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Berserker Rage

Berserker Rage

Instant	30 sec cooldown

Requires Warrior
Requires level 54

You go berserk, removing and granting immunity to Fear, Sap and Incapacitate effects for 6 sec.

Buff

Berserker Rage	Enrage

Immune to Fear, Sap, and Incapacitate effects.
6 seconds remaining

Spell Details

Duration

6 seconds

School

Physical

Mechanic

n/a

Dispel type

Enrage

GCD category

n/a

Cost

None

Range

0 yards (Self)

Cast time

Instant

Cooldown

30 seconds

GCD

0 seconds

Effect #1

Apply Aura: Immunity - Mechanic (Fleeing)
Value: 100

Effect #2

Apply Aura: Immunity - Mechanic (Incapacitated)

Effect #3

Apply Aura: Immunity - Mechanic (Sapped)

Effect #4

Apply Aura: Immunity - Mechanic (Turned)

Effect #5

Apply Aura: Increase Run Speed %

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Warlords of Draenor
Warrior Changes

Warrior DPS Guide (Arms/Fury)

Comments

Comment by stellas

The only problem with this ability is it is only available in berserker stance. Of course that's the thing with warriors, stances. If we could use every ability available to us without switching stances we would pwn all. Anyway this ability has a million uses, not only for preventing fear and incapacitate effects but dispelling them while afflicted. Unfortunately most warriors do not spend the majority of their time in berserker stance, usually battle stance or defensive.

While great vs priests and warlocks who will surely fear you first thing, you can only charge in battle stance, unless you want to intercept which will deduct you a free charge. By the time you've charged the priest/warlock and prepare to switch to berserker stance, they have already feared you, and your screwed because your still in battle stance. The best way to get around this and still keep a charge is to try to reduce the cooldown on your intercept, this is easily done by investing in fury and there are plenty gear out there that do this as well.

It is also useful for generating insane rage when taking a lot of hits, this ability sees tremendous use in both pvp and pve.

Comment by MuffinKing

if you use this ability can you switch to battle stance after it is activated, and still have the buff? cuz that would pwn. for arms warriors...

Comment by Garner

The best part about Beserker Rage is that it acts as a fear break not just an immunity! Use this to get yourself out of trouble.

Comment by Azzuren

Does anybody know the formula for the additional rage generation? It seems to be missing everywhere.

Comment by NegativeFPS

What's the rage increase from this? (not talent, just getting hit)

Comment by ParkingMeter

Even on mobs that don't fear or otherwise incapacitate, I usually like to throw this on as the extra rage is easily noticable and the cool down is so short so I rarely have a problem with it not being available.

Comment by jon3k

Can we start a comprehensive list of what this will and will not break? I know it can get you out of a Sap and a Fear. What about Gouge? Anything else?

Comment by ragnarosa

more chance to survive rogue with this when he saps :P
u charge him disarm and nuke

result dead rogue :D

Comment by nporaMep

Fears:
Warlocks: fear, howl of terror
Priest: psychic scream
Warrior: intimidating shout

Incapacicate:
Rogue: sap, gouge
Paladin: repetance
Druid: Maim

Comment by cylyn

Does this break mind control?

Comment by Frozenmaster

it doesnt break frost nova, right?

Comment by scyther

This seriously needs to be nerfed. 30 second cd is bull haha

Comment by Korasoff

it doesnt break frost nova, right?
Frost Nova is a root effect, so no, it doesn't break it.

Comment by Logikj

This also breaks the dwarf/draenei priest racial chastise as well as sap, gouge, maim and repentance

Comment by Milktog

Does this break fears / incapacitate effects or does it just provide immunity.

Thanks

Comment by Eviltwig

because death coil is a "Horror" effect, which is a different category to fear. Same reason why WotF doesn't work on it.

Comment by Arbron

2010 April Fool's Joke idea -- for 24 hours, change this ability to have the following effect when used:

Increases damage by 500% and attack speed by 150% for 30 min, and emotes "<warrior name> goes into a berserker rage!" to all nearby players.

Comment by Vehemence

A quote from wikipedia about 'Berserking' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berserker

"Going berserk"

"This fury, which was called berserkergang, occurred not only in the heat of battle, but also during laborious work. Men who were thus seized performed things which otherwise seemed impossible for human power. This condition is said to have begun with shivering, chattering of the teeth, and chill in the body, and then the face swelled and changed its colour. With this was connected a great hot-headedness, which at last gave over into a great rage, under which they howled as wild animals, bit the edge of their shields, and cut down everything they met without discriminating between friend or foe. When this condition ceased, a great dulling of the mind and feebleness followed, which could last for one or several days."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNPWiUeAm8E Is a good example from 300, note how he screams at 1:26. O and In before Cataclysm Helmet Spec.

