Berserker - Sword + Dagger PvE Build
- High DMG (for a Tank)
- High sustain
- High mobility
- High skill ceiling
- Long cooldowns
- Off-meta
Overview
This Sword and Dagger build is designed for PVE and acts as a tank that does considerable damage through its dagger skills even though the build remains considered off-meta. It can do well in both open world and dungeons, dealing good damage to single mobs and allowing you to farm in the open world with ease. This is the perfect build for those looking for a challenge and a different approach to Throne and Liberty, playing a unique off-meta build over classic tanks like Sword + Greatsword or Wand.
Attributes
Strength
Dexterity
Perception
WisdomYour attributes priority with this build should be strength and dexterity, as it grants you high max HP and improves your defensive stats, providing ranged, magic, and melee defense, as well as health regen. Your secondary priority should be wisdom and perception as they increase your cooldown speed and damage.
Skills
Rare Roaring Steak, 
Rare Thrilling Papillote, and even 
Rare Scorpion Tail Fritters to make it easier and also deal a lot more damage.After leveling, you should have enough books to level up all your damage skills like 
Cleaving Moonlight, 
Knife Throwing and 
Brutal Incision. Don't forget the taunt skills either as 
Provoking Roar and 
Shield Strike are very important for your performance.
Once you have all your skills upgraded to purple, you should be in a good enough place to not have isuses in PvE and deal good damage even solo while farming mobs. Make sure that you also invest into getting your 
Shield Survival Technique as it is one of your main defensive skills for any Sword & Shield Build.
With Passives, your main damage passives are 
Wrathful Edge and 
Assassin's Instincts while 
Destructive Fang is fantastic to boost your damage when attacking enemies affected by 
Inject Venom. Upgrading 
Spectrum of Agony to Epic would also increase the damage you do when using Provoking Roar but shouldn't be a main focus.
Equipment
Weapon Masteries
Artifacts
Rotations
- Begin by buffing yourself with Inject Venom so all your attacks deal poison damage and later also boost your Brutal Incision damage. Engage the boss with
Shadow Strike and maintain aggro with Provoking Roar. Your DPS rotation begins with Knife Throwing to apply more poison and deal some damage while Shield Strike is used to continue controlling aggro followed by Cleaving Moonlight and Brutal Incision.
- This is your single target Dagger DPS rotation and can be used to clear out mobs and farm on your own. Begin by buffing with Inject Venom then transition into 2x Cleaving Moonlight followed by Knife Throwing to stack up Inject Venom stacks. Use
Piercing Strike then 
Annihilating Slash 2 times before using Brutal Incision to finish off the enemy.
Counter Barrier: Use this as you draw aggro and need to remain alive, it is your main defensive cooldown!
Strategic Rush: Main mobility skill, you can also use it to stun enemies by ramming them into terrain.
Provoking Roar: Couple this with Spectrum of Agony and another damage ability like Annihilating Slash for AoE damage into enemy groups.
Stalwart Bastion: Use it to boost yours any your team's defenses and to help with certain high damage mechanics that would otherwise wipe your group in a dungeon.
Camouflage Cloak: This is your get-out-of-jail-free card. You can use this to drop aggro or to move through a group of enemies without being detected. You can also use this in Death's Abyss to open one of the side rooms leading to the last boss while your team goes into the other room.
PvP
