How important is Haste for a Paladin leveling up?

[Smalls]

For a Paladin that tanks and occasionally solos, is a Haste item extremely important to have in comparison to a Warrior, SK, or other melee class?

[radditsu]

Things die faster. Its kinda a big deal.

[Heavenzoutcast]

Haste is a good addition to any Melee. If you can get your hands on an item I'd suggest you do it. If not, make sure your geared and start saving for one. Myself, I focus Gear > Weapon > haste. Obviously spells are in there as well and you should get them when you can.

[Yoite]

its not that big of deal, you main threat is from flash of light and stuns. Your weapon and offensive skills are not as good as rogue/monk/war which results in bad dps.

Haste helps, but its not required by any means

[Alanus]

Leveling up on live, I didn't have a haste item until well after I reached 60 (max at the time). It's not a huge deal, and certainly helps, but your DPS is low anyway and it won't make a huge difference.

I never saw the appeal of FBSS since it had no other stats (and as a paladin, my DPS sucked anyway), and never had luck on any high-end haste item. I ended up winning a roll on an ebon mace which I traded for a RBG, which was nice.

[Nightbear]

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

Things die faster. Its kinda a big deal.

[Kekephee]

One thing I never understood on live was the willingness of tanks to throw away stats and AC for haste items like FBSS. Having a 0ac, 0 stats belt because it gives 21% haste always seemed to me to do more harm than good. You're tank; above all else, you need tank stats. That said, once you can get your hands on haste items that DO have ac and stats, that shit is indispensable. Like someone else said, your aggro mainly comes from flash of light and stuns (especially after Velious hits) but faster kills are, you know, important.

[captnamazing]

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

One thing I never understood on live was the willingness of tanks to throw away stats and AC for haste items like FBSS. Having a 0ac, 0 stats belt because it gives 21% haste always seemed to me to do more harm than good. You're tank; above all else, you need tank stats. That said, once you can get your hands on haste items that DO have ac and stats, that shit is indispensable. Like someone else said, your aggro mainly comes from flash of light and stuns (especially after Velious hits) but faster kills are, you know, important.

It's worth mentioning that on p99 you almost need a haste item to hold aggro over all the twinks

[kaev]

When you're stuck soloing it helps by increasing the chance the mob will die before you fall asleep at the keyboard. Likewise when you're in a group without any decent damage dealers. Other than that, upgrading your damage output from terrible to mostly terrible doesn't make a whole lot of difference.

Haste is strictly the cherry on top for a sensible (i.e. grouping) Paladin. Make sure you've got a top quality banana (weapon), plenty of ice-cream (AC), as much whipped cream (HP) as you can get, and maybe some tasty crushed nuts & candy sprinkles (resists, esp. MR), before you worry too much about the cherry on top. Hell, having a good 1-hander+shield combo in addition to your primary 2-hander (or vice versa) is likely to be more useful than haste.

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

Things die faster. Its kinda a big deal.

Sadly, you're not going to see much of anything die noticeably faster from a ~1% (or less [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]) increase you'd see in a good group's damage output.

[Quineloe]

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

One thing I never understood on live was the willingness of tanks to throw away stats and AC for haste items like FBSS. Having a 0ac, 0 stats belt because it gives 21% haste always seemed to me to do more harm than good. You're tank; above all else, you need tank stats. That said, once you can get your hands on haste items that DO have ac and stats, that shit is indispensable. Like someone else said, your aggro mainly comes from flash of light and stuns (especially after Velious hits) but faster kills are, you know, important.

we are talking about an item that gives you 20% more dps as an auto attacking paladin. What belt would possibly out-do 20% dps?