What are the Classes FOR?

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PALADIN: secondary healer/buffer/debuffer.  Was this Blizzard's intention?  Why does Paladin gear seem to shift from tank-like bonuses to caster-like bonuses as they get higher in level?  Was this because Blizzard realized over time that they couldn't make these guys be super-tankish and keep game balance?

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In my paladin related meanderings I happened across this post on the official WoW forums that, for me, sums up the class and it's inherant issues sucinctly:

http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.a...mp=1#post324520

Not that we could ever hope for this to happen.

edit: this was written before the addition of HoW and as such doesn't take said addition into consideration.