Thursday, November 13, 2008

World of warcraft paladin guide

By Kit Saunders

There is no way you could cram everything there is to know about these holy warriors by writing a world of warcraft paladin guide in just a few sentences. This is one of the most versatile of classes so there is so much to say about this class but hopefully this will give you a detailed enough overview of what it takes to be a paladin.

Paladins are a unique class that could be described as being a hybrid mix of warriors, priests and other dps classes like warlocks and mages.

While they can be best described as a hybrid class due to the fact that they display traits peculiar to those classes, the paladin uses those "borrowed" traits in a very powerful way. Some would say in a far too powerful and unfair way. At PvP they very easily hold their own and most classes find them hard to beat. They are nicknamed holy warriors as they fight like warriors but can also heal themselves like priests and druids and like warriors they can wear the hardest armour of all: plate.

Paladins excel at tanking thanks to one of their spells and abilities trees, namely: the "Protection Tree". Here, special spells available such as "Consecration", "Retribution" and "Holy Shield" contribute to allowing paladins to have very powerful tanking abilities which in some raids and instances are sought up in groups above any of the other tanking classes.

The "Retribution" tree allows the paladin to have the pick of spells and abilities that allow them to deal out lots of DPS and close combat/melee damage against their enemies. From this tree they have spell such as "Seal of Command" and "Crusader Strike" which allows paladins to be of a key role during raids.

The third ability is that of the Holy Warrior. From here they can draw from a range of spells that bestows and improves their healing power. Their healing speciality is to be able to give heals to different players in the game or their group. And also, since they can fight like warriors, they can heal themselves while fighting making them more resilient than warriors. This really does make them the most versatile class for group play where they are equally comfortable at taking the place of the Priest to heal or the place of warriors to tank. A good group will always have a paladin to back up either class or take over when need be.

Thus if you want to tank, heal and do dps without starting 3 different classes, this world of warcraft guide on paladins will have hopefully have shown you that if you fancy to do all 3 then all you need to do is to start a paladin as your next character. Their versatility in all these abilities makes them highly indispensable in groups and in end of game activities such as raids or instances paladins are classes which will always be the first choice.

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