DPS War - Yes/No

[Hottbiscuits Dreadmuffin]

More than a few times I have been Head Cleric for my guild in PoHate/PoFear. In my group was the MT (Snoooooogan the pally) and Jarelorf the Wood Elf Warrior.

Jarelorf sometimes requests that I DO NOT heal him so he can get into super-uber-berserker-rage mode for extra DPS(Snoogan purposefully drops aggro onto him so he can take some damage a little bit at a time before redirecting the mob). I can tell he does a significantly increased amount of damage (duh, obvious), enough so that sometimes he tips the tables and our group becomes the EXP group in raids [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I agree with the earlier poster who said that Warriors do not have a way to dump aggro, and this can make it troublesome if the berserker warrior somehow grabs it. In my experience we have not had a problem doing this however; Snoogan holds aggro just fine, and it's my opinion that a Shadowknight's aggro would also be adequate.

Summary: Although it is a fun and different thing to do, I think it would be more work for you to explain yourself as a DPS-only warrior every time you join a new group.

I suggest making yourself a tank first and carry around a second set of "DPS Gear" for those situations where there's a shadowknight/paladin who is able to tank and secure aggro so you are free to DPS.

[orsk]

I would have to research it more but i would say an equipped warrior could hold up against another melee dps class, and why not? considering crits, or esp if your running the war at berserk my groups loved me crippling for 700+ and knocking mobs in half or more.

[Dantes]

Even if you wanted to do more DPS in general - gnome would not be the race to choose.

[Kika Maslyaka]

hey, compared to a paladin, warrior is a dps class [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[baalzy]

If you consider rangers to be a DPS class, then a Warrior is one too.(lol ranger, i know...)

Simple reason, Warriors (currently) have higher weapon skill caps then rangers and access to just as good/better weapons & str gear and they also get crits, crips, and discs.

[Supaskillz]

If a warrior stays in berserker range on purpose they can do pretty good dps, but this is a risky strategy since they cannot aggro dump(mentioned a few times above) and some of the top dps weapons have procs that generate aggro. Maybe this would be worth doing with a hybrid tank in the group and non proc setup like scd/wurmslayer, however I think this is something a warrior might do as an alternate setup to use when you find yourself in a situation where you could use it instead of tanking. No reason to build your warrior with that in mind from the start when you can easily swap some gear to switch into dps/low aggro mode.

[orsk]

whats the best way to parse dps to find out whats combos better etc?

[azeth]

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

whats the best way to parse dps to find out whats combos better etc?

try "Gamparse". Parsers are just log readers, and 99.9% of them show only straight melee discluding procs etc etc

[Pico]

mardur's got a reputation to hold up ysee he has to be able to do everything!

better invite him in ur group next time you need dps

[Messianic]

World of Warcraft is that way ------> www.worldofwarcraft.com

EQ doesn't really have "DPS warriors" (with the exception of your weapon choices) because changing between tanking gear a really small effect on your overall dps.