New berserker tree

[dadito]

I've always been wanted for berserker to have some other options for locked trees other than Bloodbath (we all know the rest either don't make any sense or are just plain bad), so i've been putting some ideas on paper about a new one

This is a work in progress, and as it is right now probably kinda too powerful, but I don't really care about numbers, I just wanna put some ideas out.

Battle Frenzy
Passive
After hitting the same target 4 times in a row, you crit them and break through their defenses to make them more vulnerable to your attacks:

Your critical hits against them do x% more damage.

This lingers for 3 turns after triggering, and the duration is renewed if you attack them in that period.

At talent level 5 you also ignore half of their armor and half of their physical resistance when you crit them (4 turn cd)


Unrelenting
Passive
You revel on the pain inflicted to you:

After being hit by a weapon crit, become immune to weapon crits from the same target for 1/2/2/3/3 turns, and gain half of the damage dealt to you by the attack as health over 3 turns (6 turn cooldown per enemy).

Only triggers on crits that would damage you for over x% of your health.

At talent level 3 it applies to any kind of critical hit.


3rd skill
Active
15 stamina
25 cooldown
Range 5/6/7/8/9
You leap towards the enemy targeted. You hit them for x% weapon damage and make them bleed for 5 turns.

The target has to be at least 3 tiles away.

At talent level 3 the bleed also hits everyone around your target.

The cooldown on this skill gets reduced by 1 turn every time you crit, and 2 turns if they were bleeding beforehand.


4th skill
Sustain
20 stamina
20 cooldown

You let the god of battle take over you.

When sustained, Your battle frenzy triggers every other attack and makes the target bleed, the armor and physical resistance penetration cooldown is reduced to 3/3/3/2/2 turns, and the cooldown on the regen part of Unrelenting gets halved to 3 turns.

You also focus solely on the pain you're inflicting, making your attacks never miss and receiving a 15/20/24/27/30% damage reduction, but becoming unable to dodge attacks and having all the attacks dealt to you become crits (that deal 150% damage of a regular attack).

This takes a great toll on your body, draining 4% of your health per turn, increasing by 1% every turn. This cannot kill you, and the sustain deactivates when you get to 1 hp.

[Cathbald]

Like the theme of the tree a lot. I'd get rid of crit chance in the first skill, and I'd change cripple in the third by turning the single target bleed in an AoE one. Cripple is just too strong imo.

Would unlock ingame for both power and fun!

[dadito]

Like the theme of the tree a lot. I'd get rid of crit chance in the first skill, and I'd change cripple in the third by turning the single target bleed in an AoE one. Cripple is just too strong imo.

Good idea, I like that second one much more

[Zeyphor]

there wouldn't exactly be a god of battle after the sher'tul killed it

[Cathbald]

there wouldn't exactly be a god of battle after the sher'tul killed it

I don't expect berserker to :
a) be well versed in lore
b) caring about something as inconsequential as death

[Chronosplit]

One could always change god of battle to something more ambiguous for reasons of lore. Not all Berserkers are meatheads I would imagine, but when carried away by rage one may be unknowingly submitting to an existing power of some sort. In fact this could be a mechanic, and chosen at random you could either get an Arcane, Nature, or Demonic effect added. Just a thought.