Guild Wars 2

Article from ZAM

http://www.zam.com/story.html?story=36349

Screenshots of skills/abilities/animations:

http://www.mattsta.ninja/berserker-exclusive-reveal/

Update: Official reveal link

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/meet-the-berserker-warriors-elite-specialization/

From the Article:

The Berserker is all about tapping into their primal bloodlust to unleash their rage and go Berserk. Berserk is the new profession specific mechanic that warriors get with the Berserker elite spec. Once enough adrenaline has been built up, the Warrior can enter berserk mode. The first thing that going berserk does is change the warrior’s adrenaline bar from its three-tiered, 30 adrenaline large bar into a single-tier 10 adrenaline bar. This smaller bar will let Berserkers get their adrenaline full even faster which is helpful for using the new “primal” burst skills.

Thoughts?

guess i’m still maining Warrior.

“One of these skills is Wild Blow, a powerful attack that launches any foe it hits back a large distance with such force that your foe’s own body becomes a projectile that can hit other enemies, knocking them back in turn.”

I want this. Yesterday. This sounds so good

Odd that they tried to make other Elite specs do things that the base class was lacking in but not for Warrior. It can be condi based or raw damage. If the focus was on condis, then why call it berserker? If it’s amplifying raw damage, the warrior isn’t lacking in that area at all.

The name was a bad choice given the popularity of zerk gear. Oh well.

The spec looks cool though.

I would have called it “Savage” or “Barbarian” or “Demolisher” or “Blitzkrieger” or anything but berserker.

Iason Evan.3806:

Odd that they tried to make other Elite specs do things that the base class was lacking in but not for Warrior. It can be condi based or raw damage. If the focus was on condis, then why call it berserker? If it’s amplifying raw damage, the warrior isn’t lacking in that area at all.

The name was a bad choice given the popularity of zerk gear. Oh well.

The spec looks cool though.

I would have called it “Savage” or “Barbarian” or “Demolisher” or “Blitzkrieger” or anything but berserker.

Honestly i think at this moment the warrior is one of the most complete classes.
They missed a choice when going conditions (you were basicly locked in Sword/sword longbow) at least now you can swap offhands.

I’m excited we get to use our burst skills more, may drive people off the greatsword.

i hope the new warrior berserker torch skill #5 will be good.

say, remove 3 conditions, 15 seconds recharge time.

I’m very curious about this, I’ can’t wait for the POI this friday.

THIS is how an elite spec should be.

This spec looks like so much fun!

This is the one and only time I wish FH was baseline just because Strength/Disc/Zerker Hammer/Mace+Torch interrupt build would be fun as hell. Might still try it regardless. Celestial Flame Legion type stuff.

so F2 = enter berserk mode and all our f1 burst skills turn into berserk bursts skills eh?

Balancementalist’s Blind spam makes single target melee skills with a high cooldown totally useless in sPvP.

That spec sounds a bit op when it comes to burst skills.. casting them more often? Not sure if we have so many dodges ingame.. Now im curious what they changed weak killshot to.

It might make me want to come back to war as i was fan of physical skills and tried them make work for a while before i gave up.. howered if i wont be able to run 5x rage on my bar due to sustain issues forcing me to pick up these boring and lame stances ill pass..

From what i also understand these bursts will count as 3 bars, removing 3 condi more often with ire. Guards will be jelly either way as they wont be a king of burn anymore haha.

skowcia.8257:

From what i also understand these bursts will count as 3 bars, removing 3 condi more often with ire. Guards will be jelly either way as they wont be a king of burn anymore haha.

unfortunately, i think only the “damage level” will count as 3 bars. for cleansing ire purposes i think it still counts as 1 bar.

that is what i think, at least.

Burn, burn, everything must burn ! shoves the torch into a random Quaggan

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

skowcia.8257:

From what i also understand these bursts will count as 3 bars, removing 3 condi more often with ire. Guards will be jelly either way as they wont be a king of burn anymore haha.

unfortunately, i think only the “damage level” will count as 3 bars. for cleansing ire purposes i think it still counts as 1 bar.

that is what i think, at least.

That’s not what they said. This will make Berserker almost worthless in any PvP scenario, so I hope not. They will probably slap an ICD on Cleansing Ire.

Deimos Tel Arin.7391:

skowcia.8257:

From what i also understand these bursts will count as 3 bars, removing 3 condi more often with ire. Guards will be jelly either way as they wont be a king of burn anymore haha.

unfortunately, i think only the “damage level” will count as 3 bars. for cleansing ire purposes i think it still counts as 1 bar.

that is what i think, at least.

“If you were worried about the shorter adrenaline bar having a negative impact on those traits that scale according to adrenaline level fear not, as the primal burst skills are all considered Tier 3 burst skills.”

Sounds like it will be more frequent full cleansing ire to me.

