Frostwrath  

 

A paladins job is to protect others.
If you are getting the crapola out of you with 1bubble of hp left, then the cleric yells "Complete Healing to %t", well, you better cross your fingers. (ya, they usually say "bad lag" to make your corpse run more interesting). We dont deal as much damage as you do, nor do we have as much hp as you. Now if i buff myself, i WILL have probably have more HP than you AND AC, makes you think about all that hard earned pp you spent on high AC armor you bought. My job is to keep mobs perma-stunned. At level 49 in Karnors castle i can put in almost 10 stuns per battle with 1 warrrior / cleric/ chantre /paladin /rogue /druid. If you think about it, each Stun is only takes 1.5secs to cast and lasts up to 4seconds (according to eq.realmcasters.com, and we also have Holy Might which stuns mob up to 6 seconds as well as direct damage for 60damage, and we also have thunder of karana which stuns a mob for up to 6 seconds as well as steals their mana. That is about 15 consecutive seconds for a cleric or another healer to heal you, and fire about 2 seconds right after each other. No other class has 3 stun spells memmed at level 49. Now imagine if you had 2, or 3 of us paladins in your group, im sure you've heard of chain stunning. Who cares for SOW, we are stun pullers (not sure about you but at these levels we already have travellers boots or Jboots). Not to mention that we heal for 300hp at these levels so cleric can save mana for those complete healings. We are defensive fighters, you are offensive, thus i have seen several paladins with outrageous AC. You do your job on hitting things and we make sure that you get hit as little as possible, cuz if you havent grouped with properly used paladins, you would already know that we already own agro (yes rogues/rangers/wizards actually own it, but then the mob owns you immediately) without even taunting. Although unbuffed you rule with higher HP, what is another 100 or 300 hp more gonna do for you at mobs who hit 130 or so, other than let you get 1 or 2 steps closer to zone? Each fight i do at least 6 stuns of various spells in, costing mana of course, but this way warrior/monk can pull while i let my regen do its work or use my 160hp heals from Deepwater Helm (or heal myself), or let cleric use Celestial Healing on me, this means less downtime.
Yes you are better than us at dealing damage, 2nd to Rogue (non oomer damage that is), period. You cannot do any type of crowd control (lull, calm, soothe, root, enstill), you cannot immediately take a mob off someone (our line of stun spells), and you benifit the groups downtime by 0 percent by not helping mana go any faster (healing others), or casting heals, and you cant AC/HP buff anything, and you cant revive or do exp rezzes to help with downtime as well. Note i didn't even mention Lay Hands as it is used too much. How many times have I heard "I'll never talk bad about Paladins after that Lay Hands"... 1500+hp heal, no delay, maybe more, but thats what I was told i healed for last time when it really looked bad for our group as Monk had a bad pull trying to zone and FD not working with 5 mobs on him... if we use it on ourselves, so much for your hp more than us thing. If played right, you will get rarely hit, nor will anyone else in group, and you will get the most out of your attacks.

My guild has 5 or 6 of these, so its not that hard to get. And yes they all went to pallys

Its for paladins and shadowknights, they cant duel wield.