purpose of warrior

[Sylexis]

Originally Posted by mystang89 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

From what I've seen they aren't really meant for taking because they can't hold aggro. They're aggro seems to be dependent on procs, which is iffy at best. They have taunt, which any tank knows only works when you don't need it to.

Now when a warrior gets hit I've noticed they can take a bunch of dmg but it's all up to rng. (not ranger, random).

The thing is, most of these warriors I've grouped with seen like good people who know their class and are trying. So is there something that I'm missing?

There's a lot of things you're missing.

Aggro for warriors is based on a combination of potential melee damage and weapon procs, since monks and rogues can out damage the raw dps component of their hate, warriors have to compensate with spell casting procs. If the warrior is just leveling with a random pickup group it's anyone's guess who has the better weapons and aggro control.

The spikeyness of the tanks HP loss is about gear and AC, especially in Velious since most tanks are sitting around 1000 AC now and the softcap in velious is 1200, there's going to be a spike for a bit until the tanks get back up and geared to where they need to be for this expansion. Levels help a lot, but they don't solve everything, this is a GEAR based class.

And last but not least, grouping is a group effort in eq. I know! Who'd have thought right? So ban the idiot ranger who just walked into your group with two yaks and glare at the level 1 rogue with the purchased epic at level 5, but it's a team effort to make your group go efficiently.