Paladin vs SK

[kaev]

Aye, Paladin Sky loot is weak.

The better of the two one-handers is race-restricted (what the fucking fuckity fuck fuck?). I do use the inferior 1-hander (or once in a while the silly Bixie Sword Blade) with an SBS when it's necessary to avoid agro, but that doesn't make it good. (I am half tempted to redo Fiery Avenger just to have a low agro 2H option.) The Wind Etched Armor pieces just barely qualify as upgrades over Valorium and besides that they drop only from poopsock favorite Noble Dojorn. The trash drop Symbol of Marr looks good when you first see it, but you soon realize that its AC/Wis/Str are far less important than HP and/or Resists on raid gear so you never wear it, as opposed to the Cleric's Weight of the Gods or the Druid's Treant Tear & etc.

In the end you have only the haste belt. There's really nothing to compare to the marvelous toys most everybody else gets. It's a nice haste belt, but while 41% haste is exciting on a pure melee it's just kinda neat on a knight who has shit for dps regardless and relies on spell-casting for agro (make it an FT3 belt and it would be exciting [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]).