New World 'Eternal Frost' Will Have Players Embark on a New Expedition

Amazon Game Studios is set to launch the new season for New World called "Eternal Frost" tomorrow, December 13. When the new season goes live, players can embark on a new expedition where they explore a cavernous frozen complex in pursuit of the Varangian Knight, Ser Loth.

New Expedition

Ser Loth will not make it easy for brave adventurers, though, as he has blocked the path that leads to the Empyrean Forge. The Varangian Knight goes beyond the Empyrean Forge and into the depths of the antediluvian complex in order to harness primordial magicks, which Ser Loth will use to destroy all of Aeternum. Although Shailyn knows another way to the forge, the path is fraught with difficult challenges.

The Glacial Tarn is the newest expedition in New World. This is a level 65 expedition set in the Great Cleave, where players will have to face new threats, including the ice-enchanted ancients in the Glacial Tarn, and the Varangian Horde that awaits those who are brave enough to foil Ser Loth's plans.

Together with the Silver Crows and the fire mage "Daichi," players will have to use the power of fire to plow through ice.

To help brave adventurers get a powerful team that can tackle this new expedition, Amazon Game Studios will implement an improved Group Finder. With this feature, players will be able to invite others from any server, so long as they are within the same region. For example, players who are on "Valhalla" can group up with those who are on "Orion."

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Holiday Event

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To celebrate the Holidays, the company is bringing back the annual "Winter Convergence Festival" with new and exciting rewards. For one, Gift Piles and Gift Sacks now provide more stuff than before.

In addition, the Winter Warrior and his minions are back with a vengeance. Players must form a big group in order to slay this open-world boss. The Winter Warrior can be found roaming various areas in New World, such as Great Cleave, Brightwood, Edengrove, Ebonscale Reach, and Brimstone Sands. Players who can defeat him successfully will get limited-time rewards. On top of that, the Winter Warrior now drops 15 Dark Matter, which is a resource that is used for upgrading artifacts, about three times a day!

The Winter Convergence Festival will run from December 12 to January 9, 2024.

Patch Highlights

To mark the beginning of the Eternal Frost season, Amazon Game Studios is going to release a hefty new update. Here are the highlights of the upcoming patch:

COMBAT CHANGES

• General

  • Acid Damage has been changed to Elemental damage type so that it allows armor mitigation.

  • Reduced the frequency of status effect flyouts to help highlight more important ones.

• Blocking and Attacking

  • You can now hold block/aim while a weapon is sheathed to trigger aim or block.

  • Added functionality that will reduce block stamina damage taken for a short duration after blocking an attack to help scale stamina damage taken in group fights.

  • Weapons with lower base block stability had their base block stability slightly increased.

  • Weapons with higher base stamina damage and had their base stamina damage slightly reduced.

  • Attacks whose stamina damage coefficients were much higher than average have been reduced.

• Artifacts

  • Removed Strike damage conversion from the Inferno Fire Staff Artifact and Lifetaker Void Gauntlet (They will both deal their default damage type of Fire or Void respectively).

  • Updated the Ankh Artifact heal mod to also decrease lifesteal healing (gives bigger trade off and creates additional differences between it and the Blooddrinker ring).

ECONOMY, PROGRESSION, and GEAR

• Based on player feedback, players can now craft a new cache at a Gypsum Kiln. The cache will cost 20 Gypsum Orbs and grant the player 1,500 Gold and 250 Dark Matter upon opening. One cache can be crafted per week and caches are Bind on Pickup.

• Raised the Azoth cap from 1,000 to 2,500.

• Rank 6 Mentor Chests now give Tier 5 research items instead of Tier 4, which significantly increases their amount of generated XP. These chests have also had their prices reduced from 5,000 Gold to 2,000 Gold.

• The new expansion foods now have a proper recovery buff with a matching duration.

• We have added the Artifact Endless Thirst to the loot table for the final boss in mutated versions of Savage Divide. We have also added the Tumbler Feetwraps to OPR Caches. You can only loot each of these items once. If you acquired them from the Season 3 pass, you will not be able to loot them again.

New World Eternal Frost season is expected to go live tomorrow at 8 a.m. EST.

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