the once and future Spangles

[Kevin]

This is exactly what they should be doing. Do you play other classes much? Do you know how powerful the warrior class was or still is? Do you prefer to start off with a weak class and then given buffs every patch?

Do not judge a class by how many boosts or nerfs it has recieved every patch. Judge a class by comparing it with other classes. What is the effectiveness in relation to other classess.

You can argue some talents can be tweaked. May be protection spec can be given power in other areas of the game other than tanking. But you can't honestly tell me warrior is underpowered right now.
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Yes I can. But I can't say that the warrior gear is underpowered. That is what the main worry of the warrior is. As the most gear dependent class in the game (followed closely by rogues) the warrior benefits the most from the poor itemization that Blizzard has done. Well poor for all the classes but the warrior.

The end game is warrior centric. You have to have them and you have to have good ones to raid. Druids can tank in MC and BWL, but you still can't fully replace a warrior on those fights with one (or 5 depending on how many you need, I can't see druids getting enough threat on Vael to allow enough DPS to kill him).

So yeah the instance design helps make warriors too powerful, as do items. Epic gear warriors can reach epic geared rogue levels of DPS. Blue/green warriors do not get to blue/green rogue DPS levels. This is because the talents of the rogue to more for DPS than the talents of the warrior and the gear of the warrior does more for damage than the gear of the rogue. Mainly though it is because there is more gear for the warriors than there is for the rogues. There are very few epic daggers and while the rogues can use the epic swords as well I think the highest DPS rogue build is still a dagger build. The armor for rogues doesn't really help much with DPS either, the T1 set being better than the T2 set for several pieces in that score and there not being as many other options for the rogue. DPS warriors don't wear might and wrath for pure DPS because they have great options in ZG and AQ and elsewhere for DPS armor too.