Without a lot of potions of healing, and damage shield, warriors were extremely hard to even think about soloing past about level 10 or so. Twinks do not count of course, that is very different. In fact, you could almost say warriors invented and refined the concept of TWINK
Honestly, *That* exact piece of nostalgia kinda sucked... On the other hand, there was a certain mystique attached to a player who went all the way to the top of the end game as a warrior because of the class difficulty.