Thematic representation of the Berserker

[Wiseman160]

<p>I realize I've not spent a considerable amount of time on these fora, but I've been playing the EQ2 berserker longer than I've played any single thing in any game ever, which does mean something.  Since 2005 I've been playing the berserker, and like many old warriors have seen a whole lot of changes.</p><p>Many of you might not remember but there was a time in which we went red and held up our weapon in a silly pose every time we went berserk, which happened more than once a second in the average fight. This meant we were stuck in a silly pose, and this went on for months.  I'm happy they changed that, as it breathed new life into the appearance of my character in battle.  Many changes, though, made me less happy. Although I understood the need for them, we can't be particularly pleased to see our character become weak relative to its previous state.</p><p>I've stuck with the berserker through all the changes simply because I enjoy tanking and didn't feel like rolling a new tank. Although I've had some disagreements with the way berserker has been portrayed in the long run (such as plate, which I think betrays the bare-skinned berserker image) such things can be either looked around or outright fixed by clever use of appearance items. I'm still hoping to find a way for my berserker to go shirtless, so if you know of one please tell me <.<</p><p>On to what is bugging me at present: Threat.</p><p>As it stands right now the berserker seems to handle threat worse than any other fighter. Although I rarely see monks and bruisers doing serious tanking, when I do they've held threat due to their higher dps along with taunts, etc.  I can't say I know much about them, or shadowknights, but I do know enough about guardians to think that there's too much of a disparity between their threat generation and ours.</p><p>To put it bluntly, the berserker should have the highest threat in the world.  After all, what could be more threatening than the berserker?  If you're a piece of orcish fodder, what are you more concerned about killing first: the disciplined soldier, the pious crusader, the agile martial artist or the foaming at the mouth crazy three arrows in its chest snarling spinning yelling drunken axe-wielding curse spitting self harming maniac running toward you?  I think the choice is clear.</p><p>That being said I also voice for more opportunities to utilize our AoE potential in raid content.</p><p>Thank you.</p>

[Vogwyn]

<p>Very good points Wiseman160</p><p>I'm a fan of the old viking stories you hear from roman historians in which they came across beserkers.. For game balancing purposes I suppose they could never make them as powerful as they should be, however, seeng more of an impact on a bezerkers ability to stand toe to toe with multiple enemies despite their own wounds, and keeping their enemies attention, would add more to their role in battle. But what will be, will be</p>

[Clymene]

<p><cite>Wiseman160 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote> I'm still hoping to find a way for my berserker to go shirtless, so if you know of one please tell me <.<</blockquote><p>This is one of the best kept secrets currently in EQ2, but you can actually get a set of <strong>imperceptible beauty armor, that gives the appearance of nakedness</strong>. Simply go to any spire anywhere in Norrath and choose from 3 different quests to earn <strong>tokens</strong>. The tokens can then be spent to purchase imperceptible beauty appearance armor at the merchants availible at each spire. The types of quests you get are a crafting version (make 6 of an item, requires t2 ingredients and a special type of component purchasable at another merchant), a collecting version where you walk around a zone and use an item on these piles of void good and get updates, OR and instance with heroic mobs that drop tokens in chests as you kill them. I recommend heading to Antonica, I got bout 40 tokens in half an hour, which is enough for imperceptible gloves, chest, and bracers....shoulders are naturally invisible without the presence of a chest piece. Have fun with you cool, new "Zerker-like" appearance!</p>

[Urgol]

<p>Berserker aggro management is perfectly fine and is just slightly inferior to crusaders with the right gear. The worst aggro among tanks is that of guardians, and brawlers are just slightly better. Yes, with t2 gear and w/o mythical berserker cant aggro a [Removed for Content], but who cares? Zerker is god of aggro in endgame gear and with a dirge in grp, that's what does matter, since you arent going to spend all your time in [Removed for Content] poor gear.</p>

[Aull]

<p>On single target a monk with dragon's rage is very very strong. As for brawler aggro being bad I would say only in aoe.</p>