Berserker Best Build Guide for Lost Ark (LA). See Berserker's leveling build, PvE build, PvP build, engravings, runes, recommended tripods, solo build, & DPS Build for Berserker.
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Berserker PVE Build
Berserker PVE Builds
The builds below focus on the Mayhem Class Engraving for the Berserker. This engraving reduces your max HP to 25% but it significantly increases your Atk. Power, Atk. Speed, Move Speed, and decreases incoming damage by 65%.
Chaos Dungeon / Cube Skills
Skill Level | Tripods |
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Finish Strike [Lvl. 10] | I. Tenacity II. Weak Point Detection III. Kill Confirm |
Shoulder Charge [Lvl. 4] | I. Excellent Mobility |
Whirlwind [Lvl. 10] | I. Sustain Enhancement II. Cracked Wheel III. Vacuum Slash |
Tempest Slash [Lvl. 4] | I. Quick Preparation |
Mountain Crash [Lvl. 4] | I. Quick Preparation |
Strike Wave [Lvl. 10] | I. Quick Preparation II. Calberoth III. Blaze Wave |
Red Dust [Lvl. 10] | I. Quick Prep II. Vital Point Hit III. Red Wave |
Sword Storm [Lvl. 10] | I. Quick Preparation II. Weak Point Detection III. Flame Storm |
The goal of this build is to max out the strongest AoE skills of the Berserker while having skills like Finish Strike to kill Challenge monsters on the second floor.
Raid Skills
Skill Level | Tripods |
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Finish Strike [Lvl. 10] | I. Tenacity II. Weak Point Detection III. Kill Confirm |
Shoulder Charge [Lvl. 4] | I. Excellent Mobility |
Tempest Slash [Lvl. 4] | I. Quick Preparation |
Hell Blade [Lvl. 10] | I. Leap II. Deadly Blow III. Earth Flip |
Chain Sword [Lvl. 4] | I. Vital Point Strike |
Strike Wave [Lvl. 10] | I. Quick Preparation II. Calberoth III. Blaze Wave |
Red Dust [Lvl. 10] | I. Quick Prep II. Vital Point Hit III. Red Wave |
Sword Storm [Lvl. 10] | I. Quick Preparation II. Weak Point Detection III. Flame Storm |
The goal of this build is to maximize your DPS against bosses by having skills with stagger and weak point while maximizing your damage with back attacks.
Recommended Engraving
Slot 1 | Slot 2 |
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Mayhem (Level 3) | Master's Tenacity (Level 3) |
Mayhem greatly increases your offensive stats but will reduce your HP down to a max of 25% with 65% reduced incoming damage. This class engraving is a high risk, high reward engraving that players should use when they are confident that they will not get hit by attacks especially during raid content.
Berserker PVP Builds
PVP Build
This build focuses on the mobility, crowd control, and some Push Immunity for the Berserker. This enables you to chase down enemies while having Push Immunity to ignore some crowd control yourself.
Skills
Skill Level | Tripods |
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Finish Strike [Lvl. 10] | I. Tenacity II. Finishing Blow III. Lights Out |
Shoulder Charge [Lvl. 7] | I. Excellent Mobility II. Chain Charge |
Tempest Slash [Lvl. 10] | I. Nimble Movement II. Enhanced Strike III. Driving Hit |
Mountain Crash [Lvl. 10] | I. Enhance II. Numbing Effect III. Earth Impact |
Diving Slash [Lvl. 7] | I. Excellent Mobility II. Swift Move |
Maelstrom [Lvl. 10] | I. Nimble Movement II. Tenacity III. Flame Spin |
Red Dust [Lvl. 10] | I. Nimble Movement II. Blood Slash III. Red Wave |
Sword Storm [Lvl. 10] | I. Nimble Movement II. Tenacity III. Earthquake Wave |
Stat Tuning
This type of Stat Tuning is exclusively for PvP.
Swiftness | 750 |
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Domination | 249 |
Crit | 1 |
Stat tuning in PvP is mostly fixed on all the advanced classes. The reasoning for this setup is that Swiftness increases your Atk. Speed, Move Speed, and reduces Cooldowns while Domination increases your damage against enemies who are affected with debuffs crowd control effects. The 1 point in Crit is used to enable critical hits in PvP.
Berserker Leveling Build
Skills To Use Until 20
Skill Level | Tripods |
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Double Slash [Lvl. 4] | I. Tenacity |
Assault Blade [Lvl. 1] | - |
Crime Hazard [Lvl. 1] | - |
Finish Strike [Lvl. 1] | - |
Shoulder Charge [Lvl. 4] | I. Excellent Mobility |
Whirlwind [Lvl. 1] | - |
Power Break [Lvl. 1] | - |
Finish Strike will be the main skill you will be using as you are leveling up. Shoulder Charge will be used as a movement skill which can help you move around faster.
Skills To Use When Over 20
Skill Level | Tripods |
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Double Slash [Lvl. 1] | - |
Finish Strike [Lvl. 10] | I. Tenacity II. Weak Point Detection III. Kill Confirm |
Shoulder Charge [Lvl. 1] | - |
Whirlwind [Lvl. 1] | - |
Tempest Slash [Lvl. 1] | - |
Mountain Crash [Lvl. 1] | - |
Diving Slash [Lvl. 1] | - |
Hell Blade [Lvl. 1] | - |
When you reach level 20, you should be able to set Finish Strike to level 10. Once you gain a few more skill points add them to Shoulder Charge to get the first tripod and restore your movement skill.
Only Level Skills When You Can Reach The Next Tripod
Tripods are game changers when it comes to the power of the skill. Obtaining Tripods should be your focus when leveling up the skills of your character.
Strengths & Weaknesses Of Berserker
Strengths Of Berserker
Consistent High DPS
Berserker is a class that deals consistent high DPS against mobs and bosses. It is a fairly easy class to use but gets significantly harder if player don't know how to manage their HP while in Mayhem.
Weaknesses Of Berserker
No Team Synergy
The Berserker only has 1 viable Tripod that can be used for Team Synergy. However, using this Tripod will reduce the Berserker's overall DPS so it is often ignored in most builds.