12-11-2005, 05:34 PM
What does posting count and how many posts a person have to do with the quality of someone's opinion?
FYI -MJ's as bad as Sirian was when he was decrying PvP in D2. So how long I've been lurking has nothing to do with it.
As for strong opinions - I'm used to posting on the FoH boards, where debate is pretty vigorous.
Anyway, someone mentioned in this thread about Shaman's being far better as healers and damage dealers. I never said I wanted Paladins to be damage dealers first and healers second. However, Shaman are _good_ healers quite naturally. A paladin's base flash heal is 343-383 or so. 115 more with blessing of light. And before you say, please use holy light - how many times do you use Healing Wave? Exactly. Want to complain about mana efficiency? Irrelevant - you can use lower ranks of LHW to achieve the same effect at slightly increased cost as Flash of Light.
Furthermore - it's a LOT easier for a shaman to add meaningful damage to a fight. Flash heal, shock, flash heal, shock, Lightning bolt-shock. All while staying within 20-40 yards. A paladin can run in and swing, but going in to melee is generally a bad idea. And a paladin must use a slow two-hander to do any sorts of meaningful burst damage in PvP. Why are Paladins limited to Seal of Command and slow two-handers? Why does it's mechanics demand you use as slow a weapon as possible? Why do Paladins have to focus in Strength, Agility, Stamina and Intelligence? As a shaman, you can focus in straight eagle or m/5 gear and be effective. To be effective as a Paladin you have to have stam and int, and also have a high amount of strength as well. The added 665 AP from Windfury weapon, along with the fact that it's a flat 20% proc means that you can use it with any weapon you choose and enjoy extremely powerful attacks. Paladins are stuck with using slow two-handed weapons.
PvP is all about SPEED. How FAST can you attack? How FAST can you heal? How FAST can you react to someone's strategy and counter it? Survivability is not rewarded anywhere in the game except perhaps in defending a node in AB, and GY zerg.
Someone posted that Shaman have better aggro control than Paladins, and that it's balanced because Shaman have less surviability. I call that a lie. I would rather keep a mob OFF a priest or a mage and have them live. Then I would simply Earthbind-Frost Shock kite the mob. (Which is very very possible in AQ/ZG/5man instances). That is using skill and abilities to pull cool stuff off. What can I do as a paladin?
Tell me another thing: Why is it that I have to use WhisperCast or BuffAhoy to make my gameply more enjoyable? BuffAhoy or WhisperCast doesn't make gameplay ez-mode like SpellAlert or Decursive - it just makes playing a Paladin in raids bearable. What other class has to use a mod so the game is bearable?
FYI -MJ's as bad as Sirian was when he was decrying PvP in D2. So how long I've been lurking has nothing to do with it.
As for strong opinions - I'm used to posting on the FoH boards, where debate is pretty vigorous.
Anyway, someone mentioned in this thread about Shaman's being far better as healers and damage dealers. I never said I wanted Paladins to be damage dealers first and healers second. However, Shaman are _good_ healers quite naturally. A paladin's base flash heal is 343-383 or so. 115 more with blessing of light. And before you say, please use holy light - how many times do you use Healing Wave? Exactly. Want to complain about mana efficiency? Irrelevant - you can use lower ranks of LHW to achieve the same effect at slightly increased cost as Flash of Light.
Furthermore - it's a LOT easier for a shaman to add meaningful damage to a fight. Flash heal, shock, flash heal, shock, Lightning bolt-shock. All while staying within 20-40 yards. A paladin can run in and swing, but going in to melee is generally a bad idea. And a paladin must use a slow two-hander to do any sorts of meaningful burst damage in PvP. Why are Paladins limited to Seal of Command and slow two-handers? Why does it's mechanics demand you use as slow a weapon as possible? Why do Paladins have to focus in Strength, Agility, Stamina and Intelligence? As a shaman, you can focus in straight eagle or m/5 gear and be effective. To be effective as a Paladin you have to have stam and int, and also have a high amount of strength as well. The added 665 AP from Windfury weapon, along with the fact that it's a flat 20% proc means that you can use it with any weapon you choose and enjoy extremely powerful attacks. Paladins are stuck with using slow two-handed weapons.
PvP is all about SPEED. How FAST can you attack? How FAST can you heal? How FAST can you react to someone's strategy and counter it? Survivability is not rewarded anywhere in the game except perhaps in defending a node in AB, and GY zerg.
Someone posted that Shaman have better aggro control than Paladins, and that it's balanced because Shaman have less surviability. I call that a lie. I would rather keep a mob OFF a priest or a mage and have them live. Then I would simply Earthbind-Frost Shock kite the mob. (Which is very very possible in AQ/ZG/5man instances). That is using skill and abilities to pull cool stuff off. What can I do as a paladin?
Tell me another thing: Why is it that I have to use WhisperCast or BuffAhoy to make my gameply more enjoyable? BuffAhoy or WhisperCast doesn't make gameplay ez-mode like SpellAlert or Decursive - it just makes playing a Paladin in raids bearable. What other class has to use a mod so the game is bearable?