Paladin Build

[mjdoom]

That still doesn't answer why you'd choose a Paladin over a Warrior if you want to tank to the best of your ability.  It just seems like it'd be much more efficient to be a Warrior for tanking, especially if you aren't going to be healing.

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If a pally can closely approximate a Warrior's tanking ability he has a few advantages. He can heal in a tight spot; and also, if things go south he has a higher chance of being able to survive and rez the entire group.

That being said, I'm not necessarily saying a pally is a better tank than a warrior. On the contrary, I'm fairly certain for pure tanking a well played warrior will be superior. I'm just saying I think it might be fun to play a pally tank and see how it can do. I have dreams of a good high level shield and Blessing of Sanctuary reducing damage by a significant amount and allowing me to take a lot of damage (and being nigh invincible against lower level mobs). A dream it may be, but it still sounds like fun. I can find another class if I want to be a dps monkey. :D

As to another comment in this thread. One reason why I skipped parry is because a parry will decrease my proc rates on a few things like Retribution Aura and the Holy Shield. By taking the points in something like defense instead it still reduces my damage from every hit (which I will be taking many) while allowing things to proc more often.

I'm still not really certain how +defense works but it seems to have a correlation to level, that is defense goes up by 5 each level and in order to get max effectiveness you want to keep it close to max. Even though some calculations are based on relative levels it seems to me like an extra +5 defense is like being one level higher for all "defense" calculations. Along with some items that increase defense this seems like it might be a useful addition to aid in damage reduction.

- mjdoom