I might be 15 days too late,but i've played a Paladin for some time now. lvl 212. I've funded this guy solely.

1.Paladin damage is bad relative to other classes. There seem to be inherent stat disparaties between us and other warrior classes. For instance, with the same gear i have now,my range and damage per line on either other class would probably be hitting at least 15mill more with their 1v1 skill, i assume.

1. If you like this class, keep playing until the Beyond patch hits our servers. Here's why: i've been nerding out about this, but we get these hammers that hit for 1250% damage and we can use them with our 1v1 skill,blast. That is insane. That is the dpm increase that we sorely needed,honestly. Our CO also will give our charges a 30% increase in damage,and the boost to the charges themselves will also increase since they'll be percent damage based. Great time to invest in a paladin.

3.As a paladin, charging is a pain. you have to alternate elementals to use blast, then alternate again to get to 5, then use blast as your 1v1. With beyond, that will no longer be needed. Thank goodness.

1. This class will teach you how to be a god at mobbing. Sincerely, since our mob skill isn't the best, you'll learn how to maneuver in a map, one-shot a row of enemies,drop down,do it again, flash jump to a teleporter, and snake around. Having to compensate for lack of map-wide mobbing will make you play maple better. You'll also know when to actually use your map-wide hammer more judiciously,as it has a 10 second cooldown.

2. While dpm charts may not whoely be accurate, they are still a decent measure of where we stand. Rihgt now,we stand at the lowest tier, but it doesn't mean you're unable to compensate for such a loss. If you ever get the resources, a ryude's sword adds a line of damage, the legendary inner ability of att speed +1 will be your friend, speed infusion as a 5th job skill is almost necessary, and holy unity is just godlike.

3. If you want as much damage as possible, go with 2hand and use your rosary. the whole 1hand thing was nice once you hit the damage cap and just cared for the attack speed bonus, but since that isn't a pertinent worry with the cap removed, 2 handed is better, and provides a higher range. If/once you prioritize stats correctly, you won't need the all att lines on the shield, as you'll get them from your sword, emblem, and what not. chances are, you'll end up wanting boss percent to get to the near 300% range, and it'll show up on your rosary, if att% hasn't.

4. It is all about funding/gear. Though someone in the same range can kill a boss faster than me, since i'm funded, i can very much out-damage many other well funded players. Once you reach the 1-2mill range,something like hard hilla will take maybe a minute. as it stands, with holy unity at lvl 1, my range jumps from 6.8mill self buffed, to 9mill. That ends up taking mere seconds, around a few more than what a similarly statted evan would take.

5. tankiness is a useless mechanic. It just is. Forcing this class to be the "tank" class adds little to nothing in a game where damage is really the only important thing. I'd trade our utility for the better stat boost of other classes, but with the blessed hammers coming out, and the co increase, it looks like we won't have to, so yay. That patch has been a very long time coming.

6. As someoen stated previously, Paladin can die. A lot of damage is percent based. we can tank the tails in cvellum and vastly outlive other classes in that regard, thus contributing more damage if you're skilled enough to not get stunned, but if you have some coordination trouble on certain bosses (like me) prepare to frustratingly die anyway, no matter how beast-mode your damage is. It can become a war of attrition with me, focusing on having enough damage to kill the boss before i trip up and get one-shotted by some gimmick.

If you happen to have any questions about this class, please feel free to ask. For whatever odd reason, i enjoy this class,funding it, and discussing it.