Guild Wars 2

You are immune to incoming conditions. Apparently there’s also a bug that makes you immune to dazes too and hopefully it gets fixed. But you have to use zerk stance AGGRESSIVELY to make the most out of it. Sure you can use it as a disengage but it won’t be as rewarding as trying to get your damage in as you use zerk stance.

I commonly will use Berserker’s Stance as I first engage in combat so I have those first seconds of the fight without being hit by condition damage.
As with most skills, I’d suggest ignoring the tooltip and checking the wiki for what it really does :/

“Grants immunity to unmodified conditions and gain 5 strikes of adrenaline per second.”

Honestly the only time I’ve seen a real use for zerker stance is wvw roaming and switching to it if I see a necro/mesmer and dueling in spvp.

If you’re a wvw and you like to zerg then its not that great since you can get a static -90% condi duration with melandru/dogged march and food. Plus having stability over a short condi immunity is better imo. Can’t attack when you’re on your butt.

I think it should reduce the base duration of incoming (i.e. applied to you after you turn it on) conditions by 100%. So if someone had no points in the 1st trait line and no other traits, runes, or sigils extending the duration, you should be immune to the condition. Otherwise you should be getting whatever is left, so if they’ve got 30 points in the top line you’d be getting 30% of its base duration (instead of 130%).

I don’t really care for PvP personally, but I do have a necro, and I can think of at least one reason I wouldn’t use a 60s c/d skill to get 8s of reduced condition duration when fighting one. If anything I’d prefer some shorter cooldown skills, like the traited warhorn, runed shouts, cleansing ire, or some combination thereof, because ‘in rapid succession’ is going to be how they’re applied to you most of the time, unless something like corrupt boon or signet of spite is off cooldown.

Certainly I’d at least want shake it off, because it’s a short stunbreak too and can deal with fear. The signet does make a handy emergency purge though, especially if you’ve got a lot of boons that might be corrupted now and then, but the warhorn can also deal with this to some extent because you can convert two of them back into boons, incidentally freeing up movement in the process (that last part even untraited, though slightly less often).

berserker’s stance to me is Warrior’s most valuable utility, you get 8s of almost “condition free” time , but you must use these 8s as efficient as possible to kill your target or make them on the defensive, so i think its better suited to high damage builds to end the fight fast, because after those 8s you are screwed if your enemy is still kicking unless you bring more condition removals .

BTW berserker’s stance does not affects conditions already applied on you.