Curious why is paladin's the least played class?

[Erati]

I have a 60 Druid/Clr/Paly/Rogue/Wiz (yikes)

When parking out for raids, I typically park the Cleric/Rogue/Wiz and even when theres a zillion mobs in window- I just can never find a real good use of where to park poor Eratou.

so now he lives in Karnor's Castle - ready to assist with tanking the newly 3 day VS in a jiffy - except - with no Evasive disc, VS procs on him way too much to tank it without a good supporting raid and my wizard is actually way better class to assist on a VS kill anyway!

Poor guy - he used to dominate in Howling Stones/Sebilis Crypt. Duoing the Hierophant with my shaman friends was some of the best P99ing I have gotten to experience, great mix of dangers and rewards.

Don't get me wrong Paladins are still great though, I love mine and will keep gearing him out. I just find it hard to select him over my other choices. Being a lvl 60 tank with the ability to res is very clutch and Velious offers so much new 'group' content that a Paladin/Shaman can pretty much take on most of Velious on their own whether it be Sirens Grotto or Western Waste Dragons.

Paladins sadly get crushed trying to Rampage tank high end raid mobs like Vindi and even in Halls of Testing you have to have a CH chain running on them to perform their duties.