Life staff is the only weapon in New World with healing qualities that are effective for you and your allies. That, combined with its protective abilities, can help out big time if you’re in, say, a boss fight. It’s no surprise, therefore, that the life staff is itself quite in hot demand, especially for groups.

These two abilities are each found on the weapons Mastery trees – Healing tree and Protector tree – which are aptly named with regards to their respective functions.

Life staff scales solely with a player’s Focus and deals Nature damage, making it an attractive weapon of choice. That’s because Nature damage can’t be resisted, so you can deal serious damage on foes with this weapon.

That aside, though, this damage isn’t significantly less than that of other weapons of the same level. But pairing up could work out great. Some options include spear, ice gauntlet, sword, rapier, and war hammer.

Most of these are ideal for crowd control, something that life staff lacks. That can be helpful if you get boxed up by enemies as you’re trying to heal.

Like all weapons in New World, life staff can be obtained by looting chests, killing enemies, and crafting.