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Berzerker....why do I suck so bad???
So I play a berserk..... through the whole game I always found i did terrible damage... way less than anyone else even with the best stuff I could buy. Now I'm level 65.. using a plus 12 hoodwinka so attack mod of 20k and I still do horrible damage. Regular hits aRe 50k thunderstruck is 500k to 2 Mill and just barely make a dent in anything even using every boost I can find.... it took us 20 mins to take down the first boss at lil keep. Is this normal?? I thought zerk was Sappose to deal good damage. And yes I crit all the time.
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We can't really help you for gear-wise unless you show us your gear though.
I recommend you to read this berserker guide on Essential Mana if you haven't already done so.
500k for a thunderstrike seems like a joke though. Are you overcharging it? IE hold the attack button until you lose hp 4 times then let go. Furthermore, other factors include your glyphs, your crystals, your weapon, so on so forth.
For the record it should be (Fine Niveots) Bitter, Carving, Focused, Savage crystals on your weapon. Glyph builds vary from player to player, but nearly fully glyphing TS (minus the silly hp cost glyph) is usually on everyone's build. Weapon rolls should be the standard Enraged/Enraged/Damage/Damage(behind). Though zerkers being zerkers, trading a Damage(behind) for a +0.3 crit damage is not totally terrible.
But seriously, 500k? You've gotta be missing a lot of crap. I crit for a bare minimum of 4mil (with slaughter, currently using guile which is around 5-6m average) from the front with my own zerker (who I main as a tank, not a dps). Check your stuff, ask your guildies if you have any.
Top line: Enraged damage
Bottom lines: Enraged damage, 6% damage, (behind damage/attack speed/cool down reduction)
Make sure your weapon crystals are..
Focused
Savage
Bitter
(Pounding/Carving/Forceful)
Make sure you pop the Prime Battle Solution consumable a.k.a Everful Nostrum.
Everything else after this is stacking power/crit, proper glyphs, and learning how to zerker with skills.
Very close can mean alot of things really.
Missing one weapon roll means you lose nearly 10% of your overall damage. It stacks up due to crit modifiers. But yes, 500k for a thunderstrike (basically a melee version of Archer's Radiant Arrow) is very low, but there are lots of factors to take into account, such as your healer and tank doing their respective Endurance debuffs, you actually charging properly, you actually hitting the back of the boss and not the side (camera angle means quite a bit too)
Here is some more info...... Hopefully somone can figure out why i do so little.
1) buy some cheap crit etchings from your nearby broker, 3 days or something. Use it
2) make sure you overcharge your dps skill
3) make sure you hit from behind
4) make sure you use glyph, which increase your crit factor.
5) re-roll your weapon stats & change some equipment crystals, refer to previous comment post.
5) play like a savage, keep hitting the boss
Your image shows alot of jarring mistakes. It is not a little, it is basically nearly the entire thing.
From what I see, are you using your zerker to front crit? You don't front crit unless you are going to tank as a zerker. In fact, your entire crystal setup is flawed as heck, since for PvE you use 4 hardys, with the only exception of RMHM (which is a 5* dungeon mind you)'s last boss that you probably require more max HP instead of hardy. And also, 4 keens for your accessory crystals, please get that HP Vysrk out of your inventory.
Focused gives way more damage than any other crystal, mostly because when played properly your party WILL keep the boss enraged. Bitter is necessary for damage at the back, and as mentioned, unless you are tanking (even then you will probably go threatening+focused+wrathful+carving), you will go Focused+Bitter+Savage+Pounding/Carving
You only have 1/4 of the weapon rolls right. You really need to reroll all of them. Try to not use spellbinds until you have at least 3/4 of the rolls: top: Enraged, bottom: Enraged, back and base. Masterwork Enigmatic Scrolls are cheap as heck.
From all of that, I can see why you only did about 20% of your recommended dps, and also it also shows that you probably didn't even properly play your class in dungeons, resulting in a massive loss of dps.
First of all you should use Master enigmatic scrolls and reroll your weapon.. you masterworked it, so I guess you know how it works, try to get damage to enraged monsters in top and enraged damage / behind damage / damage or crit power in bottom rolls, you can use spellbinds and lock stats when rerolling.
If you have vanguard credits/money, your crystals should be Focused/Bitter/Savage and 4th Pounding or Carving (Carving if you feel you have very bad crit). Did you finish story quests at 65? you should get 4x Keen Kyrsk and 4x Hardy Niveots, use these instead of all crystals you got.
Remember to always damage boss from BEHIND, when you get your new crystals, not sure if you did when you have wrathful crystal
What about chest roll? you should get 8% Thunder strike in top, then reduced dmg/HP in bottom, but it's not so important if you don't have guile yet and you'll change chest soon. Also you should get Power/Crit Factor/attack speed for gloves, or at least 2 of those.