The Berserker is one of the most fun classes to play in Torchlight Infinite. With a lot of damage, tankiness, and AOE, he’s one of the best classes to play if you like to take your enemies on up close and personal. The Berserker is also really good at carrying and can easily take on enemies solo. Here’s our guide on Torchlight Infinite: the best Berserker Build.
How to Play the Berserker in Torchlight Infinite
The Berserker is not a difficult class to play and master, but it’s also not that easy. You can easily lose yourself in the heat of battle and die because you weren’t paying attention to your HP.
The Berserker thrives when engaging into groups of enemies, taking them out at the same time with your high damage skills and AOE. That being said, the Berserker does struggle a little bit against bosses or more powerful minions if left 1v1.
If you find yourself with low HP, don’t panic. As the Berserker gets a huge damage boost the lower HP you are. This “Berserk” mode is spammable, as your skills will quickly fill up your rage meter. This should ensure you don’t have many problems as long as you have the right build for whichever boss you are facing.
Best Berserker Skills
Here are the best Berserker skills and passives you should use to maximize the potential of the class:
- Whirlwind – Passives: Channel Preparation, Attack Focus, Bloodthirsty Slaughter, Guard
- Compound Source – Passive: Emergency Restoration
- Spiral Strike – Passive: Quick Mobility
- Bloodthirst – Passive: Mania
- Fixate – Passive: Soul Focus
These skills do massive amounts of damage. The build focuses on damage amplification, AOE, movement speed, and life steal. It offers the Berserker class everything it needs to thrive in combat.
Best Berserker Items
The items serve a very specific purpose for the Berserker. Since he already has so much base damage and does not need much more, his best items are the ones that offer him takniness and crit chance.
Here’s the best item build for the Berserker:
- Helmet – Fallen Knight Helmet (Alternative: Any high armor helmet)
- Armor – Sky Devourer Strenght Arm (Alternative: Any high armor and high max life Chest Armor)
- Charm – Flare Amulet (Alternative: Any melee damage charm)
- Hands – Divine Arbiter’s Hands (Alternative: Any high armor/melee damage and high max life Arms)
- Belt – Two-Faced Belt (Alternative: Any high max life Belt)
- Boots – Dragon Guardian’s Footguard (Alternative: Any high armor Boots)
- Ring 1 – Divine Punishment Ring (Alternative: (Alternative: High max life and high physical damage rings)
- Ring 2 – Frostfire Ring (Alternative: Fire/Cold resistance rings)
- Weapon 1 – Fire Lord’s Sin (Alternative: Highest DPS one-handed weapon you can find)
- Weapon 2 – Fire Lord’s Sin (Alternative: Highest DPS one-handed weapon you can find)
Remember you can always use crafting and the Trade House to your advantage when in need of items.
While building, if you can’t get the items right away, don’t worry. Just try to get your hands on items that offer high armor, high max life, and high DPS. These are the stats that benefit the Berserker the most.
Best Berserker Talents
The talents are additional small bonuses that add up to optimize your class to your play style. For our build that focuses on AOE and MS, you should focus on the following trees:
God Of Might – Core Talent: Burnout, Fueling
Bloodstriker – Core Talent: Sacrifice, No Loose Ends
Ranger – Core Talent: Gravity
The talent trees are by no means the most important part of the build, but the small bonuses really add up.
Best Berserker Hero Traits
Hero traits enhance your skills and give them bonus effects. This feature is one of the more important parts of the build as the Berserker uses his skills very often and can have the buffs active almost permanently.
These are the best Berserker hero traits:
- Hardened
- Precision Strike
- Anger
- Frenzy Furious
- Rampaging
- Boiling Anger
- Controlled Anger
Finally, all the perks above focus on enhancing your rage mode and dealing as much damage as possible while on low hp.
