General Berzerker Guide

Credits to Sekkotsu from Boi-forum
Slightly modified by : epox

I've looked around and haven't really seen any decent guides for Berzerker, so I thought I would make one. Before I do that though, I want to say most of this stuff is my opinion. I am not an expert at this game yet, but I have played many MMO's and most have the same concepts.

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Table of Contents

I. Background
II. Stat Points
III. Builds
IV. Gears
V. Gems
VI. Pets
VII. Skills

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Berzerkers concentrate almost exclusively on causing physical damage. Berzerkers still wear light armor, which gives them decent defense against physical attacks; however they are extremely susceptible to magical damage. Usually Berzerkers are found in the middle of a fight, never on its edges. Several Berzerker skills focus on weakening targets in terms of speed and/or defense.

• Attack Type: Physical Damage
  
• Strengths: High physical damage, medium level of health and armor
  
• Weaknesses: Low magic defense and evasion
  
• Strong VS: Heretics, Slayers
  
• Weak VS: Magus, Champions
  
• Equipment: Dual Welding Weapons, Light Armors
  
• Attributes: Strength, Vitality

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After you reach level 20, you gain two points every level to distribute into one of the following stats...

• Vitality
  Increases health and health regeneration
  
• Spirit
  Increases spirit and spirit regeneration
  
• Strength
  Increases attack power and accuracy
  
• Intelligence
  Increases magic power and critical rate
  
• Dexterity
  Increases evasion, accuracy, and critical

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There are a few different builds you can try, each have there own strengths and weaknesses. Since you only gain two stat points per level, there shouldn't be a huge difference. At no point in any build do Berzerkers need Spirit or Intelligence.

• Full Strength
  Add stat points to strength stat only. One of the more popular builds, this build focuses purely on your damage. Strength adds 1 damage and 1 accuracy per point, so you don't really need to worry about missing your target. A lot of skills use a percentage of your base damage for power.
  
  
  • Strengths: High Damage, High Skill Damage, High Accuracy
    
  • Weaknesses: Less health
  
  
• 1 Strength, 1 Vitality
  Add one point to strength and one to vitality. This build increases your health for a little cost in your damage. This is more for people that want to act as a secondary tank.
  
  
  • Strengths: More Health, Faster Health Regeneration
    
  • Weaknesses: Less Damage, Less Accuracy
  
  
• 3 Strength, 1 Vitality (Based on every two levels)
  Add three points to strength and one to vitality every two levels. This is for those that want a little more health while keeping a strong damage.
  
  
  • Strengths/Weaknesses: A mixture between the Full Strength and 1 Strength, 1 Vitality builds
  
  
• Dexterity
  There are some builds you could include some dexterity, but it isn't worth it. Dexterity will increase your evasion, but not by a lot. You already get accuracy from strength, so no reason for this stat either. Last it increases your critical strike, but from what i hear it takes a lot of points to increase critical strike just by one percent. Not really worth the points put into it.

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This is very simple and for the most part applies to every class. Wear either the sets Knight's Jail or Soul Gear.

Knight's Jail Gear
Starting at level 20 you can enter Knight's Jail up to five times per day. Each time you complete it, you gain some stamps that can be traded for gears. The lowest level gear you can trade for is level 30, and then there are new sets every 15 levels. Make sure to save your stamps because each part of gear requires its own number of stamps; and when you start to get to higher gear sets, they cost more stamps.

Soul Gear
The other type of gear that many hunt for is Soul Gear. Soul gear can first be obtained at level 45 by competing in the Dragon Emperor's Catacomb. You may do this event three times a day and there is only a chance that you'll get the gears you need. After that there are other events to get Soul Gears every 15 levels.

Some normal gears from quests are fine at lower levels, but wearing sets gives you extra stats to make you stronger. When you wear a gear set, it gives you bonuses for every two pieces that you wear. So try to wear sets of gears if you can.

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There are two main types of gems you will want to add to your gears

Attack Gems
Add attack gems to your gears to give you insane damage. Berzerkers already have high damage, but adding attack gems will put it through the roof.

Health Gems
Add health gems to your gears to give some massive health. Berzerkers have decent health to begin with, but having high health will make you tough to kill.

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Pets gain two stat points every level after level one; they also passively gain some stats you have no control of. Pets attack either as physical or magic so make sure you add the right add to the right stats. The type of pet is entirely up to your personal preference.

• Vitality Pet
  Has a very large amount of health; can take several hits like they're nothing. They have low damage compared to some other kinds of pets.
  Main Stats:
  
  • Strength
    
  • Dexterity
  
  
• Spirit Pet
  Very large amount of spirit; good pet for spamming skills. They too have low damage, but also can't take many hits.
  Main Stats:
  
  • Intelligence
    
  • Dexterity
  
  
• Strength Pet
  Strength Pets are like the berzerkers of pets. With them you'll mainly add strength, but unlike berzerkers they don't receive accuracy from strength, so you'll need to add some dexterity every few levels if you want them to hit the target.
  Main Stats:
  
  • Strength
    
  • Dexterity
  
  
• Intelligence Pet
  These are like the magus class, a magic damage dealer. Focus on Intelligence to deal damage and adds some critical strike. A high damage team when teamed up with berzerker.
  Main Stats:
  
  • Intelligence
    
  • Dexterity
  
  
• Dexterity Pet
  This pet has very high evasion and accuracy with a decent critical rate. It is also the only pet I've seen to have both physical and magical attack types. Add strength or intelligence for damage depending on type of attack, or if you want add dexterity to give a very large amount of evasion and critical rate.
  Main Stats:
  
  • Strength(if physical attack type)
    
  • Intelligence(if magical attack type)
    
  • Dexterity(optional)

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The skill upgrade info is at http://boinova.info/...

