Is an untwinked WAR worth semi-solo leveling purely for fun?
 

I feel a strong itch to make a Warrior but part of me believes that if I'm gonna make a tanking alt purely for fun it should be a Shadow Knight instead.

I hear that Warriors are so boring/featureless compared to other classes that unless they're in a group or twinked up the ass they're basically the class equivalent of a helpless quadriplegic desperately rolling their way around until they find a healer to cling onto and I know I'm a bit too antisocial to constantly live in groups.

That added to the fact that I'm used to playing classes that have levitation/invis/bind etc. to quickly cross Norrath means the transition to a class that would have to beg for SoWs and binds every two hours or cry in EC for help crossing Dagnor sounds pretty bleak.

A little tumor in the back of my head still whispers that dual wielding big ass weapons would be worth it though and I try to justify to myself that people play warrior because it outmatches other tanks when it comes to numbers rather than having flashy spells. I know nothing beats a raid warrior's outright broken tanking disciplines but I want to make it clear that I'm never getting this guy to 60 or probably even 40.

So what do you guys think? Is a warrior's group performance worth the mind numbing chore of having to level one untwinked or should I just roll an SK like every other non-raid tank?

At the start Warriors can do almost nothing. At the end Warriors can do almost everything.

I wouldn’t play a warrior on Blue, it’d be painful trying to tank for nothing but twinks.

Green is a month away though.

No melee class solos well untwinked (i.e. Fungi Tunic)

i just checked the link in your signature

by the tribunal's six ephemeral schlongs, what the fuck

i played a warrior to 54 in classic and then an extremely, just staggeringly twinked warrior to 60 on p99

warriors are not very fun without a fungi and an 8th+ Coldain ring

I eerily relate to most everything you're saying here...

I decided to play a Monk main on green launch, but lately can't drop the idea of playing a Warrior main!

There is just something appealing to me about the role, and the ultimate adventure of leveling him up from rags at lvl 1 to (hopefully) lvl 60 with planar armor. All from Gods and Dragons that I didn't just fight against, I stood toe to toe and took all the blows for the army of friends behind me. Most likely the very same ones that helped me slowly chug my way from a lvl 1 nothing all the way into this monstrous beast of a tank!

Also as a Warrior the only thing I need to focus on is gear...
Tank well, make friends and GEAR!

No having to worry about spells, or how to afford them all, what they do, how best to use them...

Just learning to tank. Getting more powerful by getting more ...GEAR!

Despite all this my biggest fear is....do they only sound like fun?
It'd suck to be 40 lvls into the thing before you finally realize that auto attack and kick/slam isn't going to do it for you anymore.

Do you worry about that at all? Or just the lack or sks snap aggro?

You could just play a most interesting class that can duel weild?? Bard, Rogue, Ranger?

yes, they only sound like fun. do not make a warrior. DO NOT MAKE A WARRIOR.

Hughman made a warrior as starting class on red and owned shit