Berserker - Quickness Support Condi DPS

Part of the current metagame

Our curator decided this build is in the current metagame regardless of rating. The community gave this build a rating, making it top-tier: Great

Focused on: Condition damage and Support

Designed for: Raids and Fractals

Difficulty:

TBD

This build was last updated on April 14, 2022 and is up to date for the October 8, 2024 patch.

Overview

Condi Bannerslave (also known as Banner Support or BS) is a meta defining offensive support in raids. This build provides up to 10 players with the unique damage buffs Banner of Strength and Banner of Discipline. It also has strong CC, and very high personal DPS for a support build. Due to the raw power of its damage buffs one bannerslave is standard in every raid group.

Skill Bar

Longbow

Sword/Torch

Utility

Skill Variants

• "For Great Justice!" can replace Shattering Blow if your group requires an extra source of fury.
• Wild Blow can replace Shattering Blow for more CC.
• Outrage can replace a banner if splitting banners with another Warrior in the raid squad.
• Battle Standard can be used if CC is unimportant, and the fury or res power will be beneficial.

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Equipment

Head
Viper

Shoulders
Viper

Chest
Viper

Hands
Viper

Legs
Viper

Feet
Viper

Backpiece
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Accessory
Viper

Amulet
Viper

Ring
Viper

Ring
Viper

Longbow
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Sword
Viper

Torch
Viper

Sigil

Sigil

Rune
x6

Infusion
x11

Infusion
x7

Equipment Variants

Runes

• Rune of Superior Rune of the Berserker very minor dps difference. If you already have a set with them, upgrading to Rune of Superior Rune of the Renegade is a low priority.

Sigils

• A Sigil of Superior Sigil of Bursting can replace the Sigil of Superior Sigil of Earth for more consistent DPS, that should be slightly higher. The difference will be small though.
• The exact arrangement of sigils is not vital, but the on-crit sigils are chosen to be on longbow as Fan of Fire has a ~98% chance of critting at least once, making it more likely that you will get a second proc of Sigil of Superior Sigil of Torment or a third proc of Sigil of Superior Sigil of Earth.

Consumables

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Utility:

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Usage

Condi Berserker does not have a perfect loop as Berserk length and cooldown align differently with key skills. This means skill ordering can vary depending on how much time you have left in Berserk.

Opening Berserk Section

1. Flames of War
2. Weapon swap
3. Fan of Fire
4. Pin Down
5. Head Butt
6. Berserk as soon as the self-stun wears off
7. Scorched Earth
8. Blood Reckoning
9. Scorched Earth
10. Shattering Blow
11. Fan of Fire
12. Weapon swap

Sword section (berserk)

After the opener, you will switch between sword and longbow sections until Berserk runs out

1. Final Thrust (only when target is below 50% health)
2. Blaze Breaker
3. Savage Leap (optional)
4. Flaming Flurry - use this as the second skill if Berserk is about to end
5. Auto until Weapon swap is off cooldown - don't worry about finishing the auto chain
6. Weapon swap

Longbow section (berserk)

1. Fan of Fire
2. Scorched Earth
3. Blood Reckoning → Scorched Earth, if available
4. Auto until Scorched Earth is off cooldown
5. Scorched Earth
6. Fan of Fire
7. Weapon swap
8. Return to start of sword section

Outside berserk section

Assuming you're fast enough, berserk should run out shortly after step 4 in the third sword section

1. Auto until Berserk has ~4s remaining on cooldown - finish the auto chain this time
2. Final Thrust (only when target is below 50% health)
3. Savage Leap (optional)
4. Weapon swap
5. Fan of Fire
6. Auto until Berserk is off cooldown
7. Berserk
8. Scorched Earth
9. Blood Reckoning
10. Scorched Earth
11. Pin Down
12. Fan of Fire
13. Weapon swap
14. Return to start of sword section

Video Example (without Savage Leap) Video Example (with Savage Leap)

General Tips

• The first skill you use each time you swap to sword is Blaze Breaker above 50%, and Final Thrust below 50%. While in Berserk, you want to weapon swap off sword as soon as you can.
• While in Berserk, always start longbow sections with Fan of Fire → Scorched Earth and always end them with Scorched Earth → Fan of Fire.
• Use Flames of War, Shattering Blow and Pin Down whenever they are off cooldown.
  • Try to fit in Flames of War before Flaming Flurry so that it is not delayed too much.
  • Shattering Blow extends the duration of Berserk if used while in Berserk, so make sure you use it as soon as it's available to prevent Berserk ending early. Try not to use it during steps 1-3 on longbow though, as this will delay your entire rotation.
    • Continue using Shattering Blow outside of Berserk, but you can delay it a couple of seconds if berserk is about to become available.
  • Don't use Pin Down during steps 1-3 on longbow, as this will delay your entire rotation.
• Flaming Flurry is your lowest DPS skill aside from auto attacks. This means you can easily delay it to fit in other key skills, or even weapon swap in the middle of the cast to prevent slowing down your rotation.
• Follow the rotation as much as possible but stay on longbow if you can't make use of your sword skills in melee range.
• You can provide extra might for your group by using Arcing Arrow inside your Scorched Earth or another fire field.
• Use all of your equipped Banners at the beginning of the fight and try to pick up and re-summon them whenever you're outside of Berserk.
• Some bosses have attacks that are harmful to the group if they're reflected (Primarily Matthias Gabrel and Cairn the Indomitable), make sure to familiarize yourself with these and avoid reflecting them with Shattering Blow.

To leap or not to leap

Using Savage Leap within a fire field (such as those provided by Flames of War or Scorched Earth) will give you a fire aura that is detonated by most of your berserker-related skills via King of Fires. Without this combo, Savage Leap is a DPS loss and some may find the rotation less reliable depending on group/skill. Thus the use of Savage Leap is considered optional.

Advanced Tips

• If you get a fire aura from source other than yourself, then you should omit Savage Leap.
• You can stow-cancel the aftercast of Flaming Flurry, as well as the aftercast of the auto-attack that comes before the Scorched Earth in step 5 of the longbow section.
• Getting the very last Flaming Flurry requires being very fast with the rotation. If you are not quite fast enough to consistently fit it in, you can use it as the first skill of the final sword section in Berserk.
• For most of the rotation, the order of Blaze Breaker, Savage Leap and Final Thrust is unimportant as you will use each of them only once per loop, and the loop is longer than their cooldowns. The order used is to make the rotation easier to remember, but informed by the following:
  • On the second sword section after the opener, Flames of War is not quite off cooldown when you swap to sword, but using Savage Leap first would delay it slightly (Flames of War is a very high-damage skill). Thus Blaze Breaker is used first.
  • During the sword section where Berserk ends, there is time to use Final Thrust twice without delaying the rotation, but only if it is used before Flaming Flurry.

Breakbar

• Your most easily accessible strong CC is Head Butt.
• If your team needs strong CC, on Mathias Gabrel for example, you can switch Shattering Blow for Wild Blow, your strongest CC option.