Last Updated on by Samuel Franklin
This Blood Berserker build guide is your recipe for success when using this explosive melee fighter and cooking expert. As a specialist in World 4 cooking the Blood Berserker spends time in the town kitchen while also killing millions of monsters to boost their cooking efficiency. The comprehensive information on this page details the ideal Blood Berserker talents with damage and cooking talent presets to follow which should be combined with our Barbarian build guide.
Table of Contents:
– Damage Build
– Cooking Build
Damage Build
Fighting won’t be your initial priority as a Blood Berserker but they are still a strong fighter with powerful new attack talents. A combat build is also important for the cooking talent called Apocalypse Chow that builds on the Barbarian’s Apocalypse Zow with a million kill objective for cooking skill experience and efficiency.
This talent damage build priority order maximises AFK gains to speed up your Apocalypse Chow completion:
| Talent | Effect | Notes |
|---|---|---|
 Charred Skulls |
+% Kill per kill per 1,000 STR | This adds extra kills to help you reach the million monster kills for Apocalypse Chow.
If your Blood Berserker has less than 1,000 strength when advancing to this elite class skip this now as the gains will be minimal. |
 Fired Up |
Inflame yourself boosting attack speed. Basic attacks refresh inflamed time | An active talent for your attack bar, at the elite class stage of Idleon progression attack talents have only a small impact on overall gains so I recommend only a single talent point to unlock this talent until you max everything else below. |
 Combustion |
If Inflamed releases you fire and deals damage to monsters near you | Same as above place one point here. This talent is useful for area of effect damage for active combat activities like bossing. |
 Serrated Swipe |
Slash repeatedly if inflamed dealing damage to monsters | Same as above place one point here initially. |
 Ember Bear |
Increases max enemies hit with Bear Claw | Same as above place one point here initially |
 Symbols Of Beyond ~R |
+ Level for all talents higher than level 1 (bonus increases every 20 levels) | Increasing all other talents (including Warrior and Barbarian) that you have at least one talent point in this provides an all around boost to your damage and AFK gains. For every 20 talent levels invested here the level of other talents will increase by 1 automatically. |
 Overblown Testosterone |
+% STR and + max talent level for Fist of Rage | Providing a percentage STRÂ combined with flat strength from your Warrior talent tab this is a notable damage and skill boost. It also feeds into Charred Skulls to help acquire monster kill counts. |
 Tough Steaks |
+ Weapon power for every 10 cooking levels | While weapon power is powerful early game by the time you unlock elite classes it has reduced effectiveness amongst all your other accumulated sources. Given this also scales with cooking levels which are difficult to acquire this is a low priority damage talent. |
 Ferocity Strike |
+% chance for basic attacks to hit twice | Improving your chance to hit enemies twice this is the last useful attack talent. After maxing this go back to max the attack talents of Fired Up, Combustion, Serrated Swipe and Ember Bear in that order as levels in these increase duration or mobs hit. |
Cooking Build
With the right talents this cooking specialist can produce higher cooking ladles per day, gain extra progress for each ladle used and the ability to instantly finish recipes. For a cooking talent build prioritise this order talents on your Warrior mining talent preset:
| Talent | Effect | Notes |
|---|---|---|
 Overflowing Ladle |
Cooking ladles used by this character give +% extra AFK time | The strongest boost to cooking output buffs the time that cooking ladles provide when used on your Blood Berserker.
The best source of cooking ladles initially is from the World 4 colosseum, quests and the purple mushroom mini boss. |
 Waiting To Cool |
+% Cooking AFK gains | Boosting your AFK cooking gains improves overall ladle gain. |
 Apocalypse Chow |
+% Cooking EXP and Efficiency for every monster you kill over 1 million times. Higher levels increase the number of monster types counted | As players build up Chow stacks this provides increasing benefits to experience and importantly efficiency for more ladles. |
| Symbols Of Beyond ~R |
+ Level for all talents higher than level 1 (bonus increases every 20 levels) | Like with the Blood Berserker combat build this provides extra talent levels on all of your invested skills to boost gains. |
 Skill Strengthen |
STR has a +% larger impact on Skill Efficiency. Also + STR | STR scales slowly with cooking efficiency that makes this a lower priority talent although it does also boost mining and fishing gains that make it worth inclusion in your skilling preset. |
| Overblown Testosterone |
+% STR and + max talent level for Fist of Rage | Similar to above provides some extra STR for all of your skilling needs. |
 Taste Test |
Finishes all recipes but keeps % of the recipe fire | When this talent is activated any new recipe attempts across your kitchens will be completed (only if they have enough fire level already) and if it fails you retain a percentage of the fire they had built up.
This is the lowest priority talent of all cooking talents as it has limited effective use cases. In theory this sounds good but in practice your limited talent points and the massive cooldown on this talent means it provides little progression benefit. Retaining a percentage of your fire progress (50% at level 100) is actually quite weak given that your recipe attempts are most efficient after only a small amount of time has passed. For example reaching a single recipe fire level can often only be a matter of minutes and might give you a 50% new recipe success chance while a second fire level may take hours and only boost your chance of success to 55%. As a result when attempting to unlock new recipes short attempts are more efficient and can be rapidly performed by saving up ladles to use in between attempts. If your Idleon cooking recipe attempts are more than a few hours to reach a single fire level or have a low chance of success it’s generally a good sign you should be investing in new recipe chance improvements or a different spice combo instead before attempting new recipes rather than relying on this long cooldown talent. |
