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Coming back to Berserker's "Retaliate", is the feature overrated? For sometime on paper at least, I thought it would be quite good -- especially since you can provoke Opportunity Attacks during your own turn (that you may resist the damage from to boot) to guarantee it triggers and to gain...

This is sort of off topic, but I was recently looking into Fighters and it seems like at higher levels, certain builds become very powerful in comparison with Berserker -- at least in terms of damage output. For example, Battle Master with a Maul/GWM/GWF can use Trip Attack then use GWM swings...

@BookBarbarian Agreed — though Retaliate is a wonderful ability (though I wouldn’t place it above Divine Fury due to its inconsistency and a tendency for DMs in my experience to have intelligent foes just ... not attack the Barbarian — I don’t agree with that since it can feel meta gamey on the...

@FrogReaver Agreed, I hear you. In a previous revision to that "Revised Path of the Berserker" pdf above, Frenzy had been changed to read as: This was intended as a compromise to improve Frenzy a bit without making it too OP in the way it was felt simply changing it into an Extra Attack each...

@MiraMels I guess that’s a fair way to look at the problem too. If my understanding is right, “Battlerager” and “Berserker” seem to bring up the “bottom” while Totem/Zealot are most commonly picked at tables in my experience (though I also think Ancestral Guardian is really good). I find it...

@S'mon If you saw the pdf/screeshot of the "Revised" Berserker above that was put together with feedback from Discord & Dragons/dndnext, the "short rest recover a level of exhaustion" that you use is more or less what was settled on there, but in exchange for hit dice along with a "once per long...

I agree that overall the Xanathar Zealot subclass is superior to Berserker, but the initial calculations for this seem off. What some seem to not realize is that you can use Retaliate reliably during your own turn with Reckless Attack if you intentionally provoke an Opportunity Attack during...