actually.. Blizzard sorta confirmed that paladins = easy mode at blizzcon last year.

easy mode healing i guess. but after playing a dps and a healing char, i'd say a dps char is very much more easier. I had the opportunity to msn while raiding and still reach one of the top dps. that was way way back then though... during hte gruul, kara era of my raids...

Ya, WOW is now more like World of Healcraft. DPS is soooo easy cheesy.
Raids are testing the healer skill.
Overhealing, mana conservation, downranking heals n timing etc

All DPS class are like Ken n Ryu of Streetfighter 2. Simply spam few buttons and do wonders to show e-peen.
Mage go scorchx5 fireball fireball fireball fireball...
Warlocks/shadowpriests just need to refresh dots.
Rogue just basically spam 1-2 buttons, sinister strike, mutilate or watever spec they are.
Hunters are even worse. All go spec LOL-IWIN BM spec and spam 1 steadyshot/autoshot macro thru out the entire fight. Only a few rare people spec MM or Surv and use manual shots rotations.
DPS shammy and druids basically have the same playstyle.

paladins are more of healer or tanker. best being healers (holy spec)

theres reasons why their melee dps spec players(retribution) are oftenly called retardins, retnoob or loladins.

if you want to be a melee dps (not tanker, theres a difference), then paladin wont be a good choice.

thx for all the good review...

so as paladin, ppl prefer healers lah...?

i'm quite a noob player actually...
haha... i aim for [protection spec] tanker...?


dun flame me for tht pls~~~
hopefully i can survive...

tanker = tank

ur basically a walking meatshield. in case ur thinking of tank = m1 abrams tank firing cannons and the such dealing massive destruction

Well my roomies is a pally Tank and he off tanks for kara. Pallies can tank really well as an AOE tank. That means they can hold multiple mobs really really well. They do have a problem holding one or 2 mobs unlike the druid or the warrior. IF you want to tank as a pally you can tank all heroics if well geared but some might be a little harder the the other. For example. Shattered Halls is really easy to tank as a pally. Just get a healer and a mage and locks . You can hold multiple mobs and the lock and mage can aoe them down easily. Well Ret pallies on the other hand are good at pvp..but do not have sustained dps unlike other classes..thats why they fall behind. There is a patch coming out to upgrade pallie dps.. if you think there could be some hope.. you could go ret..but honestly.. if you go pallie... everyone will ask you to HEAL!. So do remember that.. even if you are ret you would be asked to HEAL.

I wouldn't recommend you to spec as prot war/pally as your 1st build.
Keep in mind that tanks are very gear dependant and they have massive repairs bills.
Expect to die a lot when you tank during early lvl instances coz you will see the most retarded healers during early game. (Druids refuse to shift out from kitty mode, shamans go pewpewwindfury, pally goes ZOMGSOCPROC! and priest went hiding in the shadows)

You will get scolded a lot if you cant tank properly (even though most of time is DPS aggro fault)
Prot spec will only level fast if you are skilled and people ask you to tank for them frequently.

BTW, we dont call ret paladins as ret pallies. We just call them as Retardin.
Retardin have serious issue with aggro. Their DPS is inconsistent.
They can go like less than 300tps and jump to 2ktps in a second.
Lol, my kara guild actually have one group with a retardin using Deep Thunder. He is mainly doing arena 3v3, 5v5 in my guild, not much of gruul's or TK for him.

if you don't plan to heal, dont roll a pally...

^ u are better of rolling a shaman