Been a hot minute since the last post big boi's how yall feelin on zerker? Personally I think the class is fun af but the lack of protection on the class is ridiculous. The amount of gear required to be relevant has also costed a lot of my zerk friends to re roll to some simpler options. How do yall feel?

I feel like this class does need a buff for sure. Xbox zerk and PC zerk are 2 different people.

I have no intention of ever re rolling cuz I love the class but barely anyone plays it, its very evident clearly something is wrong.

If people don't see that this class needs a buff then their is really something wrong with you.

Id just be happy if someone made a zerk guide for more advanced stuff like movement,combos and what are the best animation cancels focuses on the xbox lol.

I definitely need more practice PvP wise 

On 6/29/2019 at 4:17 AM, Bazfaps said:

Id just be happy if someone made a zerk guide for more advanced stuff like movement,combos and what are the best animation cancels focuses on the xbox lol.

I definitely need more practice PvP wise 

You'll see exactly what I am talking about soon lol

Not much interest in this topic I guess. Let me start with my hot takes. FYI in game name is Bose.

I'm a middle of the road zerker skill wise so take my input with a grain of salt. Below are the issues I see with Zerker:

1. Skill Point Investment: This isn't just limited to Zerker, this applies to Warrior as well. The amount of skill points required for zerker and some other legacy characters is to dang high. The be relevant, zerkers need 1600 SP right now. Min 1800SP are required to be "competitive" when rabam skills get released. 2000SP will are required if we want the skills for both PVP and PVE. This is way to high and is a significant barrier to entry into the class.
2. Lack of protected skills. No i-frame abilities.
3. Can't control our awakened 100%.
4. Can't aim heal
5. No mouse/cursor movement. Lava Piercer is very predictable as a result
6. Slower grabs than other grab classes.
7. No grab priority for player vs NPC
8. Slower Flame Buster than PC.
9. Lava Piercer hit detects everything. Even the smallest dang pebble and stop LP

Suggestions to fix the class:

1. Remove two of our grabs, we only need two: Storming Beast and Rock Smash or Rooting. We do not need 4 grabs. replace the two gabs with something relevant (I don't know what).
2. Add an i-frame to Shake-off. I'd even be happy if it has a cooldown. Just give us a damn i-frame.
3. Increase speed of Smackdown. 
4. Let us put BWS on ring menu.
5. Let us put Raging Thunder on ring menu
6. Allow us to aim our heal and 100% awaken ult.
7. We need to be able to immediately fire Flame Buster.
8. Lava Piercer needs to ignore some obstacles.

I'm forgetting some QoL stuff...i know.

Check out one of the best zerkers I know of from PC days https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX96ipkePxrAV_QTFtebIzg

He was not just an excellent zerker he had all the technical ability to make the class shine.

On 8/19/2019 at 3:21 AM, Hex said:

Check out one of the best zerkers I know of from PC days https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX96ipkePxrAV_QTFtebIzg

He was not just an excellent zerker he had all the technical ability to make the class shine.

what does this have to do with the state of zerker on console?

On 8/18/2019 at 6:50 PM, sgurschick said:

Not much interest in this topic I guess. Let me start with my hot takes. FYI in game name is Bose.

I'm a middle of the road zerker skill wise so take my input with a grain of salt. Below are the issues I see with Zerker:

1. Skill Point Investment: This isn't just limited to Zerker, this applies to Warrior as well. The amount of skill points required for zerker and some other legacy characters is to dang high. The be relevant, zerkers need 1600 SP right now. Min 1800SP are required to be "competitive" when rabam skills get released. 2000SP will are required if we want the skills for both PVP and PVE. This is way to high and is a significant barrier to entry into the class.
2. Lack of protected skills. No i-frame abilities.
3. Can't control our awakened 100%.
4. Can't aim heal
5. No mouse/cursor movement. Lava Piercer is very predictable as a result
6. Slower grabs than other grab classes.
7. No grab priority for player vs NPC
8. Slower Flame Buster than PC.
9. Lava Piercer hit detects everything. Even the smallest dang pebble and stop LP

Suggestions to fix the class:

1. Remove two of our grabs, we only need two: Storming Beast and Rock Smash or Rooting. We do not need 4 grabs. replace the two gabs with something relevant (I don't know what).
2. Add an i-frame to Shake-off. I'd even be happy if it has a cooldown. Just give us a damn i-frame.
3. Increase speed of Smackdown. 
4. Let us put BWS on ring menu.
5. Let us put Raging Thunder on ring menu
6. Allow us to aim our heal and 100% awaken ult.
7. We need to be able to immediately fire Flame Buster.
8. Lava Piercer needs to ignore some obstacles.

