Guild Wars 2

The real issues with berserker: warrior trait lines don’t have enough in-line synergy; it’s a very selfish line, and while it has good condition burst by spamming rage skills, there is a lack of other ways to apply burning.)

Strength: (clean up cross-line synergy but also have to choose between best DPS and best group support)
Move ‘Phalanx Strength’ to ‘Strength’ (move ’Distracting Strikes to defense)

Tactics (add some sustained burning here with some in-line synergy)
Add a new GM Trait: “Immobilizing an opponent causes 2 stacks of burning for 3 seconds”

Berserker: Add something non-selfish
Merge Bloody Roar and Savage Instinct into a single trait
Add new GM: “Activating a leap finisher applies it to your entire party”

There may be some reorganizing of other traits:
(In defense, remove ‘Thick Skin’, replace it with ‘Distracting Strikes’)
(Merge the reviver traits in tactics into a single trait, make empower allies baseline, move the banner trait in)
(In discipline, add a new GM trait that resets weapon swap cooldown on using a ‘finisher’, move hammer skill down one rank to replace banners)

(Obviously baseline Fast Hands would be awesome too)

You talking about fixing berserker line yet all of your suggestions are around base warrior.. Legit

Well, the problem with berserker is actually not berserker itself. It is the fact, that you need to sacrifice either strength traitline (DPS loss) or defense traitline (guess what) as the discipline traitline with fast hands adept minor is essential.
Making fast hands base line would solve this problem for 90%. The remaining traits in discipline can be somehow sacrificed.

Well, the problem with berserker is actually not berserker itself.

Yes, this exactly.

Viewed in isolation, there isn’t much wrong with berserker. It has an interesting theme, some nice in-line synergy. At the same time, in it’s current state, I would consider it a failure of an spec.

It is a failure because it doesn’t work well with the rest of the warrior class; and a lot of that is how the other warrior skills are organized.

A)You either make the berserker line super strong but it won`t fix the issue for future elite spec or (B) rework the base class and make it less dependable on traits.

Option A is easier right now but i doubt it will happen. Berserker line/transformation is too weak compare to what we lose.(Also look bad compared to reaper as an exemple.) While a condi build is fun to have it’s kinda sad that our elite spec is a average condi build. They should rename it sinister or carrioner. Also why we would only get a condi spec when other subclass have many options?

Option B is better on the long run but would take a lot of work and balancing and the timer is getting short.

If u r going for a condi build u won’t take strength any ways. If u r going for a dps build ,even disregarding PS then strength, arms tatics is still the max team dps. If u r the second warrior then yes u can drop tatics for beserker