Berserker... the ULTIMATE Hidden Potential Class?

He has built in attack speed, movespeed, and he gains leech off of receiving damage which means as long as you pump him full of hp he can recover with warcry and leech. He doesn't need anything on his gear except life and resists because of how 40% more will interact with free attack speed/damage and hidden potential jewel.

I think I've decided to go berserker. Just cuz everyone said he sux.

I'm going life based cast when stunned (for the leach off of savage hits). And I'm wielding a realm shaper to level with, for cast on crit elemental hit -> Flame Surge + Immolate.

Yaap.

Hahaha GARBAGE class more like it.

They should just hammer the last nail in the coffin home on Berserker and change the 40% more damage to 40% more ATTACK damage, just like they did with all the other passives he has. That way the entire concept of spellcasting BERSERKERS is forever lost to the sands of time, as it should be.

If there anything anyone could think of that would be least likely to successfully cast a spell, it would be an enraged brute.

It's a borderlands class, they love having you stack a few hundred 0,05% increased reload speed buffs. Except some of those are pretty damn good.

Not sure about the "hidden" potential of the class, too many downsides for something just decent

Nothing hidden. He is plainy terrible. I ran the same build (my favourite glass cannon) on PoB as a trickster and a berseker, and the trickster ends up with the same damage, same HP, same Defenses, except no 10% life degen per second or 10% increased damage taken. If i do not go for double rage (only 5% degen) he actually ends up with less damage than trickster.

We 've said it before. The rewards for running rage are SHIT. And they become even MORE SHIT if you think that the mechanic basically prevents Damage on Full Life(on of the strongest supports in the game for single target) and Blood Rage (except if you build around a fuck ton of regen, but then you lose lotta damage, and if you are not going Berseker for damage why are you? His amazing tankiness and survivability?). Actually the best DPS i could get out of the Berseker was ignoring completely the rage mechanic and using a damage on full life.

Trashiest class in the game currently.

Yeah but I mean Hidden Potential is limited to 1 so not really an awesome choice.

Come to think about it does have some hidden potential. You have to figure out that this DPS oriented class will give more DPS and survivability by spending just 6 out of the 8 ascedancy points and use damage on full life. The 6 rest points will actually lower both. AWASOME. Weldone GGG!

That said, we're gonna look pretty dumb if one of the upcoming uniques has some sweet bonuses while enraged. Maybe... instant leech on full rage? Yeah, never hoped to look dumb as much as right now.

Rage is completly bad design by GGG.

Who in their right mind would take Rage (requires stacking, can't cancel it if hairy situation, 50% increased dmg, 25% att speed and movement at MAX rage), over simple Blood Rage that gives 20% IAS by simply clicking on the skill, LESS degen which can be MITIGATED, and generates frenzy charges that give MORE damage and attack speed...

Lol.

Rage should give what it gives now, with addition of 1% AoE per stack, without any degen, and maybe 0.2% less armor/evasion per stack.