yoshi what are you doing to steel cyclone ):?

[fusional]

But their AoEs are on a higher recast and they've got a lower survivability (HP). On something like Hamlet Defense which is an AoE fest I tried to go Dragoon and was told outright by a PUG group to go back to Warrior because it had better AoEs and HP.

warriors are preferred for hamlet because frontal combos are easy, and because the crit mechanic of steel cyclone has good synergy with rampage. the HP pools are the icing on the cake.

as far as aoes having higher recast, that's patently false. leg sweep is 30 seconds, frontal, and only requires 1 combo step, rather than two. it's also only 1k tp, so it's much less punishing to use it out of combo in a pinch. (combo is still preferred, though, for stun) next we have ring of talons. if you need aoe, keen flurry gives this two uses in 1 minute. same as steel cyclone. the caveat here is that it combos from impulse drive, which forces you to stack accuracy so you don't miss. and then there's dragonfire dive, which is 15mins, but is a great "oh sh-" button.

keeping in mind whirlwind, which is on an 80 second cooldown- assuming infinite TP and perfect ability timing, warrior has exactly 6 aoe attacks available in a 90 second span. dragoon has 8. if we reduce the requirement to 60 seconds, warrior has 4 available aoe's to dragoon's 7. if we reduce the requirement to 30 seconds, warrior has 3 available to dragoon's 5. so, no. technically dragoon has more available aoe firepower than warrior.

and while warrior does look and feel completely OP on useless level 50 mobs (and it is), as i said before and i maintain- geared and played correctly dragoon has a higher aoe dps ceiling... as well as much higher single target dps to boot.

none of this is to say warrior doesn't potentially need to be tweaked a little, but it is to say that the community often barks up the wrong trees in the process.