How to win in CTF

[MongoJerry]

Fwiw, I don't think this was your intention Jerry but I'd suggest you drop the phrase from your vocabulary on these boards unless you want repeats of this discussion. Not that the perspectives haven't been interesting - they have - but we don't need to go through them again every time paladins come up in discussion

Peace  B)

Peace. I'll do what I can. The problem is that Divine Shield (I had to doublecheck the official name on Thotbott) is to me one of the most broken and unbalanced skills in the game. There's no way for an opponent to counter it and there's little downside to casting it (yes, I know, -50% attack speed). A paladin can even cast it while silenced or charmed, for goodness sakes. The nearest thing to it is a mage's Ice Block, but at least there the mage can't move or do any skills of his or her own. I hate it when a paladin charges toward a group of 40+ opposing players, Divine Shields, does his or her weak aoe attack, and runs back unscathed. Yes, that's a useless tactic (except if all you want to do is rack up "honorable kills"), but the fact that a person can do it at all shows that something is very wrong. I mean, if DS would just let 10% of damage in, then that would be at least be something. Or if spell costs were doubled or healing effects were halved while the shield were up, that'd be cool. But right now, all DS does is protect... people who may or may not be skilled. (I'm trying!)

Oh, boy. While doing laundry today, I finally formulated why it was that I prefered shamans over paladins in 5-man parties. It's a nice bit of analysis, but I'm afraid it might be taken wrongly in the current discussion. And anyway, I said that I would stop talking about paladins, and I'm already crossing that line. So, I'll hold off on that at least for a couple days.