Idea [Class idea] Berserker

Hi! Glad to see you're still going for new class ideas. You're thread looks more detailed, and the class fits what the community generally wants if there were to be a new class.

I don't feel like this class would be over powered, although if it were to be implemented someone would find a way. But that happens with basically every class, so it's not really a concern.
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I think this is quite a cool idea for a recovery class, with the dash ability it would make catching up to the flag carrier much easier. However, I think that halving the cool down on the dash whenever someone has your flag would be a bit too strong. If you are able to catch the carrier every 3 seconds it would be quite difficult to escape especially with it being a free kit meaning many people would be able to use it. I suppose you can compare it to ninja. Ninja is able to ender pearl behind the carrier without any cool down but the difference is that the pearl deals damage to the ninja and the ninja (also the ninja can only pearl so many times without regen). Whereas the berserker would be able to dash every 3 seconds, take no damage and have a bit of armour and speed which, in my opinion is quite overpowered. I think to balance this the berserker should not half the cool down when someone has the flag but reduce it by a slightly smaller scale, other wise it could be as incessant as a ninja on recov but with more armour.

On the plus side though I feel as if the berserker would also be able to take out ranged troops quite well such as mage and archer (maybe even engineers). The dash ability would remove the bowing and the mages spells allowing you to get close and take it out. Although, people may say that ninja fills that role anyway, in reality any archer/mage who knows what they are doing can survive a ninja attack relatively easily.

These are all my basic opinion, by the way I've tried making a class before and found it very difficult to consider everything. Hope this helps in some way but I still think this is a cool class that could be practiced to the point where you could make some nice plays.

(also with the splash damage thing, would you have to land a hit on an actual enemy to deal splash or do you just have to right click?)

 

I totally missed the cool down half, actually now I do see a problem. Imo you shouldn't half the cooldown, I see a potential for it to be spammable, so I would leave the cooldown alone.

 

All of my concerns are met. +1

 

Overall, it seems like a straightforward class that will do decently well in filling the free recovery role. I like the idea of the passive speed and resistance whenever the flag is stolen, but i'm not sure how over-powered it will be while you're in the flag room. This latter point really can't be addressed without in-game testing, but i'll point it out anyways.

As for the armor and abilities, it has a good health reserve with the 3 steaks, but a relatively low armor pool. When someone steals a flag, it would be your job to go recover it. As such, even with your decent health reserve, your low armor will mean that you die a bit too much. I'd suggest adding leather leggings to the class to bring the armor value up just a tad to help with the survivability factor.

 

I mean it is similar to ninja, mainly because that's how recovery classes are designed in the game. I understand your point about how similar it is, but without a high damage output it makes it too difficult to recov, and without low armor it becomes overpowered. To make a recovery class one generally needs these two factors, unless there's another way to do this.

I think of this as an introduction to ninja and assassin, a decent recovery class, that resembles 2 classes that are more difficult to play. It's free, and it has the basic requirements of a recovery based class. We know what we want, now we just need a class that fits this desire. I'm not saying that it should be this specific class, but the genral concept of a free recovery class being added should be heavily considered.