I'm forgetting some QoL stuff...i know.

 

I think, before balance and buffs (like a very very very welcomed 2secCD i-frame like warrior's Head Chase or a skill change to subsitute the 4 grabs on a 2 CC system) we should aim to get the same ability as PC zerkers. One step at a time, and im fine...

It's well known that PC zerker have a big role in large scale PvP when it comes to Qbuff and 100%GLeap. On our side, neither of those 2 skills are viable in large scale.

Make FB actually shoot if used from hotkey (you know, how it actually says in the friggin skill description)

Make 100%GLeap have all his damage concentrated if you use rb/RT to land. So if i want to travel i deal travelling damage and landing damage in a line, if i want the damage on a spot, make it so the rb/RT imput, concentrate all the travelling damage into the landing damage.

Then work on class tweake

On 8/27/2019 at 6:26 AM, Staypunk1989 said:

I think, before balance and buffs (like a very very very welcomed 2secCD i-frame like warrior's Head Chase or a skill change to subsitute the 4 grabs on a 2 CC system) we should aim to get the same ability as PC zerkers. One step at a time, and im fine...

It's well known that PC zerker have a big role in large scale PvP when it comes to Qbuff and 100%GLeap. On our side, neither of those 2 skills are viable in large scale.

 

Make FB actually shoot if used from hotkey (you know, how it actually says in the friggin skill description)

Make 100%GLeap have all his damage concentrated if you use rb/RT to land. So if i want to travel i deal travelling damage and landing damage in a line, if i want the damage on a spot, make it so the rb/RT imput, concentrate all the travelling damage into the landing damage.

 

Then work on class tweake

I just do not comprehend the hesitation towards working on the class. Making it better. 

On 8/27/2019 at 6:26 AM, Staypunk1989 said:

I think, before balance and buffs (like a very very very welcomed 2secCD i-frame like warrior's Head Chase or a skill change to subsitute the 4 grabs on a 2 CC system) we should aim to get the same ability as PC zerkers. One step at a time, and im fine...

It's well known that PC zerker have a big role in large scale PvP when it comes to Qbuff and 100%GLeap. On our side, neither of those 2 skills are viable in large scale.

 

Make FB actually shoot if used from hotkey (you know, how it actually says in the friggin skill description)

Make 100%GLeap have all his damage concentrated if you use rb/RT to land. So if i want to travel i deal travelling damage and landing damage in a line, if i want the damage on a spot, make it so the rb/RT imput, concentrate all the travelling damage into the landing damage.

 

Then work on class tweake

This is absolutely the truest thing ever. Let me tell you something about zerker at the moment,

Being decent in 1v1's is one thing, but not exceeding in what we are supposed to is another. We are nerfed extremely hard on Xbox.

Giant Leap/ Jump Sequence:

Not being able to do anything in a Node and Siege war except get a few kills (if you are lucky) with Giant Leap is the most depressing thing ever. As it stands, its supposed to be the most damaging ultimate  in the game, second to Valkyrie who has not been released yet. The ultimate while traveling does no damage. Only the ramp up, and slam does damage. We can't control our ultimate on Xbox so we are losing on 50%-70% of our damage. The ultimate and the ability its self sucks in general as well. Not having working Super Armor and a very non working I frame which is just horrible since the class has very little protection. Our only escape tool that does not work, and an Ultimate Ability, that does nerfed damage. Real fun, especially since you already have to be taking a high risk by standing near enemies in the first place and you cannot retreat after the ultimate.

Titan Syndrome/ Flame Buster:

This was specifically (Cannon Spam) disabled on Xbox. Making us virtually useless in large scale. We have no way of doing damage outside of our ult, a nerfed version of this, and situationally, Ancient Noodle. You guys need to revert this, so zerk can actually be a viable pick for Siege and Node wars, because since awakening, he has been completely outshined by classes who aren't even supposed to be amazing in Siege in the first place. Nobody is playing him, and nobody wants zerks in there guild, we don't offer a damn thing. 

