Is it worth leveling a warrior currently?

I agree the paladin combo is too simple. This is why I'm an advocate of dropping the mitigation a bit and adding a bit of complexity with an additional combo that would use cure as an finisher (heal multiplier) for moderate sustain. I think most Paladins want cure to be more significant as well.

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Originally Posted by Vic_Viper

I enjoyed the leveling process as a WAR, but If you have the choice and want to do endgame content go with the PLD for now. There is little sense in spending the time and gil to gear up a less viable class.

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I don't agree. You know SE will tweak stuff. They did it in FFXI, they will do it here. Especially if they actually see what the community is talking about and honestly, it seems they are paying attention. If you look at each gripe that really affected game play so far at least, it has been fixed. Fairly quickly I may add. All signs point to WAR getting some changes to balance things in the next big patch. Also, I may not be level 50, but after playing so far, and reading forums and watching videos on youtube, even if PLD out shines WAR at the moment for tanking, I think WAR is going to be BEAST in PvP. But hey, this is mere speculation.

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Originally Posted by brainchild

There's no skill involved in playing PLD. You literally have one combo chain (which already debuffs the boss for you), very good passive mitigation, and very good cooldowns. People love to underestimate Sword Oath, but it provides comparable damage to Maim, should you be the off-tank or off-DPS.

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I was trying to be polite about it, thus I went with "lower skill cap"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...VHZFjnmA#t=258, skip to 3mins

a great and informative video describing the discrepancy between PLD and WAR. not specifically, but im sure if you use your imagination you will find it funny

or insulting

I like WAR and find it good fun, and with inner beast it's even very easy soloing, good survavibility in FATEs.
As for dungeons and guildhests, I had no issue 'til now.

For me that's all the game is for now, but I hope the job will change before I reach 50.
Because that's where it's getting touchy, because you can read everywhere that WAR is not a popular job for end game.
So if your goal is to run end game dungeons, WAR may have a harder time finding an end game FC than PLD.

For some reason I'm always really good at picking classes that are imbalanced or just generally unpopular. However, I've never let that bother me in any MMO up until now, and I'm not about to let that change.

I'd say, stick to whatever you enjoy playing, and if that just so happens to be a Warrior, then you stick to that. In the end, the devs are going to be balancing classes anyway.