Dragon Berserk

[Barristan 14]

Heya,

 

so I thought I would take a look into the Dragon Berserk for for the Dragon Mage, and see if there is anything to be found to make it even stronger.

 

As the manual states, nothing will do this, not even learned skills.... gotta try tho

 

So far:

 

Skills - nothing (tried armor lore)

Attributes - nothing (tried Vitality and Strength)

Rune reading - nothing

Dragon Focus and Lore - nothing

 

The only thing that I found to increase his HP is Character Level

 

Has anyone tried anything else... working or not working, no difference there

 

Greetz

 

P.S. Gogo, there is no General discussion for the Dragon Mage yet Thus posted in General

Edited October 26, 2009 by Barristan

[chattius 2,526]

In my short tests I found only alchemy:

Even the potion slots vanish you can still use the hotkeys. Even you don't have alchemy skill in the transformation, the trophies remain unlocked.

My first dragon mage was a horse rider, so I used alchemy to unlock riding. You won't have longer duration or boosted effects.

 

iron ore=physical armour and demon teeth=regeneration per hit seem to work

leather hat = attack speed is shown working in the sigma

....

 

At transforming you loose all active spells: buffs, whirlwinds, destroyers and all alchemy effects. So you have to use alchemy trophies after transforming at the low naked duration and effectivity.

 

So good trophy hunting grounds are needed:

like the re-spawning orc cave for troll teeth = attack value

I wonder if schot's spirit cloning can be used to get iron ore's

 

But sadly I wasn't able to play for weeks since one of my daughters is at hospital. So ifear you have to do the alchemy tests on your own. Reg per Hit to recharge berserk combat art may be really nice. But since the duration is close to just 20 seconds per trophy this would be mainly for boss fights. Except someone come up with a good trophy place for demon teeth.

[Barristan 14]

Heya,

 

first of all, good luck with your daughter.... really hope its nothing serious...

 

Second, thnx for the tip Alchemy it is!

 

 

EDIT: did a round of testing on the Kobold chief... if you mod for faster attack, increased duration and increased duration per hit, you can tank bosses without recast or health potions. The only way to increase the Berserkers damage appears to be to read as many runes a possible into this skill, and keeping focus up to maintain the level.

 

I'm using a Polearm now with regen per hit... to faster regen the Berserker Kinda fun toon till now!

 

However... this might rule out Alchemy for me.

 

Greetz

Edited October 26, 2009 by Barristan

[nokka 0]

I also have tried around a bit but couldn't find anything to up the (in my case) damage.

None of the skills you named, not strength, not Tactics Lore or Ancient Magic...

I really think that all there is is rune reading (I also read that somewhere later)

 

about the regen per hit thing, though...

 

As far as I've seen, all the item bonuses disappear when you transform.

All that's left in the Sigma tooltip are:

the attack bonus, life leech from Dragon Berserk

(armor, attack and defense bonuses in the case of Dragon Form)

the MF bonus from world discovery, and

all the "damage against ..... +..%"

 

Everything else (including regen per hit v.v) is all gone.

I can only hope they're still valid, but I wouldn't count on it.

[chattius 2,526]

Alchemy in berserk form is a bit weird: You don't have alchemy after you transformed but the trophies are still unlocked. So you can activate them and they behave like alchemy 1 trophies: duration just 20 seconds and such.

 

RpH in the berserk form would be from a demonteeth trophy to recharge the berserk combat arts. But since the trophy is only unlocked and not boosted the amount of RpH depends on difficulty level alone.

 

You have to use the trophy after you transformed. Because all active Combat Art's and trophy effects are deleted at transformation.

 

Another problem: I don't think that it is possible to find a demontooth every 20 seconds. Trollteeth trophies are easy to get in the orc cave, but demonteeth, I know of no good place to collect them quickly.

[nokka 0]

I'm not so sure about the trophies, but there are a lot of demons in the Wasteland. Maybe doing runs there?

And, for my information, where is this ork cave? I also would like to make trolltooth runs!

[chattius 2,526]

Thread about the respawning orc cave

[nokka 0]

Thanks for the link ;D

[nomad13 2]

Has anyone tried the dragon form, to see if its viable ?

 

I was wondering even with the gold mod for extra skill if it would allow you to be most of the time on dragon form depending on the skill level and cooldown.

[nokka 0]

I've tried a little, but I can't seem to find anything to maintain the form.

There's nothing in the modifications. For a second I thought the dragon flames did it, but I looked again and they didn't.

 

It's okay and it kills (kobolds) pretty quickly, too. But the form is too short-lived for me.

[Barristan 14]

Hmmm... been having a go at this one again. It seems that alchemy WILL boost Mentor potions for max duration while in Berserker form. The Berserker can also use a godpower, but DD only helps decreasing the cooldown. The dmg is scaled down when in Berserker form.

 

Downside is, that I cannot find anything to boost his armor..... The berserker does not have any -DoT or anything.... I don't believer he is really viable as single CA build.

 

Greetz

[JKtheWonderguy 3]

Just got I & B and did some short testing on the same thing. I believe his CA attack rose with runes eaten, but have not confirmed nor fully tested, nor checked to see if the tool tip lies. I intend on doing so fully soon