Berserker - Quickness Support Power DPS

Weapon Variants

• Spear can replace Greatsword for players that own Janthir Wilds. Greatword trades an axe burst for a non-axe burst, so it overstacks 急速 more than Spear. This is particularly useful on encounters where there are sometimes no targets to hit as Berserker is vulnerable to falling out of Berserk at awkward times.
  • Both deal very similar damage, though Spear is slightly higher and has the advantage of range. You can play whichever you prefer.
  • Either Spear or Greatsword could be swapped out for more utility if desired, though this would be a major DPS loss.
• You can run an off-hand Mace (leaving the main-hand slot of your second weapon set empty). This allows you to still have access to your main-hand Axe and maintain damage while still providing decent CC.
• Warhorn to provide some additional boon coverage. This can be especially valuable if your subgroup doesn't have another source of 迅捷 as the buff from 战士冲锋 is significant.

Skill Variants

• You can swap out your healing skill, but be aware that this effectively removes a burst from your loop, and on the Spear build in particular this means you cannot maintain 急速 without any extra boon duration (or phases short enough that it doesn't matter).
  • 伤势愈合 will give greater DPS in short, phased fights where you will have enough downtime to precast it. This is most relevant in fractals.
  • 藐视姿态 can be used to provide temporary immunity to damage allowing you to ignore certain mechanics such as the shockwaves at Sabir.
• "为了正义！" can replace 威能纹章 to provide ~9 stacks of 威能 for a ~4.5% DPS loss.
• If you don't need the CC from 头槌重击, and can start phases with full adrenaline, then 战斗旗帜 offers some extra boon generation and an emergency res.

A damage-focussed 急速 provider that maintains its group boons by constantly hitting targets with Burst skills. Aside from permanent 激怒 and ~16 威能, this build provides no additional boons and minimal utility.

You can provide additional boons by swapping utility skills, but this is a fairly large DPS loss.

You can also provide 急速 by running 炽热灵魂 on the DPS build. That build is higher DPS, but the reason the Discipline version is chosen here is due to the higher boon output and berserk uptime.

Food

• 碗装甜辣冬南瓜汤 or ascended alternatives

Utility

• 超级磨刀石
• Any applicable slaying potion in Fractals when possible

• If you are using Spear, 克达之爪古物 is the best relic.
• In encounters where the boss does not get stunned, you can replace the 超级冲击法印 with a 超级空气法印 on the Axe and a 超级水能法印 on the Greatsword or Spear.
  • This will be a small DPS increase, but particularly on Spear it makes the rotation more reliable by providing additional sources of adrenaline.

Boon Duration

You can easily maintain permanent 急速 and 激怒 without any boon duration.

You could bring up to ~20% boon duration via Diviner stats gear without compromising your crit chance (with the remaining pieces being Berserker stats), though 5-10% should be more than sufficient.

Alternatively, you could swap the 超级冲击法印/超级空气法印 on Axe to a 超级专注法印, which is equivalent to a ~7% increase in boon duration. This is less efficient than Diviner stats (especially if the enemy can be stunned), but is much more convenient.

The rotation is identical to the Power DPS rotation, the main difference being that your Burst skills are now applying AoE 急速!

The rotation aims to get as many casts of 斩首 off as possible, maintaining 狂暴 mode for as long as there is something to hit. Effectively, this means that while on Axe/Axe you cast 斩首 followed by a combination of skills that gets you back to 10 Adrenaline to recast 斩首.

Greatsword Rotation

Opener

1. 头槌重击
2. 狂暴
3. 怒气涌流
4. 分裂弧斩
5. Weapon Swap
6. 旋风斧斩 - the extra adrenaline from 通用怒火 means you can immediately Decapitate after this
7. 斩首
8. 双重打击
9. 飞斧投掷
10. 斩首
11. 回旋斧斩 - make sure to let the entire attack finish!
12. 斩首
13. 旋风斧斩
14. Weapon Swap

Greatsword section

1. 分裂弧斩
2. 鲜血清算
3. 分裂弧斩
4. 怒气涌流 during Arc Divider
5. 回旋剑
6. 百刃斩 - Make sure the final hit goes through or you may not have enough adrenaline for Arc Divider
7. 分裂弧斩
8. Weapon Swap

Axe/Axe section

1. 旋风斧斩
6. ⇒
17. Weapon Swap
18. Return to start of Greatsword section

Spear Rotation

Using Spear efficiently requires more precision than other weapons. and deal extra damage to the target closest to the centre of their AoEs, and and do increased CC to the first target they hit. Additionally, if skills are not used fast enough or at the correct time, it can disrupt later parts of the rotation.

Opener

1. - if the boss is not immediately targetable, move this to after Wild Throw
7. - extends duration over the axe section
8. Weapon Swap
16. - make sure to let the entire attack finish!
19. Weapon Swap

Spear Section

On the very first loop after the opener, Disrupting Throw will not be immediately available, so use it between the two Wild Throws

2. - Wild Throw will interrupt the cast of this skill if you use it too early so be careful
5. - this will not interrupt Wild Throw so you can queue it during the cast of the previous skill
9. Weapon Swap

Axe/Axe Section

You have a brief window after swapping weapon where the damage from is still ticking. This allows you to use immediately and then again after a single . If you're too slow, use a single auto to gain the missing adrenaline.

7. ⇒
17. (optional) - if your target is below 25% health, this is worth using
18. Weapon Swap
19. Return to start of Spear Section

Axe Rotation

General Tips

Axe

• If you have trouble memorising the Axe section, it may be helpful to think of it as a priority list to build adrenaline for your next :

1. +
2. +
3. +

• When is almost off cooldown, use your remaining axe skills (make sure to be at full adrenaline) and Weapon Swap instead of .

Berserk

• All your Rage and Burst skills extend the duration of Berserk, which means it is important to use them as soon as they are available to avoid dropping out of Berserk.
  • This involves using , and to maintain damage rather than a stunbreak/CC.
• If you drop out of Berserk, you should already be at full adrenaline when it is next available, so you use ⇒ after entering Berserk instead. This means your second Berserk has a longer duration and is (even) easier to maintain.
• Generally you shouldn't be auto-attacking while mode is active.

Outside of Berserk

• Ideally you are always in Berserk during DPS phases.
• Stay on Axe when you're not in Berserk, but as isn't available you should just use your Axe skills as they come off cooldown.
• Try to complete your Axe auto chains when not in Berserk.
• Do not use your rage skills whilst outside of Berserk.
• Use as soon as it is available.