Tutorial:Berserk Guide

Berserker is a class in Dungeons mostly centered around melee damage. They rely heavily on and  for damage. Whether you are playing Dungeons or Slayers, this tutorial can teach you how to become an efficient berserker.

Most of this tips also apply to Left Click Mage, a sub-class of Mage specializing on using the mage beam as a primary form of dealing damage.

Recommended Weapons
These weapons are required or heavily recommended when playing as a Berserker. These often have requirements such as a high Catacombs level or level. As such, it is not recommended to become a berserker during the early and mid-game.
 * Aspect of the End/Raider Axe - Interchangeable, but both of these weapons prove to be efficient and useful for early game players due to their low cost and ability to deal decent damage in the entrance floor if you're interested in running berserker. The Aspect of the End's teleportation allows you to escape dangerous situations. However, you may want to wait until reaching mid-game before doing dungeons. Aspect of the End can rival aspect of the dragons if it has the Warped reforge applied, and when paired with Strong Dragon Armor, the full set bonus will improve the weapon even further. The Raider's Axe deals slightly more damage compared to a regular aote. An AOTE is approximately 140k coins to buy, and a raider's axe is exactly 130k from the Melancholic Viking.
 * Aspect of the Dragons - This weapon surpasses the Pigman Sword, Tactician's Sword and Leaping Sword in damage while being a significantly more viable sword because of it's relatively low cost(~). Being only a little worse than a 50 mil Midas, this sword is viable in the start of Dungeons up to Floor 1. With strong or superior, this sword is great for melee damage for all classes.
 * Adaptive Blade - This weapon is a viable early-game Dungeon weapon, as it is affected by Dungeon scaling giving it high stats in Dungeons, and has a very reasonable price costing typically around on the Auction House, and it also gives bonuses based on what class you are using. It is obtained from a Floor 2 Obsidian Chest.
 * Spirit Sword - A Spirit Sword is an effective Berserk weapon due to its high damage, as well as being relatively cheap. It also allows you to use it when you are dead. The price varies from 2-3m coins on the Auction House, and is obtained from Floor 4 Obsidian Chests.
 * Hyper Cleaver/Super Cleaver - While a Hyper Cleaver isn't the best for single-target hits, the Hyper Cleaver or Super Cleaver is not a bad pick for attacking a group of mobs. There are many situations in which you will have to attack a large group of mobs, such as during the Thorn boss fight or just generally clearing out rooms. The hyper cleaver is 800k from the npc, and the super cleaver is 80k, but the hyper cleaver provides 30 more strength and 60 more damage.
 * Livid Dagger - A powerful sword obtained from Floor 5 that provides 100% and 100%, removing the need for optimizing talismans. This sword also deals double damage when backstabbing enemies. This is a fairly popular weapon, as it has excellent DPS because of its attack speed. It costs 7M coins from the Bedrock Chest in Floor 5.
 * Giant Sword - Has the highest stat of any sword in the game in exchange for no . It also has an ability that allows you to deal massive amounts of damage in a large radius, sort of like an upgraded Golem Sword. It is recommended to put One For All on this sword. HOWEVER, while applying One for All will increase damage significantly, it will remove Syphon/Lifesteal, meaning the main source of healing for berserks will not be available to you. This is why it is recommended to have a Flower of Truth for life steal if you want to use a One For All Giant's Sword.
 * Axe of the Shredded - This axe has the highest damage bonus to zombies at a 250% increase and is exceptionally powerful as a sword swap due to its ability. Its ability shoots out axes that deal double damage every time it’s used, up to 4 times, where it deals 16 times damage. The ability with a sword swap is commonly used to kill mini-bosses during clearing or to help kill the main boss. The user will use the axe ability until it’s maxed, then switch to their main weapon such as a Livid Dagger or a Valkyrie and repeat this to essentially make a long-ranged weapon.
 * Flower of Truth - Grants the most of any weapon in the game. Its ability allows you to kill several mobs at once from range, allowing you to evade danger and clear rooms quicker. This weapon is also useful, for example, during the Terracotta phase in Floor VI, because life steal works with the Heat-Seeking Rose ability. It can also be used with a Baby Yeti Pet, which, when at max level, will provide well over 1000.
 * Valkyrie: The most powerful sword in the game for melee damage and the best sword in the game for the Berserker class. However, this sword is EXTREMELY expensive(300-400 million coins) and should only be bought in the endgame.

Recommended Armor Sets
These armor sets either provide lots of or abilities that help you out as a Berserker.


 * Strong Dragon Armor - Strong Dragon Armor is a somewhat cheap set that can be used on low floors that also buffs the AOTE. Players often use the Tarantula Helmet giving 1 crit damage per 10 strength (caps at 1000 strength and 100 Crit damage) with this set.
 * Zombie Soldier Armor - While the Zombie Soldier Armor is more geared to be for a tank, the Fierce or Pure reforges will provide a decent amount of health and additional damage, making up for its tank orientation.
 * Adaptive Armor ​- Adaptive Armor provides you with all-round stats bonus and allows you to increase your damage significantly​, whilst being extremely cheap. Adaptive Armor after being upgraded is actually better than Superior Dragon Armor.
 * Zombie Knight Armor​ - Zombie Knight Armor gives you more defense and health than the armor below, which improves your survivability in the dungeons. The set also gives you a very good amount of strength. This set along with the Adaptive Armor set are probably the best armor sets you can go for a budget berserker setup.
 * Shadow Assassin Armor - With the full set bonus, you're able to gain stacking Strength for the rest of the Dungeon run. Each piece also grants bonuses after using a sword with teleporting ability such as Aspect of the End or Shadow Fury. Currently, this set is considered to be one of the best sets for berserker, although it has low defense because the armor set allows for a really high damage, this set is the second best set for the Berserker class, granting marginally less stats than the best Berserker armor in the game, Necron's Armor.
 * Note: the Shadow Assassin chestplate can be replaced with a Zombie Knight chestplate if you cannot afford the full set.


