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Thelyna · 05/02/07, 3:01 AM

Question for the thread then, what are the roles, in detail, of a paladin?
- BoS someone to be more or less immune to CC (excepting cyclone) - picking someone that doesn't need to have kings to survive while also taking hits
- defensive BoP ... unless you have a suicide strat I can't really see BoP being an offensive weapon.
- defensive BoF (to save someone in your group from a slowed attacker)
- offensive BoF (so your warrior or rogue can keep up with their target)
- auras, concentration aura for bad warriors/rogues (non-interrupting types, basically) and interrupt-happy teams, devotion aura for tanking warriors/rogues (when someone else is healing you and you can't get a heal off), resist auras as appropriate.
edit - I completely forgot to mention healing. Oops. Any other nuances of arena cleric-in-plate I'm missing? (I'm not counting DS, I presume that goes up the first time you drop below 30-40%.
Also, a really obvious tip some people might miss is to put Righteous Fury up every game .. another buff to eat, as well as being 6% redux if you're specced for it. Are there any other buffs beside RF+blessing that we can put up?)

-- Situation I had today was me+resto shammy+MS warrior vs. lock (unsure of spec), shadow priest and holy paladin ... with no other shadow resist, is it worth it to switch to shadow aura? exposes us to spell pushback (and full interrupts), but cuts maybe 20% off their dps. They were also silencing/spelllocking liberally. General process is they'd load the shaman and warrior up with dots with just the felhunter on me, and just explode the warrior with dots+DD. Should I bubble early, BoF the warrior (and maybe stun the opp. paladin), and hope he kills the warlock before he melts? In that situation I feel like the warlock is the linchpin in their offense, kill him and the felhunter goes away, as well as over half of their fears.

05/02/07, 3:01 AM	#17 (permalink)
Thelyna Delusions of Competency Thelein Dwarf Priest <Deus ex Crux> Dragonblight	Question for the thread then, what are the roles, in detail, of a paladin? - BoS someone to be more or less immune to CC (excepting cyclone) - picking someone that doesn't need to have kings to survive while also taking hits - defensive BoP ... unless you have a suicide strat I can't really see BoP being an offensive weapon. - defensive BoF (to save someone in your group from a slowed attacker) - offensive BoF (so your warrior or rogue can keep up with their target) - auras, concentration aura for bad warriors/rogues (non-interrupting types, basically) and interrupt-happy teams, devotion aura for tanking warriors/rogues (when someone else is healing you and you can't get a heal off), resist auras as appropriate. edit - I completely forgot to mention healing. Oops. Any other nuances of arena cleric-in-plate I'm missing? (I'm not counting DS, I presume that goes up the first time you drop below 30-40%. Also, a really obvious tip some people might miss is to put Righteous Fury up every game .. another buff to eat, as well as being 6% redux if you're specced for it. Are there any other buffs beside RF+blessing that we can put up?) -- Situation I had today was me+resto shammy+MS warrior vs. lock (unsure of spec), shadow priest and holy paladin ... with no other shadow resist, is it worth it to switch to shadow aura? exposes us to spell pushback (and full interrupts), but cuts maybe 20% off their dps. They were also silencing/spelllocking liberally. General process is they'd load the shaman and warrior up with dots with just the felhunter on me, and just explode the warrior with dots+DD. Should I bubble early, BoF the warrior (and maybe stun the opp. paladin), and hope he kills the warlock before he melts? In that situation I feel like the warlock is the linchpin in their offense, kill him and the felhunter goes away, as well as over half of their fears.