Zerker on the bottom of the lists yet again.

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ladish wrote:

zerker should be flat phys master race imo.

You just gave me the best idea but I doubt anyone would go for it. For his rage mechanic or maybe just a random node, allow him to either ignore physical reduction, or give him penetration for armor. This would at least give him some type of identity, the more pissed off he is the more worried the enemy should become.

"Increases and Reductions to Elemental Damage are applied to Physical Damage instead."

Would open up a whole realm of possibilities. For example all those elemental attack damage modifiers on items. Might have to add "Cannot deal Elemental Damage." if conversion would go too far on top of that.

It's been what, three leagues? Four leagues? Zerker nerf was a complete and utter knee jerk reaction that was made just to satisfy GGG's "for there to be good options, bad options need to be present" - philosophy. It's not that they can't make zerker less shit, it's that they don't WANT to.

We just gotta wait till zerker gets back on their meta list. I no longer see any hope for buffs before that.

we all know how GGG works. they're more likely to nerf everything else than to buff zerker, haha.

GGG always nerfs and destroys what players love the most.
Berserkers were fun and very popular, so GGG decided that´s too much fun and they showed us the middle finger and killed the class.

No matter what people enjoy - vaal spark, ES, Berserkers... Shimmerons, etc.etc.etc.etc. if it becomes too popular, it will get nerfed.

That´s why I didn´t start a pp VD pathfinder myself yet, the nerf is certainly in the making.

thats one way of looking at it.

TBH it has nothing to do with it being popular. it has everything to do with it being over powered as a mother fucker, which just so happens to be why it becomes so popular.

yes of course GGG is going to nerf what is ridiculously over powered. such as old beserker, vaal spark spam, old ES, totem/trap dual wield shimmerons.

don't be stupid

I´m not being stupid.
You need to see the whole picture though. When GGG nerfs "the" most overpowered class, skill or item, players will come up with the "next" overpowered thing. GGG will nerf this, too - and so it continues.
It´s a history of nerfs and destruction.
Instead of accepting the fact that players WANT to be overpowered (...) and creating
- harder content
- more overpowered options
They just kill "the fun".
I was personally SO close to quitting the game several times because althoug I love poe and GGG (95% of it) I absolutely HATE their philosophy of nerfing things to a degree that they literally become completely ineffective.
They don´t just nerf them a little. They make sure no one uses them for a long time.

^ Accepting that people want to be more overpowered and just making harder content does two things, firstly current content becomes irrelevant and trivial, secondly the harder content you've made is only accessible to a select few skills currently in the overpowered category.

Its not good you don't have to only nerf but the things that receive buffs should be the bottom and things getting nerfed should be the top.

Do agree that they almost always go too far with nerfs when they do them which i think supports the argument that they deliberately move the meta, I would like them to actually try balancing the game properly though i'd love it if I looked at the builds for the 90+s on hardcore and found it was more than 3 skills.

The Zerker is dead, GGG so decided.

I'd like to know who the bright person is that make him not leech with spells anymore. He was somewhat useful for mana/life leech with spell if you wanted other curse beside warlords. I played a few zerker battle mages all the way to end game domination. Now no point. He sucks. '

I think abyss league was last zerker i played after that they nerf him. I liked zerker because you could get 8 IAS easy with the poets pens and cast two spells in each wand 4x a second for 16 spells a second and have leech.