Berserker Rework?

[Kitai Yoru]

Type: Berserker

Description: Someone that is so physically strong that they don't even need the help of other attributes. They can just get by purely with Strength. Usually, these people end up being the minions of more intelligent individuals.

Advantage:

Rank 1: 100% increase to Strength. Berserker gains 1 free point in Pain Tolerance which doesn't count towards their SkP total. This cannot increase Pain Tolerance beyond it's normal cap.

Rank 2: 200% increase to Strength. Instinct is increased by 25%). Berserker gains 2 free points in Pain Tolerance which doesn't count towards their SkP total. This cannot increase Pain Tolerance beyond it's normal cap.

Rank 3: 300% increase to Strength. Instinct is increased by 50%. Berserker gains 3 free points in Pain Tolerance which doesn't count towards their SkP total. This cannot increase Pain Tolerance beyond it's normal cap.

Rank 4: 400% increase to Strength. Instinct is increased by 100%. Berserker gains 3 free points in Pain Tolerance which doesn't count towards their SkP total. This cannot increase Pain Tolerance beyond it's normal cap.


Disadvantage:

Rank 1: Spiritual Stats are decreased by 50%. Senses and Energy Sensory decreased by 50% (100 would be 50)

Rank 2: Spiritual Stats are decreased by 60%. Senses and Energy Sensory decreased by 50% (100 would be 50)

Rank 3: Spiritual Stats are decreased by 75%. Senses and Energy Sensory decreased by 50% (100 would be 50)

Rank 4: Spiritual Stats are decreased by 75%. Senses and Energy Sensory decreased by 50% (100 would be 50)

Race Restrictions: Available to All Races

Initial Weapons: One Starting Weapon (i.e. one Zanpakutō, one Doll, etc.)

[Zeich Yajuu]

So what I'm reading is that if the stat is boosted, you can go beyond the 400 SP cap? And you're boosting Strength, Speed, and Instinct? The only possible drawbacks on this are low Reiatsu and low Senses, both of which are relatively weak drawbacks, given they don't have a penalty, only a cap. Atop that, the decreasing of SP requirements is actually a BENEFIT as your Rank goes up, not a weakening; this means that as you Rank up, you can take points out of those stats and put them into your boosted stats because you're over the cap, meaning you're still hitting that "cap" requirement while boosting your already obscene stats even more. At Rank 4, we can see builds like this:

Strength: 700 (3500)
Speed: 325 (406)
Reiatsu Strength: 75
Spiritual Pressure: 75
Instinct: 200 (400)
Senses: 75
Energy Sensory: 75
Healing Expertise: 75

This is a basic non-TT Shinigami, 1600 SP. 3500 OS, 400 speed for evasion, and 400 instinct to react. Even if your senses aren't godly, you still have enough Instinct with a good BA build to pretty much either dodge or physical-counter everything with 3500 shockwaves. And while you excluded Beast-Clansmen, let's look at the other powerhouses you didn't exclude: Arrancar and Power Akki.

Arrancar/Power Akki (NO TRAINING TIER):
Strength: 1000 (5000)
Speed: 325 (406)
Reiatsu Strength: 75
Spiritual Pressure: 75
Instinct: 300 (600)
Senses: 75
Energy Sensory: 75
Healing Expertise: 75

5000 OS? That is beyond absurd, especially with now an insane tier of Instinct. Toss the Training Tier bonus into that pool? Shinigami jump from 3500 to 4500, and if you toss in Hollow mask bonus, Arrancar jump all the way up to *7000* OS. No! This is beyond unreasonable.

Simply put, the benefits are too insanely high, especially with limits removed (there's a purpose for the 400 SP cap, after all!) and then the decreased "extra" stats you're mostly not using anyway are actually a boon because that's less SP put to trivial things like HE, ES, and RS.

Denied.

[Kitai Yoru]

I completely forgot Akki and arrancar had 1900 sp, whoops. But you did the math a bit wrong. I wrote down that all stats have to be maxed first, including speed and instinct, so it would look more like this.

Strength: 425 (2125)
Speed: 400 (500)
Reiatsu Strength: 75
Spiritual Pressure: 75
Instinct: 400 (800)
Senses: 75
Energy Sensory: 75
Healing Expertise: 75

For 1600 sp

Strength: 725 (3625)
Speed: 400 (500)
Reiatsu Strength: 75
Spiritual Pressure: 75
Instinct: 400 (800)
Senses: 75
Energy Sensory: 75
Healing Expertise: 75

With 1900 sp

While I agree that 3625 is a very high number, maybe just make it so Arrancar and Akki can't take it, or work the numbers around to reduce it some. Maybe go from having 2x at first, to .5x, then 1.5x and so on to 3.5x, so 725 only goes to 2537, around where a rank 4 berserker's strength would be now? Also wanted to get your opinion on whether or not I should limit the speed to be only 400 max, but given your examples having about that, I see you think it only needs 400, so I'll cut the speed buff, but leave speed unaffected by the drawback.

[Kitai Yoru]

Upon second review of this, with a second person pointing it out, the way I phrased it did in fact exclude the boosted stats, so I apologize for that. I will change that portion, as well as speed and the types you mentioned, to reflect what I actually wanted.

[Kitai Yoru]

Decided to update this to be more... reasonable than what I had before. I'm not sure if taking away the speed reduction on Berserker would make this type automatically better than other physical types, but I was considering Prodigy v1 not having a speed reduction either, and nearly as high as a physical boost as well.