I like the idea. The name make me think about something more phisical, but a condition specializzation can be really good in a class that have not a good chance to inflict conditions.
And what about direct damage? We have already a large amount of incredibly powerfull damageing weapons (GS-Axe). What did they add more to a class entirely focused on direct damage?
They chose to make it a condition damage class. I think that it’s good.
Burn actually is barely OP and it’s damage can make the warrior able to inflict insane amount of condition damage.
We have still to see skills and traits of berserker specializzation in POI and then in action in the next BWE.
Before that we haven’t the chance to say if that specializzation is really good or bad.
Anyway there’s a lot of chances to change something if it’s not efficent, like about the reaper and it’s Shouts and GS.
Anyway… 3 condi cleaned (every 20-15 sec?) by the torch damaging AoE your enemies with burn and direct damage, plus always 3 condi cleaned every 5-7 seconds (we actually don’t know the cooldown of the next F1 rage skills) and more or less always adrenaline full why it bcomre really easy to full, proccing also the trait hp regeneration.
It looks great!
I have to disagree with most of this, trying to force condi viability onto warriors is not a good thing, at least not this way. They haven’t updated warrior gameplay or made it more interesting or diverse at all, they’ve just designed a new class mechanic and new skills that happen to apply conditions but still make warriors function exactly and I mean EXACTLY the same as before. That lack of innovation really does not motivate me to play the class, I mean most of the new “primal burst” skills actually look less useful than the existing skills, rage skills contain nothing new or interesting at all, torch skills damage and effects look close to terrible, there is just so little innovation in any of this.
You also might want to pay attention to the amount and duration of the burning that most of these skills inflict, they’re extremely low. Take for example warriors GS “primal burst” skill that created concentric expanding rings, it seemed to put 2-3 stacks of burning on enemies for about 3 seconds, that is not good. I mean I suppose with condi duration runes and food it could be much better I guess we’ll have to see.
I also don’t care for this 5-7 sec Primal Burst stuff, burst skills are supposed to be big rewards that you consider when to use, not cheap throw away skills that you spam because they’re up and they give you a bonus.
All in all this just seems like American fast food game design, they figured if players liked warriors they would really like a lot more “warriorness”.
