Game Mechanics: Warrior Threat melee/proc

[Wanderling]

I have a warrior friend and we duo quite often. After talking with him about it, pretty much every time we play, we've landed on two conclusions:

1) People simply weren't hitting this hard (twinked) back in the day so "taunt" and people holding back a bit was all a warrior really needed until they got more abilities
2) Instead of just going all-out every single chance you get, use a little brains and help the warrior maintain aggro by not attacking immediately and/or spacing out your offensive abilities/spells so that the warrior's threat generation can build up more easily

I'm not a warrior and have never been one. I can take aggro from him (he has about 5 levels on me) whenever my heart desires (I play a ranger) but the real key to playing with him is knowing when to take it and when not to...and how to do both.