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Originally Posted by loramin
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You seem to have completely ignored:
Now, I personally don't know how much better your average warrior's DPS is compared to your average Paladins or Shadow Knights. It may be an insignificant amount.
But, I'm at least curious to see some data on it, because if Warriors offer significantly more DPS, that means faster killing, which means faster XP ... which would mean they're superior in many groups (ie. any group where "root agro" is sufficient).
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I didn't ignore it. My first post in this thread stated that Warriors do good DPS.
However, people generally over-estimate DPS in terms of it's ability to net more kills per hour. DPS has diminishing returns on P99, so the effectiveness of DPS depends on the camp, and how much DPS your group already has.
From levels 1-50 or so, the game wasn't balanced around the concept that people would all have 21% worn haste items and Velious era weapon ratios.
Many groups on P99 are already out DPSing the content by a large margin simply due to their over-gearing.
When you have a Warrior in the group filling the tank role, their primary concern is tanking the mob. Extra DPS is nice, but there are situations where you need to stop attacking the primary mob and try to get a mob off another player. You lose DPS when this happens. The group is already expecting the tank to have lower DPS, because they are not filling one of the DPS roles in the group.