purpose of warrior

[Jimjam]

I think warrior's gear dependency is somewhat mitigated by not needing to buy spells, the fact that meditate classes don't tend to loot as much and the ease of acquisition of some decent AC items (banded, crafted, Jarsarth scale, cobalt).

Another bonus is the fact the rogue epic quest seems to be designed with providing the rogue's warrior pal in mind. It provides some reasonable aggro weapons (8/22 ykesha and 10/25 stun not so shabby). Thank you to the 24/7 Ragebringer Farm Corp!

Once you can get to the planes hate armour is decent enough and sky haste belts are easily attainable.

My first and favourite character on p1999 was a warrior, and he was entirely self funded, only equipping drop/vendor, quest and trade skill items. I don't think he has suffered too badly for it, certainly not as much as the group think on the forums suggested he would. Gearing up instead of starting with fungi/haste/etc made the character way more enjoyable (I fungi twinked a ranger on live, it was incredibly boring).

As a warrior main, I've always really (really!) appreciated having rangers in the group. Don't sweat a thing OP! Keep rangering, don't worry about making warriors sad. You probably make them happy!