Warriors are useless in 90% of the games content

[Toxigen]

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

Old EQ is chock full of Incredibly boneheaded game design, and warriors are a prime example. I'd rather have a solid monk than a warrior any day of the week outside of a raid setting, and I say that as a warrior main. Monks are just objectively better in most cases - they're about as tanky, their DPS is absolutely insane and they can hold aggro just fine with a decent weapon setup, they have enormous group utility thanks to FD... warriors get literally nothing except for a bit more health and a lame taunt that doesn't work half the time. You could literally do better with a monk tank than a warrior tank in most XP settings.

I think SOE finally gave warriors a legit aggro ability (Provoke) in one of the 2003 expansions after realizing that shield bash / slam wasn't generating aggro like it was originally intended to. If I remember correctly, the devs were confused by warriors constantly dual wielding and using 2 handers instead of traditional "sword and board" setups we see for tanks in most other MMORPGs. Hilarious stuff =P

If the tank is also pulling, sure...take that monk over a war.

But if you're chewing through mobs for hours the war will always be the better choice. Evasive 4tw