It's not like it's difficult to use it with the right timing. Just use it when your opponent has lagged themselves and then do your own lagging move. They'll inevitably eat a DB due to the haste.

Bloodthirst also occasionally reduces lag like Harmonious so if that happens at the wrong moment your target will either slip away or eat your face in a way you didn't expect.

Plus why the hell does everyone say damage reduction is a: easy to get and b: completely negates deathblow?

Unless you are certain race/class combos chances are good your total HP is not breaking 700 or 800 with average gear. This means that even if they are DBing for mangles all it takes is five of them to more or less have the same results as two DB's for unspeaks or close.

People playing berserkers are intentionally rolling the dice. And it pays off in dividends. You can more often than not eat DB's anytime you ever get caught in melee trying to execute more elaborate strategies, and at any time the Rager can realize what you're trying to do and decide he isn't interested in killing you anymore. Which is pretty much when he's caught you more than 5 areas over from the Village.

They throw excessively large fits about their (and their cabalmates) gear, more than other people of similar classes (since they are all gear based) because the 50+ damroll is exactly what allows the DB to exceed every single disadvantage that they have, especially when you add in thirst. If you can't tank the DB's you're ####ed. Even if you can, you're going to get unlucky and then a small percentage of the time get nasty tells bragging about it. However they can be plenty lethal with an average set of gear and avg 18 weapons. DB can very often buy them a way out of permalag and damage reduction isn't widely available enough to fight off 2-4 of them for a party that is smaller or equal in size to them. Add in a bard or defender and #### just gets messier, but scouts and defenders are quite balanced. It's not hard to gear critical hit to do what DB does, on command, and past dam redux.