Is warrior aggro greatly exaggerated?

[loramin]

Originally Posted by Wakanda [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As someone who has duo’d with a lot of melees I would take a warrior over an sk or paladin any day out of the week because mobs die so much more dramatically faster with a warrior.

I think it might depend a lot on the warrior and their gear. I was duoing my cleric with a Warrior yesterday, and it was slow. It was so slow we started doing the whole berserker thing, and I nearly got him killed several times trying to only heal with HoT [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've also duoed with a Shadow Knight, and while I certainly didn't do any objective comparison, the SK felt like he killed significantly faster. But again, I think it might have a lot to do with gear, and a heavily raid-geared warrior might just DPS a lot faster than one with crappier weapons.

[Drueric]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think it might depend a lot on the warrior and their gear. I was duoing my cleric with a Warrior yesterday, and it was slow. It was so slow we started doing the whole berserker thing, and I nearly got him killed several times trying to only heal with HoT [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've also duoed with a Shadow Knight, and while I certainly didn't do any objective comparison, the SK felt like he killed significantly faster. But again, I think it might have a lot to do with gear, and a heavily raid-geared warrior might just DPS a lot faster than one with crappier weapons.

Sk probably had a nice haste item and the warrior didnt. So many low to mid characters have high end gear. Just recently I met a cleric who had their epic at lvl 1 and several skyshrine armor pieces. Crazy.

[zelld52]

Originally Posted by loramin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

But again, I think it might have a lot to do with gear, and a heavily raid-geared warrior might just DPS a lot faster than one with crappier weapons.

Generally, Knight weapons have better 1h ratios than weapons available to dual-wielding classes. Combined with a little sustained DPS from pet, and the occasional lifetap proc from SK - and it adds up. Especially if you compare SK using an Ebon Mace, for instance, to a warrior dual wielding a Green Jade Broadsword and a Sword of Skyfire.

But - I always always always parse DPS in every exp group, raid, etc. Warriors will almost always do more DPS than knights, averaged out over every fight, even with sub-optimal gear.

Exception: Knight using the Great Spear of Dawn on undead do almost as much DPS as monks / rogues.