Berzerkers and Rangers-DPS

[notre]

Now that rogues have been adjusted, both Berzerkers and Rangers should be looked at as well. In our last romp through PoTime, our geared zerker was 300+dps behind the monks and rog. Berzerkers should be at the top of the dog pile since all they do is dps. 
What kind of dps should they be capable of? Well, by end game, fully geared, they should be pulling  >450 dps without discs against Quarm, since that is where monks and rog's are. The last PoTime raid the zerker pulled 220dps, behind the War that pulled 280 vrs. Quarm.
Rangers have historically been high on the dps charts,  competeting with monks which will put them in the 400-450 dps range against mobs like Quarm. 

[tgressus]

Haha Shaman is higher than 220, in addition to proc buff, heal and cure..

[Oogmog]

So giving my 2 cents, I have two thoughts.

1)  I'm not sure Zerker DPS isn't tuned "right", I think it's more of a factor that 2H weapons here do nowhere near to their 1 handed counterparts.  However, since Zerkers operate using 2H weapons, their DPS truly suffers.  I think if 2H weaps were made equivalent to two 1 handers they might be on the right track.  For instance, if you cloned say the character Austin (monk) and tested his DPS using both of his 1 handed weapons from Vallon Zek from P4 Time then equipped the Phase 5 2HB "Staff of Transcendence" I believe it is called, you will notice a HUGE DPS decrease.  That tells me 2 Handers are not tuned properly.  Fix 2 handed weaps, and I think you might fix Berserkers.

2)  Not sure if this is possible, but DPS classes reach ATK cap pre Vex Thal gear.  With that being said, all this extra +ATK we are getting out of Vex Thal, EP, and Time, it does nothing to increase DPS.  The only thing that is increasing DPS is better weapons.  If we can improve the ATK cap beyond I believe 1737, it will improve scaling with PoP and beyond.  I'd recommend having at least a 2K ATK cap if you could do that and see how tuning goes from there.

Again, my 2 cents, but I think that would help further tune the server.

[trailswell]

I would like to second Oogmog's request. 2hand dps sorely needs a strong adjustment up. My pally is hard enjoyable to play.