Bash
Strike that increases your damage by a percentage and adds a little extra attack power. This is a good spam skill seeing it has a short cooldown, but only does moderate damage.

• Pros: Short cooldown; Low spirit cost
  
• Cons: Only moderate damage
  
• PvE/PvP Use: Good spam skill; moderate damage

Level: 5 or 6

Rage
A skill that requires the xp skill bar to be full. A frontal aoe attack that ignores targets defense and adds a percentage of damage along with extra damage.

• Pros: High aoe damage
  
• Cons: Weak against players; Long cooldown; Weaker then other classes xp skills
  
• PvE Use: Good to use against high health mobs
  
• PvP Use: Not much use damage wise, but does decrease movement speed

Level: Max if you plan on doing events; seeing most events have high health monsters

Sortie
Rush to your target and stun them. This skill doesn't add any extra damage, but as you upgrade increases stun time.

• Pros: Stun the target, prevent it from moving or attacking
  
• Cons: When maxed uses a chunk of spirit
  
• PvE Use: Not much use except to use on high damage monsters to stop attacks
  
• PvP Use: Great for stopping targets from running away and attacking

Level: Max if you plan on PvP, not much use in PvE

Powerdrive
Does some straight health damage and adds a percentage of your attack; also has chance to lower enemies defense.

• Pros: Reduce targets defense
  
• Cons: Moderate Damage
  
• PvE/PvP Use: Great in either situation; Lower their defense so you can do high damage

Level: Max this skill

Savagery
A passive skill that increases your critical strike.

• Pros: Do extra damage without having to cast a skill
  
• Cons: None really
  
• PvE/PvP Use: Great for adding extra damage to strikes

Level: Max this skill

War Roar
A aoe buff skill that increases your physical attack for 10 min. You might not notice much damage difference until you level it up a bit.

• Pros: Add extra damage to attacks/skills
  
• Cons: Only lasts 10 min; Maxed uses a bit of spirit
  
• PvE/PvP Use: Add extra damage to strikes

Level: Max this skill

Lunar Slash
Attack up to 5 mobs in front of you for a percentage of your base damage.

• Pros: Attack multiple targets; Short cooldown
  
• Cons: Only attacks in front of you
  
• PvE Use: Good when grouped with tank, let them aggro mobs then use it
  
• PvP Use: Not as much use, might get a few close enough to use but not often

Level: I leave this one up to you, choose based on your play style

Reap
Attack skill that does 100% base damage plus some fire damage. This skill also gains the chance to bleed your enemy for some extra damage.

• Pros: Bleed enemy for extra damage
  
• Cons: Doesn't do much more damage then normal strikes
  
• PvE Use: Used more for bosses or monsters with a large amount of health
  
• PvP Use: Great for when people run; Stops them from mounting or summoning pets

Level: Max if you want best bleed effect

Duelist
Passive skill that adds accuracy.

• Pros: Increases accuracy
  
• Cons: None Really
  
• PvE Use: Not much use, you already have high accuracy
  
• PvP Use: Used just to make sure you don't miss a hit

Level: Max for PvP; Level it to 3 or 4 if you seem to miss mobs

Fury
Increases your stun and freeze resistance and adds accuracy for 15 seconds.

• Pros: Never get stunned or frozen
  
• Cons: Uses a bit of spirit; Long cooldown
  
• PvE Use: Not much, no monster stun or freeze you except maybe bosses
  
• PvP Use: Great for resisting stun and freeze

Level: Max this for PvP; Really no use for PvE

Bloodlust
Increases attack speed and movement speed and increases damage towards you for 30 seconds.

• Pros: Increase in attack speed and movement speed
  
• Cons: Long cooldown; Increases damage towards you
  
• PvE Use: Use on high health mobs, let tank aggro first so you don't get hit
  
• PvP Use: Overpower enemy with strikes; use carefully

Level: Max if you want to receive the fastest attack speed in game

Terminal Velocity
Jump at target from a distance to slow them. This doesn't add extra damage but increases slow effect as it's leveled.

• Pros: Strike from a distance; Slows Enemy
  
• Cons: Doesn't do extra damage; High spirit cost
  
• PvE Use: Not many, maybe just to slow down a mob after you teammate
  
• PvP Use: Stop other players from running away

Level: 5 or 6 is good enough for PvP, max if you want slow effect to last longer

Demolish
Buff skill that increases holy damage and holy strike chances for 10 min. Holy strike lets you attack enemy and ignore their defense. It doesn't do as much damage as a critical strike, but it's still extra damage.

• Pros: Do extra damage against target
  
• Cons: Only lasts 10 min
  
• PvE/PvP Use: Extra damage

Level: Max this skill

Whirlwind
A powerful aoe skill that hits 10 targets for a percentage of your base damage.

• Pros: High damage skill
  
• Cons: Long cooldown
  
• PvE Use: Great skill for aoe; goes well with lunar slash
  
• PvP Use: Good for hitting lots of enemies, but has short range

Level: I Leave this up to you, choose based on your play style

Temper
Passive skill that increases your strength.

• Pros: Add extra strength
  
• Cons: None Really
  
• PvE/PvP Use: Adds extra damage to your attacks

Level: Max this skill

Stained Blade
Decreases targets current health by a certain percent.

• Pros: Reduce targets health; Kill quicker
  
• Cons: Long cooldown; High spirit cost
  
• PvE Use: High health monsters, bosses
  
• PvP Use: Great to use on champions, or use to help kill someone quicker

Level: 6 reduces health by 20% don't need much more then that

Counter
A passive skill that has chance to deal a percent of your strength to attacker.

• Pros: Do damage without striking target
  
• Cons: None Really
  
• PvE/PvP Use: Good for when being attacked to do extra damage

Level: Max this skill