Why did you roll a paladin?Follow

I am posting this because I like to have insight on what people think and this seems like people might like this post.

A few other things please don't disregaurd my new spells and abilities post to post here I am more concerned with that one.
Also I am thinking about puttting this on the other class forums but I want to see how well this does here first.

Finally for me I rolled a paladin because where else do I get to be a holy man but still run around swinging a giant axe into the face of others... =P.

Simply cuase pallys own and can pretty much take on any other class.

I've played every class up to level 20 with aspirations of gaining insight and preferences.

I deleted my other characters and turned my Paladin into my main toon shortly after.

Simply put, the Paladin is capable of fitting almost any roll in a party and seemed less of a nuisance while grinding.

I've always thought Belfs to be the coolest looking, asthetically speaking.

Part of it is an underlying messiah RP complex that demands I do good things in every scenario or medium I participate in. Give me any game, tabletop, pen-and-paper or video, and I'll be the good guys. I like being a good guy.

Part of it is the feeling you get when you pull an entire camp of mobs with the sure knowledge that you're going to win the ensuing melee.

And part of it is annoying people in world PvP by flatly refusing to die.

I also like hammers, and think that overall they're an underrepresented weapon in fantasy settings. Every hero wants a big sword and every bad guy wants an axe. Me, I prefer hitting things with blunt instruments.

That was a pimp game, I still have a snes i picked up with ffi.


FFIII was superior though.

My choice was based on all the lore in WC3. I enjoyed seeing the lore of the rise and fall of the Silver Hand (well not quite the rise...)and thought they were pretty cool. Come WoW I actually rolled a human warrior as my brother rolled an Orc Warrior, but didnt like there limited role as tanks at endgame...

Ironic that I choose to tank anyway. Bah... At least I have choice though. Take that bro.

I serve all the pain dishes I need on my rogue. He's who I log onto when getting hit by big musclebound bad guys gets tiring. Or when I just feel like ambushing someone.

Original description lead one to believe Paladins could deal good damage, and that was true early on. Not so much at the upper levels (hence why I said I found it to be lacking later on).



/QFT, those Wretched mana suckers, well, suck >.>

I played a Rogue in PvP before TBC.. nuff said.

"If you can't beat em, join em."

I started playing a Pally because at the time no one really knew what any of the classes were capable of. The play-style philosophies hadn't been worked out yet, and you saw many a Paladin mindless melee away with a 2H and Seal of the Crusader up for the faster attack speed. As all classes refined, so did mine. We got shunted over into the role of a healer. I did a fair bit of tanking early on as well, but the tools to put us on par with Warriors just weren't there at the time so it worked fine in lesser content, but when you had to start competing for that slot.. It just wasn't going to happen.

Had I known that Paladins would be restricted to healing, and tanking lesser content when a Warrior wasn't available I probably wouldn't have made my first one for a little while. I did get into healing however and ended up levelling 2 to 60.

With TBCs talent revisions I got my wish. One of my Pallies respecced Protection and became my main (though I was REALLY a Horde player, I only played Alliance for the Pallies) up until I quit WoW.

I returned and rolled a pair of BE Pallies, one Protection (current main) and one Holy and levelled them both to 70. I rolled THESE ones because I wanted to tank Hordeside, which has been my major occupation since.

I've got to say though... I wish we got the equivalent of Diablo II's "Zeal" for Paladins... I replaced my standard attack left-click with that back then... Imagine swinging 20 times at all targets adjacent to you every time you attacked :D

My buddie had broght his laptop over for a year to let me play (I too was a huge Diablo II LOD player), everytime he left, "Sim - you have to get this game". He was speaking of WOW.

I lvld a rogue to 17, a lock to 18 and a warrior to 22. Blah.

What it came down to was a conversation that I had with a friend of mine who started playing at v1.0. The great Triangle. Healer - Tank - Dps

Everyone loves a killer. Everyone needs at tank and healer. Still holds true now at v2.4 I can log on with either priest or pally and say Tank or Heals lfg and get spammed with 4-7 pst in moments. Probally 'cause most players just want to dps.

Why a Paladin?
Just do it.
Dish out the damage, Heal the group, pull 5 mobs and spit on the dead bodies.
Everytime I log onto my Shammy, I have fun.
Everytime I log onto my Priest, I love the crowd.
Everytime I log onto my Pally, I feel like James Bond after girl #4!!!
Nobody does it better!!!

I leveled my first toon to about 30 and that was my Hunter. That was before I even knew the AH existed and Stormwind still had the "gate" closed on Bonechewer, which is an old realm.

I left the Hunter as I was so confused and the core group I played in had only a paladin as a healer, and all melee classes. I did not want to play a mage and so started a Shadow Priest. Since the Pally was a Holy spec it worked perfectly 90% of the time. 70 levels later and TBC ruined PvP for the Shadow Priest as nothing scaled properly.

Then came along my Rogue, who is sitting at 68 right now as being played on and off again. She was rolled to just melee dps, but has been surpassed by my friend who got his rogue to 70 before me, making her semi retired until I feel like getting her to level 70 for Arena fun.

Now I am power leveling a Paladin as we speak. Lots of fun, still can heal, and when it comes to grabbing mobs and having fun, there is not much better. Nothing like soloing melee mobs with Ret Aura, Shield Spike, Consecration, Blessing of Sanctuary, Reckoning, and Redoubt to just make your screen fill up with tons of numbers. I took a screenshot of my lvl 41 paladin taking on 9 mobs at once and what the screen looked like. Many have become Pally Envious due to that pic and to this day some do not realize the strength of a paladin. I will say that they are fairly slow to level at times, but they are damn fun when solo or paired with one other toon. Hoping to get him to level 58 in the next week or two to head over to TBC.

Many times over :)

Most recently I was in Magister's Terrace and the DPS all died like scrubs at 25% on Kael. Was just myself and my Paladin healer. We kept healing each other through the air phase, keeping our mana up, then beat on Kael/used Hammer of Wrath when on the ground. We managed to kill him leaving the DPS completely stunned and speechless. A very proud moment nonetheless :)

This same healer helped me widdle down Prince in Karazhan basically by myself from about 8%. There were 2 DPSers alive, but they were OOM most of the time so the only other DPS outside mine was the Mage wanding with a spell here and there from the Mage and Elemental Shaman.