Yoshi P talks about Warriors- from Producer Letter Live @ TGS

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WAR is really strong when it comes to the following:
-DPS
-Threat
-AOE DPS/Threat

WAR does not deal significantly more DPS than a paladin. While tanking a WAR will deal roughly 15% more. When you consider that this 15% is on a number such as 120, you realize how completely inconsequential that is. In regards to "threat," Paladins generate more threat because paladins don't have a combo they need to use that doesn't generate any additional enmity.

"AOE DPS and threat" is hardly a positive. Paladins can hold aoe threat just fine and are much more survivable while doing it. In addition, the "extra aoe dps" provided by Warrior is heavily limited by TP and in practice might amount to a 500-1000 extra aoe damage per pull, in, for example, turn 4, where you are constantly having to ration for TP for each spawn. That's nothing. It's even less when you consider that Paladins have some decent aoe's of their own that they're throwing out, which narrows that gap quite a bit. And hell - Warriors use flash for initial pickups more so than overpower anyway, and the initial pick up is the hard part of aoe tanking.

I can pull around 200 DPS as a WAR on single target encounters. That may not compare to a great rotation from most DPS, but seeing as how I'm doing that while tanking, I'd say that's pretty legit DPS.

You're not doing 200dps with defiance on in tank gear unless you're talking a 20 second fight that lasts exactly the duration of berserk and unchained. I do anywhere from 180-220dps according to the shitty parser on demon wall and that's in DPS gear with defiance off and 420 str on an extremely short fight where crit luck actually plays a real part. And the theoretical "no shield oath" DPS of a paladin is undeniably higher than a Warrior anyway, so that's a moot point.