PVP Battle - SK vs Paladin

[Gustoo]

Level 60, if gear is a factor you can discuss.

How does a battle between these two hybrid tanks play out?

Heres mine:

Scenario 1, lots of strong PVE enemies, the SK wins because of Feign death.

Scenario 2, not many or no strong PVE enemies - I dunno. I think the paladin might win because heals land for 100%, so he gets full LOH HP boost, and all his heal spells HP boosts while the SK is partialling HT and his damage spells and his pet is rooted doing nothing.

Thoughts?

[Ret.SaxonAlex]

I think balance between SK and Paladin is fine. Sk would own a paladin though 1 on 1. But I like it that way because every class has its own purpose. It would be cool though to steal some warcraft 3 ideas where Paladin gives some aura ac bonus to group members or at least to groups members in pvp. I think paladin could be improved because Sk is still significantly better. I'm unsure though. I'm not a pvp expert. I have heard people say Paladin stun interruption is definitely capable of being significant.

[Gustoo]

Tell me how you think an sk would best a paladin? Their defense and offense are basically identical. An sk offensive spells are easily countered by paladin with great heals.

The only advantage I see here is than a sk can be a ogre so if both are geared poorly the ogre will have a big ATK bonus from the extra strength and such.

But I’m not an expert either.

[White_knight]

With mobs:
Probably SK doing FD shit.

Without mobs
Kunark era? Paladinish
Velious era? Paladin absolutely fucking destories SK.

My semi geared Paladin was used to absolutely destory 2 of the best geared (I mean dripping in BiS gear) SKs on the server, there's screenshots of them plugging at low HP somewhere.

The problem is Paladins don't have an easy "kill shot", i.e lifetaps, harm touch so can just run away from them in the open lol.

1v1 fight to death SK should mostly die.

With LoH and HoT heal, or even straight sup. heals Paladin will push out more healing then life taps, also....if they have a soulfire onboard add another 5x 2/3rd health bars, if they have have a reaper, add another 2/3rd.

[zaldaben]

if we were talking wow I would say pally over deathknight all the way but I never pvp'd on everquest. pally on wow was OP back in the day.

[Gustoo]

Zaldaben you might as well be talking about league of legends when you’re talking wow. I fully hate that game man.

White Knight, that’s kinda what I was thinking. I didn’t really think of the lack of kill shot but it seems clear that the paladins defensive abilities more than counter the SKs offensive ones.

Also I didn’t ever read your sig to see why you’re “white knight” I assumed it was a Harvey dent reference or something.

[magnetaress]

Pallies are the #1 pvp class if we aren't talking about YT.

Also Pallies get free clicky heals from Deepwater stuff. So unless the sk can keep the pressure on Pallies win every time.

Pallies melee hurts plenty. They can bow to interrupt med. And stun, blind, can be brutal if it lands.

Roots useful on pets too. [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[magnetaress]

I think EQ pallies are more OP than wow pallies. EQ pallies are straight up insane, add in the group dynamics of EQ and pallies become a work horse that just never gets anywhere fast enough for the majority of wizard players.

[Tunabros]

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

(I mean dripping in BiS gear)

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[Gustoo]

funny picture. BIS shorts.