warrior in raids, Kunark and Velious
 

Are warriors needed in numbers for raids? If you aren't a top tier warriors do you have a real purpose on raids?

I was wanting to start an iksar warrior and probably won't put in the time to ever get the top tier gear. Should I just default to an iksar monk for dps to contribute to raids?

Warriors are always prefered for tanking the hardest hitting mobs. Its always nice to have them. Warrior dps at 60 is quite significant. If you arent tanking and hitting from the back you can come very close to monks that dont have the brass knucle fist though rogues will always be on top for now. Sustained dps will be even more important in velious though monks will pull far ahead by then.

If you play a warrior you will be expected to tank. If you play a monk you will be expected to pull at times. If you just want to dps id go the rogue path.

...or mage. Not enough high level mages on the server :p

I'm rolling on the PvP server so I'm trying to weigh the pros and cons for both PvE/PvP. It looks like I'm ruling out rogue because of how squishy they are for PvP.

Monks seem to be the better route for a player without the pixels. I would like to be a warrior for mass pvp but I don't want to be gimped in raids down the road when I'm not the main tank and my dps starts slipping. The only drawback I see for monks is that I'm going to have to learn some dungeons I don't know so well since I will be required to pull. Oh well.

May want to check out the PvP server chat then.

Prolly wanna go Ogre warrior. They're needed endgame though for sure, but same for monks.

I asked both. I wanted to hear from blue as well since there are a lot of vets here.

This was the best response from red forum:

"Monk is the easiest to pvp and level. In PVE you need to know how to pull.
War is very dependent on gear but easy to play in mass pvp. In PVE you need to know how to tank and position.
Rogue is the hardest to pvp with but the easiest to raid with."

just to add in here, a well played rogue on red is devastating. Definitely hard to pvp with, but when you learn how you can really tear people apart.

each raid in theory only needs one tank, but in practice having extra tanks around can help a lot.

Not on DT mobs or in velious.