Just hit lvl 20 on zerker, have a few questions

[-ShadoW-]

<div>I hit lvl 20 with my zerker today, I upgraded some of his skills to Adept 1 and baught the pristine vanguard armor set. I really like how im proggresing with him and since im new to this class I have a few questions for the zerker community.</div><div> </div><div>1- I noticed my power pool being drained faster. I start off with knee break, then launch HO and then spam the rest of my attacking spells. With this being done, I usually kill an equal lvl mob in 10 secs. Will my power continue to decrease faster as I lvl or will it increase?</div><div> </div><div>2- Im having trouble with heroic mobs, I know that everone says u need a group for them and they're not suppose to be easy. Yet some higher lvl zerkers on my server tell me they can solo ^^^ names 2-3 lvls below them. As of now I can solo a single ^^^ non-named mob 5-6 lvls below me. Are we really capable of doing what most of the higher lvl zerkers tell me?</div><div> </div><div>3- Is there a complete list of zerker spells? The one thats stickied on this forum is kind of out of date.</div><div> </div><div>4- Any tips or tricks u higher lvls got for me?</div><div> </div><div>thx</div>

[Darkfrog]

<div></div><div></div><p>I just hit 21 the other day and since this is my first time with a Warrior class I was wondering what some of the higher lvls have to say about the following:</p><p>1. What is the best suited role for a Zerker for group and/or raid??</p><p>2. How well does do we faire as solo'ers at higher lvls?</p><p>3. I currently have soulshatter and ebon shield equipped, is the 1handed + sheild combo effective at higher lvls?</p><p>4. I tend to focus on def. stance instead of aggr. stance, which is the better IYO?</p><p>5. Any other tipps for us Newb Zerkers??</p><p>Message Edited by Darkfrog56 on <span class="date_text">03-24-2006</span><span class="time_text">08:57 AM</span></p>

[Yodaya]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>-ShadoW- wrote:<div>I hit lvl 20 with my zerker today, I upgraded some of his skills to Adept 1 and baught the pristine vanguard armor set. I really like how im proggresing with him and since im new to this class I have a few questions for the zerker community.</div><div> </div><div>1- I noticed my power pool being drained faster. I start off with knee break, then launch HO and then spam the rest of my attacking spells. With this being done, I usually kill an equal lvl mob in 10 secs. Will my power continue to decrease faster as I lvl or will it increase?</div><div> </div><div>2- Im having trouble with heroic mobs, I know that everone says u need a group for them and they're not suppose to be easy. Yet some higher lvl zerkers on my server tell me they can solo ^^^ names 2-3 lvls below them. As of now I can solo a single ^^^ non-named mob 5-6 lvls below me. Are we really capable of doing what most of the higher lvl zerkers tell me?</div><div> </div><div>3- Is there a complete list of zerker spells? The one thats stickied on this forum is kind of out of date.</div><div> </div><div>4- Any tips or tricks u higher lvls got for me?</div><div> </div><div>thx</div><hr></blockquote><p>1. I am a 28 serker, I have a good amount of power. I never had an issue with power being drained out.</p><p>2. I have all master I spells, fir long bow, and pretty [expletive haxx0red by Raijinn] good gear (shaped feyiron - as good as T3 rare crafted), still I can only gauranteed solo only 5 levels below heroic ^^^ mobs or lower. So, I guess you are doing pretty well. Btw, types of mobs also matter. Usually humonoid mobs are much harder than animal type mobs. Caster mobs are much harder than tank type mobs. I can solo an animal type mob heroic ^^^ only 3 levels below, and still have trouble with some skeleton heroics 6 levels below.</p><p>3. Yes, I have created a nice excel sheet and posted here on forum a couple of weeks ago. Here it is again: <a href="http://www.[Removed for Content].com/cdeepal/EQ2_Berserker_CA.xls" target="_blank">http://www.[Removed for Content].com/cdeepal/EQ2_Berserker_CA.xls</a></p><p>4. Upgrade your HP regen buff to adept 3 if you have money and your Furious Onslaught. Use your defensive stance if you fight against heroics it works better than offensive stance. Equip two hex dolls. You get a nice attack speed debuff which can be cast to slow down a mob. Get the best bow possible and the best arrows (in your case carbonite or steel <- if you can afford). Long bows are better than short bows because they do higher damage.</p><p> </p>