Comment by LeminaAusa

HIT BERSERKER RAGE!

*warning: profanity*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR1MG-5BBvg&feature=related

Comment by Lavafrost

A good way to keep yourself able to use Raging Blow if Enrage or your other abilities that Enrage you aren't up. Add Glyph of Berserker Rage for an extra 5 rage from use.

Comment by teakan

Can be dispelled by a druid using Soothe

Comment by Tartonga

It can be dispelled by a rogue's Shiv.

Comment by safusu

Efficient use of this as warr dps is to hit it right before raid-wide or heavy damage for a guaranteed full rage bar. For example:

Meteor Strike in Baradin Hold
Massacre in Blackwing Descent
and others

Comment by WTBaggrodump

This ability is what makes a Warrior's life all the less stressful. Ironic, right? The glyph isn't bad if you really need that extra bit of rage, but later on, unless you're PvPing, it's worthless imo. The ability itself is just ever so awesome. It's like the Undead's "Will of the Forsaken", but with the bonus rage when you get punched in the face. That ability is a Prot Warrior's life saver, besides the obvious "take less damage for x amount of time" or "stun target(s) infront of you". Without it, Warriors would suck so damn much it wouldn't even be funny. >_>

Comment by Shrikesnest

This ability has many, many uses, but since it's not just a simple "+x% damage" a surprising number of newbie warriors don't even have it on their bar. This is foolishness! If you're not using Berserker Rage, you are a bad warrior, period. Some uses you may not have considered:

An on-call ten-second enrage effect, which is useful for Fury Warriors who can't get an enrage to proc and need Raging Blow.
Is the pull going to hell? You're about to die and the healer has her hands full just keeping the tank up? Potion already on cooldown? This makes excellent fuel for Enraged Regeneration. Berserker Rage puts your best survivability cooldown under you control instead of the RNGs.
Battlegrounds (and world PVP hotspots) are full of frustrated salarymen who rolled sub rogues because beating your dog is illegal, but griefing strangers is totally okay. Being, generally, PVP noobs with no knowledge of how other classes work, they don't know that this instantly breaks sap. Pop this followed by bladestorm and laugh.
The fear break part of this ability isn't just useful for PVP! Every level of PVE, from regular five mans up through heroic raids, will give you plenty of chances to break fear. One less potential target for Fear Ward, one less person potentially running straight into the next trash pack, one less GCD the healer has to spend cleansing fear off of someone. Can be a raid-saver in the right circumstances.
As has been mentioned, pop this just before raid-wide damage to refill your rage meter instantly. Then turn that excess rage into damage in any of the million ways that can be done.

Comment by StaticLgtBrngr

RP Version: Fear generating spells trigger a response in the victim's body causing accelerated heart rate and adrenaline response such as fight or flight, in this case the warrior chooses to fight on his or her own. The reason this breaks and causes fear immunity is because warriors are trained to push and control their bodies in such a way as to exceed the fear threshold, rendering such spells useless.

Example: Incite Fear: "Dump 120 adrenaline and accelerate victims heart from 79 to 200 beats per minute"
Example: Incite Berserker Rage: "Dump 300 adrenaline and maintain 69 beats per minute"

Comment by QuickBASIC37

Can be removed with Enrage removing abilities:
Soothe Druid
Tranquilizing Shot Hunter
Shiv Rogue

Comment by mebegood

This is the full list of Debuffs that can be broken using Berserker Rage. (As for Cataclysm)

Repetance
Sap
Gouge
Fear
Howl of Terror
Psychic Scream
Intimidating Shout
Dragon's Breath

Comment by baldrwr

As part of a PVE Fury rotation (probably Arms, as well), it is best to use this only when you are not currently enraged. There is a good add-on called TellMeWhen which can be used to create an icon which shows you when this is off CD and hide it when you're already enraged. Here is a link to it on Curse.

You can import this string into TMW version 6.0.3 to create an icon which does this for you:

^1^T^SShowTimer^B ^SType^Scooldown ^SName^Sberserker~`rage ^SManaCheck^B ^SClockGCD^B ^SShowWhen^N3 ^SOverlay_BarGCD^B ^SEnabled^B ^SConditions^T ^N1^T ^SType^SBUFFDUR ^SChecked^B ^SName^SEnrage ^t^Sn^N1 ^t^t^N60345^S~`~| ^Sicon^^

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