Back from a 3 month holiday... what's changed?

[Wallzak]

<DIV>WOOT, I'm back and pulling my Paly out of the mothballs.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Can someone summerize the major changes that has occured (specifically for the paladin) since the Adventure pack came out in June?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks in advance!</DIV>

[ChuMann]

Not much since the Adventure pack really.  Our big self-only heal doesn't use up those essences anymore, and our HP buff doesn't have a chance to give us those essences.  Divine Favor was supposedly fixed, but is still worthless.  Divine Aura (our end AA on the STA line) sucks big time.  Other than that we're still sub-par dpsers, second rank raid tanks, and third rate healers that wear banana colored armor :smileysad: 

[Crib92]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> ChuMann wrote:<BR> Not much since the Adventure pack really.  Our big self-only heal doesn't use up those essences anymore, and our HP buff doesn't have a chance to give us those essences.  Divine Favor was supposedly fixed, but is still worthless.  Divine Aura (our end AA on the STA line) sucks big time.  Other than that we're still sub-par dpsers, second rank raid tanks, and third rate healers that wear banana colored armor :smileysad: <BR> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P><BR>Nothing personal but I hate negative Pally posts like this.</P> <P>Let's see.... last night in DT</P> <UL> <LI>I tanked or dual tanked Tari, Cruor, and blob </LI> <LI>I hit 1300 on dps and averaged between 800 and 1100.  (23% haste, and 100% dps mod)</LI> <LI>Heals, spot healed when necessary which is really the purpose of our heals</LI></UL> <P>I may want more mitigation and power but I get it done with what I have and I love the class.</P> <P> </P> <P> </P> <P> </P>

[ChuMann]

<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE> <HR> Crib92 wrote:<BR>Nothing personal but I hate negative Pally posts like this. <P>Let's see.... last night in DT</P> <UL> <LI>I tanked or dual tanked Tari, Cruor, and blob </LI> <LI>I hit 1300 on dps and averaged between 800 and 1100.  (23% haste, and 100% dps mod)</LI> <LI>Heals, spot healed when necessary which is really the purpose of our heals</LI></UL> <P>I may want more mitigation and power but I get it done with what I have and I love the class.<BR></P> <HR> </BLOCKQUOTE> <P> </P> <P>Whoops, didn't really mean my post to be negative.  It was more a combination of a poor attempt at realizational humor and job work-day bitterness.  I agree with you though.  I get it done with what I have and also truly enjoy the class.  I guess I'm just a bit bitter with the general EQ2 community that would take a guardian over a paladin tank 99% of the time (this is just a generalization), and others that consider pally's a jack of all trades, but master at none.  It's also frustrating that we question the effectiveness and functionality of some of our CA's and spells, and no one ever answers us.  A example everyone keeps bringing up is Divine Aura.  At the very least, I would think that somewhere along the way a dev would post SOMETHING about it.  Ah well...</P> <P>I do have some quesitons though for you Crib if you don't mind.  First, how are you parsing so high consistently?  I've never seen pally's come close those numbers on a regular basis.  Secondly, I might see it possible to hit those DPS numbers, but you'd have to sacrifice so much of your defensive side.  If that's the case, how are you tanking those nameds, then turning around and hitting DPS numbers like that?  And are you spot healing while you're putting up these DPS numbers?!?</P>

[Crib92]

<P>I guess I wasn't clear about the situation, sorry.  I was OT most of the zone and as such was offensive with 2H for all but the name fights.  I switched up when I had to tank named.  Even when in offensive and the MT was charmed I tanked the eyeballs easily.  It gets to be tougher for the Pally to DPS and tank.  My figures would be more along the lines of 500 - 800 in tank mode.</P> <P>If I can remember my stats were:</P> <P>Haste: 23% - 51% with Dirge buff up</P> <P>DPS Mode - 100%</P> <P>Str:  720 ish</P> <P>Int: 351</P> <P>In offensive I was around 5200 mit, so I did have to give up mitigation to achieve the results.</P> <P>I was not healing or rezing at all last night.  Maybe a couple rez's, but I didn't hit those parses when I did.  If you are relied upon to heal you won't hit those kinds of numbers.</P> <P>To help out with dps, I have melee and spell crits maxed out.  I was getting melee crits of 1600 - 2000K fairly regulary.</P> <P>Sorry for the derail.  Here is a link of future changes coming that will have a big impact on Pallys, hopefully for the better.</P> <P><A href="http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=testdev&message.id=11194#M11194" target=_blank>http://eqiiforums.station.sony.com/eq2/board/message?board.id=testdev&message.id=11194#M11194</A></P>