Ice Gauntlet Weapon Guide and Builds in New World
A magical weapon that unleashes the power of the cold on its foes, the Ice Gauntlet is a powerful weapon that specializes in keeping its foes at bay. If you want to control the battlefield with icy storms, this is the weapon for you.
Ice Gauntlet Patch 1.1 Changes
With Patch 1.1 of New World having been released on the 19th of November, we have prepared patch notes with commentary for the Ice Gauntlet weapon. Please follow the link below for more information.
Ice Gauntlet Overview
The Ice Gauntlet is a magical weapon that scales with Intelligence
and deals Ice Damage. This weapon excels at dealing decent damage at
mid-range and keeping its foes just out of arms' reach with area-of-effect crowd
control spell like Ice Storm and
Ice Shower. If these tools fail
and you become overwhelmed, then you can buy time with
Entombed.
This weapon can deal decent damage at mid-range, or can be used as a supporting
secondary weapon to help provide some crowd control.
Ice Gauntlet Strengths and Weaknesses
Many crowd control options
Ranged Attacks
Able to apply Rend with
Ice Shower
Strong Against Lost
Long cooldowns
Attacks cost mana
No Movement Skill
Extremely Weak against Corrupted (-40% damage)
Limited healing options
The Ice Gauntlet, together with the Fire Staff, forms the basis of the popular Mage build, for which we have a dedicated guide.
Ice Gauntlet Attributes
This Weapon scales solely with Intelligence, so we highly recommended that you focus on obtaining as much Intelligence as possible on both gear and with your Attribute selection. Constitution is a decent secondary Attribute, but only Intelligence will increase the damage you do.
If you are using the Ice Gauntlet solely for its strong crowd control, then you can focus on your other weapon's primary Attribute. It is somewhat important to get some Constitution, especially if you plan to PvP, because you will eventually take damage and we recommend looking out for gear that provides a mix of Intelligence and Constitution. Faction Armor in particular does a good job of providing a balance of Intelligence and Constitution.
Mana
The Ice Gauntlet is a magical weapon and uses mana to attack and use its
Abilities. Light Attacks cost 2 mana and Heavy Attacks cost 5 mana. mana does
not regenerate while you are attacking, but you can use mana potions to recover
them quickly. Gathering Storm can help you recover mana if you can
consistently land light attacks; this Mastery even works if you are hitting
different foes.
Entombed is also a great Ability to not only protect
you from damage, but to also help you recover mana.
Recommended Ice Gauntlet PvP and PvE Build
In both PvP and PvE your role is to pelt foes with damage while also
controlling the battlefield with your area-of-effect Abilities. We recommend
using Ice Storm,
Ice Shower, and
Entombed for Abilities,
to give you area denial, damage, and recovery. The build remains the same
between both PvE and PvP, because these options give you the maximum amount
power in both content types. If you feel like you can play without Entombed,
you can switch it for
Wind Chill for more area-of-effect damage.
We recommend taking the following Mastery Points:
Cold Reach
Gathering Storm
Quick Frost
Weakening Gust
Storm Summoner
Punishing Storm
Critical Frost
Critical Rejuvenation
Heavy Freeze
Energized Critical
Ultimate Chill
Enduring Shower
Quick Shower
Frigid Showers
Defiant Freeze
Strengthened Tomb
Ice Gauntlet Abilities
The Ice Gauntlet, like all other weapons, has six abilities; however, you can only use three abilities at any give time on your action bars. While you can spend Mastery Points on more than 3, it is a waste of points since respeccing is rather cheap to do.
Wind Chill
Wind Chill — A player-aimable attack that blasts a column of
freezing winds that push back enemies 5 meters while dealing 16% weapon damage
each hit. Wind Chill has a total range of 7 meters, with the farthest 2 meters
increasing damage by 20% without pushing enemies. The player is able to move
during the attack. This Ability feels like you are blasting out a cold beam
from your hand that pushes foes around. This is semi-decent for AoE damage, but
is limited due to its nearly melee damage range.
