Would rather be a priest than a paladin?
Shadow Spec Tentacles 
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Tentacles and Mind Control.
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He is a paladin.
He’s got the light and wears plate while wielding a sword.
He’s a paladin. He just has the wrong spells.
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No, he’s a priest who is beginning to multi-class as a warrior. NPC’s get to do fun things like that.
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Which is literally a Paladin.
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The armor is way lighter which has to have its advantages.
Anduin’s a priest, not a paladin. Blizz has even stated that before. Paladins are specially infused with the Light by ritual and use it more offensively than priests.
Anduin’s more of a healer than a fighter. He wears plate because he’s a king and no one’s letting their king go around with no protection, but just having armor and a sword doesn’t make him a paladin. Other characters aren’t bound by class restrictions like we are.
Which is also probably why he doesn’t take the paladin step. He was trained as a priest and is content with that. His Light style is to heal and support, not to deliver radiant justice in battle.
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he prefers to heal not fight
Ya’ll need jesus
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Go on
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He’s too dainty to lift a real sword and armor. He secretly uses cardboard props.
He literally used Mass Resurrection. A Priest spell.
Seige of Lorder----?
He’s too nice to be a paladin.
If he’s a priest…clothy…why is he wearing that heavy armor that looks what a paladin would wear. It definately isn’t cloth!
Priest.
Unless Blizzard wants to make use of “the cool rule” and change its class to paladin, in another ill-fated attempt to do something “edge” for the alliance, as it was with kultiras, junkgnomes and void belves.
Or maybe they’ll change his class to shaman to add another insult. Who knows?
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Transmog. NPC’s have no restrictions.
It’s still a lie. We don’t have those options
Where did this whole “paladins are infused with the light” saying come from? Wouldn’t that make them Lightforged, which the vast majority of pallies aren’t?
If Anduin is a Priest, then Varian must have been a Rogue.
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It was mentioned in the Arthas: Rise of the Lich King book. Here’s the passage of Arthas becoming a paladin. It’s like a lesser version of lightforging. The Light buffs their physical abilities too. Just like necromancy does for death knights.
Paladins are kind of like beacons carrying the Light, while priests are normal people and external conduits of it. Like how other caster types use their magic.
Summary
Faol gave him a quick wink of reassurance, then turned to address both the clerics and the paladins. “Brothers and sisters—you who have gathered here to bear witness—raise your hands and let the Light illuminate this man.” The clerics and paladins all lifted right hands, which were now suffused by a soft, golden glow. They pointed at Arthas, directing the radiance toward him. Arthas’s eyes were wide with wonder, and he waited for the glorious glow to envelop him. Nothing happened. The moment stretched on.
Sweat broke out on Arthas’s brow. What was going wrong? Why wasn’t the Light wrapping itself around him in blessing and benediction? And then the sunlight streaming in through windows in the ceiling slowly began to move toward the prince standing alone in shining armor, and Arthas exhaled in relief. This had to be what Uther had spoken of. The feeling of unworthiness that Uther assured him all paladins felt simply seemed to drag out the moment. The words Uther had spoken came back to him: No one feels he deserves it…its grace, pure and simple…but the Light loves us anyway. Now it shone down on him, in him, through him, and he was forced to shut his eyes against the almost blinding radiance. It warmed at first, then seared, and he winced slightly. He felt—scoured. Emptied, scrubbed clean, then filled again, and he felt the Light swell inside him and then fade away to a tolerable level. He blinked and reached for the hammer, the symbol of the order. As his hand closed about the haft, he looked up at Archbishop Faol, whose benign smile widened. “Arise, Arthas Menethil, paladin defender of Lordaeron. Welcome to the Order of the Silver Hand.” Arthas couldn’t help it. He grinned as he grasped the enormous hammer, so large that for a brief moment he thought he wouldn’t be able to lift it, and swung it upward with a whoop. The Light, he realized, made the hammer seem to weigh less in his hands. At his exultant cry, the cathedral suddenly began to ring with the sound of answering cheers and applause.
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