Are Paladins really bad?

[White_knight]

Pallies are great fun. People just have the wrong approach to them.

I far more enjoy whacking merbs with my Paladin at 1/20th the kill rate of a my epic 51 shaman.

Why? Because this game has been done to the shit house for 20 years and the name of the game now is of setting challenges. I have 2 mobs left to solo in lguk on my Paladin - Lord and Frenzy to say that I have slayed the entire undead side solo using a Paladin. I have gained about 51 of my 54 levels solo, and to be brutally honest it's almost quicker to solo still with how slow some xp groups are.

Once you lose your spirit of adventure for EQ you aren't really playing EQ anymore -- you're playing a class simply because it's the easiest, most efficent path to 60 and subseqently quitting out of bordem or zerging it up for pixels that give you a .25% power increase.

Paladin's are the true EverQuest experience imho.

[Troxx]

Up to 30 on my pally and having a blast.

Are they bad? Absolutely not, you just have to know and accept their shortcomings:

-low dps
-lack of defensive

They have an impressive spell toolkit and really make for arguably the best all-around group tank for content that doesn’t require defensive. Between lulls, snap aggro, on demand root, on demand stun, buffs, direct heals, rezzes, heal over times, and LoH ... hugely versatile and highly desirable. Their dps will go up with Chardok 2.0 after they are put on same damage tables as warriors and will benefit greatly from the 2h damage bonus revamp.

If you want to raid main tank, play a warrior. Paladins are tons of fun in groups.

[bigjeff100]

My main is now a warrior, the other day we assembled a pick up group, didn't care what classes. just wanted to grind. Ended up getting a pally with me in the group, and he was so cool to have.. 2 tanks, yuck right? Nope he was awesome to have! All his utility spells, stuns, off tanking.. And we spoke proc weapons all evening long! Paladins- super cool in my books.. all classes- Super cool in my book

[Crede]

Originally Posted by bigjeff100 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My main is now a warrior, the other day we assembled a pick up group, didn't care what classes. just wanted to grind. Ended up getting a pally with me in the group, and he was so cool to have.. 2 tanks, yuck right? Nope he was awesome to have! All his utility spells, stuns, off tanking.. And we spoke proc weapons all evening long! Paladins- super cool in my books.. all classes- Super cool in my book

Any godmode group has a Pally and warrior. Pally for tanking and warrior stays in frenzy mode the whole time doin nasty cripples.

[bigjeff100]

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Any godmode group has a Pally and warrior. Pally for tanking and warrior stays in frenzy mode the whole time doin nasty cripples.

I love when a group lets me go Berzerk!

[Asteria]

Originally Posted by bigjeff100 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My main is now a warrior, the other day we assembled a pick up group, didn't care what classes. just wanted to grind. Ended up getting a pally with me in the group, and he was so cool to have.. 2 tanks, yuck right? Nope he was awesome to have! All his utility spells, stuns, off tanking.. And we spoke proc weapons all evening long! Paladins- super cool in my books.. all classes- Super cool in my book

Some really good post throughout the thread! This one is especially super cool if you don't mind me saying so BigJeff, because you are so postive but helpful and concise at the same time! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Personally, I'd play paladin for more versatility with all the spells, priceless Lay on hands saving ability once in awhile, and I like to cast buffs and be able to heal. Love how well a pally tanks exp grind groups and can do a rez when someone doesn't mind eating some exp loss or care to look for a cleric if none are close. I would seriously consider warrior though if I wanted to or had the ability to do a lot of raiding and/or had a lot of money for high quality twinking gear.

[kaev]

Originally Posted by Asteria [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Some really good post throughout the thread! This one is especially super cool if you don't mind me saying so BigJeff, because you are so postive but helpful and concise at the same time! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Personally, I'd play paladin for more versatility with all the spells, priceless Lay on hands saving ability once in awhile, and I like to cast buffs and be able to heal. Love how well a pally tanks exp grind groups and can do a rez when someone doesn't mind eating some exp loss or care to look for a cleric if none are close. I would seriously consider warrior though if I wanted to or had the ability to do a lot of raiding and/or had a lot of money for high quality twinking gear.

Haynar hates paladins (snd SKs) even more than original Verant team did. Play a higher level paladin or sk for a while and get annoyed/frustrated/ragingmad over the stupidity of missing 8 consecutive swings with your supposedly amazing epic 2hander at some shitty green-con mob sometime, then you'll begin to know what I mean.

I played paladin main on live and loved it, played paladin main here for a few years, but after an interim maining a cleric I'm now playing warrior main because warrior is 10x more fun to play than paladin on this absurdly loot-saturated and not especially classic server.

[bigjeff100]

Originally Posted by Asteria [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Some really good post throughout the thread! This one is especially super cool if you don't mind me saying so BigJeff, because you are so postive but helpful and concise at the same time! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Personally, I'd play paladin for more versatility with all the spells, priceless Lay on hands saving ability once in awhile, and I like to cast buffs and be able to heal. Love how well a pally tanks exp grind groups and can do a rez when someone doesn't mind eating some exp loss or care to look for a cleric if none are close. I would seriously consider warrior though if I wanted to or had the ability to do a lot of raiding and/or had a lot of money for high quality twinking gear.

[elwing]

Yep, in exp group, if you have a sk or pal and a war, let the hybrid tank, quicker and stronger agro and you can focus on dps/cripple berzerk...

[Sonderbeast]

Paladins are a DPS class, don't let anyone tell you different!