Berserker

This page is about the class; for the talent, see Berserker (talent).

Berserker
Metaclass	Warrior
Locked	No
Starting Life	120
Life Rating	+3
Stat Modifiers
Strength	+5
Dexterity	+1
Constitution	+3
Magic	0
Willpower	0
Cunning	0

Description

A Berserker wields huge two-handed weapons of destruction, bringing pain and death to his foes as he cleaves them in two. A Berserker usually forfeits all ideas of self-defense to concentrate on what he does best: killing things. Their most important stats are: Strength and Constitution

Starting Equipment

• Iron Greatsword
• Iron Mail Armor

Talents

Class
Type	Name	Mastery	Locked	Talents
Techniques	Archery Training	1.1	Yes	Steady Shot	Aim	Rapid Shot	Relaxed Shot
Techniques	Shield Defense	0.9	Yes	Shield Wall	Repulsion	Shield Expertise	Last Stand
Techniques	Two-Handed Weapons	1.3	No	Death Dance	Berserker	Warshout	Deathblow
Techniques	Two-Handed Maiming	1.3	No	Stunning Blow	Sunder Armour	Sunder Arms	Blood Frenzy
Techniques	Combat Techniques	1.3	No	Rush	Precise Strikes	Perfect Strike	Blinding Speed
Techniques	Combat Veteran	1.3	No	Quick Recovery	Fast Metabolism	Spell Shield	Unending Frenzy
Techniques	Superiority	1.3	Yes	Juggernaut	Onslaught	Battle Call	Shattering Impact
Techniques	Warcries	1.3	Yes	Shattering Shout	Second Wind	Battle Shout	Battle Cry
Technique	Bloodthirst	1.2	Yes	Bloodbath	Mortal Terror	Bloodrage	Unstoppable
Cunning	Dirty Fighting	1.0	Yes	Dirty Fighting	Backstab	Switch Place	Cripple
Generic
Type	Name	Mastery	Locked	Talents
Techniques	Combat Training	1.3	No	Thick Skin	Armour Training	Combat Accuracy	Weapons Mastery
Techniques	Conditioning	1.3	No	Vitality	Daunting Presence	Unflinching Resolve	Adrenaline Surge
Techniques	Field Control	1.0	Yes	Disengage	Track	Heave	Slow Motion
Cunning	Survival	1.0	No	Heightened Sense	Charm Mastery	Piercing Sight	Evasion

Strategy

Stunning Blow and Death Dance are your two early game talents. Both of these should be maxed as soon as possible.

I would recommend opening up Bloodthirst first. You get three passive talents here: Blood Bath, Mortal Terror, and Blood Rage, all of which will help increase your character's survivability.

You want to put some points into Rush. This helps you a lot to close the gap on tough mobs that are more than 1 square away.

I would put points into all of the passive talents in the Combat Techniques tree (the ones that increase your stamina and health).

For your other category point, I would probably take the extra slot, rather than another talent tree. I think having 2 regen runes is better than anything else. However, you could take the Warcries tree, which will give you Battle Shout and Second wind; both talents are nice.

For Passive talents, I maxed the Weapons Combat, and Weapons Mastery first, followed by health, and the massive armor. (I put a point into massive armor at clvl 1.)

You might want to spend your final category point on Field Control so you can get Track. I did so on my winner, but found that I rarely, if ever, used it. So it may be better to spend this point on the Warcries tree.

A good strategy for most of the game is to limit your line of sight. I nearly always tried to fight stuff in a place where only 1 or 2 monsters could ever see me. I think this becomes more important as you get into the later levels as you want to limit the number of ranged attacks and magic. Those are the two things that will kill you fast throughout most of the game. You don't need to worry about melee damage until you get to a high clvl and start facing elite berserkers. They can hit HARD. So you want to be careful around them. Otherwise, you want to go toe to toe with everything else. You should be able to 1 or 2 hit everything in the game except bosses.

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