>>What is more effective for getting out of melee if berserking, Caution of the Spider or Serpents Hiss?
Short: Hiss
Long:
Caution of the Spider is bugged. Often times, when you have several creatures on you and roar, the game will still give you the "xxx is engaged to you at melee range" message even though when you ASSESS it shows everything at missile range. You usually have to roar it several times and wait a few seconds for the game to actually register the end of combat. To this end, I have both roars, and Serpent's Hiss is much better, being not-bugged.
Having said that, I use Caution frequently in very swarmy critters like gryphons, celpeze, etc., who seem to be fond of spawning and jumping right to melee the micro-second I walk into someone else's room. People tend to get annoyed if you roar them and all their mobs out of the room with Hiss, but no one has cared enough (yet) to stop scripting combat when I use Caution instead, if they even noticed.
So, I use both, but if you're gonna choose one, get Hiss.
