ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

So, finally got around to trying the post-1.2.0 Berserker class. So far? Not impressed. Between the apparently useless Fearless Cleave and the outright affront to basic roguelike survival strategy that is Berserker Rage, I quickly found myself pining for the old-style pre-1.2.0 Berserkers on which I cut my proverbial teeth. Fortunately, a quick investigation revealed that all the old Berserker talents were still lying around in the .team file, allowing me to easily resurrect them via my new Classic Berzerker Remix addon.

Rather than attempt to surgically modify the Berserker class descriptor in situ, this addon adds the Berzerker class (distinguishable by the 'z'), with a mix of old-style and new-style talents. In particular:

• The new-style Technique/Two-handed assault and Technique/Berserker's strength trees are dropped in favor of the old-style Technique/Two-handed weapons and Technique/Two-handed maiming trees.
• In slight defiance of the preceding, we poach Relentless Fury from Technique/Berserker's strength and add it to Technique/Two-handed weapons, on the theory that there's no such thing as too many ways of restoring stamina.
• One of the reinstated old-style talents, Sunder Armour, apparently picked up the ability to shatter damage shields a la Shattering Blow somewhere between 1.1.5 and current, so that's a freebie.
• AFAICT New-style Berserkers also include changes to the Technique/Bloodthirst tree. I never used that tree, before or after 1.2.0, so lacking perspective to judge whether said changes are for the better or for the worse, I left them untouched.

[Technical notes:]

For v1a, we copy some (but not all) of the 1.6 release's changes to Berserkers:

• Technique/Bloodthirst increased to 1.3 mastery.
• Start with a point in Weapons Mastery.
• Some internal tweaks that apparently control whether NPCs will auto-wear/wield certain objects they're created with. May be irrelevant, as this class is flagged as 'not_on_raondom_boss'.
• Improved explanation from Relentless Fury's on_pre_use() of why we can't use the talent right now.
• The Technique/Field control tree apparently went away a while ago. Just as well, I suppose, as it's down to an anemic two talents.
• Just for giggles, we flip the Berserker class icon left-to-right and use it for the Berzerker class icon.
• We don't remove Technique/Archery training or Technique/Shield defense, as v1.6 does from Berserkers; who are we to say how you should berzerk, after all? We do change the mastery for both trees to 1.0, though.