Why do you play paly?

Classes Paladin
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Because its the closest i can find to a battlemage

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Always liked helping others in MMOs. Started in EQOA as a pally, went to EQ2 as a pally, made a COH hero as close to a pally as I could, and eventually made it to WoW. Started playing a pally 1 month after vanilla launch. Was trying to be a tank, but if you remember Pallys weren’t tanks in the beginning. So I put on as much tank gear as I could find, used engineering bombs, and just put out as much damage as I could to hold aggro. Made people count to 5 before attacking. Good times.

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23

How about enh shaman for battlemage

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Because they’re the heart of the Alliance. Excalibur. Also I’m a plate wearer. Can you imagine being dressed in cloth and carrying around a purse? That’s no way to live.

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Have played Pally since pallies were pallies. Can’t get past their tool kit. Plate wearing healing class with shiny lights. Yes please.

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I play pala because:

  1. I main tank and Prot is the meta.
  2. Ret is a 2 brain cell spec, which is perfect as an off-spec for a tank like me.
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one of the laziest healer in wrath, and never looked back on my warrior again lel

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That’s Enhancement bro

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When you think battle mage, you think of a sword using arcane fighter.

Shamans neither use swords, nor arcane. And with totems, they lack the sophisticated feel of a studied in the magic arts fighter that seeks battle to test their skills.

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Being the DPS or Tank that could save the party the most often from facing the consequences of their mistakes, namely carrying dungeon healing as tank or helping plenty with blessings as any spec, really fits my help who needs it personally. Some Pally tanks Ive heard complain about healing the other tank in raid or the whole group in M+ but I get great satisfaction from WoGing someone knocking on deaths doorstep back to full health in a second and being able to Brez my healer in higher keys if they stand in the fire to finish a needed cast on someone. Having a plethora of interupts helps on raid trash, some boss mechanics and M+. As Retribution if the tank can stand somewhat still, putting a huge mob through the divine storm blender is very satisfying. The Retribution PVP experience is more often bad than good, but when I make a positive impact for the group I get a rush.

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I don’t remember the name of the video but it was about how ret had so much time in their rotation they could be using their other hand while watching “movies” right?

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Love paladin theme, love plate, love shields and 2 handed classes, and love paladin transmogs.

Just got into retail in past 2 weeks hit 70 and started doing M+ and the raid. I was very wrong about DF it’s really fun I quit playing classic because of it now.

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I liked the shiny spell animations, was looking for something less squishy than my mage (so, basically, any other class), and I liked being able to heal myself.

I also like the lore around pallies; wish they would do a little more class quests.

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I was mooooo’ved by the spirit.

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35

i thought about it but i really dont like enhancement the abilities being all nature type and the spells just look meh to me, And they cant be tanks

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Id say paladins kit fits way better to the battle mage image then an enhancement shaman, now if they didnt limit the shaman on weapons so much and made the tree better id consider an alt.

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played a 29 hpal back in bc. Played some prot fc in 70 xp off bgs during cata. Never liked ret i hated the downtime in the rotation. Right now tho it feels good. It can be nerfed into the ground and as long as it plays the same ill be happy.

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Wouldn’t a WotLK DK (especially Frost, back when HB was on a CD and hit hard) have gotten closer to that ideal of a “Battlemage” archetype? Or even an Enhancement Shaman today?

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I don’t anymore. My fury warrior is more fun to play.

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Well said. Salute

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