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The Berserker is a melee bruiser built for sustained, high-risk combat. Berserkers embody raw fury and unmatched ferocity, growing stronger as bloodshed continues. Their destruction ends only when all enemies fall.

The class was playable in the first Closed Beta Test from June 20-22, 2025, alongside the Swordsman and the Ranger. Everything on this page labelled June 2025 was recorded in that build and comes from a single community record of it. Chrono Studio has since stated that all classes will be re-evaluated for combat balance alongside the Matrix System, so the skill names and percentages below are a point-in-time snapshot rather than launch behaviour.

Class characteristics

Community build guides tend to favour heavier gear on a Berserker because the class fights inside enemy range, but that is a build convention rather than a rule the game enforces.

Rage and Bloodthirst

Like the Swordsman, Berserkers use Rage that builds through combat. Where the Swordsman spends it steadily, the Berserker dumps it in bursts, and the three Berserker weapons feed and spend it at very different rates. The Battle Axe in particular runs a tight loop of spending Rage on Whirlwind and winning it back through Raging Axe.

Berserkers also carry a second resource, Bloodthirst, which stacks up to five and is generated by the Chain Blades. It is built rather than regenerated, spent rather than decayed, and the payoff is a finisher whose damage scales with the number of stacks consumed. Many Berserker skills cost health to use, which is what the class trades for that damage. Bloodthirst is a separate mechanic from the Assassin's Bloodlust despite the similar name.

The recorded scaling on Chilling Strike, the Chain Blades finisher that consumes every stack held:

A separate Chain Blades passive raises critical damage while Bloodthirst sits at maximum, so there is a reason to hold stacks briefly rather than spend them the moment the fifth lands. No per-stack health regeneration or attack figure has ever been published; see Class Resources for the full resource picture.

Separately from Bloodthirst, the Berserker has a Frenzied state that raises damage and movement speed while continuously draining health. The recorded skill tables call the same state Berserk. It is one mechanic under two names, not two systems, and several Twin Axes passives exist purely to extend and amplify it.

Weapons

The Berserker has three weapons and equips two of them at a time, swapping between them in real time. Drawing a weapon also fires a passive tied to that weapon, so a player who alternates keeps both live while a player who parks on one gets half the loadout's value. Full skill tables live on each weapon's own page.

Chain Blades

Versatile mid-range blades offering crowd control, area attacks, self-healing, Chill effects and burst damage. Chain Blades pull enemies into melee range and are the class's only real answer to distance. They generate Bloodthirst, which makes them good for opening a fight and for sustaining through a long one, and several of their skills cost health to use.

Passives on the weapon: Ruthless, Scrapper, Lingering Power and Piercing Cold. The list carries five active lines against four skill slots, so a Chain Blades user leaves one out.

Twin Axes

High-damage paired axes that get better the closer the Berserker is to dying: attack rises below half health, critical rate below 30%, and health recovery on hit switches on below 40%. Immortal prevents health from falling below 1 for ten seconds outright. The weapon is also where the Frenzied state lives, with three passives dedicated to feeding it.

Passives on the weapon: Unrelenting Spirit, Overflowing Force, Blood Rapture, Colossus, Relentless Hunter, Chain Rage, Reciprocation, Sanguine Blessing and Enduring Spirit.

Battle Axe

The defensive option, granting Super armor after skill casts, shield generation and Bleed effects, and the only Berserker weapon that blocks. Two of its passives trigger off a successful block. The Whirlwind branch rewards sustained attacks by feeding Rage back through Raging Axe, and the weapon carries the most area damage in the class.

Passives on the weapon: Steady Stance, Tenacity, Battle Ready, Taunting Shift, Bloody Retaliation, Resilient Wrath, Perfect Balance and Opportune Strike.

Class Mastery

Alongside per-weapon skills, the Berserker picks Class Mastery nodes at character levels 10, 15 and 20. The recorded June 2025 options break down like this:

One structural detail is worth stating plainly: the Berserker's mastery picks are identical across all three weapons. The Swordsman's are not, and change depending on which weapon the build is built around. Whatever the Berserker equips, the same four mastery lines apply, which means the class's build identity sits almost entirely in the weapon pair rather than in the mastery tree. No effect text for any of these nodes has been published.

Matrix Progression

Like every class, the Berserker plugs into the Matrix System, the node-based progression layer Chrono Studio announced after the June 2025 closed beta. Each of the Berserker's three weapons can evolve down one of four distinct paths, twelve across the class, so two players on the same loadout can end up with different casting speeds, skill effects and combat rhythm. The difference comes from the stats allocated through the Matrix, the passive skills unlocked along a path, and the attributes on equipped gear.

The Matrix was not in the June 2025 build. The node layout, the path names and the point costs have not been published, and the studio has said the classes will be rebalanced around it, so the skill figures on this page should be read as a record of what was tested rather than a forecast.

Loadout Pairings

The Berserker's third weapon is never wasted; it is a loadout option that can be rotated outside combat. The pairings below come from community build guides written after the closed beta rather than from any published role mapping, so treat them as starting points.

Strengths and Weaknesses

Chronotector Picks

Every class unlocks the same five Chronotector abilities by clearing Chrono Gates. Build guides written after the closed beta point Berserkers at Time Reversal and Summon for combat: Time Reversal reverts position and health to their state ten seconds earlier, which covers exactly the overextension a Berserker is prone to, and Summon adds a specter that fights alongside the player. Temporal Isolation is the farming pick, since it halts trash mobs but does not work on most bosses.

See Also

• Classes - all six launch classes

• Class Resources - Rage, Bloodthirst and the rest

• Dual Weapon Switching - how the two-weapon loadout works

• Weapon Mastery - the per-weapon progression track