Alphaeus wrote:Shooting/throwing things is combat, though.
So is zapping wands and evoking phials of floods and using abilities and casting iron shot, but those aren't allowed while berserk because the point of berserk's restrictions is to make you only use melee. The other allowed actions during berserk have very good reasons for them:
Melee attacking: the entire point of the effect
Moving: melee attacking is terribly inconvenient without this
Eating: you should always be allowed to eat, because starving to death with food in your inventory would be stupid
Swapping weapons: a recent addition, I asked for it because it otherwise Xom characters are incentivized to avoid wielding launchers/etc while resting
Ranged attacks don't even get Might's damage bonus in the first place, so Might with a longbow is just approximately +1.875 effective base damage.