Ancient Ward Tank Gear

This is a guide to finding useful Ancient Ward Tank Gear in the New World MMO.

When you are looking to progress as a Tank and begin doing Mutated Expeditions, it becomes essential to use gear that has specific Wards so you can reduce your damage to certain enemy types.

In this guide we are going to be focussing on the gear you need for fighting with Ancient’s that include the Ancient Ward perk.

Ancient enemies can be found inside Lazarus Instrumentality, Starstone Barrows and The Ennead Expeditions so this gear would be ideal for progressing those from Mutation 1 to 10.

This gear is not “Best in Slot” but it is fairly easy to farm, named gear which drops in Heavy Armor and will be really useful to get you started in the Mutated Expeditions.

This gear is looted at purple quality, but when you upgrade it to 600 Gear Score, it gains an additional perk and becomes Legendary gold quality.

Head

Castrum Crown of the Goat-King

264.2 Armor Rating – Elemental
264.2 Armor Rating – Physical

15 Constitution
9 Strength

Empty Gem Socket: An empty socket for a gem.

Ancient Ward: +4.7% Damage Absorption against Ancient Guardians.

Refreshing Ward: Reduces active cooldowns by 1.8% after being hit 4 times. Does not trigger off persistent damage, DoT effects or blocked attacks.

Physical Aversion: You take 3.8% less damage from ranged physical attacks.

Location: Brimstone Sands, Place of Pillars

Boss: Stubbles the Goat-King

You’ll need to do some parkour to climb onto the upper floor in the Place of Pillars, once you are up there you need to go to the platform where the rune is located, this is where the boss spawns.

Chest

Colossal Stormplate

616.5 Armor Rating – Elemental
616.5 Armor Rating – Physical

15 Constitution
9 Strength

Lightning Ward IV: +6% Lightning Damage Absorption.

Elemental Aversion: You take 3.8% less damage from ranged elemental attacks.

Invigorated: Weaken, Disease, Exhaust, and Rend expires 10% faster.

Ancient Ward: +4.7% Damage Absorption against Ancient Guardians.

Location: Brimstone Sands, Colossus of Qebui

Boss: Colossus of Qebui

This boss spawns on a platform next to the Great Shrine of Thoth. You have two useful pieces of gear that can drop from this boss so it’s a really good boss to kill.

Legs

Weighted Greaves

352.3 Armor Rating – Elemental
352.3 Armor Rating – Physical

24 Strength

Empty Gem Socket: An empty socket for a gem.

Ancient Ward: +4.7% Damage Absorption against Ancient Guardians.

Invigorated: Weaken, Disease, Exhaust, and Rend expires 10% faster.

Refreshing Ward: Reduces active cooldowns by 1.8% after being hit 4 times. Does not trigger off persistent damage, DoT effects or blocked attacks.

Location: Brimstone Sands, Colossus of Qebui

Boss: Colossus of Qebui

This boss spawns on a platform next to the Great Shrine of Thoth. You have two useful pieces of gear that can drop from this boss so it’s a really good boss to kill.

Hands

Guardian’s Gauntlets

264.2 Armor Rating – Elemental
264.2 Armor Rating – Physical

24 Constitution

Empty Gem Socket: An empty socket for a gem.

Empowering Breaker: When your attacks are blocked, gain a stack of empower, increasing damage by 3.8% for 5s (5 stacks Max)

Physical Aversion: You take 3.8% less damage from ranged physical attacks.

Ancient Ward: +4.7% Damage Absorption against Ancient Guardians.

Location: Brimstone Sands, The Ennead Expedition

Boss: Anpu

These are the easiest ones to farm as they drop from normal Ennead. You could also hold off on the Hand slot, with the other 4 pieces of Ancient Ward gear you could wait until Lazarus is the weekly Mutation and then progress that until you pick up the Chardis’ Handwraps as they are a little better.

Feet

Bovine Boots

264.2 Armor Rating – Elemental
264.2 Armor Rating – Physical

24 Strength

Empty Gem Socket: An empty socket for a gem.

Refreshing Evasion: Reduces active cooldowns by 0.73% after exiting the dodge animation.

Ancient Ward: +4.7% Damage Absorption against Ancient Guardians.

Invigorated: Weaken, Disease, Exhaust, and Rend expires 10% faster.

Location: Brimstone Sands

Dropped By: Ancient Offering or Elite Offering

These are not as easy to obtain as some of the named boss drops but there are not many other good named boots with the Ancient Ward perk. On the plus side there are a lot of Ancient and Elite Offering located around Brimstone Sands and they also drop a lot of other really useful gear so when farming these you’ll pick up a lot of useful items and materials including Golden Scarabs.

War Hammer

Batheqet’s Cudgel

84 Base Damage
2.0% Critical Hit Chance
1.20 Critical Damage Multiplier
66.0 Block Stamina Damage
66.0 Stagger Damage
25% Block Stability

234 Strike Damage

29 Strength

Empty Gem Socket: An empty socket for a gem.

Ancient Bane: +14% Damage to Ancients.

Thwarting Strikes: Deal 11% additional damage while you have active grit.

Sundering Shockwave: Shockwave inflicts Rend, reducing target’s damage absorption by 14% for 10 seconds.

Location: Brimstone Sands, Valley of the Gods, Heliopolis

Boss: Batheqet of the Cudgel

This is a pretty nice named weapon you can pick up which has Ancient Bane along with Sundering Shockwave which adds Rend to your Shockwave ability. Thwarting Strikes is also good since you should have Grit active, so you’ll gain more additional damage.

Other

For your Shield, other Weapons and Jewellery:

There are not any other good options when it comes to other weapons with an Ancient Bane perk, while there are some named drops, they are hard to obtain.

With your Shield, it highly depends on how you are setup – but having an Ancient Ward shield is useful.

Jewellery used for fighting Ancients doesn’t really have any specific requirements so you can use any jewellery you like but I would suggest making sure to have Health on Amulets, Hearty on Rings and Refreshing Toast on Earring as a minimum.

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