What makes a great Paladin

[maskedmelon]

1. Understand that your role is to become and remain the target of anything your group engages (provided you are the designated tank). If something is pissed at someone other than you, you are not doing your job (unless you are not tanking).
2. Learn effective cc with route. Space mobs to limit the damage you and your group take.
3. Learn the limits of root. Root can make tanking easy, but remember that you have no idea what he mob's aggrieved list looks like. If root breaks, chances are you are not at the top of the mob's hate list if that is all you have casted. Learn when not to root.
4. Help your healer out. You can spot heal casters (as well as others) with comparable efficiency. You should be taking most of the damage anyway, so help save the cleric's mana for those vastly more efficient heals.
5. Communicate. Have trouble with others breaking mez mid fight while you are just building latent aggro? Designate an alternative MA or ask group mates to follow your assist call and just blindly assist. Is someone in your group charming? Discuss their pet and kill order preference. People often prefer to charm casters for dps and it can create confusion/waste time if you start off trying to kill something that is or will in short Oder become a pet.