🔪 Unlock the Power of Stealth: Your Guide to Getting Daggers in New World 🗡️

The highly anticipated Daggers weapon is officially live in New World: Aeternum, bringing a whole new level of quick, high-Dexterity combat to the game! If you’re ready to embrace the rogue life and start building those lethal Combo Points, here’s how you can unlock and acquire your very own pair of Daggers.

The Easiest Ways to Acquire Daggers

You have a couple of main routes to get your hands on a Dagger set, both involving the revamped areas of Aeternum. The key is to gather a new special currency specific to these zones.

1. The Reekwater Main Story Quest (MSQ) & Soulmarks

This is the most straightforward path and is tied to the new content in the updated Reekwater zone.

• Find the NPC: Head to Reekwater and look for the new NPC, Wiltrud Bucheholz.
• Start the Questline: Wiltrud will provide you with a new Main Story Quest (MSQ) chain for the area.
• Earn Soulmarks: Completing these quests will reward you with a new currency called Soulmarks. You can also find Soulmarks in elite chests and from certain activities in Reekwater.
• The Exchange: Once you have enough Soulmarks, find the Soulwarden Armory building near Wiltrud Bucheholz. Here, you can exchange your Soulmarks for a Dagger Cache.
• The Reward: The Dagger Cache will grant you a set of 750 Gear Score Daggers with randomized perks.

2. The Well of Fortune in Cutlass Keys

You can also look to the Well of Fortune in the updated Cutlass Keys zone.

• Acquire Currency: This method requires the zone’s currency: Mystic Doubloons and Goldcursed Coconuts.
• Purchase the Cache: New items have been added to the Well of Fortune vendor, including a Dagger Cache that works similarly to the one in Reekwater, providing a set of Daggers with randomized perks.

Understanding the Dagger Playstyle

Once you have your Daggers equipped, you’ll be diving into a new style of combat!

• Primary Stat: Dexterity (S-tier scaling), with minor scaling from Strength (E-tier).
• New Mechanic: Combo Points: Hitting a target builds Combo Points. You consume these points to activate and enhance your abilities, leading to powerful effects like guaranteed critical hits, added damage, or extra ability repeats.
• Mastery Trees:
  • Blades: Focuses on aggressive pressure, high mobility, and rapid, precise attacks. It includes abilities like Frenzied Slashes and Double Neck Stab.
  • Stealth: Centers around sneak attacks and control, utilizing the Stealth ability and powerful CC skills like Ambush and Crippling Sling to root or slow targets.

A Quick Note on the Release

It is important to know that Daggers have been released in an early or “unfinished” state, and the developers have mentioned that bugs or issues should be expected. Enjoy this exciting, but potentially unpolished, new weapon class!

Now get out there, complete those quests, and start stabbing your way through Aeternum!