Curious why is paladin's the least played class?

[Shift]

I feel we are the most hated out of all classes to be played.

I don't see why people would not give a paladin a chance.

1. We can heal ourselves
2. We can tank
3. We can hold aggro by snapping FoL or rotating stuns.
4. We are a pretty versatile can handle ourselves against undeads, also not to shabby against normal mobs.

What is your opinion on why paladins are not played or why you play a paladin.

But I would say our class is pretty needy, gear dependent.

[nectarprime]

they are the cuck class

[Jauna]

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

I don't see why people would not give a paladin a chance.

The hybrid penalty being around for like 5 years
No real discs, believe me when you go Defensive Disc its hard going back. Also Precision Disc is baller for dps
Your skills are still bugged if I remember right, meaning you still have less defense/dodge/parry/riposte
most of your buffs are outclassed from a cleric, only need one divine strengther per raid

I went Dwarf War with starting stats into DEX and just could not go back to being a knight, and I played a Paladin on Live until Underfoot xpac

[azeth]

jack of all, master of none

not the best healer
not the best tank
not the best dps
not the best buffs

etc...

[Thulack]

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

jack of all, master of none

not the best healer
not the best tank
not the best dps
not the best buffs

etc...

[Danth]

Oh, and don't get down on yourself Kshift. Your paladin is a pretty useful character for a person in your specific position in an up-and-coming guild. The class acts as an adequate tank for lower-end raids, it can rez people, and it brings a buff no other class brings (divine strength).

Danth

[Danth]

Tank classes aren't very popular across the board. Shadow Knights are only marginally more popular than Paladins--still typically about third or fourth from the bottom--and even Warriors are mid-range at best. Paladins are at their best tanking for normal groups. That's their specialty. They're lousy solo, not spectacular as a duo class, and not hugely important in high-end raids. As it so happens most folks on P1999 pick their class with those latter concerns in mind. In so many words, Paladins are unpopular because they're great at a job most folks don't care too much about.

Response for Azeth: Paladins aren't an all-around class. Druids are an all-around class and consistently the most popular class online at any given time of day, year after year. Paladins are heavily specialized towards the group tank job and not great at much else.

Danth

[joppykid]

I played one on Live. Had blast and I know Ill get some shit for this but the Slay Undead AA's were awesome. I would hit for 14k with a fabled tantor's tusk.

[yorumi]

It wouldn't even call it min/maxers paladins are just so far outclassed by anyone else. Try playing a warrior for a bit and you'll cry at how much more powerful the warrior is. Dual wield, triple attack, better accuracy, defensive, crits/crips, more hp/defense, etc. Heck unless I missed a clicky somewhere paladin is the only class that can't invis without using charges. Speaking of procs/clickies warrior gets all kinds of things like fear, snare, heal, invis, lifetap and more.

Even SK, while still suffering from knight problems has it better. Fear, snare, tap, feign death, invis, tap proc, ac tap, racial bonuses.

I play and enjoy a paladin but it's pretty obvious why it's not a popular class.

[Erati]

I have a 60 Druid/Clr/Paly/Rogue/Wiz (yikes)

When parking out for raids, I typically park the Cleric/Rogue/Wiz and even when theres a zillion mobs in window- I just can never find a real good use of where to park poor Eratou.

so now he lives in Karnor's Castle - ready to assist with tanking the newly 3 day VS in a jiffy - except - with no Evasive disc, VS procs on him way too much to tank it without a good supporting raid and my wizard is actually way better class to assist on a VS kill anyway!

Poor guy - he used to dominate in Howling Stones/Sebilis Crypt. Duoing the Hierophant with my shaman friends was some of the best P99ing I have gotten to experience, great mix of dangers and rewards.

Don't get me wrong Paladins are still great though, I love mine and will keep gearing him out. I just find it hard to select him over my other choices. Being a lvl 60 tank with the ability to res is very clutch and Velious offers so much new 'group' content that a Paladin/Shaman can pretty much take on most of Velious on their own whether it be Sirens Grotto or Western Waste Dragons.

Paladins sadly get crushed trying to Rampage tank high end raid mobs like Vindi and even in Halls of Testing you have to have a CH chain running on them to perform their duties.