Berserker - Burstzerker

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Overview

The Burstzerker provides massive AoE spike damage from and potent downstate control through various high damage cleave skills.

Skill Bar

First Weapon Set

GreatswordHealingUtilityElite

Axe/Axe

Skill Variants

Heal

will lower your burst damage in exchange for an incredible sustain option. Use this if party support is an issue or enemies have high pressure.

Utility

can be replaced by the following if sustain is an issue.
- a short cooldown stunbreak
- powerful anti condition pressure and adrenaline gain
for quick might stacking and fury access. Fits well with Tactics variant

Elite

If spending a lot of time at range and you want to ensure you have adrenaline on engage, consider running this, especially for non builds.
This skill is useful for eliminating opponents you are unable to cleave yourself in melee range, or reviving clumps of downed allies.

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Specializations

Variants

Take Tactics for a higher potential damage spike and powerful self sustain with area might generation. Tactics can be used in place of either trait line depending on play style preference.

Take Defense only if you absolutely must to survive, as it is a major DPS loss.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of the Thief

18x

Mighty WvW Infusion

Consumables

Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup

Bowl of Sweet and Spicy Butternut Squash Soup

Nourishment (1 h):

+100 Power+70 Ferocity+10% Experience from Kills

Consumable

feast option with additional damage reduction.

Furious Sharpening Stone

Furious Sharpening Stone

Nourishment (30 m):

Gain Power equal to 3% of your PrecisionGain Ferocity equal to 3% of your Precision+10% Experience from Kills

Consumable

Variants

Stats

Marauder's provides a better spread of stats and helps keep you alive with Strength equipped, but Berserker's may be used in its place for higher damage at a higher risk.

Sigils

Superior Sigil of Energy

9

Superior Sigil of Energy

Gain 50% of your endurance when you swap to this weapon while in combat. (Cooldown: 9s)
Superior Sigil of Stamina

Superior Sigil of Stamina

Your endurance is refilled each time you kill a foe.
- Sigils to abuse of .

Rune

equally viable option.

Food

Fried Oyster Sandwich

Fried Oyster Sandwich

Nourishment (30 m):

+10% Damage Reduction+70 Power+10 Experience from kills

Consumable

Defensive Option

Utility

Superior Sharpening Stone

Superior Sharpening Stone

Nourishment (30 m):

Gain power equal to 3% of your precisionGain power equal to 6% of your ferocity+10 Experience from kills

Consumable

cheaper option.

Usage

General

Focus on keeping a high uptime and landing as many as possible. While in Berserker form, you can swap to Axe, land your high priority skills and swap back in time to Arc Divider again with minimal loss, but do not linger any longer than the 5s cooldown or you are wasting valuable Arc Divider time.
- Axe is used generally to gain large amounts of adrenaline and provide cleave outside of Arc Divider, as can be unreliable.
provides 5 adrenaline, so between Berserk you should swap weapons once to Axe/Axe, and back again to Greatsword to regain full adrenaline. is also helpful for adrenaline management.
Try to be on top of enemies when going into , to deal damage and get 3 stacks of , since you lose a lot of DPS potential if building it up through Primal Bursts.
Due to , upon entering mode, you briefly get Quickness and Superspeed. Use that frame to land (reset with ) and other GS A/A skills.
Your dodges deal damage and give Might thanks to . Very useful when pushing through or trading sides with the enemy group.
You naturally output a lot of Might due to , which also means it often gets corrupted. Weakness and Blind are the worst conditions for this build as they significantly soft your DPS. Thefore, try to push and stay within range of support, for cleansing and boons.
- Also, this build overall lacks condition clear and passive survival tools, so another reason to stick near your supports.
removes Immobilize when using a movement skill - list of movement skills in the build:
- , and .
should be used as stunbreak and not preemptively unless absolutely necessary. Besides the pulsing Stability, it also denies a lot of direct damage, because you are immune to critical hits.
to be immune to any direct damage, still susceptible to CC's and condi pressure thought. Either cast it preemptively, to mitigate expected damage or, reactively, like a stunbreak.
- Know well what Stance to use given the situation. makes you weaker against direct damage, so using your Stances while in mode, for example, may be helpful to compensate your "squishness" and to ensure your damage lands.
- Once out of cooldowns you become a very easy target and will rely on teammates support, positioning and awareness to survive.
- If you go down 50% and realizes effect is active, try to not to use together, since you won't benefit from the immunity to critical hit, because you won't be taking any direct damage.
Both and are tied to the DPS burst. Signet to instantly receive 30 adrenaline and damage boost for , and Heal skill to reset your Primal Burst and heal based on your damage.
Best use of is when you can hit multiple targets with hard hitting skills like and , allowing you to overextend on top of enemy a bit longer.
has several uses. Main purpose is for the huge single target damage, notably if you have Stability to spare. Yet, can also be valuable for the instant adrenaline it grants; another stunbreak option, althought, depending on where facing, you may find yourself out of position; and to ignore movement-impairing conditions, by either removing Immobilize or covering some distance you wouldn't by simply walking.
- Keep in mind you'll get stunned for 1s if the skill connects.

Greatsword

as noted above, will be spammed off cooldown for massive spike damage. Be mindful it increases the radius every spin, so there's no need to sit on top of enemies all the time. Also, don't be afraid to interrupt the channel if you need to dodge, or use another skill.
won't see much use, because, once out of cooldowns, you should swap weapon sets. Still, it's decent for cleave and to fill downtime.
is situational. You stand still during channel, which means hitting CC'ed, movement impaired and downed foes is the ideal setup for this ability. However, you could still go for it anytime and still make good use, as long as the animation is canceled once enemies leave the AoE.
- Try to use before for maximum DPS and also to refill adrenaline.
deals substantial damage and an evade frame. Should NOT be used only for its mobility function.
Use for filler damage.
will be used mostly for repositioning or gap closing, fastly covering a large distance. Also usable for good single target damage.
- Don't have any foe targeted if using it for mobility.

Axe/Axe

deals big single target damage and resets everytime it hits. Also, reaches a significant distance compared to the other Axe skills. Cast it offcooldown, whenever you go into Axe/Axe or have an adrenaline surplus and weapon swap isn't available yet.
and will be filler skills, Axe auto attacks don't do much damage outside of the 3rd hit and you shouldn't be waiting for its channel, unless cleaving. is mostly situational and will barely see use, other than finalizing low targets.
provides a very strong sustained damage for its duration. Amazing skill for chasing, since you can move, and for cleaving, as it also disrupt potential handrezzes. Even if you have to be on top of the enemy to target cap, try to not to interrupt, unless necessary, or get interrupted during the channel as it's a large part of your damage outside of Arc.
Try to use before or as it stacks some Vulnerability and grants Fury, which this build doesn't have much access to. Outside of that, use normally for damage.
Aside from being another big damage skill, grants 3s of Quickness. Always look for following it up with an or a to benefit from the faster cast time.

Opening Burst

Start in combat

Weapon Swap
Weapon Swap

From here, if you have received any Alacrity during this burst, you will be able to add the following step before Berserk ends ⇒ .
Fill downtime with auto attacks
In the heat of WvW, with dodge rolls and CC, you may find it impossible to complete this rotation 100% of the time. Your priority is using as many Arc Dividers as possible at close range.

Videos

YouTube:
The Blue Ranger (Opening Rotation Demonstration)

Berserker - Burstzerker

Contents

Overview

Skill Bar

Skill Variants

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Specializations

Variants

Equipment

Consumables

Variants

Usage

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