Paladin... The Anti-Dread Knight?

Exodiac · 01-30-2006, 01:25 PM

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Darrin McPherson (Talisker) spoke with me today and gave a couple more examples of Paladin Gifts of Virtue. He also spoke briefly about Paladin buffs and auras.

We all know about Lay Hands... but he told me about a Gift of Virtue called "Paragon."

Paragon is a powerful buff that lasts for 5 minutes. It raises all of the Paladin's combat stats (Strength, Agility, etc...) to the MAXIMUM for the Paladin's level.

He also said that there was a Gift of Virtue that would cleanse all diseases from the Paladin's party. This could definitely be useful in raid situations!

Paladin's also have several "auras." They can have one active at a time and they are group buffs that can do things like increase the group members' damage, regeneration, etc...

He also confirmed that Paladin buffs WILL stack with healer buffs.

Paladins will be resistant to fear. This can make them the preferred tank for raid encounters where the boss fears the tank. That's just one example of the ways Sigil is able to make different tanks the most desirable for certain encounters.
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With that said, will Dread Knights lose there only BIG advantage vs. Paladins in PvP or will fear even be a factor in PvP?

Not asking for assumptions, just speculation.

PS. At work on a crappy monitor ( too dark even at the brightest setting ) so having trouble telling if the quote entered correctly. Will re-edit this post after I get home if necessary.

Tazzrin Jaegernaut · 01-30-2006, 01:54 PM

Resistant doesn't mean immune. We will see in good time.

TheDrunkenDwarf · 01-30-2006, 02:10 PM

For the life of me I can't remember if he said immune or resistant and I don't have it in my notes.

Maybe Elidroth will stop in and clear it up

Eclipse · 01-30-2006, 04:03 PM

Well, when they say "resistant to fear" I would imagine the passive aura around the DreadKnight *might* be an exception. But maybe not.

But if you look at it another way, the DK has the innate ability to strike fear in opponents. The Pally has the innate ability to ignore fear. This puts them both on an equal plane, not one above the other. After thinking about this for a minute or so, I think it's a cool idea to have them cancel each other out.

And I wouldn't worry about the fear aura being the DK's ONLY advantage, lol...it's just the one thing they decided to tell us about. I'm sure as well, that the Paladin has a lot more tricks up his sleeve than group buffs and Paragon. So I wouldn't worry about it.

-Eclipse

Exodiac · 01-30-2006, 06:26 PM

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Well, when they say "resistant to fear" I would imagine the passive aura around the DreadKnight *might* be an exception. But maybe not.

But if you look at it another way, the DK has the innate ability to strike fear in opponents. The Pally has the innate ability to ignore fear. This puts them both on an equal plane, not one above the other. After thinking about this for a minute or so, I think it's a cool idea to have them cancel each other out.

And I wouldn't worry about the fear aura being the DK's ONLY advantage, lol...it's just the one thing they decided to tell us about. I'm sure as well, that the Paladin has a lot more tricks up his sleeve than group buffs and Paragon. So I wouldn't worry about it.

-Eclipse

I suppose your right, they did manage to release a lot more of the goodies on paladins than they did on the dread knight.

If there's one thing I'm looking forward to, it's putting the smack down on some goody-goody holy rollers!

Fadeyn · 02-23-2006, 06:02 PM

nothing against my holier than thou brethren in white, but ima kill them if they let their guard down. (sorry, ima lil chaotic)

Dread knights were kept as one of the biggest secrets in the player classes for the longest time. I can believe that they only let loose the information about our passive ability just to wet our tongues abit. And mine was quite dry from all the drooling.

but as they said Dks will be debuffers, pallies will be buffers. In a way i can kind of se us canceling eacother out. because even if they "cleanse" i can recast debuffs anyways.

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Oninobaka · 08-22-2006, 02:20 AM

All I have to say, and I realize this is a small point to make, but THANK YOU for refering to paladins as the anti-DK. Come on, I'm tired of everyone saying the opposite, "we are anti-pallies," those are probably just pally lovers who fear just how much cooler we are (I'm such a fanboy).

Phyro · 08-23-2006, 12:14 AM

Well paladins have auras and resistant to fear

When u hear resistant to fear u get the idea of a skill check that is increased by the fact u r a paladin.

But if the DK as debuff to reduce those same skill checks on a normal oponent that would make em even out and make the skill check vs a paladin or somethin. 1 of the many game design paths they can take really :lol:

Ezrael · 08-25-2006, 04:57 AM

Im thinking in regard to pvp it will mean the Paladin will be affected by our aura at a slower rate than other classes, maybe Clerics will have a means of being affected slower too, or immune to it for a short period of time.

Pvp vs Paladins will be fun imo. Always nice to meet a worthy opponent

Dread · 08-25-2006, 09:08 AM

If a Dreadnight can debuff the Paladins debuff then I don't see the fear aura being a problem. Dreadnights will be able to just dispell the buff that paladins put up and then fear away, sure it's a little more work but if it makes them fearable then why not?