How are Warriors now a days (pre 50 tank wise)?

[Splorf22]

The problem with warriors is the itemization. Basically your choices are:

horrible aggro: Sarnak Warhammer/Silken Whip (5k)
good aggro: Blade of the Black Dragon Eye/Ringed Mace of the Ykesha (300k)
great aggro: Epic/VP gear

Now this wouldn't be so bad if Rogues were using the Rapier of Orinn and Monks the Tranquil Staff. But rogues have an absolutely trivial epic and Monks a pretty easy one, while the Warrior epic is reasonably contended for. So its going to be very hard to hold aggro off an epic monk dual wielding 9/16+17/28 with 9/20+14/28 with decent but not fantastic aggro procs, especially since you won't have the gear to hit 255 dex anyway. I have noticed a huge, huge difference upgrading to the Howling Cutlass/Veridix combo (10/19+13/23, both with stun+150 dd procs) in my signature, and I really don't have many problems with aggro now.

At lower levels the problem is even worse, because all of the weapons with decent ratios won't proc for you; meanwhile every rogue twink has the epic or at least a Rapier and every monk twink has at least a Peacebringer or Jade Mace/Knuckle duster combo, while you have to suffer with dual lamentations.

TL;DR: At 60 with great gear Warriors are just fantastic if slightly more boring than hybrids: you'll do almost the same damage as a monk's with triple attack and a weapon combo like Feverblade/Shissar (11/18+14/23), hold aggro with ease, tank everything solidly with 1100+ AC unbuffed from cobalt (well unless you picked Iksar), and have the best set of disciplines in the game, especially defensive, evasive, precision, and mighty strike. Without that gear you'll struggle to level up.

[heartbrand]

Originally Posted by Splorf22 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

The problem with warriors is the itemization. Basically your choices are:

horrible aggro: Sarnak Warhammer/Silken Whip (5k)
good aggro: Blade of the Black Dragon Eye/Ringed Mace of the Ykesha (300k)
great aggro: Epic/VP gear

Now this wouldn't be so bad if Rogues were using the Rapier of Orinn and Monks the Tranquil Staff. But rogues have an absolutely trivial epic and Monks a pretty easy one, while the Warrior epic is reasonably contended for. So its going to be very hard to hold aggro off an epic monk dual wielding 9/16+17/28 with 9/20+14/28 with decent but not fantastic aggro procs, especially since you won't have the gear to hit 255 dex anyway. I have noticed a huge, huge difference upgrading to the Howling Cutlass/Veridix combo (10/19+13/23, both with stun+150 dd procs) in my signature, and I really don't have many problems with aggro now.

At lower levels the problem is even worse, because all of the weapons with decent ratios won't proc for you; meanwhile every rogue twink has the epic or at least a Rapier and every monk twink has at least a Peacebringer or Jade Mace/Knuckle duster combo, while you have to suffer with dual lamentations.

TL;DR: At 60 with great gear Warriors are just fantastic if slightly more boring than hybrids: you'll do almost the same damage as a monk's with triple attack and a weapon combo like Feverblade/Shissar (11/18+14/23), hold aggro with ease, tank everything solidly with 1100+ AC unbuffed from cobalt (well unless you picked Iksar), and have the best set of disciplines in the game, especially defensive, evasive, precision, and mighty strike. Without that gear you'll struggle to level up.

do you find cutlass veridix to be better than mixing in the aggro epic with one of them?