Why play a paladin?

[Tyrrion]

I've done a bit of soloing as a Paladin. No, it isn't the best, but I feel like I'm soloing better than I did as my monk many many years ago. With a good enough weapon, your damage is more than capable of killing something solo, and your ability to self heal (don't forget bandaging to 50% to save mana) puts you ahead of other melee classes as far as soloing is concerned. Undead are especially easy to solo once you have the undead nuke, but they will drain your mana rapidly.

Will you be soloing like a druid or bard, quad kiting things 5 levels above you? No, but you aren't the worst soloer once you have spells.

EDIT: Before I get flamed to shit, I just want to point out I'm still only level 23, my monk in classic was 38, so no, I don't know what its like to solo at 52 or whatever.