Berserker Verso
Overview
Learn how to use one of the strongest characters in Expedition 33 with the Berserker Verso build. Our guide on Verso will show you the best recommendations for weapons, luminas, skills and combos. We hope you enjoy this build on your journey to defeat the Paintress.
Berserker Verso will thrive on the edge of death. This build deals more and more damage the lower your health is. Ideal for players who like high-risk high-reward gameplay, Berserker Verso with very little lumina investment will be able to carry your team through act 2 and 3 with ease.
Perfection
Verso uses Perfection ranks to gain power: he starts each battle at D rank and climbs toward S rank with each hit he lands. Taking damage will drop his rank, so the plan is to get in as many hits as possible and dodge and parry attacks to retain the perfection bonus. Verso’s abilities will each have a bonus attached to them for being at a specific rank, most of which are extremely powerful added effects. Verso rewards the most skilled players with more damage. Each rank has added damage as so.
- D: 0%
- C: +25% damage
- B: +50% damage
- A: +100% damage
- S: +200% damage
Spam Free Aim shots, basic attacks, extra turns, and multi-hit abilities to climb up to and stay at S rank. Verso is best used by highly aggressive and confident players as a glass cannon that can eliminate multiple enemies instantly.
Act 1 & 2
You can use this build to near maximum effect as soon as you acquire Verso, these are the skills that will make him a force to be reckoned with.
- Blitz is a perfect Act 2 skill, it executes at 10% health and grants an extra turn. Cheap and reliable skill that will keep your momentum going.
- Berserk Slash is the namesake move, it scales harder the lower your health, making it what this build is built around. It becomes your main damage source through the entire game.
- Overload drops Verso to 1 health, grants full AP, and instantly boosts him to A rank. With In Media Res and Solidifying luminas, it’s your fight opener – granting safety via shields while fully ramping your damage.
- Defiant Strike will consume 30% of your health to mark an enemy, boosting the next attack’s damage by 50%. The health loss synergizes perfectly with your berserker loop. This adds flexibility and makes Verso have some added utility.
- Phantom Stars is mandatory on nearly every Verso build. It’s heavy AoE damage with massive break potential and low cost.Radiant Slash is filler for quick, low-cost breaks when needed. It won’t carry fights, but it’s a nice tool to have available to you.
The early plan is about ramping up your rank as fast as possible, more rank = more damage: Use free aim and basics to reach C quickly. Paradigm Shift for the AP and to push into B rank. From there, you will have some decisions depending on how the fight is going. Ideally here is where we would use Perfect Break to hop to S rank immediately and stun an enemy. However if this option is not available then some of the other options are Blitz for some added chip damage and/or the execute or follow up for big single target damage if you have enough AP to make it worth it. Using a Support Sciel build will really smooth this build out and give Verso the turns and AP he needs to really get going.
Leveling
|
Level |
Spell/Passive |
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1 |
Perfect Recovery |
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2 |
Purification |
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3 |
Blitz |
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4 |
Perfect Break |
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5 |
Berserk Slash |
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6 |
Follow Up |
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7 |
Overload |
|
8 |
Defiant Strike |
|
9 |
Burden |
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10 |
Phantom Stars |
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11 |
Radiant Slash |
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12 |
Leadership |
Attributes
Verso is a hypercarry with this build so Agility first is amazing to boost his speed and weapon scalings. Defense second if staying with Blodam, or swap for your next weapon’s scaling stat if you change and lastly Might third for a flat damage boost.
Act 1 & 2 Luminas
|
Lumina |
Location |
|---|---|
|
At Death’s Door |
Defeat Lampmaster |
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Augmented First Strike |
Esquie’s Nest – Defeat Francois |
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Confident Fighter |
Visages – Joy Path |
|
Critical Moment |
Gestral Village – Purchased from Jujubree |
|
Dead Energy II |
Spring Meadows |
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Dodger |
Spring Meadows – Defeat Portier |
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Double Mark |
Sirene – Purchase from Klaudiso |
|
Energising Start |
The Continent – Beach North of Gestral Village |
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Energising Turn |
Sirene – Defeat Boss |
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First Offensive |
Abbest Cave – Defeat Chromatic Abbest |
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First Strike |
Stone Wave Cliffs – Near Paintress Shrine Flag |
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Glass Canon |
Visages – Sadness Path |
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Greater Powerful |
Sirence – Purchase from Klaudiso |
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Immaculate |
Visages – Boss |
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In Media Res |
Dark Shores |
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Perilous Parry |
Stone Wave Cliffs – Defeat Gold Chevaliere |
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Rewarding Mark |
Flying Waters – After Coral Cave Flag |
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SOS Power |
Stone Wave Cliffs – Ledge by Water |
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SOS Rush |
Fallen Leaves – Wooden Barrels |
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Solidifying |
Crushing Cavern – Giant Sapling |
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Stay Marked |
The Monolith – Past Tainted Waters Flag |
Weapons
|
Item |
Location |
|---|---|
|
Weapon 1  Blodam |
The Continent – Chromatic Reaper Cultist |
Weapons Overview
In the early game there is no better weapon than Blodam, it starts Verso at S rank on turn one when using Overload and scales beautifully with Agility and Defense, two of the best attributes in the game. Even better if you start the fight low, you can skip Overload entirely making him incredibly strong from turn one.
For the late game weapon I recommend just sticking it out with Blodam for the simplicity, it still works even into Act 3; consistency and simplicity make it the safest option. With that being said I think Chevalam is another solid option, it will add more damage but will not let you use shields making you incredibly frail. Another option is Simoso but that is locked behind the final endgame boss.
Act 3 Luminas
Pictos Overview
For Pictos use At Death’s Door, Confident Fighter and Immaculate. These will give you full critical chance and save you a bunch on Lumina cost.
How to Play
By Act 3, the Berserker setup barely changes, it just gets some more tools to add. Add Painted Power to push Verso’s damage to a new ceiling. Swap Blitz out for Leadership – you don’t need early extra turns anymore. Leadership lets you drop rank to feed AP to teammates, giving Verso real team support value without hurting his output too much. Radiant Slash’s slot becomes flexible. Fill it with any situational tool you prefer.
The combat loop remains the same. Use Overload, Defiant Strike or previous battles to get low health and high rank.Use Berserk Slash for huge single-targets. Phantom Stars when you need AoE or breaks and sprinkle in Defiant Strike mid-rotation to refresh marks and fuel mark-based allies. Late-game pictos like Double Mark and Stay Marked let you keep marks rolling for both Verso and teammates who can benefit greatly, like Monoco and Maelle.
Verso’s best partner is Sciel, and together they’re borderline unfair. Her Fortune’s Fury and Intervention give Verso extra turns and double damage which is basically everything he could need. If you’re running a Sacrifice Sciel build, it gets even wilder: she steals Verso’s HP for her own attacks, letting you skip Overload and start fights at 1 HP instantly while also dealing heavy damage from her ability. This setup also thrives in mark-heavy team comps. Monoco’s Sakapatate Slam, for example, scales off marks and syncs perfectly with Defiant Strike.
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