i didnt see this posted but the primary stats for the class is str sta and dex. you can see them for your self if you continually click on human until no class lights up. theyre primary weapon styles are 2hs and throwing. there will be new throwing items for them that are "larger" from what i have seen at gates of discord site. as for real berzerker info, they wore light armor and most of the time took it off at the begining of battle while "going into a rage". it was used as an intimidation factor since they used either one large weapon or 2 smaller weapons, took off theyre armor and charged any amount of soldiers without showing and sign of fear. the show on the history channel that came on after mail call last season did one of there shows on it and that is where i got the info about real berzerkers.

first things first medieval not mid evil - and when slaton said " [/b]2 - Beserker's fighting ability NEVER surpased orgianised military tactics (please see the early to mid Roman era's campaings in germany for examples of 'beserkers' getting the heads handed back to them on the end of pikes as they charged shield wall formations)".[b]the first thing that came to my mind was atilla kicking roman a$$ .. thats all i had to say peace

gutss if we were in " mid evil " times, as you say it, then you would indefinitly be the village idiot

just a thought: mebe this will be like a all primal style class not a tank such as a all leather wearer with mad eapon skills kinda like a monk for the BIG races just with new abilitites like useing a 2hs in primary and a smaller 1hander in offhand? or soemthing like a flurry attack where the toons attacks can have a chance to strike any adjacent mob to their front. ya know? i doubt itll be another plate class as everyone allready can see we got plenty :P we need some chalenges and if its what im thinking of it should make for an awsome DPS class. i play a 62 rogue and my AC sux as well as my HP but i put out almost double the dmg of respective monks with half their aggro. its been tough to play it this way but alot more fun :) now toss an ogre in leather and give him special abilities such as enrage or flurry attacks but make them a bit higher aggro and pow! ya got a mad damage killer whos actually gota pay attention wo what he does and aggro has to be maintained on the MT as allways :P no unblancing of the game there and adds another good pure melee! just MHO

Ok maybe this is a stupid idea (won't be my first) if SOE is going to all that trouble to make a better melee class, why not just make all the changes, rename if you like, but just make it to existing warriors. Giving them whatever lvl specific changes, stats, disc., etc., but why put all their time and energy aside? There are many people, me included, that think this is going to nullify warriors, thus dismissing all the effort we have put forth to be what we are. New races? That's cool, but a new class formulated to exclude an existing one?...that sounds stupid to me. but hey, like i said, not my first stupid idea...

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Does anyone even like EQ anymore??? I mean you all keep complaining about it.. I mean come on... sounds like you guys have so many problems with EQ you should just quit. I like EQ and I am sure there are a lot of people that still do. But if you don't like it anymore don't post on here. We looked at this to hear about the new class not about how much you guys hate EQ because of the problems you have had. If you want to complain about EQ to someone go talk to your shrink... and i am pretty sure that none of us here are shrinks so if you would, leave your comlaining to your family and friends or something because there are many people that are tired of your comlaining please post it somewhere else, thank you and have a pleasent evening... oh and... FROGLOKS RULE!!!! BOW DOWN TO THE FROGLOKS!!!!!

A berserker is better then a warrior if you dont know what a berserker is you should learn a berserker is a warrior that when you make them made there HP and AC increses. They will be able to have plate armor cuz you cant stop them from having it. Yes they are 100 times better then warriors if you play a warrior and you know when you have 20 pct life left the warrior gose into a berserker rage and they hit faster well a berserker is like that but they are almost always in the rage so there dmg will be more and hp will be more. I am hoping they make this class better then warriors and let them have plate armor it will be a better class and funner to play.

Or how bout boosting STR 25 higher obove all the War's but taking 10 points off of their AGI and STA...

I don't think any reasonable player would dispute the legitimacy of the gripe that warriors have about their main function having been broken since aggro became such a struggle.
On the other hand, I personally can certainly appreciate the appeal of new material being introduced to the game "even though they haven't fixed what's broken" yet.. Fixing existing problematic issues and developing new ideas & material are not necessarily jobs that are performed by the same people. It's an expanding and continually changing game we play, so new material is going to be part of that as long as EQ is around (hopefully).
Certainly there will be problems and hopefully they will do all they can to fix those - Warrior taunt should be a priority among those untill that most basic class has been returned to ballance..
Given that..
I don't see the introduction of a new class as inheirently foolish - but it is odd (and I believe shows poor judgement) to have that new class be something that might further insult Warriors while their aggro issue stands as possibly the most glaring imballance presently facing a class.
I said before that the two jobs of fixing existing problems and introducing new material are probably not worked on by the same teams.. but they should still make every effort to communicate with eachother and make decisions accordingly! Unless Berserkers turn out to be something quite unlike the name suggests, it is (imo) a very odd choice as a new class to introduce, considering current predicaments.
Why not something that hybrids existing classes in a new combination and doesn't on the surface of things appear yet another slap to a class already struggling?
I thought the Beastlord was a creative new concept that combined two classes that had not previously been hybridized (monk & shamman) with a unique twist being thier warders. Pally, SK, and Ranger hybrids are part Warrior & part (fill in caster type here) - with bards being unique unto themselves.
Well, there are still several combinations available that have not been explored. Hybridizations with the melee basis of rogue & some caster types could potentially be very interesting, wouldn't you think?
Anyway, this is too long a ramble to basically say that I like new material coming into the game regularly even though problems still need working out with the old material.. but they should keep closer tabs on each of these areas and make sure they consider each others projects in what they decide to do.

For anyone knows at all they could have had this class in mind since the begining and never put it in because of bugs and possibly if this is true then they might have just fixed it all u warrior stop moaning and groaning and quit if it bothers u ppl just discovered how good they are at agro so SHUT UP