08-25-2005, 05:09 PM
Sorry Mongo, but Paladin's are easier to kill than you think. Before the high end weapons started getting into the game, how did you kill a Priest? You ran them out of mana and they died easily enough, Paladin is the same principle.
If you either manaburn the Paladin's mana down or even have a Warlock CoT them, the Paladin is in for a world of hurt. The Paladin is even more of the eptiomy of mana = life than the Priest is. A Paladin without mana will crumple, they may not crumple as fast as a Priest, but they will still crumple.
As Quark pointed out, if you want a Pally to be a healer, they're either going to be wearing a miss-mash of items to get their mana high enough to be effective or they have to be extermely lucky and get all the Pally items that would improve their effectiveness as a healer/buffer/cleanser which is not an easy feat (running instances non-stop for nigh on a month and doing nothing but).
And if you really want to talk about overpoweredness of the Paladin, you have to also talk about the overpoweredness of the Shaman too. The Shaman has atleast 2 snare (possibly 3, can't remember for sure), the ability to remove debuffs their party, the ability to remove buffs from their opponents, the ability to counterspell every 6 seconds, the potential to be an incredible meleer (with a good one hander or two hander), the ability to get a pretty good armor level through a shield, quick heals, and on and on. While the Shaman may have to specialize in one area to get really good in that area, they're still good in their other areas and they don't have to sacrifice like a Paladin to get really good as a healer/buffer/cleanser (take a look at Thottbot sometime for plate items that would benefit a Paladin, they're pretty sparce until you get to MC).
If you either manaburn the Paladin's mana down or even have a Warlock CoT them, the Paladin is in for a world of hurt. The Paladin is even more of the eptiomy of mana = life than the Priest is. A Paladin without mana will crumple, they may not crumple as fast as a Priest, but they will still crumple.
As Quark pointed out, if you want a Pally to be a healer, they're either going to be wearing a miss-mash of items to get their mana high enough to be effective or they have to be extermely lucky and get all the Pally items that would improve their effectiveness as a healer/buffer/cleanser which is not an easy feat (running instances non-stop for nigh on a month and doing nothing but).
And if you really want to talk about overpoweredness of the Paladin, you have to also talk about the overpoweredness of the Shaman too. The Shaman has atleast 2 snare (possibly 3, can't remember for sure), the ability to remove debuffs their party, the ability to remove buffs from their opponents, the ability to counterspell every 6 seconds, the potential to be an incredible meleer (with a good one hander or two hander), the ability to get a pretty good armor level through a shield, quick heals, and on and on. While the Shaman may have to specialize in one area to get really good in that area, they're still good in their other areas and they don't have to sacrifice like a Paladin to get really good as a healer/buffer/cleanser (take a look at Thottbot sometime for plate items that would benefit a Paladin, they're pretty sparce until you get to MC).
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Einstein said Everything is Relative.
Heisenberg said Everything is Uncertain.
Therefore, everything is relatively uncertain.