My question is how hard/easy it is to maintain the Berserker state. I haven’t been playing my Warriors so much but I do know it seems like every moment you’re not actively hitting things your adrenaline is draining away. Can you only access Berserker mode for a few seconds at a time?

Well it looks and sounds cool. In practice though, we will see…

Deim Hunir.8503:

Burn, burn, everything must burn ! shoves the torch into a random Quaggan

YOU SICK kitten! What did that fluffball every do to you! He was such a cutie! ‘takes a bite of a roasted quaggan’ shame on you! Shame!

Donari.5237:

My question is how hard/easy it is to maintain the Berserker state. I haven’t been playing my Warriors so much but I do know it seems like every moment you’re not actively hitting things your adrenaline is draining away. Can you only access Berserker mode for a few seconds at a time?

Has 8 seconds CD and activation of 1/4s. Also gives 33% attack speed afaik. Requires full adrenaline to activate.

Robert Gee is 3 for 3

Killyox.3950:

Donari.5237:

My question is how hard/easy it is to maintain the Berserker state. I haven’t been playing my Warriors so much but I do know it seems like every moment you’re not actively hitting things your adrenaline is draining away. Can you only access Berserker mode for a few seconds at a time?

Has 8 seconds CD and activation of 1/4s. Also gives 33% attack speed afaik. Requires full adrenaline to activate.

Exactly. You have to build up adrenaline to enter the beserk state. Do you then have to do high maintenance to stay there? Reaper works well because you keep Life Force forever until you use it, so you have a lot of flexibility on using Reaper Shroud. If Berserker only gives you all the shiny goodies after a fight’s gone on for a while, and then kicks you back to base state if you go three seconds without hitting something, that could be annoying.

Donari.5237:

Killyox.3950:

Donari.5237:

My question is how hard/easy it is to maintain the Berserker state. I haven’t been playing my Warriors so much but I do know it seems like every moment you’re not actively hitting things your adrenaline is draining away. Can you only access Berserker mode for a few seconds at a time?

Has 8 seconds CD and activation of 1/4s. Also gives 33% attack speed afaik. Requires full adrenaline to activate.

Exactly. You have to build up adrenaline to enter the beserk state. Do you then have to do high maintenance to stay there? Reaper works well because you keep Life Force forever until you use it, so you have a lot of flexibility on using Reaper Shroud. If Berserker only gives you all the shiny goodies after a fight’s gone on for a while, and then kicks you back to base state if you go three seconds without hitting something, that could be annoying.

“It’s a skill with a duration and a cooldown that cannot be activated unless you have full adrenaline. Once activated it cannot be cancelled and the player will continue going berserk for its duration. "

According to this it is not even possible to leave berserk state voluntarily before it expires.
I don’t think you need to worry about maintaining it.

Tentatively excited…but please, for the love of all that’s good in the world…get rid of those gorram straight up in the air horns on that cooly skull helmet! I mean it would be the perfect finish for my armor…if it just didn’t have the horns!

Will need to see how this will interact with Adrenal Health AND Clensing Ire.

Nerfing our already lacking passive healing and or condition Cleansing makes this a non starter in pvp.

Apolo.5942:

Will need to see how this will interact with Adrenal Health AND Clensing Ire.

Nerfing our already lacking passive healing and or condition Cleansing makes this a non starter in pvp.

They already said the 1 bar acts as a tier 3 “as far as traits go”.

Berserker sounds really cool.

I can see a cond build be amazing in WvW.

Thorfinnr Sleggja.1209:

Tentatively excited…but please, for the love of all that’s good in the world…get rid of those gorram straight up in the air horns on that cooly skull helmet! I mean it would be the perfect finish for my armor…if it just didn’t have the horns!

http://i1308.photobucket.com/albums/s619/thorfinnr1/FangofJormag_zpsa983c487.jpg

(I can’t figure out how to get the pic to post in the thread…)

You need to save the image in your computer and the then attach it to the post, like this:

Belzebu.3912:

Berserker sounds really cool.

I can see a cond build be amazing in WvW.

You need to save the image in your computer and the then attach it to the post, like this:

Thanks…got it…i thought i could use the link, but I was mistaken.

Something tells me this weapon will be used as a hybrid, Just like the Sword mainhand. It provides you with a ranged cripple and burn, along with a mobile Fire field allowing you to carry out blast finishers, leap finishers and projectile finishers without having to worry about positioning.
I am hoping this weapon is a hybrid of condi and power so i don’t have to bring out my sinister gear again.

I’m so glad I haven’t deleted my alt warrior. I was that close to do so at some points.
The berserker looks really fun.

Interesting …

From my understanding, all of the other elites can be turned on or off whenever (at least that is what they said during the announcement). Presumably to be able to switch to elite, equip the weapon, then use it.

With Berserker it only activates under certain circumstances. So do you then stop what you are doing (while your adrenaline goes down) to equip the elite weapon and hope it did not swap out the one you wanted to be able to switch to?

I think that that specializzation will be very good!

