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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 high pace build with fast hitting attacks rather than slower, harder hits. It is designed primarily to boost dual wield playstyle and sacrifices some defense for the high offense, however all-round abilities can be found throughout the three. 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

• War Cry
  • A terrifying cry that provides X fury and increases the armor of the Barbarian and all party members within X feet by X% 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