It’s that time of year again. The Winter Convergence Festival has returned to Aeternum alongside a healthy mix of changes in New World Update 1.8!

New World’s last major update for 2022 sees the return of the Winter Convergence Festival with some new changes and additions. Alongside the return of this event is some new content, including a new Heartrune and a new Expedition.

There’s a lot of good stuff to unpack with this update, but here’s a quick rundown of the major things.

The Winter Convergence Festival has returned to Aeternum, bringing with it the wintery looks and decorations of the season. Along with the returning parts of the event, is a brand new World Boss for the event, the Winter Warrior.

This new World Boss is recommended to be taken on with a large group of players. They recommend 20+ players, but typically most world bosses in the game will only take usually a few good parties at most.

You can consult the New World WInter Convergence Festival Guide for the details on how to start and what you can do during it.

This new expedition is an extended Starstone Barrows that has you also fighting the Mini-Boss and Boss of Amrine. With this Expedition mash-up having more bosses, this also means more loot to be had. This also enables the unique drops of each expedition boss to drop at more usable levels for Level 60 players, in line with other mutations.

The set of changes they made for trade skill is also quite nice. It’s intent is to de-couple the need for high level crafting stations for basic crafting functions. You’ll still need the higher level station for more advanced crafting methods but not the overall leveling process of them. The crafting station also reduce Azoth costs of crafting based on tier, starting at Tier 3 which grants a 20% discount, up to 45% at Tier 5.

As an example most “random craft” or procedurally crafted items aren’t gated behind the station tiers, making them available to do wherever you wish. The same also applies to Health, Mana, and Regen Potions from the Arcane Repository as well as Health and Mana foods from the Kitchen.

They’re also making some changes to make it significantly harder for companies to make shell companies that allow you to take or hold multiple territories.

This includes changes like a limit to individual war participation, limiting players to 1 offensive and 1 defensive war per day, per world. This means if a player has two character on the same world, this cooldown is shared between them. There are now stricter numbers on the number of mercenaries that can participate in wars as well, forcing more company members to participate in wars.

Ever wanted a more practical version of Hatchet’s Infected Throw, without needing the Hatchet? Well, it’s here! Bile Bomb is new heartrune that creates an infected could that deal damage over time and applies Disease to those in the AoE. Direct Hits with the Heartrune will also stick to enemies, making it harder to avoid the effects if you’re bunched during and after the hit. This new heartrune can be obtained in the new Mutated Starstone Barrows expedition.

Quite a few weapons gots tweaks, below is a quick list of the bigger changes among them.

You can find individual in-depth guides to all Weapons in New World, updated regularly to the latest patch.

Icy winds and glimmering Gleamites fill the air once again as Winter Convergence returns to Aeternum. Visit Winter villages in Everfall, Monarch’s Bluffs, Weaver’s Fen, and Brightwood to meet the Winter Wanderer and carry out his holiday quests. Players can also collect Winter Tokens to earn new, limited-time rewards including festive skins, emotes, housing items and more.

The Winter Warrior and his legion of Frigid Folk are on a relentless mission to spread a Forever Winter across the land. Rally a party of 20+ players to defeat this brand-new world boss wreaking havoc throughout Great Cleave, Brightwood, Edengrove, Ebonscale Reach, and Brimstone Sands for new seasonal rewards.

This new take on Starstone Barrows includes a special appearance. Players will revisit parts of the Amrine Expedition and face both the intrepid Simon Grey and Foreman Nakashima. Challenge the Expedition to find out more.

We are making two major changes to improve the Trade Skill leveling experience:

Players no longer need to be in a Faction to join a Company, but Companies must still declare a Faction. Non-Faction-affiliated members may not become the Governor or participate in Wars.

Players can now see the number of active lobbies for each Expedition, both on the Map tooltip and the Expedition Entrance screen.

We will implement the following changes to make shell Companies less effective at owning multiple territories:

Use the new Bile Bomb Heartrune to give yourself the gift of projectile vomit. On impact, it creates a diseased cloud that infects targets with lingering damage-over-time and reduced healing. The cloud also sticks to enemies on direct hits, infecting their allies if they get too close. This makes the Bile Bomb particularly potent in group fights and finishing off foes that are trying to heal. Complete the new mutated Starstone Barrows Expedition for a chance to get your own Bile Bomb Heartrune!

Patch Notes are sourced directly from the New World Website.

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