You make a point that getting AC too high keeps them from generating fury from attacks. My concern of running around with an AC in the mid teens at high level is that the character becomes Power Attack bait at that point. They might have the Fast Healing to pull through that, but that's the type of attack that cuts right through DR.
Note that at 20th level, the maximum amount of fury the berserker can have is 5 + Con mod. I don't expect them to have a very huge pool, and he gets a lot of attacks at that point. I see getting hit at lower levels as generating more of the berserker's fury than at high level, proportionately.
To be fair, all pc's are power attack bait at high levels due to the fact that the to hit bonus of melee focused enemies scales almost exponentially while Ac scales linearly.
And the thing with the fury pool is that you are going to be spending multiple fury per round at high levels to deal with the effects of combat. Using Back on your Feat, Shake it Off, and the various fury attacks puts a big drain on your pool each turn. Plus full attacking actually becomes more difficult at high levels as mobility becomes extremely important so getting fury from being attacked is even more important.
Why not? Do note that many of those class feature involve things like AoE damage, heavy damage that bypasses DR and hardness, Con damage + debuffs, or death.
I see full-attack damage as just one way to get things done. This guy has choices to make each round. It's one of the reasons I prefer playing casters.
That's fine if you want, just note that as things stand you will be seeing people always choosing one style with this class.
To me, saying "You gain X" rather than "You gain [verbatim description of X], but with these caveats" to be easier. Or am I misunderstanding what you mean? Do you just not like the two different durations?
Eh, what i mean is that the Haste spell gives you a specific list of benefits: +1 Attack on a full attack, +1 to hit, +1 to Ac, +1 to reflex saves, and +30ft to movement speeds. If you want all those benefits to be given, along with the fact that the ability is countered by the Slow effect, then okay. But if you only want certain effects, and if you want to improve certain effects (such as extra bonus attacks or movement speeds) then its easier to just give those specific abilities while also stating it wont stack with the spell.
And the different duration's are fine, again i would just always give them a bonus attack on a full round attack while in fury but a semi-scaling of the ability is okay.
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