Paladin: Erudite or High Elf

[Xaanka]

it's safe to say you can ignore the posts about not having enough strength since velious is around the corner...
half elf tunare -> high elf tunare -> other for a casual player
human has the coolest and most paladin-like velious plate models
dwarf is min/maxy if you have the time to get an epic
erudite just kind of sucks, which is a shame because I love erudites.

[webrunner5]

Female Dwarf Pally with a Beard or go home. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Swish]

High elf if its definitely one of those two races, and go Tunare for Nature's Defender later on [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[williestargell]

Nature's Defender is a factor. 45AC on one item will always be a factor on a class who's primary duty is to tank.

High Elf is my race of choice. Best class for wisdom, good racial crafted armor, fun newbie area with crushbone. ND is just the capper.

[Daldaen]

Losing Epic bash is rough when going to ND though. Atleast when fighting casters.

If you want stats for tanking usually shield and 1hs is the best combination for that.

[Sage Truthbearer]

I always like seeing Erudite Paladins as Prexus is an awesome Paladin deity and Erudites look sick in plate.

But either way, just pick whichever one you think looks better. I definitely wouldn't put an item like ND over aesthetics.

[maskedmelon]

Originally Posted by Faywind [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

but Erudite seems pretty cool as well with the Erudite Pally Shield.

Any Paladin veterans out there that can chime in with their experience?

Thanks!

SotSS is fantastic, but mildly depressing at the same time. It is so cheap you can pick one up early on and it is of great benefit in shrinking (but not eliminating) the base stat gap between Erudites and other races. The downside is that it marginalizes all other held items. Once you have one there is not much in the way of upgrades for weapons. 2h are off the table until epic and even then, epic is not that large of an upgrade from RoF + SotSS

[Jimjam]

Prexus always seemed like quite a vengeful god to have paladins.

Then again, Erudites are self-righteous it is surprising the heretics don't have paladins of Cazic Thule!

[Vertiggo]

With velious around the corner. Steelsilk armor is solid pally gear. Also crustacean will be everywhere so strength and stamina won't be a problem

[Kennie]

Dwarf. No contest.