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hey everyone..........level 50 berserker here on the crushbone server (bruz).....i have been hearing alot of nothing on our class and yes i have searched the sony boards as well and just found limited information. i been hearing rumors that zerkers are gonna be the preverred tank after the changes.......is this true? if anyone can post some solid facts are links to info it would be much appreciated.
I can't give you links since im at work but I can tell you of the changes that are causing this information to be talke about so much.
1. Tank auto damage and some spell lines have been reduced to make sure your dps won't exceed that of those on the tier above you.
2. With this in effect and the fact that being beserk( which requires being hit) is the only way for you to do real damage if you are not mting in a group you are not serving much of a purpose.
So In short if your in a group you are pretty much the tank. If someone else is tanking your dps is going way down. And since your not taking damage nor really doing it the spot would be better filled by someone else.
That is what the stink is all about..
1. Tank auto damage and some spell lines have been reduced to make sure your dps won't exceed that of those on the tier above you.
2. With this in effect and the fact that being beserk( which requires being hit) is the only way for you to do real damage if you are not mting in a group you are not serving much of a purpose.
So In short if your in a group you are pretty much the tank. If someone else is tanking your dps is going way down. And since your not taking damage nor really doing it the spot would be better filled by someone else.
That is what the stink is all about..
24 posts
haha, NOT!!!
i must say i thoroughly enjoy the combat changes. "prefered" tank is exactly that, something everyone needs to decide for themselves. i am a 51 zerker on toxx, and i have to say our dps went UP. my dps goes down when i tank, because of misses and parries and such, but when i am dps i can usually match any dps class. using combatstats.com parser, i have found that i usually do 200-400 dps weither im tanking or not. with our new offensive stance, we get a 10% aoe proc for about 200 damage that is great for keeping aggro while fighting groups. i think our taunts are slightly less powerful than that of the other fighter classes, but our dps more than makes up for it. i was SUPER worried about SOE nerfing our dps, but it didnt happen. i am both happy about it and a bit fearful, as the shadow of the nerf bat looms everywhere i look. i say this cuz the point(as stated by soe) of some of the tank changes was it wsa unfair that zerkers could tank as well as guardians, yet have way higher dps(this IS true, tho im complaining). after posting parser results in groups, many people, scouts, mages and especially the other fighter classes, have complained and ******* cuz SOe didnt fix the unfairness of zerkers. everyone was lead to believe that zerkers were goin to be near the bottom of the dps food chain, with mages and scouts at the top. fortunalty for us, we remain at the top(now along with mages and scouts, whos dps has been increased dramatically). so zerkers, enjoy while we gots it, and everyone cross ur fingers that SOE looks the other way. i would prolly guess that for raids, guardians will still be the prefered MT as their defensive abilities are still superior to ours, as is their taunting. as for normal groups, pallys and SKs have seemed to be much better, gueards the same, so they seem actually balanced in that regard. well, just my 2cp.....PEACE
i must say i thoroughly enjoy the combat changes. "prefered" tank is exactly that, something everyone needs to decide for themselves. i am a 51 zerker on toxx, and i have to say our dps went UP. my dps goes down when i tank, because of misses and parries and such, but when i am dps i can usually match any dps class. using combatstats.com parser, i have found that i usually do 200-400 dps weither im tanking or not. with our new offensive stance, we get a 10% aoe proc for about 200 damage that is great for keeping aggro while fighting groups. i think our taunts are slightly less powerful than that of the other fighter classes, but our dps more than makes up for it. i was SUPER worried about SOE nerfing our dps, but it didnt happen. i am both happy about it and a bit fearful, as the shadow of the nerf bat looms everywhere i look. i say this cuz the point(as stated by soe) of some of the tank changes was it wsa unfair that zerkers could tank as well as guardians, yet have way higher dps(this IS true, tho im complaining). after posting parser results in groups, many people, scouts, mages and especially the other fighter classes, have complained and ******* cuz SOe didnt fix the unfairness of zerkers. everyone was lead to believe that zerkers were goin to be near the bottom of the dps food chain, with mages and scouts at the top. fortunalty for us, we remain at the top(now along with mages and scouts, whos dps has been increased dramatically). so zerkers, enjoy while we gots it, and everyone cross ur fingers that SOE looks the other way. i would prolly guess that for raids, guardians will still be the prefered MT as their defensive abilities are still superior to ours, as is their taunting. as for normal groups, pallys and SKs have seemed to be much better, gueards the same, so they seem actually balanced in that regard. well, just my 2cp.....PEACE
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I will say this, I hated the changes AT FIRST, i was almost going to quit, but after examining what they did to us and spending some plat and respecing twice, i am happy to say i am more happy with my zerker than i was before and i think SOE made us what we are suppose to be, a versitle class. I carry two sets of armor and two sets of weapon combo and i too can DPS with the best of them or i can stand tall and be a meat shield along side of a gaurd. Personally i think with the right equipment and the right /respecs you can out class a Gaurdian easy. at least that is what i have seen. My mitigation is not that lower than the same level gaurds. Plain and simple SOE made the Zerker class one of the funniest to play. Now things are not easy for us if we dont know our character, we have to switch out gear, we have to use different tactics. We have to be aware of the gear that is availible for us to use and use it effectivly. When we do all this right, i still say we are ahead of all melee classes. i can still solo what other fighters cant. ^^^giants in SS - blue con.
I really hope that SOE leaves us alone and people stop whining about what zerkers can and cant do. Honestly the only class i think has been ripped off from the start and still is would be the Gaurdian class. Everyone else from what i have seen if you know how to play your character and make adjustments to the new changes you shouldnt have problems.
Ilias
I really hope that SOE leaves us alone and people stop whining about what zerkers can and cant do. Honestly the only class i think has been ripped off from the start and still is would be the Gaurdian class. Everyone else from what i have seen if you know how to play your character and make adjustments to the new changes you shouldnt have problems.
Ilias
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