 * Superior Dragon Armor - Superior Dragon Armor is a good armor set to pair up with the Ender Dragon Pet. If you have enough dragon essence, you should probably 5 star it. (Note: Dungeonized Superior Dragon Armor requires Catacombs 19 or above.) Superior Dragon armor also gives more hp than Frozen Blaze Armor.
 * Necromancer Lord Armor - Necromancer Lord Armor grants the user a decent amount of Effective Health, making it a good armor set for berserks who are in need of more defense/health especially for its relatively low cost compared to other berserker armor sets. Its base stats include no Crit Damage or Strength so it will not boost damage, making it useless in combat unless you reforge to ancient or other damage reforge.
 * Necron's Armor - Necron's armor is heavily geared towards the Berserker class granting a large amount of Strength and Crit Damage. Wearing it also grants decent survivability. Necron's Armor is the most expensive and most powerful berserker set in the game, making it an endgame armor set, thus not recommended for new players. Its overall stats are only slightly better than Shadow assassin. It is still recommended to purchase the set, as it is arguably the best armor set in the game for damage overall in Dungeons and melee damage outside, if you can afford it. Its full set bonus "Witherborn" spawns a detonating wither to aid you, providing additional damage.
 * Warden Helmet - Warden Helmet is the most expensive and powerful helmet in the game. Although it cannot be dungeonized, it grants players +10% final damage per, which if the player is using Rogue Sword to get , it could grant the player up to +160% final damage.

Recommended Pets
Having a good berserker pet can greatly improve your berserker abilities. These are some recommended ones.
 * Wither Skeleton Pet - The Wither Skeleton Pet provides you with some decent damage stats​. The legendary version of this pet is highly recommended as the ability of the pet that lets you deal additional wither damage. The high amount of wither damage will boost your damage by quite a lot. It is also helpful on Floor VII's boss fight.
 * Ender Dragon Pet - It is the best pet for damage for now. It is especially good to pair it up with an Aspect of the Dragon​s. The version is better than the  version as the legendary Ender Dragon Pet provides you with a percentage boost in all your stats.
 * Blaze Pet - This pet is only viable when you pair it up with the Frozen Blaze Armor​. It boosts the armor and also doubles the effect of hot potato books.
 * Tiger Pet - The Tiger Pet is relatively cheap in comparison to the Ender Dragon Pet, and its stats and abilities are quite effective in dungeons. Ferocity in particular is very useful against Thorn, allowing you to strike the boss multiple times with one spirit bow shot. This pet is obtained from Oringo.
 * Baby Yeti Pet - While it may provide poor damage stats, it's Ice Shields ability converts your Strength into Defense. When combined with Flower of Truth with the Withered Reforge, it can boost your defense by up to 1,000.
 * Griffin Pet - This pet provides overall good stats and people often use it for the ability (which is only available to uncommon griffins and above), Legendary Constitution, since potion effects are paused in dungeons. Also this is paired with the pet item, Minos Relic, it can do decent damage.
 * Blue Whale Pet - This is a really good pet to increase and  for berserks who would need more survivability.

Recommended Reforges
Reforging


 * Talisman reforges
 * Silky (Luxurious Spool) Provides the most crit damage
 * Forceful (Blacksmith) Provides the most strength
 * Strong (Blacksmith) Provides both strength and crit damage
 * Shaded (Dark Orb) Provides both strength and crit damage
 * Bloody (Beating Heart) Provides attack speed

Currently, a well known talisman reforge setup used by Berserkers is to use the shaded reforge for common, uncommon, and rare accessories. Then reforge your epics to forceful, and legendaries and mythics to strong. This is because both Shaded and Strong provide strength and crit damage, but shaded provides more for common-rare while Strong provides more for legendaries-mythics. For more information, check out Reforging.


 * Armor reforges
 * Ancient (Precursor Gear) This is one of the best reforge for damage in the game for armor as it provides a lot of strength and crit damage.
 * Giant (Giant tooth) This reforge is great for people who need higher EHP and survivability as it provides high amounts of Health.
 * Sword reforges
 * Withered (Wither Blood) This reforge, while being quite costly, provides the most out of any reforge in the game. Paired with a Flower of Truth, you will achieve unbelievable amounts of.
 * Dirty (Dirt Bottle) While this reforge provides mediocre strength and no crit damage, it provides both and Ferocity.

The most optimal way to play Berserker in Master Mode is to wear a Warden Hat or a Diamond head of that floor with Necron's Armour, Tiger Pet, and using the Axe of the Shredded's Throw ability and quickly swapping to a Valkyrie, which can kill minibosses insanely fast.