If you don't have a raid spot picked out for you before you level one (taunt, blow your long cooldown defensives, let next warrior in line take over whee), is there any point in playing a Warrior in current era EQ, or do the Mercs and Pet Groups pretty much invalidate non-raid Warrior? I assume you can gimp along fine with a Free-to-Play Shaman box alongside your Gold Account main box, thanks to mercs, but that's not as much fun as actually tanking.
Wanting to come back to EQ and do some tanking, but the old warrior forums are pretty much dead, and 99% of the discussion on the general tank talk is Paladin/SK.