Ice Spikes
Ice Spikes — Creates a trail of spikes that start from the
player and go out in a straight line for 8 meters, dealing 56% weapon damage.
The path ends with a Mighty Spike that will deal 157% weapon damage and apply
pushback. Pressing LMB before reaching the end of the path will spawn
the Mighty Spike early. This Ability is somewhat of a mixed bag; it can do
great AoE damage, but you have to be able to time the Mighty Spike perfectly,
which can be difficult.
Ice Storm
Ice Storm — A ranged attack that deals 17% weapon damage every
0.25 seconds and slows enemies within a 5-meter radius frosted area. 25% slow,
20-meter range, and 5-second duration. This Ability is nearly the signature of
the Ice Gauntlet. Use it to help slow down foes and combo with
Heavy Freeze to lock them down repeatedly.
Ice Shower
Ice Shower — Summon a shower of ice that creates a frosted
area approximately 1 meter by 5 meters. Enemies that enter the Ice Shower will
be stricken with a powerful Frostbite. Frostbite roots for 1 second, blocks
sprinting and dodging, slows speed by 50%, and will remain on the target for 3
second after they exit the Ice Shower. Ice Shower has a lifetime of 4
seconds.
Ice Pylon
Ice Pylon — A placed Ice Pylon that fires ice projectiles
dealing 50% weapon damage at enemies within a 20-meter range for 15 seconds or
until killed. Ice Pylon creates a 1-meter radius frost area that enables frost
powers.
Entombed
Entombed — Player can entomb themselves in ice to become
invulnerable and greatly increase mana regen. The Ice Tomb has a lifetime of 10
seconds and can be destroyed. Players have two options to cancel Entomb, exit
by pressing RMB or break out of the Ice Tomb by pressing LMB,
causing a damaging knockback for 20 mana.
Ice Gauntlet Mastery Overview
Like all other weapons, the Ice Gauntlet has two Mastery Trees. You can spend Mastery Points in either Tree but must have a Mastery from the preceding row to select deeper Masteries. Likewise, if a Mastery has a vertical line connecting it to a Mastery above it then you must first select the higher Mastery in order to unlock the lower ones. These-linked together Masteries typically support Abilities which are denoted by a square-shaped icon.
While you can unlock all six Abilities at once, you will only be able to place three Abilities on your action bar at a time. It is unwise to invest in more than three Abilities, because it is easy to respec when needed.
Ice Tempest Tree
This Tree focuses on critical strikes and increasing damage to those who are
in your frosted zones. Gathering Storm can help you recover mana from
Light Attacks, and
Critical Rejuvenation gives you mana on any critical
strikes.
Heavy Freeze helps you lock down foes with a Root-like
freeze.
Critical Frost is a massive critical strike chance-booster while
foes are within your frosted areas or chilled. Its Ultimate Mastery,
Ultimate Chill, drastically increases damage done to targets affected by
your Abilities in the last 3 seconds.
Builder Tree
The Builder Tree focuses on defenses and the Ice Pylon Ability. Its
Ultimate Mastery,
Ultimate Frost, amplifies the
Quick Frost and
Empowered Frost Masteries.
Defiant Freeze is a nice
Mastery that provides a 20%-damage reduction after casting an Ability.
Ice Gauntlet Perks
Every Weapon Ability in New World has a corresponding Perk that can be found on armor and weapons. Most perks scale in power with the Gear Score of the item they are on. You can only benefit from one instance of a Weapon Ability Perk at a time. These can be rare to find on gear and are mostly just a bonus.
Unbroken Winds — Gain 10% mana after a full
Wind Chill burst. This perk is great for recovering some mana if you are using Wind Chill.
