Berserker AA

[heyua]

<p>What does Stance mastery do?Does it remove the penalties of juggernaut and adrenaline?</p>

[Kapath]

<p>no, simply the two stances you have to choose (excluding recklessnes). believe defensive has some reduction to weapon skill and offense decreases your defense/aggression.</p><p>Also, you should never be in the 'offensive' stance, it's a joke/waste. Just think of it not even being there. </p>

[Tekadeo]

<p><cite>Kapath wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>no, simply the two stances you have to choose (excluding recklessnes). believe defensive has some reduction to weapon skill and offense decreases your defense/aggression.</p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;"></span></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000;">Also, you should never be in the 'offensive' stance, it's a joke/waste. Just think of it not even being there. </span></p></blockquote><p>Why did you post this worthless and misleading information? </p><p>Berserkers are forced to use Offensive stance to generate enough hate to hold aggro.  Otherwise you are always going to need a Coercer/Dirge to hold aggro off of good DPS.  Offensive stance gives you a lot more hate via DPS and hit rate while not sacrificing as much as Reckless does, and the survivability loss is miniscule at best.</p>

[Avianna]

<p>agreed my zerker is always in offensive stance. sometimes if i am in a group and just background toon i go Recklesss but I never go defensive because with stance mastery the offensive is just as good as defensive plus I get more DPS Win WIN offensive is the way to go.</p>

[Regolas]

Sorry to hijack this thread but the title is appropriate and I can't raise a new post from my phone: The warrior AA tree. Which section is the better choice, the additional hate gain on far left or the 100% parry second from left?

[Regolas]

Also, while I agree that going offensive is better for aggro generation, the defensive stance seems to make me much more difficult to kill. It's a balancing game depending on the mob, the healer, your group setup and everything else. With the right support to provide additional hate gain but a healer who's struggling to keep you alive, I've found it better to go defensive with a shield. If the healer is finding it easy to keep you alive, then of course offensive stance is the way to go.