Guild Wars 2

Does any1 know if these are any good?

I’ve tried Berserker Ammy, Marauder, Paladin, etc.

The biggest problem I run into with Berserker, and to a lesser degree Marauder is in situations where you are 1v1ing a Druid/Scrapper and to a lesser degree DH is that you are too squishy to sustain their damage while they can heal up spike damage as well.

You kinda have to play them like a thief sort of, and basically just decap, gank and spike 1 target then get out of there. At least with Berserker. With marauder it is a little bit more managable as you have more of a health pool plus you can augment it with runes of the scrapper/leadership. The main problem isn’t the direct damage that people do to you (sure a thief, a power mesmer or a DH may be able to 2 shot you) but you have alot of uptime on protection, evades and shield but it’s mostly the vit pool you lose. Not only are you more prone to bursts but condis will eat away at you faster. Running around with 16K hp as a Rev isn’t very fun with alot of reapers around.

But with a good team comp it can do very well, especially with a cleric tempest, the ability to cleave and the awesome spikes in damage is certainly welcome. As long as you don’t feed the other team kills.

People don’t typically use it though. Me personally I use a Paladin’s ammy, run Ret/Dev/Her but augment some damage by running either Strength/Hoelbrak, and putting a Force/Air sigil in my sword. It does decent damage.

Berserker amulet means you don’t really want to sit in teamfights or any fair fights. If enemy team doesn’t have Thieves, you can run Hammer instead of Staff. WvW Nerfs to this weapon hurt it a bit, but if you get to freecast even for couple seconds you can absolutely melt anything that isn’t Scrapper or Cleric’s Tempest.

I also use Invocation instead of Devastation/Retribution every time I run Berserker amulet. Higher crit chance gives better value out of Ferocity.

Berserker amulet is too squishy imo. I prefer marauder or paladin depending on if the enemy team has reapers or not (which every one has at least 2 lately)

I play berserker and i eat scrappers or dh for breakfast. You dont need defense if you know what you doing.