New World Best Perks for Hatchet & Great Axe - Best In Slot Perks in New World

Perks provides multiple bonuses in New World for your build. In order to gain the best buff on your weapons, armors, and accessories, here are New World best perks for Hatchet and Great Axe, which involves the best in slot perks for different situations. 

New World Best Hatchet Perks (Weapon & Armor) - Best In Slot Perks for Hatchet

The Hatchet is a versatile one-handed DPS weapon in New World and is mainly used to deal damage in close combat. It also comes with ranged ability and self-healing buffs. Most of the perks are going to revolve around high damage. Thanks to Fusion Thunder, below are some of the best perks for the hatchet. There are more perks that are good for the hatchet, such as Plagued Crits, Refreshing Move, Vicious, Keenly Fortified, and Lifestealing. 

1. Thwarting Strikes

The best in slot perks for the hatchet is going to be Thwarting Strikes, when you have active grit you do more damage, deal 11% additional damage while you have active grit. But Thwarting Strikes is only good if you have 300 strength. 

2. Enchanted 

If you don't have 300 strength go with Enchanted. Enchanted will also increase your damage, but it doesn't require you to have 300 strength. Light and Heavy attacks deal 9.6% more damage.

3. Keen

The next recommended BIS perk is Keen, +11% critical chance. 

4. Keenly Empowered

The last perk is Keenly Empowered, when you crit, you will gain Empowered increasing your damage. Keenly Empowered is one of the best perks for the hatchet, because the hatchet is one of the weapons that create the most in the New World. 

Best Perks for Armor

There are only two really good perks that you really want in your armor, the first perk that you will want on your armor is Keen Berserk, while you have the Berserk ability active you drop below 50 HP, you will gain a 14% Crit chance. The next best armor perk that you will want is called Refreshing Torrent, which reduces all of your hatchet cooldowns by 4.6%.

New World Best Great Axe Perks (Weapon & Armor) - Best In Slot Perks for Great Axe

Best in slot perks for the great axe will include the weapon and the armor perks. 

1. Best Perks for 1v1

If you want to do a lot of damage with the Great Axe, the best in slot perks will be Keen, Enchanted, Keenly Empowered, these three perks combined will give you an insane amount of damage, but this is mostly good for 1v1s.

2. Best Perks for War

In wars, you're not going to 1v1, so there's a different set of best-in-slot perks for the Great Axe. If you are going to use your Great Axe in wars, the perks you can use are Enchanted, Refreshing Move, and Plagued Crits. Enchanted increases your damage, Refreshing Move reduces the cooldowns of your abilities, so you can spare more abilities in wars, and Plagued Crits, because there's a lot of healings in wars and you want to reduce all the healing as much as possible.

3. Best Perks for PvE

If you're somebody that likes to solo bosses and go out on your own and go trophy farming, then Trenchant Recovery, Lifestealing, and Keen are the best perks for the Great Axe. Trenchant Recovery will heal you a lot and Lifestealing will also add to your healing, Keen will also add to your healing.

Best Perks for Armor 

There are only two perks that are really notable, it is Insatiable Gravity Well, which will actually heal you and do another burst of damage, and Enfeebling Maelstrom, which will reduce a target's damage by a certain percentage. 

You can also use Thwarting Strikes, Vicious, Lifestealing, and Keenly Fortified, or combine some of them to make your build in New World. Buy cheap New World gold to get more resources and items.