[Yodaya]

<div></div><blockquote><hr>Darkfrog56 wrote:<div></div><div></div><p>I just hit 21 the other day and since this is my first time with a Warrior class I was wondering what some of the higher lvls have to say about the following:</p><p>1. What is the best suited role for a Zerker for group and/or raid??</p><p>2. How well does do we faire as solo'ers at higher lvls?</p><p>3. I currently have soulshatter and ebon shield equipped, is the 1handed + sheild combo effective at higher lvls?</p><p>4. I tend to focus on def. stance instead of aggr. stance, which is the better IYO?</p><p>5. Any other tipps for us Newb Zerkers??</p><p>Message Edited by Darkfrog56 on <span class="date_text">03-24-2006</span><span class="time_text">08:57 AM</span></p><hr></blockquote><p>1. I believe serkers would play more of a DPS role than a Tank role. However, I am not a raid player.</p><p>2. Don't know about higher levels but at T3, yes we do well.</p><p>3. Believe so, we get some impressive spells which is to be used with a shield.</p><p>4. Def stance is better</p><p>5. No</p>

[-ShadoW-]

<div></div><p>Lvl 25 now and still having some trouble with power, I have about 900 but I still tend to drain it pretty fast.</p><p>As for soloing, I believe we get much better at higher lvls. At 24 I soloed one of the named in SH(lvl 20^^^) and got some nice fabled legs, so soloing isnt much of a problem for me anymore.</p><p> </p><p>thx</p>

[Poji]

<div></div><p>Mana is an issue for tanks at times, given the fact that you have to do enough to hold agro against trigger happy mages and scouts who don't worry about putting evade on the bar.  Manage your power to your mini-dings, and pay attention to the time between pulls.  You still don't need to be spamming everything as soon as it comes up.</p><p>If you are a dpser in the group (I have only been two or three times in 51 levels) you shouldn't have problems with mana.  You don't have to taunt.</p><p>Always invest in good drink.  It is way more important that good food unless soloing.</p>

[firewolf]

<span><blockquote><hr>Darkfrog56 wrote:<div></div><div></div><p>I just hit 21 the other day and since this is my first time with a Warrior class I was wondering what some of the higher lvls have to say about the following:</p><p>1. What is the best suited role for a Zerker for group and/or raid??</p><p>Tanking most of the time. However, can be good dps if you are fighting group encounter. The group berserk buff helps in increasing a groups overall dps.</p><p>2. How well does do we faire as solo'ers at higher lvls?</p><p>Soloed to level 45. For heroic, can take on single or group heroic mob with 2-3 arrows up if there are 8 levels below.  For solo encounter, can take on anything up to 4 mobs 3 levels above including healers and casters mob. Currently only using treasure gear. So with legendary or fabled gear, expect to do much better. Not the best soloer but pretty enjoyable especially seeing those AE damage above mobs head.</p><p>3. I currently have soulshatter and ebon shield equipped, is the 1handed + sheild combo effective at higher lvls?</p><p>I switched between DW, 2H and 1H+shield depending on the mood.</p><p>4. I tend to focus on def. stance instead of aggr. stance, which is the better IYO?</p><p>Even con and below, I use offensive stance with DW, 2H or 1H+shield. Yellow con within 2 levels with 3-4 mobs encounter I use offensive stance with 1H+shield. My hp never drops below 60%. Only with heroic named counter, have I ever need to use 1H+sheild in defensive stance. If you solo a lot, focus on offensive. When you are up against those casters and healers mob, you want the extra offensive AE damage. Pretty much never need to use defensive stance against solo encounter. My offensive stance is adept 3 while defensive stance is still at app1 since I solo most of the time.</p><p>5. Any other tipps for us Newb Zerkers??</p><p>Get the gear with the most mitigation on them. Concentrate on building str, agi and wis. Only go sta if you raid and group a lot. Get mitigation and str/sta/agi potions. Get str/sta/agi food. Get invis, otter and sow totem. They helps a lot in getting around the 3 arrows up heroics. If soloing, upgrade the 2 in-combat regen too. Seldom encounter power problem even with vendor drink one tier below. However I do keep a stack of good drink for grouping.</p><p>Message Edited by Darkfrog56 on <span class="date_text">03-24-2006</span><span class="time_text">08:57 AM</span></p><hr></blockquote></span><div></div>