Why do you play paly?

Classes Paladin
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Honestly for me there are many reasons.

  1. Nostalgia. It was my first character i ever played, back in vanilla. Holy in AV brings back many memories.
  2. Look. Transmogs are just great for plate wearers, and shields look cool.
  3. Utility. Whatever your role you always feel you can bring something to the team. Auras, blessings, heals.
  4. Roles. Having the choice of 3 different roles is a big PLUS. Can change role depending on my mood.
  5. More specifically, love Tank gameplay of pallys. You feel immortal. You can interrupt everything. You can pull many mobs from far distance. Avenger shield and concecration are unique to this tanking spec.
  6. Even if i struggle as Holy, i like the unique gameplay, melee healing feels something really paladinish that fits class fantasy.
  7. Cant say much about ret, never played much of the spec, but from what i tried recently im not disapointed at all.
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I can’t remember if this was cut content or if I just had an overactive imagination when I was a kid. For some reason I had believed that when WotLK was coming out, in order to create a Death Knight, players would need to “sacrafice” one of their existing characters. I had believed that your Death Knight would have different abilities depending on which class you chose to sacrafice. This led me to creating a Paladin because I wanted my character to be like Arthas. Of course this didnt happen, I probably dreamt the whole thing up. But ever since then I’ve stuck with my Paladin, The Unfallen Hero.

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I played this game before there was a World of Warcraft (when it was just Warcraft) and fell in love with the Paladin lore.

The game got me started to read the books and dive deeper in the lore. Favorite character is Turalyon, arguably the second greatest Paladin right behind Uther himself (and even that’s debatable).

Love the gameplay and the point of being a Retribution Paladin is to smite your foes and protect the weak. This is the calling of the Paladin player.

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Because I want to win all my solo shuffle games. Gotta get to 70 before the nerfs!

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This character has existed since TBC. My paladin will always be the character i first experience the game through. If Pally isn’t in a good place, neither is my game experience. I’d rather not play than give up playing my paladin.

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Actually they originally had the intent of 'sacrificing your charecter" originally with DK’s but scraped that idea.

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Fantasy. Holy knight. Big 2 h damage. Self healing, tons of armor.

Paladin in Diablo 2 was awesome. Crusader in D3 was awesome.

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I’ve always been drawn to the noble knight or holy avenger in fantasy. This was true when the only outlet was D&D and in every game that offered a similar class.

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I keep hoping one day we’ll get mop hpal shockadin back

Denounce and harsh words are the most fun i’ve ever had in the game. Pressing judgment and zooming at people :frowning:

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Heavy plate armor.

Uses swords.

Uses magic along with swordplay.

Is a knight.

That is why.

If they ever make a true arcane using swordsman class (battle mages/spell breakers, etc) i may change to that, but till then pally or DK till the end.

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I main HPal in PvP, so because apparently I hate myself.

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Because in vanilla, I liked watching movies while playing WoW…

Anyone who was there in vanilla knows what I’m talking about.

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But…but…your seal twisting!

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if you mean spending 8 hours in a single dungeon with constant wipes and running across half a zone and then thru miles of map back inside said dungeon… then yes… i know

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had this toon since vanilla… i was going to be learning the game largely alone on my husbands account, and needed to be able to hit stuff and heal myself… seemed like a good choice

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I had always thought so, but its been so long that i couldn’t remember if it was real or just my imagination.

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Melee plate wearing quasi magic using support class. Sign me up.

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I like being a versatile class good at a lot of things but not fantastic at everything and not fantastic at 1 single thing. I can heal myself or other people but we’re still slow as fk. I also get to use Ashbringer lol

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Long Arm was awesome, it was like a warrior charge for paladins

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No… it wasn’t anywhere close to that.

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