Best class to lead warbands?

[Gimblewald]

Hello, I've played RoR sporadically over the years (and since official beta!) with lots of breadth but little depth. I've never actually hit 40 - I just play for a few weeks here and there until I get busy or interested in other things. However, what I love about RoR is you can always login, run to a lake and do RvR, no matter what stage of the game you are at. This often means I spend a fair bit of time trying to put a group together and convince people to follow me around in whatever lake I need influence in. It's something I've always found a lot of fun, whether I'm any good at it or not.

I'm thinking about jumping back in and wondered whether there are any classes more predisposed to leading groups? I'd ideally like to play as an Engineer but perhaps it's better to be a tank? At least I've found the rule of leading groups as a tank to be the norm in other MMOs (e.g., WoW, nobody wants to join the rogue's group). Also enjoy WP, WH, BM, Slayer and all the tanks. Orcs are fun too but want to play Order.

Thanks!

[rorswar]

You need to be the tip of the spear, so either a tank or mDPS - ideally one with AOE damage / utility since it’s a WB.

[Gimblewald]

Thank you, Roswar. Would you say any tank is fine - Ironbreaker or Knight?

As for MDPS, could this include any of: WP, WH, Slayer, maybe Tinker Engineer?

[M0rw47h]

Don't even think about dps WP in warband. Both mobility and damage are miserable.

[nocturnalguest]

Best classes to lead warbands are heavy melee AoE ones.
Order - slayer, wl, bw (its aoe bomb spec is melee)
Destro - bomb sorc (semi melee too, like bw), msh, mara, choppa
Why? Most important part for killing in blobs is to reach critical mass of damage on 1 spot. Its plain easier to see and call this spot on those classes.
Leading on other classes (healers or rdps are very bad for making calls for others to reliably follow), including tanks is suboptimal by design and game combat mechanics.
Magus/engi as utility melee specs can do, but your utilities force you to move a bit differently then regular aoe dps. Can work and its better then rdps, healers or tanks, but still suboptimal.