Naw...wisdom is king for Paladins. Sorry.
What would you rather:
having 100 more hp
Or
having an extra sup heal or cc cast? (560 hp or 700 up to 875 hot heal)
Paladins or sks arent tanking in velly. Maybe.....just maybe once one gets truely bis u might see one tank an entrance dragon in ntov or vindi but at that stage and those mobs the tanks a meat shield that just needs to survive the attack rounds (a sk/pal will have the required hp/ac at bis to do this)
Before I took time off I was at 1400ish ac 5.1k hp 2.7k mana and I regret to this day not going all wisdom because been 1400ish ac 5k hp and 2.9k mana is just 2000% better.
If you're not going all wisdom you're dumb.
Edit:
Also go highelf female for sex appeal and you start with 120 wisdom =)
Edit2:
Dont forget healing is agro too, healing helps the group over all. Showing up with a low mana paladin is detrimental to the group because why play to the weaker side of the hybrid when the strength of a paladins lays in their spells. (Fol/heals/stuns/pacs).
Edit3:
you can argue all day about sk v pal but the only time an sk beats out a paladin for group tanking is when you need a split pull even then its a marginal thing. If its 2-3mobs a paladin can pacify pull fairly effectively and if the pull goes to shit can root CC.
Sk's are the soloers tank choice; between their fds/invs etc you can do alot more item camps/exploring etc. (Also for PvP their spells/dots/ hts are goog)
Paladins are kings of group tanking hands down and by miles. Like nothing is even close to the utility a paladin brings to group as a tank -- off heals, lohs, stuns, hp buffs, insta agro with root proximity, rez's, snap agro.
Warriors obv. kings of raid tanking.
I think Brad McQuaid got the EQ tanks down great.
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