How effective would a warrior lacking dual wield be in regular group pve?

[Faerie]

Inquiring minds...

I've never really played warrior!

Also would this impact optimal starting stat allocation?

[Vadd]

why would you "lack" dual wield?

there are always 2h's

[Danth]

As with the above, I can't fathom why you'd wholly lack dual wield. I don't see that it'd make a whole lot of difference for experience groups, however. If you happen to land a group as a damage-dealer (a role for which Warriors do better than expected for) you'd do fine if using a 2-hand weapon. As a tank for experience groups you'd be the same as Warriors already are anyway: Worse than Paladins or Shadow Knights due to terrible hate generation and often reliant on outside chain-rooting to keep things hitting you. You'd ideally want some sort of 2-hander with a decent hate proc (throneblade of the ykesha, etc) to have half a chance.

Danth

[Kayso]

There's a point in PoP where there are two 2hers that are the best warrior tank weapons outside of PoTime. Or close enough. One was the RZ drop. The other was some random drop in PoE maybe?

But yeah, I think you'd want a decent proc.

[khanable]

If you want to roll with a 2h warrior just group with someone that can root

[Daldaen]

There's a point in PoP where there are two 2hers that are the best warrior tank weapons outside of PoTime. Or close enough. One was the RZ drop. The other was some random drop in PoE maybe?

But yeah, I think you'd want a decent proc.

Only really 3 warrior 2handers ever worth tanking with.

One from NToV
Blade of War from Rallos Zek in PoP
One from MPG raid trials

Otherwise the aggro generation from 2 dual wielding procers is far superior.

Also worth noting... Even Blade of War was out aggroed by Bloodfrenzy / Blasphemous Blade of the Exiled (both from Cursed in Ssra/Luclin). BoWs main benefit was being able to reduce ripostes cause you are hitting far less.

I'm assuming the question was posed hypothetically, IE how would it have been different if all 3 tanks were forced to 2h or sword/board. Really, on P99, I dunno why raid tanks even use an offhand over a shield. 90% of their aggro is 5 mallet clicks anyways. Better to reduce number of swings (and therefore ripostes) and increase their AC via shield...

[Dumesh Uhl'Belk]

Only really 3 warrior 2handers ever worth tanking with.

One from NToV
Blade of War from Rallos Zek in PoP
One from MPG raid trials

Otherwise the aggro generation from 2 dual wielding procers is far superior.

Also worth noting... Even Blade of War was out aggroed by Bloodfrenzy / Blasphemous Blade of the Exiled (both from Cursed in Ssra/Luclin). BoWs main benefit was being able to reduce ripostes cause you are hitting far less.

I'm assuming the question was posed hypothetically, IE how would it have been different if all 3 tanks were forced to 2h or sword/board. Really, on P99, I dunno why raid tanks even use an offhand over a shield. 90% of their aggro is 5 mallet clicks anyways. Better to reduce number of swings (and therefore ripostes) and increase their AC via shield...Don't neglect VDD! Fun weapon, not as much aggro as my dual wield setup at the time, but damn good.

[captnamazing]

i like to main hand a cracked staff while i'm jacking off hand this is how to play and u can get far thank me later