Berserker - Condition Skull Grinder Roamer

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Focused on: Condition damage, Control.

Designed for:

Roaming

Overview

A condition based Berserker build made for solo/smallscale roaming with high single target condition damage combined with several crowd control (CC) abilities. Interupting enemies and applying conditions is a key element of this build.

Skill Bar

Mace/TorchHealingUtilityElite

Sword/Sword

Longbow

¾

Dual Shot

Shoot a pair of arrows at your foe.

₂Damage: 160

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,000

¼

6

Fan of Fire

Fire a spread of three flaming arrows, burning foes.

₃Damage: 423

₃Burning (2s): 1968 Damage

Targets per Arrow: 5

Pierces

Range: 1,000

¾

10

Arcing Arrow

Shoot a slow, arcing arrow that explodes on impact.

Damage: 487

Radius: 240

Combo Finisher: Blast

Range: 1,000

¼

15

Smoldering Arrow

Shoot an arrow that explodes on impact blinding foes.

Damage: 49

Blindness (5s): Next outgoing attack misses.

Radius: 180

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,000

¾

25

Pin Down

Fire an arrow that bleeds and immobilizes your target.

Damage: 97

₆Bleeding (12s): 3,060 Damage

Immobilize (3s): Unable to move.

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,000

Rifle

¾

Fierce Shot

Fire a shot at your target, gaining bonus adrenaline against vulnerable targets.

Damage: 135

Bonus Adrenaline: 1

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,200

¼

8

Aimed Shot

Fire a precise shot that cripples your foe.

Damage: 85

Cripple (5s): -50% Movement Speed

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,200

2½

10

Volley

Fire a volley of shots at your foe.

₅Damage: 730

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,200

½

15

Brutal Shot

Shoot your foe and make them vulnerable.

Damage: 122

₈Vulnerability (12s): 8% Incoming Damage

Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

Range: 1,200

¼

15

Rifle Butt

Push your foe back with your rifle butt.

Damage: 244

Knockback: 600

Range: 130

Slot Changes

Weapons
Switch your swords if a ranged weapon is needed.

• Longbow should be used as a offensive ranged weapon to apply conditions from far.
• Rifle should be used as a defensive ranged weapon to keep yourself away from your enemy.

Heal

• "To the Limit!" for a strong heal in short fights.
• Mending for additional condition removal.

Utility

• Throw Bolas instead of Kick if having problems with hitting moving targets.
• "Shake It Off!" for additional condition removal and a stun break.
• Outrage for additional adrenalin and a stun break with low cooldown.

Elite

• Signet of Rage for additional boons and to trigger Deep Strike
• Rampage for more CC to trigger Body Blow

Specializations

Variants

• Use Opportunist if you use
  Throw Bolas

  ½

  20

  Throw Bolas

  Physical. Throw bolas to immobilize your foe.

  Damage: 61

  Immobilize (4s): Unable to move.

  Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

  Range: 900
  .
• Use Blademaster if your party overrides your fury.

Variants

• Use Dead or Alive for more survivability.
• Use Eternal Champion for CC heavy enemies.

Equipment

6x

Superior Rune of Perplexity

18x

Malign WvW Infusion

Variants

Stats

• Adapt the amount of Trailblazer's according to the condition pressure you are receiving.

Sigils

• against condition heavy enemies.

Food

• Good alternative balancing offensive and defensive.
• Defensive food.
• cheap alternative to Rare Veggie Pizza

Utility

• for a cheaper alternative.

Usage

Basic skill rotation

1. Start with Mace/Torch
2. Flames of War

   ¾

   25

   Flames of War

   Cleanse conditions and become a mobile fire field that burns nearby foes. When the field expires, it explodes, damaging foes and burning them again.

   Damage: 760

   Burning (1s): 131 Damage

   ₂Final Burning (5s): 1310 Damage

   Conditions Removed: 2

   Number of Targets: 5

   Duration: 5s

   Radius: 180
   stay out of combat
3. Weapon swap
4. Impale

   ½

   15

   Impale

   Throw your sword at your foe to impale them.

