Guild Wars 2

Hammer/Demolisher
Maximum CC Berserker for team fight control

Hammer – Savagery/Absorption
Mace/Shield – Savagery/Absorption
Demolisher or Paladin – Scrapper Rune or w/e else you want to test on it

Defense – Shield Master – Defy Pain – Cleansing Ire or Rousing
Discipline – Warrior’s Sprint – Brawler’s Recovery – Burst Mastery
Berserker – Savage Instinct – Dead or Alive – Eternal Champion

6 – Heal Sig
7 – Wild Blow or “Berserker Stance if you feel you need the extra resistance”
8 – Dolyak over Balanced for stacked tough and higher stab stack
9 – Outrage
10 – Head Butt

This spec can rotate 100% CC attacks only, many of them being AoEs. It doesn’t need Berserker Stance or Endure Pain as utilities. Smash Brawler is also not needed on this spec as classic Earthshaker is often better to use than the Berserker version, as well as classic Skull Crack over Skull Grinder, due to the synergy of Sigil of Savagery and the stuns on the classic burst skills. Smash Brawler becomes negligent in contrast to Savage Instinct after the nerf to pulsing stability and Smash Brawler in general.
Why Wild Blow you ask? Wild Blow is surprisingly amazing after this patch with the nerfs to stability and the inflation of boon removal to strip stability, not to mention everything else that a 600 range launch that hits five targets allows you to do.
This spec deals decent bruiser attrition DPS but it’s strength for kill power all rides on that CC train.

So far, here are the build’s strong points:

• Pinning down opponents for DPS spike assist with an infinite CC train
• Stopping revives – defending downed – stomping – Overall strong point control
• Decapping without needing to kill defender “all about that wild blow”
• Plenty of adrenaline gain on this spec = easy cleanse and easy adrenal health
• Generally wins 1v1s if someone stands on a small node against it = too much CC
• This build is very strong when paired with a tempest support. The extra heal/cleanse granted to the warrior is overwhelming sustain and the moments when players would normally be able to down the tempest, the Berserker can chain AoE CC players enough to where the Tempest should have time to recover.

Weak points:

• Slow rotations
• Easy to kite and stay away from if opponent is off point, which means it is easy to kill for anything with high ranged DPS that can avoid it’s burst activation of AH and Ire. Resulting in LOS phasing to survive against things a Berserker could once chase down.

Not saying this build is “the crème of the crème” or anything but I have personally found it to be surprisingly better than older Berserker specs in this current working meta and wanted to see if anyone else had tested similar specs. Also for those who are searching for viable Berserker specs, you may want to give hammer-mace/shield a go.