Palidin DPS Follow

Were they the tanks? Prot pallies with all their thorns effects do good overall damage while they tank. If they were Ret, dunno, Ret is good, but shouldn't really beat out a fury warrior.

Pally DPS isn't bad, it's just not exciting or super high. It's steady... auto attack steady.

At your level is really the highest damage output of Paladins which can be higher than other classes at the time if played right. Remember whenever pretty much anyone says a blanket statement like that like "Ret Pallys can't dps" they usually mean at 70.

This I agree with. The 'loladin' mentality is just another example of how much inertia people's thinking really has. Warlocks were at one stage horribly overpowered; in my opinion they've been brought back into balance, particularly since they have no chance against most melee classes, but people still moan as if Warlocks are still the unstoppable killing machines they were at the start.

Retribution Paladins basically require Windfury. Due to Seal of Command (or SoB if you use that) they scale better than most classes with Windfury and it'll land them solidly in the top3 on the meters if they go all-out.

Protection Paladins... man they are awesome. Got adds? No problem, just tank the whole lot. Even their weakness vs casters can be solved with a bit of gear, once you're over the post-70 gear hump and into Karazhan gear a Protadin is an absolute premier tank. Warriors I still think are better on bosses, but you cant beat a Paladin for trash encounters.

As prot i usually pull 700dps for the entire instance in heroic bot and heroic shattered halls, but those are both very prot pally friendly instances(esp bot if you have a priest to mc a mender for that +295 spell dam buff for 30min).

I did a heroic BF run as ret a couple nights ago, averaging about 490dps. I'm mostly in blues. There's several youtube vids floating around of ret pallys doing 1900-2000dps in sunwell.

In short, your ramps pally just sucked.

Palys specced/played/geared right can put out great DPS leveling. This plateaus at 50 or so, when other classes REALLY start to overtake Palys. Again with the right conditions though, a Paly can continue to put out some pretty aggressive numbers even after 50 and into Outlands, and up into raids. It is difficult to do so though, despite the ease of playing a Ret Paly, but it can be done.

If it sounds interesting to you, of COURSE you should roll one. If you like it, cool, if not, at least you tried it!