Here are my notes on the Berserker that I posted on the PRX forums. It's basically a collection of other people's opinions. It's the class I'm going with.
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To me the class
seemsto offer a great combination of survivability, aggressiveness and mobility and some of the best single target CC. I mean seriously, the dude can grab someone and run away with them.
Fun class all around, and of course you get to be Iron Man whenever we get Awakening weapons. I'm old and slow at the keyboard in my ripe old age of 35 so this class offers some reliable combos that don't require the switch of the Sorceress either.
So here's a few things I've found that offer a good look into the Berserker class.
Berserker Videos and Streams
Starter Guide:
BDO Berserker Starter Guide - YouTube
Explains some of the basic abilities, gear etc. Really goes in to understand basic PVE grinding combos and what points not to waste time with. Skip the middle of the video as it's a lot of blabbering.
Class Overview:
[Black Desert Online] Guide: Berserker / Giant - YouTube
Everyone probably has seen these videos, the kid did some good stuff with each class. Check all of them out.
High End KR Streamers
Jamrock:
Twitch
Pretty interactive in his streams if you catch him playing BDO. Will answer questions. You should check out this link to some small scale GVG with the Berserker. Pretty awesome:
Twitch
There are a few russion ones, but I don't have them saved.
Berserker Combo Video
Black Desert - Berserker PvP Core Skills and Combos - YouTube
Written Guides and Other Assorted Links
Interesting forum thread with a Q&A, not sure if the source is legit, but seems so.
Berzerker Q/A - Berserker - The Black Desert Online
Some highlights:
Build Link:
BDO Giant Skills - form1ca.ru
Stats:
1) Zerker runs low on accuracy, so be sure you have enough. That's a must and there's no negotiating it, so don't go for an AP offhand (though pick one up for PvE if you want). Besides that you really can't go wrong with any of the sets. Agerian or Tarotus will work fine for a zerker. One gives you 3 aspd while the other boosts your MP pool, which are both great things to have. Key with gearing any class is knowing how much accuracy vs AP to stack. Zerker needs more than most.
2) (Assuming you have enough accuracy) resist ignore -> Max resist -> health for crystals
For armor: Accuracy > AP > DP (though some people do stack DP as zerker is really tanky)
Last Thoughts:
Few things I learned that make grinding easier are to level up Headbutt, Frenzied Destroyer (Accuracy buff and AP buff) then chain into spin to win. All the other skills are not necessary for the leveling process outside the utility abilities like Shake Off (mobility dodge) and Laval Pierce (charge forward). A lot of this was gleamed off the starter video above.
Those are my notes so far, I have an idea what I want for a build and I'll post it later, but it's essentially leveling the three abilities above and fill in with grabs and passives.
I'm not sold on leveling up the autoattack like a lot of people claim is a benefit. Autoattack while grinding is essentially used to regain resource points. You can either pot around this in PVE or just regen slower. In PVP I don't see using this much at all. And in any other pvp videos I don't see much use to sink in that many skill points.
Regarding Skill Progression:
Here is the result of a conversation I had with BDOSaw, the author of the Combo Video. The guy knows his stuff from what I've seen him do. I trust him fully on PVP, at least on small scale PVP, issues.
Some additional points:
Look at the skills in terms of priority while leveling: Spin > Lava Piercer > Shake Off > Stomp > Frenzied Destroyer > everything else, making sure you're grabbing the first ranks of all your grabs (and the second rank of Smack Down so you can use Undertaker with it) when you can. You'll find that leveling goes extremely fast, and you'll be able to complete the core build before you know it. Skills I'd tag as lower priority would be ultimate headbutt (you really only need that for incorporating headbutt into the knockdown combo, and you can still do the knockdown combo without headbutt), the second and third ranks of Fearsome Tyrant (will only shine in Sieges, which don't come out 'til a month after release), and the first rank of Wrath of Beast (don't really need a defensive cooldown in PvE).?
Regarding the crit passive, yeah. As it is now, I don't see it being worth all those points. If I turn out to have an overabundance of skill points in NA (unlikely), I'd grab it though. Crit is always good. Key break points would be Ultimate Headbutt (needed to weave headbutt into the knockdown combo), Smack Down 3 (gets you the third smash), Ultimate Stomp (chaining this after evasion is Berserker bread 'n butter), and SP Beastly Wind Slash.?
Max headbutt first? No. Stomp, yes. But yeah, regarding which to level first, probably overthinking it, finishing off the build I posted will be pretty quick and then you'll just be stockpiling skill points for awakening.? Leveling is fast.
Basic Skill Build:
Black Desert Online Tome - Skill Calculator(440 SP)
Full Skill Build:
Black Desert Online Tome - Skill Calculator(547 SP)
Full skill build is without Awakening, so I'm not sure if that changes.
