DPS warrior viable?

[Fame]

Oh, I went Barb haha role playing game =D

[Yumyums Inmahtumtums]

Originally Posted by Fame [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Oh, I went Barb haha role playing game =D

Derp.

I can feel your manliness through my phone

[Fame]

Thanks for the info whirled I'll keep ya in mind for that haste item when I move back to red this winter.

[Whirled]

Hey thanks!
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[Loke]

For leveling I would argue that gearing for DPS is actually the route most people should take. You're going to find yourself in very few situations were a couple hundred HP is really going to matter when grinding, and the faster you can kill mobs the faster you can level. I wouldn't pigeon hole yourself as strictly a DPS warrior though - play to all your strengths. By this I mean, if you've got a knight or some other class that can take, throw on that 2hander and drop down to zerker range and go wild, however, if you're far and away the best player in a group to be tanking, you can still do that while geared to DPS.

In terms of gearing yourself, I haven't done any parses, but I'd wager that your wurmmy is going to be quite a bit less damage than faster weapons under normal circumstances (again, I haven't parsed a wurmy, and zerker could affect that as well). For a cheap-ish DPS weapon for a warrior I feel it is kind of hard to beat a Lammy in the main hand, and then the best ratio weapon you can afford in the off hand. Thinking back to live I always thought dual lammy's looked pretty cool though, can you can probably pick a pair up for <5k that will be respectable damage.

In the higher levels, warrior do excellent damage. My warrior is only rocking an RBB (5-10% less than what he probably should be wearing) with epic and is often fairly high up on parses. On average monks and rogues are still going out DPS you, but it isn't uncommon at all for me to out DPS rogues who get unlucky with their backstab dice or lazy monks. With epics the 1handers do more damage than the 2hander when you're not zerking, but that probably isn't something you're gonna have to worry about in the immediate future.

Also, even if you go strictly DPS warrior, don't use offensive discs. They're garbage outside of highly situational instances.

[captnamazing]

Tecmos is pretty much right. Staff of Battle will give you some sweet cripps 30-50. Get an oggok cleaver if you can, though. That shit is insane.

With the right gear you can definitely stay on par with monks, and if you have a healer who is able to keep you in zerker rage, you'll fucking wreck.

[kaev]

Originally Posted by captnamazing [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Tecmos is pretty much right. Staff of Battle will give you some sweet cripps 30-50. Get an oggok cleaver if you can, though. That shit is insane.

With the right gear you can definitely stay on par with monks, and if you have a healer who is able to keep you in zerker rage, you'll fucking wreck.

That too. My warrior had a lot of fun zerk-duoing with YumYums (shaman), starting in our 20s. Shaman is awesome partner for zerking because slows on the tougher mobs makes it far safer to swap out some of your tanking gear for more DEX. (AC is (was?) not "broken" until high level, swapping out plate for jewelry in your 20s/30s/40s is painful when you're the guy getting hit.)

[leezard]

He meant specifically damage of the weapon in that post. Perhaps it helps to think of it like this..hate is factored by the damage potential before the actual damage is calculated. Each swing generates x agro, separate from how much it actually does in terms of damage

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i got a 384 crippling blow at lvl 24

[Colgate]

warriors do the most dps in the game with precision active currently

it will only get better in velious