New World: Void Gauntlet Best Build

New World has recently released its Public Test Realm (PTR for short), allowing players to test out a whole suite of balance changes and features. One of the most noteworthy additions is the Void Gauntlet, an Intelligence-based caster weapon that focuses on group utility and healing.

Players have been trying to find a good build with this weapon since the test realm launched, although finding a truly powerful build for the Void Gauntlet has proved to be tricky. Fortunately, we have a few builds that take advantage of the weapon’s utility quite well. Today, we’ll be looking at some of the best Void Gauntlet builds for New World that take full advantage of what this weapon offers.

Updated November 28, 2021: If you are looking to take advantage of New World’s Void Gauntlets, be sure to brush up on how best to build your character accordingly. We have added a video guide to further illustrate the best builds.

Void Gauntlet Overview

• Role: Group-wide utility
• Range: Medium, Close (Void Blade)
• Attributes: Intelligence (Primary), Focus (Secondary)
• Good Weapon Pairings: Life Staff, Fire Staff, Rapier, Ice Gauntlet, Hatchet

The Void Gauntlet serves as a powerful debuff and healing tool, not a primary DPS weapon. Most of the abilities on the Void Gauntlet focus on dealing small increments of damage while applying some sort of debuff, one of which is called Disintegrate.

• Disintegrate: Deals 5% weapon damage per second while reducing the target’s damage absorption by 5%.
  • Stacks up to three times.
  • Lasts eight seconds.

Some abilities also inflict Root or Weakening, giving this weapon immense versatility in PvP. Additionally, the Void Gauntlet’s default attacks and certain abilities will heal you for a small chunk of damage dealt (average of around 20%). This plays nicely with the Void Gauntlet’s block, draining your HP in exchange for mana.

The strength of your healing is affected by the Focus stat and gear perks. Both Intelligence and Focus scale the weapon’s damage output, Intelligence granting better damage scaling. With that said, the Void Gauntlet itself doesn’t deal much damage on its own. To use this weapon as a primary DPS option, you’ll need to support it with a plethora of buffs and Intelligence scaling; raw Focus scaling won’t cut it. The good news is your abilities take care of most of this for you.

Void Gauntlet Trees

All of the Void Gauntlet’s passives and active skills are divided evenly between two categories or skill trees:

1. Annihilation: Encourages a more aggressive melee playstyle. Enhances criticals, healing, and grants player buffs.
2. Decay: Focuses on applying debuffs to weaken targets and enhance allies, perfect for support players.

Both trees have quite a few passives that lower cooldowns, improve healing, and grant additional avenues of regenerating your mana. Annihilation suits ranged tools like the Life Staff, Fire Staff, and Ice Gauntlet extremely well. Use your back bar weapon to debuff the target or enhance yourself, then push forward with your Annihliaton abilities to take them out. Decay is best used alongside melee weapons or the Life Staff to debuff targets extensively, enhancing the damage of your party. However, dedicated healers shouldn’t rely on the Void Gauntlet to solve their DPS woes in solo content.

Void Gauntlet Weapon Pairings And Impressions

The main issue with a true support Life Staff + Void Gauntlet combo is you deal minimal damage if you spec solely into Focus. You lack the survivability to make up for this, can’t use a shield to draw aggro, and lack movement skills to reposition. If you want to double down on supporting your team, this will work, but you’re making some large sacrifices. However, if you do a split between Intelligence and Focus, then this pairing becomes much more potent. You’ll need good gear to pull it off, but a 150/150 split is ideal for this weapon. If you want to use the Void Gauntlet for DPS, you need to invest in Intelligence.

We expect the Void Gauntlet to be a great utility tool alongside DPS weapons like the Fire Staff or Rapier. The Void Gauntlet is best used as a hybrid weapon; don’t overspecialize in utility or damage to get the best results.

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Void Gauntlet And Life Staff Build

This combination is a no-brainer. Both scale from Focus, both heal you, and both provide an immense amount of utility. Before dedicated healers get too excited, the damage of the Void Gauntlet won’t complement your Life Staff at all unless you partially spec for Intelligence, making this weapon best suited for solo PvE builds that use the Life Staff selfishly. This also applies to its PvP applicability.

However, if you do make a stat split between Intelligence and Focus, you end up with a build that’s absurdly tanky and can dish out a reasonable amount of damage—nothing on par with a Hatchet or Fire Staff, but it’s more than enough to win 1v1 duels in PvP. If you love the Paladin playstyle but want a more magic-infused version, this build is right up your alley.