Iced Refresh — A killing blow with
Ice Spikes' Major Spike will reduce all Ice cooldowns by 75%. This Perk is incredible for farming multiple foes at a time. If you intend to farm large packs of monsters either solo or in a group, then this Perk is nearly mandatory. The one downside is that it requires you to be precise with not only your Major Spike placement but its timing as well.
Unending Thaw — Frost effects remain on enemies for 2 seconds after they exit Ice Storm. This Perk does not scale with Gear Score and is extremely great for extending your Frost effect durations on foes. We highly recommend this perk; there is never really a time you would want to skip over it.
Deadly Frost — The
Frigid Showers ability will cause damage to enemies with Frostbite. This perk makes the Deadly Frost do damage; however, it is not clear how much damage will be dealt at this time, and we will update the guide once we have more information.
Pylon Burst — Add a 1-meter radius damage AoE when
Ice Pylon casts. It is not clear how this perk acts yet, and we will update the guide once we have more information.
Healing Tomb — Gain 10% Health after exiting Entomb with full mana.
Leveling
Leveling Ice Gauntlet at low level can be somewhat of a hassle until you
reach certain Masteries like Gathering Stormto help you manage mana a
bit better. We recommend pairing the Ice Gauntlet with a melee weapon like
Rapier while leveling at first so that you can attack once you run out
of mana.
Ice Storm allows you to lay down an area that does great
area-of-effect damage and pairs well with a lot of your Masteries.
Ice Shower can save you if you are in trouble by creating a wall that
stops all foes that pass through it and give you a speed boost when you go
through it. Lastly
Entombed gives you sustain and an area-of-effect
damage option. Start off by taking
Cold Reach followed by
Ice Storm. Next take
Quick Frost followed by
Ice Shower
and
Entombed to fill out your action bar. After that take
Gathering Storm and then max out
Ice Storm with
Weakening Gust,
Storm Summoner, and
Punishing Storm. This should make
Ice Storm a reliable cooldown
for dealing with multiple foes. Next up
Critical Frost,
Critical Rejuvenation,
Energized Critical, and
Heavy Freeze so that you can unlock
Ultimate Chill. After that we go back to the Builder Tree to max out
Ice Shower with
Enduring Shower,
Quick Shower, and
Frigid Showers. The Rend that Frigid Showers causes is really
great for increasing overall damage. Lastly Finish off with
Defiant Freeze and
Strengthened Tomb.
Ice Gauntlet Ice Gauntlet Combinations
- Rapier — This combination provides crazy mobility and crowd control. You can lock down foes with your Ice Gauntlet and burst damage them with the Rapier. One downside of this combo is that you lose a small amount of damage with the Rapier, since you are scaling Intelligence.
- Fire Staff — This combination provides massive firepower because the Ice Gauntlet sets up foes to be hit by the Fire Staff's Abilities. The Fire Staff offers a few ways to recover mana that will allow you to use a lot of mana. If you are looking to play a fire and ice style build with massive hits, then this might be the combo for you. The downsides would be that you do not have a melee option and are going to be bound to your mana bar for damage.
- Life Staff — In this combination you would want an
Amber gem in your Ice Gauntlet to scale partially with Focus.
Ice Gauntlet FAQ
Can I use the Ice Gauntlet without Scaling Intelligence?
Yes, however that means you are likely only using the Ice Gauntlet for crowd control, so do not expect it to do much if any damage.
Where do you Get the Ice Gauntlet?
You can get your first Ice Gauntlet either from killing enemies or from
chests. If you do not find one then you can craft it for yourself at the
Forge. To craft one of your own you will need Water Motes
which can be Harvested from Rivercress, Springstones and Floating Spinefish.
For more information about crafting, check out our
Crafting guide.
Changelog
- 19 Nov. 2021: Added link to Patch 1.1 Ice Gauntlet changes.
- 08 Nov. 2021: Added link to the Mage build, which uses the Ice Gauntlet.
- 01 Oct. 2021: Guide added.
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