Berserker Untamed vs. Crackling Brandspark Bounty

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Aside from having great baseline sustain and extremely high damage, another advantage of Untamed is how easy it is to add even more sustain. A simple switch from Let Loose to Restorative Strikes is usually enough to handle even very high amounts of incoming damage.
As you can see here, I'm not really making any effort to dodge or move out of incoming damage. If my health gets low, I just unleash pet and then unleash ranger and my strike damage returns 33% as healing for 4 seconds with no cooldown via Restorative Strikes!
My damage output does take a bit of a hit from not having Let Loose, but I'm still able to finish this bounty with 2.3 million health in just shy of 2 minutes.
If you need more sustain, you can swap out marksmanship for nature magic and take the stone spirit utility. This will give you easy condi cleansing and full protection uptime, which should take the edge off of both power and condi burst. You can also take a stunbreak utility if you need one. This will give you amazing sustain even while still using berserker gear!

[@CarnaghSidhe]

Nicely done... I personally find that double ambush (with a weapon swap) using Let Loose is plenty healing and a dps boost, while throwing out quickness. Further, Carnivore in Wilderness Survival would give you >3k healing for each CC. I think Carnivore is silly broken, and may well get "fixed", but make hay while the sun shines they say :)

[@HardcoreCasualGW2]

Actually, that's a good point. I hadn't played around with Carnivore yet, and you do get a 15% damage boost from Wilderness Survival as well. That might be a good way to go for sustain without giving up much damage.

[@HardcoreCasualGW2]

Just did some quick testing using the Chak Lobber HP. I was seeing similar damage between Wilderness Survival and Nature Magic, but Marksman even with Restorative Strikes gets me more damage and also more CC. And all I have to do to switch between high sustain and full DPS mode is swap one trait!

[@CarnaghSidhe]

@@HardcoreCasualGW2 I do Winderness Survival and Skirmishing.... if you're not interested in throwing out quickness, you can maintain your own quickness through CC + Enhancing Impact, and go for Ferocious Symbiosis for +25% strike damage... the point of Carnivore is that it places your self healing on a regular part of your rotation with CC... With Sword/Axe+Mace/Mace... that's 6 CC (ambush off sword is CC) without any utility as part of your regular rotation. That's a lot of healing that doesn't need to be timed, it's just rolling in.
We're just exchanging personal preferences however, not telling you how to play, I've just found Carnivore very freeing and I've been having a lot of fun with it. I tend to favour Diviners over Berzerker (again, point of personal preference), so I am personally quite interested in Let Loose, and providing group quickness... although this is far from needed.

[@raizel_alucard4571]

Ranger all the way :)

[@HardcoreCasualGW2]

I am definitely enjoying playing something new that actually feels good!

[@raizel_alucard4571]

@@HardcoreCasualGW2 Glad you're having fun! I loved your old videos where you soloed everything with your weaver.

[@CarnaghSidhe]

@@HardcoreCasualGW2 oh, you're the Weaver guy!.. Wondered why I was subbed... love your videos :)