hey, i was just writing again one of these looong posts. but in short, i think your decision is good. ooh, i'll post what i wrote anyway.
pvp i cant comment.
For pve, indeed wars were avoided(below lvl46). because they were slowing down the party, doing ignore-able damage. As a war, your are harder to be killed, but runs are much slower; and you count on the others to advance with 'ok speed', your job was to pay attention others to not be killed(so they to do the dmg), because if you try to do dmg, it will be too slow anyway. i mean, no matter how good and well geared you are, you can't count to yourself, you need others for runs (and 2-3 other dmg dealers, otherwise you all will be slow).
This changed lvl46, at rengol expansion, when mythic glintstone aegis came; at the end of the expansion it was 'fixed' to do enough damage. Granted, back then wars were doing more dmg then other classes; but only for about a month, when cryo expansion came up to lvl56. Even now at 61 glint aegis stays most damaging war weapon at mobs imo (if you know how to use it, you need maximum contact with (many) mobs). But in the expansions to come, it's possible wars to go back again to be the 'slowing' class; the aegis will be too low lvl. There is a hope however, because lvl61 dusk claymore means AL devs are addressing the problem. In my personal opinion, dusk claymore doesn't do enough dmg to close the dmg gap enough to other classes (so the wars won't be considered slowing), but is a move in right direction. (Although i personally doubt that +dmg% would be enough, probably some good proc on new weapon would be needed;but this is my opinion).
So yeah, it's possible in future again wars to be: 1. Warriors are useless/ overlooked for maps run. 2. Warriors can't farm well (beside merching ofc) 3. Etc
But this is to be seen.
Right now, at these hard maps, at least one war seem 'ok' for the party, mages and rouges are killed less often with at least one. But still, this expansion mages are preferred at pve, i read rouges are preferred at pvp.
But this expansion is said to be expected to last 6 months, and 4 passed.
PS: Eriel is right about that wars are very bad in gathering (thief) events. Btw don't use aegis on boss(or thief). Aegis - thief escapes; forgot to mention aegis is very bad for one target(even for two, you need many mobs). Claymore or drag sword for boss (, but even drag sword was letting antignome thief escape).
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