So I've been comparing pallys and sk's

[Laelaus]

Well, im one of those people who are never satisfied with pickinga character. The good news:  I found a main.  So far I'm loving my conjuror.  Played a necro to 29, hated being an ogre, rolled a fae conjy and i love it. The problem is I'm trying to figure out what alt I want.  I want plate.  SO i've played a shadowknight, beserker, and a palidin up to 20 so far. My current observations:  Beserker is painfully boring.  Shadowknight and Palidin at these levels are almost exactly the same.  (and they are pretty similar to the beserker, but i hate the beserker abilities.) In theory, i think palidins sound neater.  The problem is I solo primarily.  I've been told shadowknights are fantastic soloers, and palidins abysmal.  My own obeservation says:  they are the same.  Could someone fill me in on the soloability of the pally class, or maybe even a comaprison between the two classes?  I did a forum search and all my hits were in 2005, so i doubt they apply. Thanks so much.

[Demoley]

both can solo very well, sk's just have more skills in mind for it with power/life taps, for us to solo well we need to get dps gear on and burn fast before we die, in which case you need to twink get full mastercrafted, fabled where can ad3 all spells/ca's and you should be fine as a paladin, at 70 soon to be 80 start raiding, get set up that way and your good to go

[g0thiC_iCe_cReaM]

<p>i have found that i soloed much better with my pally than SK, i actually hate my SK with a passion, but i keep him around b/c i've done so much work leveling him as an alchy...</p><p>the lifetaps and the SK ward (has a lifetap on it) are definitely boons to being able to solo with them...usually end up not being able to do much better than green ^^^ heroics with them tho, but i might not be a very good SK either <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>with my pally i've soloed blue ^^^ heroics and the occasional white in mastercrafted gear in KoS zones...</p><p>SKs definitely out DPS a pally since almost everything they do is damage...pallys seem to last longer in a fight due to the fact they're more heal based than a SK, plus if you ward yourself and the ward expires before it is used up it will heal you for the remaining amount left on the ward...depending on the person on the other end of the computer, i would also say pallys have better aggro control in groups, but then again i've seen some exceptional SK tanks as well...</p><p>they're both about equal, the SKs have gotten some love over the past year and are about on the same level as pallies now, so it basically will end up coming down to which you like more...if you're a DPS minded individual a SK will prolly suit you better...generally you won't really know which you like better till mid 40s or so i don't think, at that point you'll have like 70% of the tools available to each class...these 2 classes don't really diverge in their abilities until you get well into your 20s, so playing them both to 20 isn't really going to give you much insight...and of course doesn't hurt to keep both of em around, a little variety is always nice <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>