Lowbie warrior can't hold aggro?

[phacemeltar]

id get a Smoldering Brand. theyre a bit expensive, but im sure you can get a decent deal on them. higher dmg than obsidian shard plus they proc at level one.

dual wield with Iksar Berserker Club

[Jimjam]

Something worth noting is the off hand can't double attack until 150+ skill.

Furthermore, the off hand can proc, even when dual wield fails to produce a swing.

As such at low dw/da skill levels (if you don't want to go the two hander route) I've found it much preferable to have an aggro/utility proc going off at half rate in the offhand than an offhand dps weapon that is struggling to swing a quarter as much as the primary.

I've used a polished granite tomahawk on a few characters and being a rune / str buff helps generate aoe aggro, pads your tanking and improves your primary hand dps. I suppose the obsidian shard could be used offhand for the nuke / ac debuff to generate aggro and help the melee's dps.

[RDawg816]

If your main issue is mana from rogue aggro, I'd suggest a combination of the ideas mentioned.

Pull with a bow
Keep warrior between 30 and 40% health when possible
Have rogue wait a few seconds
Root the mob
Have rogue spam evade always
Save backstab for finishing mobs off

And if you have plat left over, weapons are good...

[Pyrion]

How about letting the warrior fight in berserk mode? You gotta keep him under 40% HP for that. Maybe that helps.

[Veranish]

Thanks for the tips everyone. Warrior uses a bow to pull now, though getting our hands on arrows is becoming a problem.

The rogue waits a few hits, and he uses a goblin skull crusher to proc Stun and an obsidian granite tomahawk to proc beserker strength. This keeps aggro pretty well focused on him, Rogue can get two or three backstabs in before aggro turns to him.

Rogue is doing evade yep. If it's a particularly bad aggro time I'll root it but it's a waste of my very limited mana to do it every time right now at low levels. (Rogue and Warrior buds have taken up all my money, don't have much left for my cleric.)

[kaev]

Look up fletching on wiki, very easy to skill-up to the point where you're making 150 range arrows for cheap (trivial 56).

[Jimjam]

Make sure you are doing something to get onto each mob's hate list early in the fight (maybe a single swing of your club). Doing this means there is a second person for the rogue to evade their aggro down to (if I understand the mechanic right).