Can Warriors make good DPS instead of Tanks?

[Dogma]

Warriors can't decrease their aggro like other dps classes. On raid targets that's especially tricky. Few things are more embarrassing than being a warrior who dies before the main tank does on a raid target because he pulled aggro.

I usually shoot for about 60 dps on raid targets if I'm not tanking. You want to be lower than the "speedbumps" which usually float around 80 dps. And obviously don't use a weapon with a high aggro proc.

That means a lot of toggling attack on and off. Attack on and use kick/slam then wait til kick/slam is back up. When it's up, use it again then turn your attack off. Wait until it's back up to turn attack on again. Helps keep you lower on threat and provides you a timer to keep your dps lower.

Also note that if you miss a bunch of times it doesn't mean you didn't increase your aggro any. "White threat" is gained just by swinging your weapon, regardless of hits/damage and misses.

In general, when in a typical group situation it's fine to aim at being just a dps. In a guild though people are always going to eyeroll the warriors who just want to dps. It's kind of intimidating being a young warrior and expected to tank all these raid mobs when you have very little gear. Usually guilds will put you pretty low on the tank list but you should still be expected to tank every once in a while. If you step forward and offer to ramp tank Vindi or something (which is pretty easy to do even with basic gear) then it's more likely they'll be cool with you not main tanking bigger stuff.