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New World PTR patch notes – Expedition Mutations and higher GS on the way

The latest New World PTR patch notes include a new expedition gearing system and improving gear score

Updated: Jan 7, 2022 2:35 pm
New World PTR patch notes – Expedition Mutations and higher GS on the way

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The first major update from Amazon Games’ New World for is 2022 is already on its way. Players can get themselves on the New World PTR, and jump into the new content that will launch sometime later in January. In case you’re wondering what to expect from the New World PTR patch notes, we have you covered.

New World PTR patch notes

The January update to the New World PTR patch notes features quite a variety of new content. Although, the main selling point of this is the expanded PVE focus on expeditions. There is a new end game system called Expedition Mutators. For those who come from World of Warcraft, this is somewhat like Mythic+.

The New World Expedition Mutators are essentially new ways to experience your favourite end game expeditions. Every week the expeditions will get new challenges and modifiers for the trash and the boss fights. It will require greater strategy as you go in and will make the expeditions feel fresher than the last few months of grinding your watermark and Gypsum.

It is also worth mentioning that taking on harder levels of these expeditions will reward greater rewards. There are a total of ten extra difficulties that you can play through each week, which will rotate mutations on a weekly basis. In order to beat the difficulties, you and your team will get points based on a number of factors. You will gain or lose points based on the number of wipes, amount of mobs killed, speed, and other contributing factors.

The initial New World PTR patch notes are vague on the amount of bonus power you will get from expeditions, but there’s no doubt we’ll know sooner or later when we play through these new expeditions.

Also, you can vote on which expedition you would like to see the devs tackle in a dev diary.

New World Mutation Effects

For those interested, we have tabled the different New World Expedition mutators, so you can get an idea of what the different effects are. 

MutationTypeEffect
HellfireElemental mutatorGrants enemies affinity with ire damage and grants bosses fire-based skills.
EternalElemental mutatorGrants mobs and bosses infused void powers, similarly to Hellfire.
SavagePromotion mutatorSavage AI grant healing reduction debuffs to affected players. They also cast damaging beams around themselves.
IndomitablePromotion mutatorCreatures get life-stealing capabilities and can summon phalanx to aid them by blocking incoming projectiles.
DesiccatedCurse mutatorDesiccated players are cursed with occasional eruptions of elemental magic. Players need to cleanse the affected player by moving closer to the player affected to remove it.
CensoredCurse mutatorCensored players will find their skills and abilities work against them. After so many spells, silence zones will appear. Eventually, mana regen will stop, and you’ll need to enter these zones to get your mana back at the cost of silence effects.

New World Umbral Upgrade System

The New World PTR patch notes mention the upcoming New World Umbral Shard system. These Umbral shards will allow players to upgrade their gearscore from 600 all the way to 625. The ability to unlock the Umbral Shard feature for a specific item slot is when your expertise for that weapon slot reaches 600 GS. I will more than likely function similarly to how you spend your Gypsum on a specific item slot.

The three-way mains to get your hand on New World Umbral shards are through the following methods:

  • Expedition Mutators – The higher the difficulty level and the greater the score you earn has a better chance at offering you New World’s Umbral shards. Note, Amazon Games believe this to be the most effecient method way of grabbing yourself Umbral Shards.
  • Gypsum also has a chance to grant you Umbral Shards once when you get to 600 expertise.
  • Crafting 600 GS items for other players allows players to unlock Umbral shards.

Other details 

There are a few other prominent feature changes coming courtesy of the New World PTR patch notes. The fast travel cost is coming down, largely down the active player base feeling that end game Azoth cost is racking up. The distance factor in the fast travel cost calculator is getting lowered. It means that fast travelling is much more affordable.

Moreso, there’s plenty of AI balance changes, bug fixes and more to take a look at on the New World PTR. All in all, it is a dramatic change-up in the PVE aspects of New World. Remember to download the New World PTR on Steam if you wish to try out his content and get it ready for the patch that will come in the near future. For more information, visit the New World forums for all the patch details.


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