So what exactly IS the issue with Warrior?

[KrenianKandos]

The op is like 4lv's away, I don't really see the point of this post considering all the info/posts/rants over "War vs Pld". People can try to use math to defend war all day. If you have both just try them both, you might like war's style better that's fine play a war. Then by having both you can clearly see the healers working a lot harder to keep you up, if you don't care about healers stay on war. Both can hold hate just fine, 1takes a lot more damage but they can self heal(assuming you can get it off, cause the healers are spam healing you anyways).

I think a lot of people like the -idea- of war being some kind of higher dps tank that even has more HP, then playing a turtle tank. While in reality all they have is more hp and less dmg migration. Then at the end of the day Pld still brings silence and a better stun, and can recharge one of it's own resources.

It's Simple for me.
1#MT'ing?: Pld
2#OT'ing? Need something stunned or silenced, Or Will your job invole OT'ing something that hits hard/will be alive for a while.: Pld
3#OT'ing? Easy trash. :War
Sadly 90% of where #3 becomes a yes, there's no reason to even bring a OT.

So because I was four levels away from max, and trying to get information regarding the class I was working for future reference in dungeons and maximizing my potential for smooth progress in dungeons, this thread is completely pointless?

No offence but that's exactly what has made a lot of tanks pretty bad in most MMOs: no research on their pros and cons. I rather be ready for whatever situation that may arise by doing my research. Pardon me for posting a thread about such in the TANKING section of the official forums. I forgot this forum is more for bitching and complaining than constructive informational gathering purposes.



To everyone else, thank you for the slew of information. I can see that Warriors would have to gauge themselves far more in these situations and that they have to be smart on using Inner Beast. It almost sounds like IB is meant to be one of those "OSH*/(%&" CDs to help your healers out so you don't hurt your healers too much in the healing dept. I've started doing the relic quest for my Paladin so I'll stick with the PLD until Warriors get a look at in 2.1 (If it does) and re-evaulate. Either way, I'm working on CNJ to get Stoneskin so I got some time for things to settle down in this dept.

On another note: With World of Warcraft, there was a few sites like Tankspot and ElitistJerks that had theorycrafting going on in a much bigger detail. It was also a source of information gathering done in one specific website such as what we're seeing in this thread with the theorycrafting with numbers. Does one site exist like that? Have we established a website yet regarding this?)