Titan Syndrome is also useless as the DP and heal from it is pretty much un noticeable and for the most part, is used to just lesson cc chances. But it least this ability works as intended. 

Ancient Wave: Although the ability works as intended, it was nerfed a while back up to 30-40% for no reason and never got un nerfed. The skill does do burst damage, but since the nerf it's very niche at best. Especially since it has no accuracy on the ability, and you have to be within a set distance for perfect damage. It has such a ridiculously long cool down that it's pretty much useless. Too much risk, not enough reward. 30 seconds? Other classes have burst abilities at 8-15 seconds at most. Very ridiculous.

By far our Large Scale and usefulness compared to PC i'd say are our worst things for us now.

I wrote down some stuff for later, but this is the most important and by far is the biggest reason for why people play this class. So please  take a look at the community and what Twitch chat and many other places and people are saying about Zerk. It's in a horrible spot right now, not an (okay spot) maybe if we had what PC has it would be decent, but we don't. We don't have anything. I know it's a bit redundant to ask of you and constantly be annoyed by it, but there is nothing being done, or talked about on the class to help it. It is a very poor class on console, and with these other classes coming out, worse than ever.

Some of Zerks abilities and features on the class have not been touched or updated since launch and even before that. It's time for this class to get some major attention and is updated to match the others. Some sort of communication could be set up? Poll? Anything to talk to you guys about this HUGE issue. 

https://clips.twitch.tv/BraveDeterminedKiwiEagleEye?tt_medium=clips_api&tt_content=url still true to this day.

4 minutes ago, The Guiido said:

This is absolutely the truest thing ever. Let me tell you something about zerker at the moment,

Being decent in 1v1's is one thing, but not exceeding in what we are supposed to is another. We are nerfed extremely hard on Xbox.

 

Giant Leap/ Jump Sequence:

Not being able to do anything in a Node and Siege war except get a few kills (if you are lucky) with Giant Leap is the most depressing thing ever. As it stands, its supposed to be the most damaging ultimate  in the game, second to Valkyrie who has not been released yet. The ultimate while traveling does no damage. Only the ramp up, and slam does damage. We can't control our ultimate on Xbox so we are losing on 50%-70% of our damage. The ultimate and the ability its self sucks in general as well. Not having working Super Armor and a very non working I frame which is just horrible since the class has very little protection. Our only escape tool that does not work, and an Ultimate Ability, that does nerfed damage. Real fun, especially since you already have to be taking a high risk by standing near enemies in the first place and you cannot retreat after the ultimate.

Titan Syndrome/ Flame Buster:

This was specifically (Cannon Spam) disabled on Xbox. Making us virtually useless in large scale. W

Reroll to striker my man, we have bananas. OOK OOK 

19 minutes ago, Rocketfuel77777 said:

Reroll to striker my man, we have bananas. OOK OOK 

I had to finish what I was saying cuz it entered before I finished. Sorry to see you leave us man ? .

i finally found the stream where they say they INTENTIONALLY NERFED FLAME BUSTER SPAM for zerker.

Guys, this nerf was un-necessary and we kindly ask for you to revert this so called FIX.

NONE ASKED FOR THIS "FIX" AND THERE IS NO REASON WHY THIS WAS IMPLEMENTED BEFORE EVEN HAVING THE CHANCE TO TEST IT OUT ON THE LIVE GAME.

You need to have FB shoot from hotkey, so we can still have some relevance in large scale PvP.

Zerk is already a class that is gimped on console due to not having the possibility to mouse move many skills. 100% Giant Leap is the other big NERF we suffer in large scale due to no mouse movement.

We also need the ability to rotate the camera view while healing.

WE DEMAND JUSTICE FOR OUR CLASS !!

Thanks for the tag Unfortunately, I do not have the power to reverse any nerfs or changes to classes. I have been diligently forwarding videos and items that has been sharing in discord in regards to The Berzerker class for the Dev's to look into for possible bugs. At this point the only thing more that can be done as far as expressing your suggestions and feedback would be to submit a ticket to customer support. This is the most direct form of feedback we have where you can have one on one conversation about your observations/suggestions/experiences.

