What is with paladins and hammers?

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Didn’t Turalyon, the first paladin introduced in Warcraft 2, used a sword?

How did we turn into throwing magical hammers, spinning magical hammers, and hammer meteors?

Traditionally in real life, paladins are members of the knights of the round table, you rarely see medieval knights wielding hammers instead of swords.

In dungeons and dragons and other fantasy games, while paladins divine weapons can be hammers, it still tends to be a sword.

How did we go all in on Uther with his hammer wielding ways?

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Maces and blunt weapons are usually better for fighting the Undead, as stabbing them with a sword or cutting off a limb won’t stop them, but crushing them into pieces will.
Maces are also better for fighting heavily-armored opponents as it allows one to collapse in the plate armor, since you likely won’t be able to stab through it.

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The hammer is a symbol of justice and righteousness.

Early D&D Clerics had hammers, there was a thing about not being able to draw blood, so no swords, but blunt weapons were ok.

Also balancing early RPG games was easier having support types have weapons that did less damage than say swords.

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I hate to be that guy but Uther was the first Paladin.

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Priests use maces rather than swords.

Paladins are just combat-trained Priests.

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It’s judge gavel iconography. You know how it is.

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Because seeing Holy Light-infused flying hammers is COOL!! :heart_eyes::sunglasses:

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Skeletons have DR vs swords.

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External bleeding bad.
Internal bleeding good.
Got it.

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Ah yes. The bloodless art of bludgeoning. An elegant weapon for a more civilized age.

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Uther was the first paladin I believe. He has to my knowledge always used a hammer.

Turalyon I think also used a hammer until Doomhammer struck down Anduin Lothar and took up his broken sword.

The Paladins of Lordaeron traditionally use hammers and mauls, though some do use swords. This has to my knowledge always been a thing.

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Better question is when did paladins start doing damage from across the room? Conjuring up a giant sword from the earth seems like deep mage territory, to me.

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They should add Negan’s bat Lucille to the game :popcorn:

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im more of a sword and shield person myself

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Its because when they bubble and escape from you, they like to dance and sing a few lines of “Cant Touch This” during the hearth cast time.

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Oh is the guy that thinks paladins using hammers is “lore-inaccurate” because “real life paladins” didn’t use them back?

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I always thought that was a silly rule.

Bash in someone’s skull with a hammer and there will definitely be a lot of blood.

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Its the reason my paladin is a dwarf all those hammer abilities fit them great. However zandalari and blood elfs not so great

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ORCISH BLASPHEMY!

(By that I mean it’s blasphemous, having a human male paladin doing the MC Hammer parachute pants dance. Cultural appropriation at its worst.)

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I’ve always found this hilarious. If you club someone on the head with a mace you are going to be seeing plenty of blood lol.

Oh I see Arandi said the same thing heh.

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