   Damage: 122

   ₅Torment (8s): 1,275 Damage, 2,550 Damage if Moving

   Duration: 4 seconds

   Interval: 1 second

   Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile

   Range: 900
5. Savage Leap

   ¾

   8

   Savage Leap

   Lunge at your foe, striking them with your sword.

   Damage: 183

   Cripple (3s): -50% Movement Speed

   Combo Finisher: Leap

   Range: 600
6. Weapon swap
7. Kick

   ½

   20

   Kick

   Physical. Push your foe back with a kick.

   Damage: 244

   Knockback: 240

   Range: 300
8. Head Butt

   20

   Head Butt

   Rage. Stun your target. Stun yourself. Gain adrenaline if you hit.

   Damage: 1,894

   Adrenaline: 30

   Stun: 3s

   Self-Stun: 1s

   Breaks Stun

   Range: 180
9. Berserk

   15

   Berserk

   Rage. Gain adrenaline, an attack-speed boost, and access to primal burst skills.

   Attack Speed Increase: 15%

   Adrenaline: 10

   Duration: 15s
10. Skull Grinder
11. Blaze Breaker

    ¾

    15

    Blaze Breaker

    Smash your torch into the ground, creating a deadly shock wave that conditions foes.

    ₅Damage: 1,900

    Burning (2s): 262 Damage

    Cripple (2s): -50% Movement Speed

    Number of Targets: 3

    Range: 400
12. Pommel Bash

    15

    Pommel Bash

    Daze your foe with a brutal pommel bash.

    Damage: 97

    Daze (1s): Unable to use skills.

    Range: 130
13. Flames of War

    ¾

    25

    Flames of War

    Cleanse conditions and become a mobile fire field that burns nearby foes. When the field expires, it explodes, damaging foes and burning them again.

    Damage: 760

    Burning (1s): 131 Damage

    ₂Final Burning (5s): 1310 Damage

    Conditions Removed: 2

    Number of Targets: 5

    Duration: 5s

    Radius: 180
14. Skull Grinder
15. Mace Smash

    ½

    Mace Smash

    Chain. Smash your foe.

    Damage: 195

    Range: 130
    till adrenalin is full again
16. Skull Grinder
17. Mace Smash

    ½

    Mace Smash

    Chain. Smash your foe.

    Damage: 195

    Range: 130
    and
    Outrage

    10

    Outrage

    Rage. Break out of stun and gain adrenaline for each foe near you.
    for adrenalin
18. Skull Grinder
19. Improvise

Notes:

• Time your CC abilities to interrupt your enemy to trigger Body Blow, Distracting Strikes and
  Superior Rune of Perplexity

  Superior Rune of Perplexity

  (1): +25 Condition Damage (2): +10% Confusion Duration (3): +50 Condition Damage (4): 25% chance when struck to inflict 3 stacks of confusion for 5 seconds. (Cooldown: 25s) (5): +100 Condition Damage (6): +20% Confusion duration; when you use a heal skill, inflict 3 stacks of confusion in an area for 6 seconds. (Radius: 240, Cooldown: 15s)
• Kick

  ½

  20

  Kick

  Physical. Push your foe back with a kick.

  Damage: 244

  Knockback: 240

  Range: 300
  is the perfect preparing skill for either Skull Grinder or
  Head Butt

  20

  Head Butt

  Rage. Stun your target. Stun yourself. Gain adrenaline if you hit.

  Damage: 1,894

  Adrenaline: 30

  Stun: 3s

  Self-Stun: 1s

  Breaks Stun

  Range: 180
  . They both have enough range to reduce the distance made by the knockback and hit the target.
• Always use
  "For Great Justice!"

  25

  "For Great Justice!"

  Shout. Grant fury and might to yourself and nearby allies.

  Fury (8s): 20% Critical Chance

  ₃Might (25s): 90 Power, 90 Condition Damage

  Radius: 600
  to keep up Deep Strike.

Counters

• Heavy condition pressure
• Heavy CC pressure
• High range classes