If iZerker were to hit for 5k+ aoe dmg (even in DPS gear), it’d be one of the strongest-hitting skills in the game, have a low cooldown, and take absolutely no skill to set up. That’s equivalent to a fire grab on a group of burning targets, which takes way more skill to pull off and has 1/4 the range.
I feel like my zerker is pretty comparable to duelist, swordsman, and warlock. The zerker does less single target damage, but the damage is aoe and it cripples.
Maybe izerker used to be bugged and was doing too much damage, but a.net never realized it, and that’s why they currently think it’s working as intended (except for the missing floaters).
Proposterious. Let’s just take a look at a couple of other classes:
Warrior: Hundred Blades, 8 second cooldown, 8 × 3080 with last strike doing additional damage can easily do as much as iB just has to be close, however, knock you down with a hammer….
Elementalist: Whilst their main aoe’s do have a considerable longer cooldown, they also do considerably more damage, hence the 5 person limit introduction. Quite often 3-5k per tick MS and that’s per tick.
Thief: Cloak and Dagger, 6-7K damage easy, Backstab, 6-9k, Heartseeker, 5-7k (dependent on HP pool). So what, it’s a single target. They can easily burst you down, cap and disappear before anyone notices.
Everything in this game is situational, but to say iB requires 0 skill is ridiculous. iB is:
1) Easily destroyed before it’s done any damage, so placement when in a zerg is imperative otherwise ground aoe takes it out before it’s begun.
2) Stealth render’s it useless and it will pretty much do 0 damage if the stealthy times their stealth right.
3) Can be used by a thief to restealth themselves.
4) Often get’s stuck.
5) Often get’s obstructed when you clearly have line of sight.
6) Is affected by any form of mobility decrease, stun, blind etc skills.
7) May have a 1200 limit, but quite often this isn’t the case. Where SS hits, iB gives “out of range”. I.e. Enemy is moving away, you try iB and get “out of range” then you try SS and hit.
8) Can be evaded if they’re paying attention due to fact that it doesn’t attack immediately, there’s that split second it sits there and goes “Hi, ASL?”.
So it does require some form of skill to use it effectively and get the max out of it, given all the issues around it.
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