Paladins...is it as bad as they say?

[MongoJerry]

Ah, but you're not trying for a takedown, you're trying to force a bubble. If your team is aggressive towards paladins, but only till the bubble then all refocus it is an effective tactic

Once you get into the rythym of it you'll find that often in trying to force a bubble you'll meet a pally with bubble on cooldown and get a kill instead

Yeah, that's definitely true. If there's nothing else immediately taking my attention (say, a paladin leads a group so the rest of the party hasn't quite engaged yet), I do like to damage a paladin a bit with a mind blast and I like it when I see a hunter or mage throwing a shot in or two in just to let a paladin know that he or she can't walk around with impunity. It's especially a bonus if we can force a bubble. The easiest "force a bubble" technique is simply sheeping the paladin. So many paladins instinctively bubble themselves out of sheep even when in a party with other dispellers. If they do that, then that paladin will be a sitting duck 12 seconds later. A good paladin will be patient and willing to wait for a dispell and only bubble out of sheep when the situation is particularly dire. Of course, this is assuming that one is playing with a group that knows to dispell as much as possible (spamming decursive a couple of times between heals and attacks is so powerful). If it's a pickup group, then your mileage will vary widely.