Berserker Frenzy attackFollow

My Vah Shir Berserker is now currently at 15th level. New character for me since getting the expansion pack.

Can someone explain to me the skill, Frenzy? Why does it seem that I can Frenzy and hit once, sometimes twice, and even rarer three times. My Frenzy is currently at 76.

Is there a method to maximizing the Frenzy attack? Such as waiting for a solid 2H Slash hit and then using Frenzy? I've been experimenting with various timings and it seems completely random.

Edit: Now at level 16 and Frenzy is at 80.

Edited, Fri May 21 17:15:27 2004 by orionreplay

Note -- This is an older observation from when GoD first came out and I made my berz...things could have changed.


Skill ups in frenzy seem to do 2 things : Allows frenzy to connect more often, and gives a greater chance to have more than 1 attack.

Of course, I could be wrong, and your weapon skill may be tied to whether frenzy connects or not.

Anyway, that's the gist of it. Frenzy does NOT use the damage associated with your current weapon (or if it DOES, it's very, very minimal). Instead, it seemed to be a basically set value, which sorta sucks.

Of course, this prevents people from making a quick weapon switch when frezy pops, just to get the damage from a powerful but slow weapon, then switching back to a better weapon.


What I tried: Using a two-tined corpse pitchfork, I would swap weapons to a weighted axe. It's crap, but it's high damage.
THe frenzy damage remained the same, though, even though the axe had almost 2x damage of the pitchfork.

Anyway, that's the deal with Frezy, or at least it was when I was playing my berz. I soon quit playing him after around level 28, so you might get a better informed answer from some of these 65's floating around ;) I'm not sure whether frenzy will fire off more than a triple attack.

thanks guys useful info

I have noticed that my frenzy will connect more often once let one attack attempt to go through after a Head Strike before I Frenzy.

DAOC has the same automated attack sequences as EQ. Hit your attack key and away you go. But DAOC's skill attacks (such as a Frenzy or Backstab), require specific timings to "go off" successfully.

Basically, you were involved more during the fight because to get your DAOC version of Frenzy to "go off" and be successful, you had to wait for the mob to, let's say, Parry your attack. Then once you see the message of the Parry, you furiously slam your hotkey for Frenzy. The Frenzy would occur and then the hotkey would grey out for the required seconds.
That's what I thought might be the case in EQ as well, hence my terrible Frenzy attacks because I didn't know what the timing was when fighting a mob. EQ seems to just let you whack away at hotkeys whenever you desire, as long as they are useable and not greyed out. But Cobra, you say this: "Frenzy reminds me strongly of Backstab. It seems to have the same sort of timing mechanism"

So yes or no? I thought the general consensus was that there was NO timing to Frenzy.

Edited, Sat May 22 06:39:13 2004 by orionreplay

The "timing mechanism" I was referring to was the refresh time being independent of weapon delay. Not to any arcane knowledge of when to hit the button .

Both Backstab and Frenzy refresh (on a similar sort of interval) and can then be used to create an additional attack. I have not discerned any pattern to either to indicate that - once refreshed - any moment is better than any other to hit them.

As to the wait after Headstrike (which I just handed in the tome for) I remember in the past (on my Warrior) noticing that all combat moves seem to have an interference effect if pushed too close together. Technically since Taunt and Kick are on different timers you should be able to press both simultaneously. From experiences a long while back I found that if you did then only one happened and it was best to leave a slight pause.