{"id":94,"date":"2010-11-04T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/15minutesofwow.wordpress.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2010-11-04T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:50:08","slug":"daily-thoughts-why-i-rolled-a-paladin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alternateimage.net\/gaming\/2010\/11\/04\/daily-thoughts-why-i-rolled-a-paladin\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Thoughts: Why I Rolled a Paladin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write a little about healing on the new resto\u00a0shaman, but I didn&#8217;t really play the resto\u00a0shaman any today. Well, I did one wintergrasp, but it doesn&#8217;t really count towards getting a grasp on my class and spec. I have a different topic in mind, inspired by a post made by a guild member that you can find the link <a href=\"http:\/\/corath.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/29\/melee-state-of-mind\/\" target=\"_self\">Corath&#8217;s Blog &#8211; Melee State of Mind<\/a>. I started to wonder, since it&#8217;s been a few years now, why a Paladin?<\/p>\n<p>My very first Warcraft toon\u00a0was actually a warrior, who since has become my 6th and most recent level 80. I played him to about level 26 back in the middle of Burning Crusade and quickly lost interest. Despite the heavy armor, I took a lot of damage and had to stop and eat often or waste gold on potions. I don&#8217;t much like stopping or wasting gold so I moved on to a class that felt like everything my warrior was &#8211; with heals. I tend to play plate-wearing burly monstrosities of power when I can in a game. Now I had a character that could not only wield a great 2 handed weapon, he wore heavy armor, hit really hard, and could keep himself alive. Perfect. This Paladin became my first max level character\u00a0shortly after Wrath launched. I played him almost exclusively for a nearly a year, dabbling only\u00a0occasionally in alts.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Naturally I ended up healing in raids, somewhat forsaking my goals of the indestructible damage dealer. Though, at that point I still enjoyed the Holy spec as a result of having the biggest single target heal in the game. I like big numbers.\u00a0I also still got to wear plate. Before 4.0.1, with my 1100+ resilience, I enjoyed taking the Paladin in ret spec into battle grounds and ignoring the odds stacked against me going up against 3 or 4 enemies alone. Fierce, oh yeah.<\/p>\n<p>If we take a quick summary of my max level characters we&#8217;ll see the trend continue.\u00a0After the paladin we had :<\/p>\n<p>Second 80 &#8211; Death Knight, also plate wearing damage dealing beast. I rolled blood spec main as dps for the self-healing. Notice a trend?<\/p>\n<p>Third 80 &#8211; Hunter. He leveled BM for the pet tanking of course. Also, mail wearing, no squishies.<\/p>\n<p>Forth 80 &#8211; Druid. Bear form anyone? And it can heal, shocking.<\/p>\n<p>Fifth 80 &#8211; Enhance Shaman. Highest armor except plate, also that self-healing thing. It does somehow feel like the enh shammy dies everytime an instance mob or boss is even aware that he&#8217;s in the room, regardless of armor type.<\/p>\n<p>Sixth 80 &#8211; Warrior. Finally the warrior got some love. Big beastly dual 2-hand weapon wielding damage dealer. I refused to go Arms spec even while leveling or when my gear couldn&#8217;t support fury. My warrior is a barbarian, not a calm trained solder. I use rage for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>All-in-all, possibly because of my first leveling experiences, I roll classes that I feel can take care of themselves well. I have the best classes for solo content, in my opinion anyway. Outside of the druid, I&#8217;ve never gotten a class that doesn&#8217;t at least wear mail over level 70. In writing this, I also notice that all of my classes are hybrid and dual spec into a utility spec (heals\/tank) except the hunter. So why a Paladin? I have options to dps, heal, or even tank. I might not beat a rogue on the damage meters, but I should beat one in a duel. I guess, I just like the flexibility and the options that rolling a Paladin brings.<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to comment your reasons for your class choices. Go ahead and link a related blog post in the comments here if you&#8217;d like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to write a little about healing on the new resto\u00a0shaman, but I didn&#8217;t really play the resto\u00a0shaman any today. 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