Don't lie. As I said before, I actually know what a paladin is. You've got more than one ability that lends to EXPONENTIAL DAMAGE MULTIPLICATION. Reckoning and Seal of Command both do in the purest form, and talents such as Weapon Spec or Vengance do as well, although to a smaller degree.
Don't like playing by dice rolls?
Too bad, as even a warrior spamming Heroic Strike is simply waiting for you to give them the rage. The only downside to being a paladin is that you don't get to press the button - the game does it on its own when all the triggers come into place.
But let's look at caster items. First of all we can ignore +crit items unless the rest of the cloth is complete and utter #$%&, since on average +crit sucks compared to +damage, even for those lucky enough to get more than 1.5x from each crit. Mages and hunters, you know who I'm talking about. We'll go with fire simply because that's what I've seen most often.
Pulling together the highest +fire damage items we can together (including two of the same unique ring, but it did have the biggest +fire stat ><), you get a grand total of 217. That's an ideal 72 DPS, the equivilant of a paladin with attack power close to 1k.
Too bad that level of power is quite possible without giving up too many stats or needing a full set of high level gear - this paladin does it while using mostly Lightforge and Valor - while a mage would probably have their intellect left below 200, nevermind the 300, with a perfectly talored group of equipment.
Don't like playing by dice rolls?
Too bad, as even a warrior spamming Heroic Strike is simply waiting for you to give them the rage. The only downside to being a paladin is that you don't get to press the button - the game does it on its own when all the triggers come into place.
But let's look at caster items. First of all we can ignore +crit items unless the rest of the cloth is complete and utter #$%&, since on average +crit sucks compared to +damage, even for those lucky enough to get more than 1.5x from each crit. Mages and hunters, you know who I'm talking about. We'll go with fire simply because that's what I've seen most often.
Pulling together the highest +fire damage items we can together (including two of the same unique ring, but it did have the biggest +fire stat ><), you get a grand total of 217. That's an ideal 72 DPS, the equivilant of a paladin with attack power close to 1k.
Too bad that level of power is quite possible without giving up too many stats or needing a full set of high level gear - this paladin does it while using mostly Lightforge and Valor - while a mage would probably have their intellect left below 200, nevermind the 300, with a perfectly talored group of equipment.