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The Berserker skill tree is a Barbarian skill tree themed with a ferocious, high-paced fighting style, and has skills to reflect this.

Useful skill links:

• Skills - General skill design and mechanics.
• Barbarian skills - Barbarian-specific skill design.
  • Berserker Skill Tree - Berserker skills.
  • Juggernaut Skill Tree - Juggernaut skills.
  • Battlemaster Skill Tree - Battlemaster skills.
• Barbarian skill archive - Removed Barbarian skills.

Berserker Skill tree as of BlizzCon 2009.

Berserker skills

The Berserker skill tree builds a Barbarian suited to deal damage in an overly vicious, fast-paced and ferocious way. It relies on high attack speed and damage bonuses, and consists almost exclusively of offensive abilities. This leads to a build with a high pace and fast hitting attacks rather than slower, harder hits. It is designed primarily to boost dual wield playstyle, however some abilities are all-round. Most abilities are completely new, but some Diablo II abilities returns such as Whirlwind and Frenzy to once again assist in killing monsters.

Tier I

• Rampage
  • Strikes X additional targets with each attack and increases attack speed by X%.

Tier II

• Ignore Pain
  • Reduces all damage taken by X% and grants immunity to root, snare and stun effects for X seconds.

Tier III

• Frenzy
  • Each strike grants a X% attack speed and X% weapon damage boost for X seconds. Frenzy can be stacked up to X times for a total bonus of X% attack speed and X% weapon damage.

Tier IV

• Leap Attack
  • The Barbarian leaps forward, causing damage when he lands.

Tier V

• Battle Rage
  • Enter a rage which provides a X% damage boost and X% critical hit bonus for X seconds.
• Rend
  • Perform a slashing vicious blow to all enemies within X feet, dealing X% weapon damage and an additional X-X physical damage over X seconds.

Tier VI

• Whirlwind
  • The Barbarian unleashes the primal force of a cyclone and enters a deadly dance of steel, delivering multiple attacks to everything in his path with each hit doing X% weapon damage.

Tier VII

• Wrath of the Berserker
  • Enter a heightened sense of fury, raising combat statistics (Critical Hit, Attack Speed, Dodge Chance, Movement Speed) for X seconds. The heightened senses also allows the Barbarian to damage monsters otherwise immune to physical damage, at a penalty of X%.

References

• Full Barbarian Skill Trees and Stats