MongoJerry,Jul 25 2005, 08:45 PM Wrote:It sounds like you're a rogue going up against a shaman. Yeah, rogues are on the wrong end of a rock-paper-scissors battle with a shaman. Not every opponent a rogue goes up against should be a 2-shot clothie. Shamans are very powerful PvP opponents, I agree, and a well-played shaman is *extremely* powerful. But unlike paladins, shamans can actually be killed. With paladins, groups of 5+ players will look at a paladin and go, "*Groan!* It's just not worth it!" In a one-on-one battle, a paladin can beat all classes except priests (due to mana burn) as it is. The fights just take forever. Give paladins a significant dps boost and again, there would be no reason to play anything else.
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It's largely attention span
It's very easy for most classes even one-on-one to damage a paladin to the point where s/he will bubble. Seeing a paladin bubble means they're virtually defenseless for 5 minutes unless you're melee in which case you need to make them burn BoP too.
Lay On Hands is over-rated. If there's a group of pvpers killing a paladin who has 10% life and the other protective skills on cooldown, healing to 100% only delays the inevitable for about 3 seconds
The reason players don't find pallies easy to kill in group pvp is that they don't victimise them enough. If more players had the sense to consider the bubble a red flag rather than a reason to go find someone else to kill, paladins whould be a much milder threat