Bow + Greatsword Build Guide for Leveling in New World Fresh Start 

I really tried to finish this by Fresh Start launch but it ended up being way longer than anticipated (like always), hope some people still find it useful. Enjoy!

I am so thankful for a STEP BY STEP guide as someone who does not fully understand the game and is relatively new to those weapons, so THANK YOU tons for this great video!!! (the quality is stunning btw, after understanding the basics I just wanted to keep watching for the beautiful scenes of you slaughtering bugs, haha)

Thank you! Exactly what I was looking for! Love the bow, but couldn't find a good secondary combo to complement the bow, this is awesome! Love the block + heal stuff from GS! You got another sub :)

have been struggling to find a build this whole time, but wow am I diggin' this. thanks! loving it

I am hoping for more on this. I am really having a lot of fun with this. I have never played a bow, but things are changing. The hop shot thing definitely takes a little practice to get into the groove of it. Thanks so much for your time and effort.

My friend and I are both switching to this build from what we started with and it feels amazing. Really appreciate this

This was wicked soothing to listen to. Descriptions were in depth and well thought. Well done!

Already bow/greatsword lvl 42 and this helped me a lot! Knowing what to prioritize and why :) Thanks great video!

Fantastically explained. Above all, a lot of tips also in the game, that enforce.

My man, this guide is absolutely superb! Hats off to you! I'm currently level 38 and was using GS/Sword and Shield and was kinda meh on it. The GS was problematic due to the stances, so i was thinking of switching to Hatchet or Bow, but after this detailed video, you have restored my faith in the GS and convinced me to use Bow over Hatchet. Amazing guide!

Love the great explanation and detail. Top stuff!

Loved it! Was already building in this direction. Thanks!

Great content and delivery my man...keep up the great work! I'm PVE so I'll look for your other channel.

Excellent video! This looks like a lot of fun. I've just started playing last week and I really like the greatsword but wasn't sure which weapon to pair with it. I've been using spear and like it, but after watching this I'm definitely going to give the bow a shot lol

Great video! Thanks for putting this out

Great tips and info! Thank you

nice job mate was looking for a ranged/melee build to lvl up on the fresh start servers.

Just discovered you on RU-vid! Great video! Will have to try this out. Been playing Life Staff Hatchet. Looking forward to checking out your other channel!

This is good man, thank you so much.

nice guide, cool gameplay, you got my sub x)

What a great video!

Brilliant video

very helpful. Thanks

Good video rolled bow and GS I like the combo

Hell yeah! some new world content the game is pretty legit after all the bug fixes dungeon que additions etc

i love this build it helps me get thru shit now no problem

Vid is long af BUT definitely worth the watch!!

I’m a new player on a fresh start server who has been using this combo since I picked both up. I’ve been playing around with a lot of different paths and it just flows so well. I did the quest to craft the huntress bow at level 41 and having a 500 power weapon that early has made the opener So. Dayum. Satisfying. I neglected pen shot and evade shot to rush the sniper capstone and regularly 100-0 light armor wearers with a dodge/heavy shot/ exp shot.

Man, your one hell of an instructed. I watched it twice all the way thru, and picked up new tidbits of knowledge. Are you still doing this? Nothing new last couple months?

Great build really enjoying it. What GS and Bow would your recommend if you carnt find the ones your using. Same question about the helmet I carnt find that anywhere 😅 thanks man keep up the great work 😊

Just got to 60 last night using GS and blunderbuss, was extremely fun. I bet bow would have been better but I was staying flagged the entire time and I would burst people down so fast with BB

We need more people tagged for PVP! That's the most fun you can get in this game!

great axe and warhammer have great utility as well.

very useful thank you! Just one question, on attibutes, why dont put to dext a bit less and put 50 in strengh ? I think that should be useful for the greatsword dps... but perhaps im wrong ;)

Awesome video! Do you think that musket (swapping bow) could be equally viable for Brimstone Sands questing? If yes, do you have any build recommendation?

I just started the game today got to lvl 20 and i chose bow and great sword but i didnt know it was a new build

why 358dex, not 313dex and 50str? does the bonus dex more than make up for the 10% extra damage on str?

