5 Pally boxing crazy?

[Vyndree]

My bro's 70 Prot. Pally in "decent" tanking gear w/ the epic Lionheart blacksmithing sword (tier 1) pumps out some decent DPS tanknig with a 2 hander (windfury totems down).

Explain to me the tanking mechanics of a Pally with a 2h.

No shield.

He's still wearing plate, and can still taunt. Thats enough a lot of the time. We only do that for trash pulls thought (as some super simple tank n spank bosses). He's got a one hander and sheild on standby the moment he needs it.

On a related note, I finally got him to dual box! woooo! (he's had two accounts forever). He's playing a warrior/shaman combo right now (below level 20) having a blast.

I'd still argue having a reflective sword and board set is more damage than a prot spec in ret gear. Get a bunch of high block rating gear and go nuts with holy shield and the lichen shield poison.

[Hippieman]

Errr... You're saying paladins can't dps, right? Ye, I think you are. Weeeell, then you have QUITE a lot of reading to do. Judgment of Wisdom = godly in raids. An extra aura (usually sancity) = +3% damage = +3% damage * 5 players. One extra blessing means a great boost, be it BoM, BoK, BoL or BoS (seeing as at least one of them are usually a max of two paladin healers in a raid).

Also, Retripaladins have the second highest burstdamage in PVP, so I fail to see how "paladins can't dps". If you know your class you'll outdps a lot of people. Heck, I was the top dpser as a bloody PVP specced Warrior in SSC, due to my slam-cycle.

So ye, I guess the epic "phail" here is your argument against paladins, as you don't have one :P

Not to mention that crusader strike refreshes all judgments on the target (for instance: 2 holy palas judge Light+Wisdom. Retadin judges Crusader and keep them all refreshed with crusader strike. Mana for casters, Hp for melee, +3% crit for everyone)

Equally geared/skilled, retadins won't top dps charts. But they won't be too far behind either and they can bring some valuable addition to any raid.


That said, dps paladins are viable. Just not for multiboxing due to the melee issue.

I beg to differ. Melee-classes have been boxed together before and they will again. A five-palla team is quite doable in my opinnion, though it WOULD, as mentioned, require more logistisc, yet it's just as viable as any other setup. PVP-wise, though, I wouldn't bet on it, unless you want four shockadins and one retripaladin (which would be kinda awesome, epic burst-damage, pewpew :thumbup.

[thinus]

Ya that makes perfect sense, ive been in parties where the tank was a 70 arms/fury war with a 2hander. Did the whole instance that way (UB and SV) while I mainhealed (feral druid healing set ftw lol) @67, and the the rest was 3 rogues lol! It was really funny and fun. Didnt wipe once.

/derail on

Funniest group I was in was a normal Shadow Labs run with a ridiculously geared completely intoxicated druid (guildie), me (rogue, Kara+ gear) and 3 PuGs. All through the run he would say stuff like "What is aggro? What is taunt? Do you think I got a good deal on ebay?"
He would tell the mage to sheep the X and then he would charge the X and tank it. He popped out of bear with 3 mobs on him on a regular basis to heal himself. I think it was a miracle that we didn't wipe. Extremely funny though. The PuGs were really quiet through the entire run, can only guess what they must have been thinking lol. Tank shortage means beggars can't be choosers though haha

/derail off