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Priority: Successful Riposte stuns reduce all Rapier cooldowns by 20%.

Insult to Injury: Successful Ripostes cause your attacks to be uninterruptible for 3 seconds.

Successful Riposte gives you temporary invulnerability.

Description: For 1 second, parry an incoming attack, stunning the target for 1.5 seconds.

Adagio: Evading forward grants 15% increased damage on your next light attack.

Allegro: Gain 20% movement speed for 3 seconds on use.

Light attacks during Evade are exceptionally quick.

Description: Perform a sidestep, granting invulnerability mid-animation.

Heavy Puncture: Heavy attacks extend bleed's duration by 2 seconds, applying to present and future stacks.

And Again: Reduces cooldown by 25% upon hitting a target.

Stack increments refresh bleed's timer.

Bleed deals 85% weapon damage over 12 seconds.

Description: Slash targets in a 5m arc, dealing 50% weapon damage while inflicting bleed.

Here are the best active skills for this build. The Rapier is all about evasion, dodging, and dealing damage with Bleed. We've updated this guide with more information for each build and the Rapier weapon family, making it much easier to translate these builds into New World's PvP ecosystem and PvE endgame. Taking full advantage of this weapon will require smart weapon pairings, attribute allocation, and certain gameplay techniques. Updated October 7th, 2021, by Charles Burgar: Rapiers are one of the most versatile weapons in New World currently, serving as an excellent DPS weapon and an equally useful movement tool. Here's our comprehensive guide to the best Rapier build, with weapon pairings, attributes, and gameplay tips. With extreme mobility, plenty of damage, and damage-over-time active skills, the Rapier is best suited for those who prefer not getting hit rather than trying to soak up damage. Its potentially massive damage output cements it as a PvP'ers dream weapon, although its lack of defensive capabilities does mean you might be taking some big hits. The Rapier continues to be a pretty popular weapon and saw widespread use in the closed and open betas of New World.

Rapier and Ice Gauntlet CC Duelist Build.

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