your healing by 10% for 10 seconds up to a maximum of three stacks. If used well alongside Protector’s Touch, you’ll be able to heal up your allies in a flash, with the previous passive’s Fortify reducing incoming damage.
• Absolved: This eliminates mana usage from your Life Staff’s Light and Heavy attacks, allowing you to perform skills that require a higher amount more frequently.

While our build is going to help you to heal your fellow players relatively consistently, we also encourage you to swap out skills and try out new combinations if something feels like it isn’t working for you.

Best Life Staff PvP & PvE build

For those players who plan on being primarily a healer in New World, then the Life Staff is a perfect fit.

Whether in PvE or PvP, these are the skills we recommend you use:

• Divine Embrace
• Orb of Protection
• Beacon

Divine Embrace acts as a basic healing ability which allows you to heal yourself and your allies. Orb of Protection is a fantastic skill as it acts both offensively and defensively by damaging enemies, while also healing allies and granting them a defensive buff.

The last skill you should be using is Beacon. This ability shoots out a projectile that sticks to an enemy and heals all nearby allies in the vicinity of that enemy. This can be especially useful in dungeons.

To round off the best Life Staff  build, we recommend using any of these passives :

• Absolved
• Mending Touch
• Blissful Touch
• Revitalize
• Enchanted Justice
• Intensify
• Sacred Protection
• Bend Light
• Protector’s Strength
• Divine Blessing

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So, there you have it – everything you need to know about the best Life Staff build in New World.

For more tips covering all things on the island of Aeternum, check out our guides:

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