A powerful but reckless attack that increases damage and attack rating but decreases defense rating.
Berserk completely converts damage to magic damage so you cannot steal life/mana with Berserk, even with Life Tap.
You don't take damage from Iron Maiden and Thorns if you just go " Berserk". Because they only reflect physical damage, not magical.
For the stated duration afterward, your defense is zero. You also do not receive the Iron Skin or Dexterity bonus. You can still block as if you are using a shield, however. A defense of 0 will let you block all the time, thus quite often hinder you from doing anything else. Consider not wearing a shield.
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Description
A powerful but reckless attack that increases damage and attack rating but decreases defense rating.
Berserk completely converts damage to magic damage so you cannot steal life/mana with Berserk, even with Life Tap.
You don't take damage from Iron Maiden and Thorns if you just go " Berserk". Because they only reflect physical damage, not magical.
For the stated duration afterward, your defense is zero. You also do not receive the Iron Skin or Dexterity bonus. You can still block as if you are using a shield, however. A defense of 0 will let you block all the time, thus quite often hinder you from doing anything else. Consider not wearing a shield.
Description by Stormlash
Berserk completely converts damage to magic damage so you cannot steal life/mana with Berserk, even with Life Tap.
You don't take damage from Iron Maiden and Thorns if you just go " Berserk". Because they only reflect physical damage, not magical.
For the stated duration afterward, your defense is zero. You also do not receive the Iron Skin or Dexterity bonus. You can still block as if you are using a shield, however. A defense of 0 will let you block all the time, thus quite often hinder you from doing anything else. Consider not wearing a shield.
Lore
There is a fine line between passion and rage, something the Barbarian warrior knows well.A Barbarian must learn to tread this line while separating one from the other and drawing strength from both.
One of the most powerful combat skills a Barbarian can learn is to cross that line into rage, expending the sum of his energy and slaying everything without regard for consequences.
When you have slain all of your enemies, what is left to fear?
Can be used to make Runewords:
- Converts 100% physical weapon damage to magic damage.
- Conversion occurs after +% Damage and a critical hit from a weapon Mastery, Critical Strike or Deadly Strike are applied and before resistance is applied.
- Damage Resist won't affect converted magic damage but Magic Resist will.
- No damage is returned with Thorns, Iron Maiden and Spirit of Barbs, no life is returned by Life Tap and % Life Stolen per hit, and no mana is returned by % Mana Stolen per hit.
- Defense debuff is applied on attack, regardless of whether or not that attack is successful.
- Debuff duration approaches a second by level 60, when attacking continuously it should normally be reset long before it expires.
- Defense debuff is applied to user after +% Defense but before + Defense vs Melee and + Defense vs Missile, so defense is not 0 when equipping items with those bonuses.
- +(1-3) Berserk (Barbarian Only) cannot normally spawn on ilvl >36 primal helms.
Berserk Barbarian Guide
Barbarian Zerker (pitzerker) Chaos Run
Barbarian Zerker (pitzerker) Chaos Run
The Runeword Passion (weapons with 4 sockets) grants a lvl 1 Berserk Oskill.
Oskills can be used by any class, but the skill level bonus is limited to 3 levels for the native class. Oskill levels can be increased like native skill levels, including "+skill (native class only)" bonuses.
Oskills can be used by any class, but the skill level bonus is limited to 3 levels for the native class. Oskill levels can be increased like native skill levels, including "+skill (native class only)" bonuses.
Patch 2.4
Blizzard wrote: Berserk
- Shout synergy replaced with Battle Orders
Humorously, the Berserk skill icon likely has been accidentally swapped with Natural Resistance since 1.00.
Shout synergy replaced by Battle Orders (patch 2.4)
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