Starting a warrior

[Dumesh Uhl'Belk]

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

I haven't found lifetap to be a very effective aggro. Case in point, when I chain lifetap with my necromancer my pet pretty much always keeps aggro. You'll rarely proc, if at all, in your offhand so you might be better off with a higher damage weapon. I've given up on the tentacle whip for now and decided to either save up for Obsidian Shards or get lariats at level 25. In the meantime at least I can do more damage with better weapons so I am not completely useless to my group.

Lifetaps and straight DD procs have very little aggro.

Procs with a stun, rune, or debuff component aggro much more.

[guineapig]

Let's not forget that warrior DPS is MUCH better than Shadow Knight or Paladin DPS.
So that does at least somewhat balance out with not being able to chain nuke with impunity.

I know it's not much but had to be said. The downside to the knight classes is that they have the worst DPS in the game.

[Yoite]

PGT is a good weapon to go for pre 25 and until you can afford shard or get one or get to 25 for whips.

the rune will help with incoming dmg and runes also help with hate

somewhere i read for ever 1point dmg absorbed by rune is 1 hate. I also used a axe of the slayers a lot on my war on this server and often tanked in groups with it. With the large dmg double attacks and rune procs i could hold agro pretty easy so it seems to make sense that rune helps with hate. but i dont know 100% and i probably could not find where i read that before.

anyways, ya, PGT they are great!