BERSERKER!!!!!!!!

[Royze]

Berserkers usually come from colder climates. Desert isn't appropriate with the lore.
Also I don't think TP management should be a main theme for berserker. They're brutes with endless physical stamina and endurance. Their weakness is the increased damage they take by sacrificing all defense for pure attack.

TP management and more well though out play is for jobs such as Thief, Rogue, Samurai and Ninja. Berserkers are all about pure raw offense with nothing holding them back, and they take increased dmg as a result.

[Mihael_Longclaw]

Berserkers usually come from colder climates. Desert isn't appropriate with the lore.
Also I don't think TP management should be a main theme for berserker. They're brutes with endless physical stamina and endurance. Their weakness is the increased damage they take by sacrificing all defense for pure attack.

TP management and more well though out play is for jobs such as Thief, Rogue, Samurai and Ninja. Berserkers are all about pure raw offense with nothing holding them back, and they take increased dmg as a result.

Increased damage receieved as a DD is useless in this game, if the tank is doing his job, the penalty is negligible, as well as avoidable attacks.

But then say the increased damage taken from Berserker means he can't even survive Tumults 100% unavoidable, no one would bring him.

It's a useless mechanic :T

[Sylari]

In this implementation, they're actually a decent model of an evasion tank.

My thought actually was that it might be a decent potential tank archetpe for the pugilist. "Sacrifice defense for offense" is definitely one of the general berserker themes, but so was the idea of being so tough/enraged that they could simply shrug off injuries or pain that would debilitate a normal person.

Increased damage receieved as a DD is useless in this game, if the tank is doing his job, the penalty is negligible, as well as avoidable attacks.

But then say the increased damage taken from Berserker means he can't even survive Tumults 100% unavoidable, no one would bring him.

It's a useless mechanic :T

Can agree with that. I've seen plenty of dragoons drop because they b4b'd right before a phase 5 tumult.

[Kitru]

My thought actually was that it might be a decent potential tank archetpe for the pugilist.

Yeah, I've done the math on it. It doesn't actually require all that much work to turn PGL into a tank and Greased Lightning offers an *excellent* mechanism to coopt into a tanking buff (just change the 9% +dam per stack into ~7.5% evasion; add a stance that increases hp by 40% and makes Raptor form generate 3x enmity and Coeurl form generate 5x enmity; all the job would need to add would be a few tank CDs to round out what PGL already brings to bear). The major problem I see with Berserker is that MRD already gets Berserk, which is the defining feature of the Berserker. As such, unless Berserk gets renamed, it's likely that Berserker is going to ride along with MRD as its DPS job.