I’ve said it before but it is worth saying again here that I don’t consider paladin inferior to sk for solo. With root and DW helmet the healing potential is pretty insane. Neither will kill quickly but I imagine the downtime can’t be worse for the paladin. Fear kiting is cumbersome and requires room to do it adequately. Mana expenditure is greater and when you’re done you have to Med that mana back plus heal up. Self healing for the SK is mana intensive and only really possible in combat.
I dunno. I solo’d a large chunk of my 55-60 in tight quarters (no room for fear kiting) fighting dark blue mobs. Calm line made for safe and relatively simple pulls. Helmet healing meant mana expenditure per mob was a calm or 2 and a root or 2. Kills were not super fast but I averaged a dark blue kill every 4-6 minutes (factoring in medding) with only self buffs and mana free helmet healing.
Point is I could xp solo faster than a full group. Really the only setups I found truly faster were duo with a necro/mage (necro better but neither need outside buffs/haste) or trio with a shaman and another high dps melee. A unicorn group with me a cleric and enchanter would obviously have been best, but let’s face it ... the ench/clr duo wouldn’t need a third so that opportunity never arose.
Paladin solo capability is significantly underestimated. It’s not flashy in that our dps is giggle-worthy but it is consistent, steady, and reliable mob after mob with a surprisingly small amount of down time.
At 60? I’ve solo crawled seb self buffed out of boredom a few times. We bring our own heals, buffs, single pulls, stuns, cc etc. 59 and on we can even rez ourselves when we fuck up.
Very enjoyable class.
Ps: I still enjoy playing my warrior the most.
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