Awesome build video, how did you get your jewelry? I looked them up on new world data base but only found the green version.

Great video mate, very helpful keep goin' The gems for ring/amulet/earring a in the same logic as in the armor? I see you have put on ONYX is this the best for a pve player?

Love bow Greatsword...may change from Light Armor though as Im finding I'm dying a lot lately even to NPCs up in the Northwest of Brimstone Sands.

why dont you have the third skill in the defensive greatsword tree? I cant live without it. removes debuffs and you get a shield when you do heavy attack for a couple seconds

Make more new world bow builds!!!

Are those haste skills important or I can trade them for something more combat usefull? BTW i used your build and I love it..

nice work , really helpful , i'm a new player in a fresh start server one question though , how the hell i'm suppose to level up and trying out more than a weapon at the same time ? without getin xp and rush the game .

I was sad when this game died. I had a lot of fun with this game when it was in it's peak

I'm an absolute sniper with the Bow. I dont know how you are so numble with the Keyboard. these games i usually use the controller (im not on this game). I would like to know what your keybinds are.

Is this still the best pve solo build? I havent played since launch and I'm looking to join a new server and start fresh (mostly solo).

Just wondering what the tab skill is? How an where is it gotten?

After some testing I figured the evade shot skill for the bow, does not provide as much value.. If you swap that for rapid shot, there is way more synergy/flow when running all the 3 hunter skills.. The rotation would be like charged/heavy shot, it idles the enemy and your aim is already there to follow up with instant 'explosion shot' after, enemy comes running towards you with burn DoT and you then have some time left to perform the 'penetrating shot' in the same aim window, it is also handy when explosion has hit multiple foes, they run towards you in straight line sometimes, allowing you to benefit from the penetration shot more.. Then when they get close you can perform rapid shot where the 3rd shot has bit of delay to re-adjust aim also works great hip fired.. The 5m 'evade shot' is not good enough, foes just easy step forward forcing you to swap from bow to secondary anyway and that one shot is very easy to miss when character jumps - furthermore the damage output even full spec (with the sub skills) 'rapid fire' has less cooldown, more damage and overall has more accuracy than evade.. Also note that sub skill 'burn' for the explosive arrow has more value than 'evasive tactics' needing to evade before every shot has no logic in synergy/flow while lining up shots as fast as possible, you want to use just one zoom for one full rotation as quick as possible to do most damage, also great for hunting to follow a deer when it is burning, all I said should make common sense.. Convince me otherwise, cheers!

Think maybe you could do a spartan build? Spear/sns? Would love to see your take and what you think would be good to have.

One thing to make this unstoppable for open world is a GS with trenchent recovery. It's a cheat code and should actually be nerfed lol. It's like having a healer everywhere you go.

How would speccing say 3 str/2 dex/1 con? Really wanna go Bow/GS but then throw in SnS when I’m going for expeditions cuz I want to tank in them but want a good range/melee combo for open world questing and such

hey do you have a guide on Greatswords weapons to use while questing to level 60?

good build but disregarding crosscut is not really acceptable for this build imo, one of the main endgame attributes u need to solo is lifesteal on the final attack of crosscut, it also has so many crit modifier passives. why would u not use that?

why 358 dex tho ?... 50 first points in STR gives u 10% more dmg on basic attacks.... or 50 more points into const idk

Dude playing the minecraft combo

What are your attributes points at? Thanks

Can you make a pvp build ?

Is this still viable?

44:40 ??? Lol

as soon as i saw you using medium Armor in pve i switched off

I clicked the link for the RP storyline and now I'm disappointed

Just dont go medium if you using bow ;D unless you do 0 pvp ;D

Way to long of a video....sheesh. You could have put this in a 10 minute one...

Shame they haver made the game lagy as fuck due to less servers never happened before when I played. Now it's a little bit then I have to come off and it's not my computer same one I had when I first started this game.

The entire servers full with this two stupid broken wepons GG amazon . So unbalanced atm, hope they will nerf to the ground like the great axe