2010-12-12, 07:21 AM
Don't ditz the Paladins until you've been around them long enough, used one, and been there and done that, whatever it may be.
Paladins actually have been highly favored over Heroes in a lot of Boss runs and PQs for one simple reason. Rage overrides Onyx Apples. Paladins and their subclasses only have Threaten which a dozen or so versions back started working on bosses. A weakened boss does less damage mind you. The recent balance prior to BB changed Threaten from a preset number based status attack to a percentage based status attack.
Plus Heaven's Hammer always did a huge chunk of Maximum damage 199,999 (new post-BB has yet to be accurately calculated since the damage cap was increased) to every monster on the field. This meant every 20 seconds a Paladin could smash a huge chunk of HP off a boss where normally damage was going at 55,000 ~ 100,000 points even with rapid firing techniques. Plus HH has one nasty and sneaky ability less known. It cuts through and bypasses two skills used by monsters... Damage Reflection and Damage/Magic Block.
Now granted not all bosses have an elemental weakness like Pianus does with Fire or Ergoth with Holy, but the element charge does have one distinct advantage over Combo Charge and Berserk. Element Charge doesn't require hits to boost it's power, nor does it require crippled HP levels.
I always called Paladins one thing:
A Walking Death Machine.
Brute force is one thing, but finding weaknesses and exploiting them is so much more fun and sadistic. And if it doesn't have a weakness, just take out the good ol' giant hammer and beat it to death.
Paladins actually have been highly favored over Heroes in a lot of Boss runs and PQs for one simple reason. Rage overrides Onyx Apples. Paladins and their subclasses only have Threaten which a dozen or so versions back started working on bosses. A weakened boss does less damage mind you. The recent balance prior to BB changed Threaten from a preset number based status attack to a percentage based status attack.
Plus Heaven's Hammer always did a huge chunk of Maximum damage 199,999 (new post-BB has yet to be accurately calculated since the damage cap was increased) to every monster on the field. This meant every 20 seconds a Paladin could smash a huge chunk of HP off a boss where normally damage was going at 55,000 ~ 100,000 points even with rapid firing techniques. Plus HH has one nasty and sneaky ability less known. It cuts through and bypasses two skills used by monsters... Damage Reflection and Damage/Magic Block.
Now granted not all bosses have an elemental weakness like Pianus does with Fire or Ergoth with Holy, but the element charge does have one distinct advantage over Combo Charge and Berserk. Element Charge doesn't require hits to boost it's power, nor does it require crippled HP levels.
I always called Paladins one thing:
A Walking Death Machine.
Brute force is one thing, but finding weaknesses and exploiting them is so much more fun and sadistic. And if it doesn't have a weakness, just take out the good ol' giant hammer and beat it to death.