Here is the link for customer support: https://console.pearlabyss.com/Support

-CM Valtarra

On 10/7/2019 at 2:51 PM, CM_Valtarra said:

Thanks for the tag Unfortunately, I do not have the power to reverse any nerfs or changes to classes. I have been diligently forwarding videos and items that has been sharing in discord in regards to The Berzerker class for the Dev's to look into for possible bugs. At this point the only thing more that can be done as far as expressing your suggestions and feedback would be to submit a ticket to customer support. This is the most direct form of feedback we have where you can have one on one conversation about your observations/suggestions/experiences.

Here is the link for customer support: https://console.pearlabyss.com/Support

-CM Valtarra

 

Doesn't this just take us back to GM's though?

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSazZj4SKpWEzambzeGKSBPDYDk9yigrs9rXJnH4Nak0DKVDWKJZE2oOHhlJJuad8gaaP-X5e_-lFOX/pubhtml?gid=877858555&single=true

 here is the survey results from PC as well as console players submissions. A simple read to all of those questions and concerns found there should absolutely raise some eyebrows, and get some sort of conversation going at Pearl Abyss. Thats a lot of people who took that survey for this class.

I PMed you

Having now had the opportunity to now play one on the PS4 (yes I know this is Xbox forms but have you seen our class guides section?) I strongly agree with all of the above.

Having come from PC where my main was a Berserker, the difference is night and day. Grabs are a lot slower and not as fluid, that was the first thing to make me think "am i getting lag or something" turns out no I am not it was by design. Giant Leap is also very very broken, In fact re reading what  has written all of it is factually correct. It is in a very sorry state at the moment, and once Striker lands I predict the death of the Zerker on PS4. There are so very few of us already that when I come across another Berserker I am surprised.

Having one of your own play a Zerker "Shirna" he should know how poorly implemented this class is unless he never played on PC. This is not even the same class at all. But I wont stop playing it as I love what he stands for.

On 10/16/2019 at 3:11 AM, Hex said:

Having now had the opportunity to now play one on the PS4 (yes I know this is Xbox forms but have you seen our class guides section?) I strongly agree with all of the above.

Having come from PC where my main was a Berserker, the difference is night and day. Grabs are a lot slower and not as fluid, that was the first thing to make me think "am i getting lag or something" turns out no I am not it was by design. Giant Leap is also very very broken, In fact re reading what  has written all of it is factually correct. It is in a very sorry state at the moment, and once Striker lands I predict the death of the Zerker on PS4. There are so very few of us already that when I come across another Berserker I am surprised.

Having one of your own play a Zerker "Shirna" he should know how poorly implemented this class is unless he never played on PC. This is not even the same class at all. But I wont stop playing it as I love what he stands for.

Thanks for the response man. I'm not giving up. I know the devs aren't reading this, but I will still fight for this class.

Fix the zerk

UwU

+1 berserker really needs some love, Just dont make it lose its identity it already has in nodewar and siege tbh with the nerf to cannon spam and trail damage on the ult but that nerf would be welcomed if you gave us something back like an i frame or more protection because the protection we do have is a joke, regardless berserker needs some love as it doesn’t really feel to berserkery more oh thats the class that has 4 grabs but those grabs are useless when it comes to mass PvP being in the ball lol just make us viable in large scale and be able to compete rather than just be there to die and wet noodle it out , (And please my fellow zerks send in a ticket for ps4 and xbox even if you rerolled lets get them to hear our voice!)

Show me a video of someone able to actually control Giant leap on xbox.

This is bullshit.

Thanks for the feedback guys. Wish we could get something done. The proof is in the pudding, and this class needs help.

Succ zerker only (It fits far more with the berserker than a blaster cannon for me) and I log off every night frustrated as F after going to rbf or trying to do group pvp.

Serious lack of protections and iFrame, and now that emergency esc is on the ring menu, nearly every single iframing, teleporting class I miracously land a grab on emergency escapes. It was bad before but now it just sucks ass.

The leap is still bugged to hell and damage on skills is still pitiful compared to what other classes are outputting. You can see it in rbfs, the very few succ zerks go in there are usually running around at the end with less than 10 points.

I don't even bother with NW, not that anyone would even want a succ zerk.