>Out of the 58 people currently on at the moment that I can
>see, I would guess that at least 50% of them are warriors. In
>fact, I see one Invoker, one AP, one Druid, and a random
>assortment of other classes. The second most played classes
>that are visible are thieves and assassins.

Emphasis is mine; this is part of your answer.

As for the rest, warriors are most likely the most customizable class in the game by a wide margin. An axe/mace fire giant warrior is going to play very differently from a sword/hand fire giant warrior, an elven sword/hand warrior will play very differently from that, and so on.

And we haven't even started talking about legacies or edges or cabals yet.

Once upon a time there was a 'mage' class on CF; over time that got broken down into various classes (invoker, transmuter, conjurer, necromancer, shapeshifter). Cleric, same kind of thing. In the case of warrior, just with the way the class evolved and the way things made sense to us, it made more sense to keep it as one very varied class rather than many derivative classes.

>It would be nice to have customizable lowbie mobs that hit
>hard in relation to how many defensive combat skills you have
> or are using at the time). This would make soloing a bit
>easier with a less combat oriented class, at least until we
>can determine if we like this class in the first place.

Soloing (to gain XP, anyway) isn't really a viable long-term strategy with any class.