Posting in a troll thread!
Anyway, ranking Warrior as the 'second least powerful' is pretty crazy IMO. Warriors may not be the most flexible class, but they are great at what they do: standing toe to toe with anyone or anything and kicking ass. Only the Cleric is more important than the Warrior for raiding, and even for small groups Warriors are surprisingly solid. If pulls aren't a problem, then WAR/SHM and WAR/CLR/ENC are arguably even better than than their monk equivalents, and if they are frequently the Warrior can get creative and/or just tank two or three mobs at once.
Warrior aggro problems are somewhat overrated. When you have 5500+ HP and 1300+ AC (= full set of HOT gear) getting some siren or myconid reaver or chetari rat slowed in under 10 seconds isn't a huge issue. Even for areas where Knights shine, like the Halls of Testing, Warriors aren't incompetent scrubs by any means. Team Debuff has to cool their jets, but evasive/defensive will partially compensate for the additional time before slow lands.
In general I think Velious made some big steps towards fixing class balance, with the exception of shamans (ridiculous) and horrible caster itemization which leads to really well geared melee (HOT armor is balanced, NTOV is not) being facerollingly good.
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