Originally Posted by Glass

Just a side note: I would love to see some of the alliance raiders who are used to having paladins, start running thier groups with no paladins and substitute shaman instead just to get a taste. It just boggles the mind (from a horde perspective) to see someone say they've never had to worry about aggro. Make sure you run a group with shaman that drops soe and wf at all times and make sure you have no paladins.

A few months before they announced the paladin/shaman availability a buddy of ours (we all work together) who is in an alliance raiding guild (and has never played horde aside from herbing alts) actually said to us "paladins don't make that big of a difference, you wouldn't even notice". We could have slapped him. Nevermind the fact that my first 60 was a paladin and I was in a guild with him...

We asked him how many 40 mans he'd run without paladins.. his response was "I think we did ony one time with only one paladin one time". They were on the emps in aq40 at the time (it was the highest instance in the game then). :(

Sorry to digress...