Guild Wars 2

That Berserker nerf was a hit in the gut, but what i think is even worse, is that almost all of the primal burst skills will not be used anymore.

For Raids and Fractals there is sword and bow and maybe greatsword, but apart from some open world players we won’t see the others anymore, because Berserker sucks now in pvp and wvw (even more than before).

It’s a shame really, that we are stuck with the old (even tier 1) bursts again with SB. They are slow and clunky. The primal burst for gun didn’t feel like garbage. Just compare the standart version to the new thief elite. It’s just so sad.

And SB doesn’t even seem to be that good in pvp. Try to kill a Deadeye with SB, he will kite you to death and Deadeye is not even a good pvp specialisation….

Berserker was also far to weak when it got released. We can hope that the devs will buff SB like they did with berserker during the months to come.

@eXruina… did you even read the description? It says so in your own screenshot.

I’ve played Berserker, Chronomancer, Druid, Herald and Reaper and I’ve also seen quite alot of Scrapper. I don’t really care for PvE, mainly because anything will be viable for PvE. I have to say in terms of PvP and WvW roaming Berserker just flat out sucks.
But I won’t even use it in PvE either because I can hardly use the berserker when fighting those trash mobs and I also lost quite a chunk of dps due to the Berserker traitline.

The whole traitline is a joke. Sorry if some people get offended when I say it like that, but it is just so disappointing. Berserker is just more of the same old clunky and no real synergy Warrior. The whole adept line could have been baseline and it would still suck.

And then we have those useless primal bursts. I was really thinking that this has got to be some evil joke. There are two good ones right now. The bugged rifle shot and the greatsword one. Rifle will be nerfed hard but the greatsword is actually quite enjoyable. The only good thing about the Berserker. The rest of those bursts are of no use.

The rage skills are almost as useless as the physical skills. Even the 10 sec cd stunbreak sucks, because at the moment you take stances or shouts(bow) or you are dead. Warrior has no sustain and stances give you at least that tiny window of opportunity. While those rage skills, even if they hit, do very little and their cooldown is far too high.

Even if you would lower the cooldowns of those skills by 50% they’d probably still suck, because warrior still has no defense, other than stances and maybe shield block. Bad sustain because of a high health pool but nothing to cover or recover it.
No instant teleport that can be used while stunned. No invisibility. No protection. No blind. No aegis. Nothing. And on top of that you are melee most of the time. Guess where you don’t wanna be: Next to a necro that plays reaper. That is how the warrior should be. The reaper is the new warrior. Too bad all my ascended armor is heavy.

I would have hoped for something special for the warrior, maybe something like the ability to carry a third weaponset, but the Berserker specialisation is set in stone. To make it viable against all these heavy condi classes running around in the meta today, you would have to give Berserker something real good. And I mean real good. Like pulsing resistance during berserk mode (baseline or not does not matter, the rest of the traits suck anyway)

And at last: Warrior had two decent condi weapons. And that was offhand sword and bow. So what about either buffing sword mainhand for condi or give us a mainhand condi weapon. But no ofc we get a torch, which is kinda on the same level as sword offhand, but there is still no real condi build for warrior, that can match condi mesmer, engineer, guard, necro or ranger. Not even cele ele(in terms of condi dmg, survivability is something completely different) or condi thief. Useless condi warrior.