Add something completly new to warrior: condition damage will be very good with the mace+torch in spvp to burn and confuse the enemy!

I’m really curious about that specialzization!

Menadena.7482:

Interesting …

From my understanding, all of the other elites can be turned on or off whenever (at least that is what they said during the announcement). Presumably to be able to switch to elite, equip the weapon, then use it.

With Berserker it only activates under certain circumstances. So do you then stop what you are doing (while your adrenaline goes down) to equip the elite weapon and hope it did not swap out the one you wanted to be able to switch to?

This shouldn’t happen any more than a Reaper loses GS use just because they ran out of Life Force.

Well, I was hoping for something at least worth, expected something meh, but this is even better. Now this is what I call interesting elite spec! Using enemies as knocking down projectiles… I love you whoever came up with this xD

ronpierce.2760:

Apolo.5942:

Will need to see how this will interact with Adrenal Health AND Clensing Ire.

Nerfing our already lacking passive healing and or condition Cleansing makes this a non starter in pvp.

They already said the 1 bar acts as a tier 3 “as far as traits go”.

No they said the burst skill counts a 3rd tier burst.

Warrior is essentially unplayable in pvp if its grand total sustain comes down to 360-470ish hp per second and only when not activating the signet.

Apolo.5942:

ronpierce.2760:

Apolo.5942:

Will need to see how this will interact with Adrenal Health AND Clensing Ire.

Nerfing our already lacking passive healing and or condition Cleansing makes this a non starter in pvp.

They already said the 1 bar acts as a tier 3 “as far as traits go”.

No they said the burst skill counts a 3rd tier burst.

““If you were worried about the shorter adrenaline bar having a negative impact on those traits that scale according to adrenaline level fear not, as the primal burst skills are all considered Tier 3 burst skills.”

Is what they said. So maybe your concern is there with adrenal Health, but as far as Cleansing Ire goes and other tiered traits off of burst skills, this should answer your question fairly easily.

I’m sure 1 bar equates to 3 in terms of AH and Peak Performance, too. But something to look out for either way.

Iason Evan.3806:

Odd that they tried to make other Elite specs do things that the base class was lacking in but not for Warrior. It can be condi based or raw damage. If the focus was on condis, then why call it berserker? If it’s amplifying raw damage, the warrior isn’t lacking in that area at all.

The name was a bad choice given the popularity of zerk gear. Oh well.

The spec looks cool though.

I would have called it “Savage” or “Barbarian” or “Demolisher” or “Blitzkrieger” or anything but berserker.

Maybe they want to change berserker gear to power main/precision/condition damage

Right now im usting Strenght defense and Discipline.

Discipline and Defense are essentially untouchable in pvp.

Thus this will compete directly with Strenght. Which essentially gives a 30% bonus damage to GS (FG+BP).

On the other hand, Discipline + “Berserker”(?) will mean permanent full Addrenaline bar, which would have some upsides.

Ahhh…condition warriors..here goes my food for Mallyx ^^

Iason Evan.3806:

If the focus was on condis, then why call it berserker?

Ever heard of those Norse warriors? People called them after the GW2 gear.

Jokes aside, the concept sounds great. Hope it’s as fun as I imagine.
I wonder what’s up with the datamined “sacrificial” skills.

Great to see Headbutt making a comeback.

Absolutely sick dude, can’t wait.

So when in berserk mode, the adrenaline bar becomes a single bar instead of 3?

If so, doesnt that mean new burst consume the berker mode completely

Well, this sounds like it slots perfectly in with my warrior’s current shtick.
It basically just changes it to a flaming shtick.

If only I can figure out which trait line to drop…

I’d just be happy if ArenaNet fixed Earthshaker to function on terrain that has any sort of incline or decline instead having it do nothing.

I don’t know I’m actually super letdown by this elite spec, it’s just the most literal, straight forward, by the book interpretation of a “Berserker” possible, it’s just not innovative at all.

Rage Skills o.o what happened to sacrificial skills (corruptions)?

From what they’ve released so far there’s no reason to switch from my current DPS or Phalanx build for PVE end game content (read: Fractals).

Lyger.5429:

Rage Skills o.o what happened to sacrificial skills (corruptions)?

Like all data-mined information, it’s subject to change. Or, most likely in this case, to being uncollected garbage from early iterations.

Lyger.5429:

Rage Skills o.o what happened to sacrificial skills (corruptions)?

They got sacrificed.

TheFantasticGman.9451:

From what they’ve released so far there’s no reason to switch from my current DPS or Phalanx build for PVE end game content (read: Fractals).

Yep, because only knowing one utility, the two weapon skills, and some vague details about the new class mechanic (and not knowing how it will apply to or change 5 of our 7 burst skills) and having no math or number tallies or traits at all is totally enough information to decide whether or not a spec is viable.

SMH

From what they’ve released so far, there’s no reason for me to change my Engineer, Thief, or Ranger builds, either.