This dps warrior vs rogue thing is so stupid... Everyone always claiming they can outdps everyone else!

If you have crap rogues then the warriors will outdps them, if you have crap warriors, the rogues will outdps then. If they are both equally good (or bad), then they will almost certainly do an equal amount of damage.

But...

...that's not the point!

As much DPS as physically possible is often not the solution. It's fine in MC where you can just zerg everything that moves, but in most of the later instances Blizzard made some of the fights a little more interesting and required people to use their brains a little instead of just mindlessly hammering 2 or 3 buttons! Topping a damage meter by spamming a few buttons does not make you a good player...

Rogues were given a threat reducing ability, meaning they are more suited to going flat out on the damage, warriors on the otherhand were not. All it means is that playing a DPS warrior in an instance that requires some brain activity is a little more challenging.

Just check you damage meter and switch it to damage taken. That's where the numbers that actually mean something are. If your dps warriors are way up on the damage taken, then they need to think about what they're doing, otherwise they'll come to a point where the damage they are doing is doing more harm than it is good. Same goes for rogues if they don't know where their Feint button is.

For our guild, we just have our group of warriors, each with 2 sets of gear. MT duties rotate on an run-by-run and trash/boss basis so that they all get to do some tanking and sh*t-bashing. Stops them from getting too jumpy! :)

Edited, Mon Jun 12 07:23:12 2006