[Tuljin]

I have two quite rare class/race combos and I didn't roll them solely for the reason of being rare.

I rolled Wizard initially as a supplement to a crew of RL friends that were going to level together. My friends weren't nubs so I had a much different experience than the stereotypical Netflix approach to Wiz life and played a good majority of the old-world dungeons etc. It was a lot of fun.

I ended up playing Warrior for a while as an alt and I said to myself one day "gee, I really miss my magical powers." I would get very quickly frustrated with depending solely on others for CC and heals. After thinking about it I rolled a Paladin because he can root and its not much different than my Wizard playstyle - the only difference is he can tank. You laugh at caster mobs and tagging/stunning/pulling/CC are pretty much the same, except swap Flux Staff for Bow and add Calms.

People quit Paladin because it really is rough and many people approach it with the wrong mindset. The XP is slow and you always need a group. You don't even get your first stun spell till 30, and you don't get a second stun until 49. I once wrote a treatise on why people choose SK over Paladin and it pretty much holds true. If you really want to make the most out of Paladin you really need to have a more caster-minded approach to playing (heals, CC, calms) while sticking to your tanking 101 rules of EQ rather than your classic meathead approach to playing a melee (hence why you hear every last person who goes from monk or warrior to Paladin say that they are "awful")

Paladins do shit damage, but that's not what they're about. Of course anybody is going to be disappointed when you've been vaporizing mobs on a twinked Monk and switch over to Pally DPS. Once you grow up, get DA and Superior Healing, and you can tank any dungeon in the game you really see that Paladin is actually bad ass. Its just a very long road =)