looking at the abilitys of SD iv seen Shodamy (hopes he hasnt butcherd the name too badly) in a zebra solo UZ1,UZ2, iv seen him go into both baron and knight wich suggests being able to solo those..

While speed Demon is not overpowered in terms of damage, their high critical hit ratio can cause major issues, especially in PvP and especially if a weapon such as a Mercurian Magcannon is used: the high Rate of Fire and long Range of the weapon allows the player to use their speed to stay at a safe distance while using the weapon in combat. While this would normally be OK, the critical hit ratio added in causes said target of the Speed Demon to become unable to thrust as they are left to simply die without much chance of counter-action unless they were lucky enough to bring a ton of envelopments.

A better scenario would be one of the following options:

1) Give a cooldown time during which a critical may not work. So while a Speed Demon may critical while at high speed, they wouldn't be able to cause another critical for X seconds.

2) Set the Critical Hit Chance increase to +1% per level, and also severely cripple the time for which the effect on the target lasts. So if an Energy weapon's critical were to result in 2 seconds of time during which the target cannot thrust, with Speed Demon it may only last for .2-.4 seconds. So while the Speed Demon may be able to critical, he/she can only cause intermittent issues in the target's ability to pilot properly.

Just 1/2 all crit chances in PvP.

Or (and this would be preferable) make a line of DG diffusers that reduce %. Seriously - being critted by AI is ok, but some of the time (tanking a large amount) it gets silly.

e.g.

Oilharts fluid mercanian sheeth. T10 -5% crit chance, elec 45, size 15. Des: "Making your hull flow a little smoother".

Yes I highly suggest the Zerker only weapons etc. from missions. Maybe excomm sorts of things like multiple surgical/heat/energy bullets.

I am a Berserker. DPS wise i think we are on par with most classes, occasionally a high end sniper or SD will come along that does more dps in a normal ship than I do. Its kinda sad that zerkers are just on par dps wise, since they are supposto put out high dps and tank but be slow and heavy. I have 2 problems with zerker atm. First, as mentioned before, We cant tank as well as we are supposto, a shield regen bonus added into one of the sub skills would fix that. The second problem i have isnt so much with the class as it is an item. The zerker converters (trade shields and energy for speed) are far too heavy. We gain some speed, but we lose energy bank, shield bank, resists, and on top of that, they are heavy as hell....as if zerkers needed to be less nimble.... i would suggest that all the weights on the speed converters be cut by 75%...yes, that would leave that at 25% of their current weight, but they are already useless in combat due to the shield bank and resist nerfs, and the energy bank doesnt help matters...making them insanely heavy just adds insult to injury when you use them.

zerker cant be everything but fast, that would make them like the old sniper, which was -one- of the main reasons the skill system was re-done

Sniper was also much more efficient dpe and eps wise than zerker will ever be dont forget.

A hell of a lot, if you cant fire your weps well, your going to die.

zerker cant be everything but fast, that would make them like the old sniper, which was -one- of the main reasons the skill system was re-done