Making a reaver tank as my main character and although I'm only in the hinterlands and my only skills are SnS+Vanguards, SnS is extremely fun atm. Far beyond what I thought. Note that I'm playing on nightmare.
Charging bull into a crowd of mobs just wrecks them and sends them flying. Once they get back up on their feet? Shield bash their face in so hard you can almost hear their teeth being crushed as their broken bodies are slammed back into the ground a second time. Payback strike also seems to consistently knock down everyone in melee range. When these 3 skills have been used and you warcry to taunt and build guard, your charging bull with its low CD is already back in action.
As the mobs are trying to get up and ... well, do something again - anything. You charge forth again and obliterate their ranks a 2nd time. I feel that with my warrior alone, despite being a tank, I do massive damage and have tons of crowd control. Normally on nightmare that witch coven in hinterlands always makes for a reload or three on NM mode, this time SnS showed me that the offensive powers of a SnS warrior in player hands really wrecks. I simply charged in with bull charge and sent 4 mages to the ground, and proceeded to chain-knockdown them to shreds.
Never before have I used this low amount of potions and reloads on a nightmare play-through. Normally IMO the hardest part of nightmare is the first 10 levels, then it gets more manageable.
Anyway, just wanted to share this for anyone that has considered rolling a SnS warrior but feels it is vanilla or boring. Not only is it surprisingly fun, It is very - very powerful and effective. Many games has failed using shield based characters or tanks as something which is fun gameplay-wise. I am however utterly convinced and I'm just lvl6.
Another BIG factor is that with my mage and rogue, I usually have to shift around to my tank for the combat initiation. With you as the tank, you can safely use your main character alone 80%+ of the time without worrying about micromanaging your party. They will follow and do their job while you can spearhead into the enemy ranks and cause strife and discord.
Sorry if this post is kinda "bloggy" but I too have always been stopped from playing a SnS warrior due to my own misconception of how strong or fun it is. I always considered SnS warrior boring/vanilla with low damage with no fun, thinking I'd miss playing a rogue or mage instantly and just reroll.
In my case, I dont even want to touch my mages and rogues anymore 
The sound of shield bash crushing their face in while it sends them flying and then bull charging the enemy ranks into chaos is 
. "Oh, you wanted room to breathe? I'm terribly sorry but I'm not giving you guys one moment on your feet!" And that goes for terror demons too. Good luck getting off a single scream.
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