Best Masteries For The Void Gauntlet

Void Blade turns your arm into an energy sword while active, replacing your default projectile attacks with melee swings. Backstabs done with Void Blade are guaranteed critical hits, making this extremely powerful against immobile targets. Your crits will heal you thanks to Leeching Agony, giving you great sustain. If that wasn’t enough, you also gain a 20% Fortify when using this skill. Activate this right after Petrifying Scream lands to dish out some solid damage.

Petrifying Scream is one of the strongest CC abilities in New World, not only stunning targets but flat-out preventing them from moving for a few seconds. Use this moment to land as many hits with Void Blade as possible, preferably backstabs to deal critical damage. You also gain Fortify after using this skill, so you can use it to give yourself some breathing room.

Baleful Tether weakens the tethered foes while empowering you, making this a powerful utility effect when paired with Petrifying Scream’s CC stun. It helps with mana and health sustain as well.

Most of your passive masteries enhance your critical hits, assist with sustain, and even grant Empower for using your skills. Voidcaller, your capstone, also helps with healing and deals a little bit of AoE damage.

Best Masteries For The Life Staff

Sacred Ground is arguably the strongest healing ability in the game, granting an immense amount of passive healing and better resource recovery. Stay within your Sacred Ground whenever possible.

Light’s Embrace is incredibly strong on this build since the Void Gauntlet provides so many buffs that persist when you swap weapons. It also acts as a good panic heal in tough PvE or PvP content.

Beacon gives passive healing and haste, making it an excellent ability for just about all content. Throw this atop yourself whenever you can.

Best Attributes And Gear

• Attribute: Intelligence and Focus
• Armor: Preference

Intelligence and Focus are equally important. You’ll ideally want an even split, investing about 150 points in each stat to enhance your damage output and healing. If you don’t invest in Intelligence, you’ll deal no damage. If you don’t invest in Focus, your healing will be subpar. 150 seems to be the sweet spot. Any remaining points should go into Constitution.

For armor, anything works for this build. Light enhances your healing, medium strikes a good balance between defense and offense, and heavy makes you absurdly tanky in PvP. You’ll want to look out for perks that enhance your healing and critical damage. Keep an eye open for the Putrefying Scream perk—causing Petryfing Scream to reduce the healing of impacted targets by 25% for ten seconds.

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Void Gauntlet And Fire Staff Build

Since the Void Gauntlet mostly scales with Intelligence, it pairs exceptionally well with mage weapons like the Fire Staff. This build focuses on maximizing the damage of Fire Staff through the Void Gauntlet’s various passive buffs and utility effects. You’ll have solid crowd control, mobility, and the potential to deal some serious burst damage to stunned targets. The Void Gauntlet will also give you a means of healing, making this otherwise squishy build feel much more durable.

Best Masteries For The Void Gauntlet

Petrifying Scream forces a target to stand in place for two seconds, giving you enough time to swap to Fire Staff and use Pillar of Flame or another damaging skill. It also grants Fortify, making it somewhat safer to use your skills in close range.

Oblivion deals solid damage with this setup and, more importantly, gives you 20% Empower while inside the rift. Paired with the absurd stamina regen it grants, you should have no problem avoiding attacks while dishing out some serious damage.

Essence Rupture marks a target for ten seconds, causing anyone who hits the target to heal and recover some of their stamina. This seriously helps your resource management and makes this build much more durable during tough PvE boss fights or group PvP encounters.

Best Masteries For The Fire Staff

Pillar of Flame is one of the hardest-hitting AoE attacks in the game. Stun a target with your Void Gauntlet, use your Fire Staff to cast Pillar of Flame, and watch their health bar chunk.

Fireball also deals great damage and applies a burning field, dealing small ticks of damage each second. Once again, this pairs nicely with Petrifying Scream and Oblivion.

Burn Out is your only movement skill, but it’s a good one. Use this to reposition in or out of a fight whenever you see fit.

Best Attributes And Gear

• Attribute: Intelligence and Focus
• Armor: Light

Intelligence is your main stat for this build, scaling the damage of both the Fire Staff and Void Gauntlet. You want to reach at least 150 Intelligence, preferably 200. If you can, invest a few points into Focus so your Void Gauntlet heals are useful. Consider putting 50 points into Dexterity for the critical chance increase.

For armor, light is a good pick with the great stamina regen this build has. You should be able to dodge rather frequently with this build, letting you avoid plenty of attacks in PvE and PvP. You’ll also get a solid damage and healing boost while wearing light armor, further improving what this build is capable of.

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