Condition Quickness Berserker

February 2023

Condition Quickness Berserker provides permanent Quickness and Fury for your sub group while dealing decent DPS. It also provides short bursts of Stability and Resistance via Banners. Condition Berserker builds are known for being easy to learn, but hard to master.

Build Fundamentals

The two main keys for this build are using Shattering Blow and Blood Reckoning to increase the uptime of your Berserk and making use of the reduced Weapon Swap cooldown from Fast Hands.

While the pulsing boons from your banners are also valuable, your most important boon Quickness is only applied from your initial placement of the banner. So don’t place them before the boon strip that occurs when the encounter starts.

After the initial placement, you can use Banners off-cooldown, preferably while you are on Longbow or outside of Berserk. You can delay placing them by a few seconds if you are approaching the end of Berserk and want to finish your rotation.

Place your Banners in a spot where your group will benefit from them the most. For example, if a boss is about to move, place them between your current position and where you’re about to move to. Keep in mind the 360 boon radius.

For learning purposes, the rotation can be broken down into a few main elements:

• Flames of War, Blaze Breaker, Pin Down, and Shattering Blow should be used off-cooldown.
• Use Fan of Fire and Scorched Earth twice during each Longbow part of your rotation, use Scorched Earth 3 times if you have Blood Reckoning available. Use Fan of Fire as the first and last skill in the longbow part of your rotation.
• Arcing Arrow should replace Dual Shot twice in the Longbow part of the rotation when Banners, Pin Down, and Shattering Blow are on cooldown. And once when Banners and Pin Down are off-cooldown.
• During the sword part of your rotation use Blaze Breaker, Flames of War (if it is off cooldown), and Flaming Flurry once.
• Use Final Thrust off cooldown. This skill does more damage and applies more Bleeding to targets below 50% health.
• Do not delay Weapon Swap.
• After step 42 in the rotation, you want to stay on Sword/Torch and just use auto attacks until Berserk has 3 seconds left on its cooldown. Then continue from step 43. After your initial Berserk you can follow the steps in this guide, listed above.

Keeping 25 stacks of Furious is difficult, but achievable by cleaving enemies and positioning your Scorched Earth so that it hits 3 times. Doing this correctly will noticeably improve your DPS.

Once you are comfortable with the rotation you can start to implement Savage Leap into it every time you swap to Sword/Torch. Using this in your fire fields will create a  Fire Aura on you due to Leap Finisher which you can then detonate using any Berserker skill for extra DPS, thanks to King of Fires.

Crowd Control

• Head Butt
• Pin Down
• Smoldering Arrow

Alternatives

Utility Skills

For a small DPS loss, the following can be changed:

• Banner of Strength can be used instead of Banner of Discipline if Fury is covered and more Might is needed for your subgroup.
• Banner of Defense can be used instead of Banner of Discipline if Fury is covered. Keep in mind that Banners are used off cooldown to provide permanent Quickness, so the benefits of Aegis and Barrier from Banner of Defense cannot be timed perfectly for specific mechanics.