Arnulf,Jul 26 2005, 06:11 AM Wrote:Tanking is an option, but alas, it's severely hampered by the fact that you have only one threat-generating skill at your disposal. But tanking is effective against Undead. Stratholme/Scholomance is made easier with paladins in your group. I specced my paladin with 38 points in protection hoping that I would make a decent main tank. Unfortunately I haven't found the correct tactic yet or there is really a severe lack in talents for tanking as a paladin. If the opponents are undead melee types Holy Shield helps somewhat in keeping aggro too, but not by much.
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That is because the best skills for tanking are counter-intuitive. To be effective over multiple elites the paladin must have the mob pulled away from any CC. Then they hit the pulled mob with improved SoF and judge it with retribution aura up not with any other aura, especially devotion. The paladin also consecrates the ground and fires up seal of fury to hit the extra mobs. You then move from target to target rejudging SoF as necessary and casting holy shield. Worse comes to worse you stun a mob thats going after your healer/squishies and use blessing of protection in worse case scenarios. The group make up with a paladin as MT also must be heavy in CC and single target DPS to assist the paladin with burning the targets down without pulling aggro. A priest is almost required to be main healer behind a paladin not because of any perceived short comings with druid healing but because priests can mindcontrol and fade.