I don't really know how they would implement a new meele into the game. A berserker, as stated many times is generally considered a lightly armored heavily armed maniac who wades into battle in a frenzy. There are other forms that have them highly armored to boot, but they're just crazy. I don't know what to think about this class right now. I would figure ht wold be alot like a ranger without spells, who is very adept at taking advantage of the new combat system and having a new ability maybe of rage. That could prove to be a pretty cool class.
What I am not happy about seeing, however, are prices sky rocketing as plat horders start dropping millions of plat to outfit they're new toy. Prices on Rodcet are messed up enough anyway.
New class confirmed on test
Tonight on test server, the UI files were updated.
Included in the EQUI_CharacterCreate.xml file is a new class option at the character creation screen:
<Button item="CC0_Class2_Button"> <ScreenID>CC0_Class2_Button</ScreenID> <RelativePosition>true</RelativePosition> <Location> <X>102</X> <Y>92</Y> </Location> <Size> <CX>96</CX> <CY>24</CY> </Size> <Style_VScroll>false</Style_VScroll> <Style_HScroll>false</Style_HScroll> <Style_Transparent>false</Style_Transparent> <Style_Checkbox>true</Style_Checkbox> <RadioGroup>CC0_Class_Radios</RadioGroup> <Text>Berserker</Text> <TextColor> <R>255</R> <G>255</G> <B>255</B> </TextColor> <ButtonDrawTemplate> <Normal>A_BtnNormal</Normal> <Pressed>A_BtnPressed</Pressed> <Flyby>A_BtnFlyby</Flyby> <Disabled>A_BtnDisabled</Disabled> <PressedFlyby>A_BtnPressedFlyby</PressedFlyby> </ButtonDrawTemplate> </Button> New class name is apparantly Berserker.Further examination of the eqstr file reveals the following: 5791 Berserker 5792 Berserker GM 5793 Brawler 5794 Vehement 5795 Rager 5796 FuryTitles perhaps? Edit, the character create on Test does strange things when you select Ogre, Troll, Vah Shir, Barbarian and Human - leading us to believe that those are the valid races for the new class