A detailed Reaction to Warrior in SB

[Umbeliel]

Has Warrior taken back the spot of #1 DPS amongst tanks?

As a matter of fact, it has, by a comfortable margin across all skill levels. See the week 1-2 and 3-4 results for more details.

No.

Across the board it's almost identical to pld.

o1s top 4 are Warriors, yes(with #1 having a bizzare 100 dps over #2), but #2 to #7 are all within 50 dps of one another and overall there are more paladins in the top 100 than there are anything else.

o2s again, does have a Warrior on top(with, again, a bizzare extra 100 dps), but #2 and #3 are Paladins and again, going down the list it's majority Paladin.

o3s is the only one you could seriously take as a sign of Warriors doing especially well, with there being a pretty close split between pld and war down the list.

o4s is topped by a Paladin and there's significantly fewer Warriors in it across the board- this is basically because any relevant prog group generally won't take a Warrior to begin with, so it doesn't really say anything either way.

Is it dealing relevant dps? Yes. Is there a comfortable margin? No. Is it undeniably #1 dps? Absolutely not- it's about on par with Paladin. The only margin that exists are most likely the result of parse runs and really should be counted separately, but even then it's 100 dps difference- about 3% from a fed Warrior compared to a prog Paladin.

That being said, Paladins will also have the biggest presence in general simply because of sample size- MOST statics WILL have a Paladin, while Warriors and Dark Knights only have a 50:50 chance of being in at best.(It's not actually 50:50, it's in Dark Knight's favor.) So what the data actually means is more of a ballpark idea. The important part is that, no, optimal Warrior play is NOT significantly better than optimal Paladin play in terms of dps.