Is it worth leveling a warrior currently?

[Bigpurpleharness]

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.

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

[Lemon8or]

I enjoy leveling a warrior way more than a paladin even though I've always been the sword and board kind of guy. It just gets me a lot more thrilled to see my HP going up and down quickly instead of "oh it's about to hit me, better hit that oh shit button and nullify most of the damage" kind. I do plan on taking my Warrior to 50 and beyond but right now, focusing on getting my monk there.

[Dosito]

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.

As much as i hate too, i agree with this. Its a simpe 123 rotation with a few pff gcd attacks. Its knowing when to pop the def buffs that is the only part that requirres some planning, aside from stun bot duties. I like using sword oath when being in a good position aggro wise.

Im right on the threshold for 50 on pld so after im gonna try put warrior. To see what i like petter gameplay wise.

[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.

[MomoOG]

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.

[Omerta_Alpha]

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.

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.