# Paladins are overpowered.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paladins-are-overpowered/519648>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 2, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paladins-are-overpowered/519648 "2009-12-02T01:05:54Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paladins-are-overpowered/519648/1 "2009-12-02T01:05:54Z")

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Top 3 damage in strand of the ancients.

Paladin 1.04 million.  
Paladin 700 thousand.  
Me (DK) 400 thousand.

/whine

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paladins-are-overpowered/519648/2 "2009-12-02T01:17:24Z")

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More pew pew. Less QQ.  
😃

I haven’t played WoW in almost a year. Can’t, as there is no high speed internet service where my new house is. Seems like Pallies got a major boost in PVP shortly before I left. They were already a pain the arse to kill before the boost, but after they were doing insane damage…and I say that as a former arcane mage that used to gleefully two-shot people in battlegrounds.

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**Author:** ![Snarky\_Kong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a183cd/32.png) [@Snarky\_Kong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snarky_Kong)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paladins-are-overpowered/519648/3 "2009-12-02T02:31:04Z")

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I haven’t played in a while, but lots of classes have had periods of being overpowered. Mages, warlocks, rogues, warriors, shaman, druids, shadow priests. I don’t recall hunters ever having the honor. What other classes are there? Oh Death Knight. I stopped during BC.

Also, is it possible that that encounter/dungeon just favors paladins, or are they actually overpowered?

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**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paladins-are-overpowered/519648/4 "2009-12-02T02:35:32Z")

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Yes, hunters have never been overpowered… in pvp. We were crazy overpowered and got some well deserved nerfs early on, but not so much for pvp. We’re too reliant on kiting, so any kind of stun/trap/hamstring/etc will mess us up.

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**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paladins-are-overpowered/519648/5 "2009-12-02T03:18:17Z")

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Maybe you just suck. 😃  
I have two pallies, one holy, one ret.

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**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\
**Post date:** [December 2, 2009, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paladins-are-overpowered/519648/6 "2009-12-02T03:26:15Z")

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You wanna complain about imbalance? Try playing a caster.

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**Author:** ![Mosier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ea924/32.png) [@Mosier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mosier)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2009, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paladins-are-overpowered/519648/7 "2009-12-09T16:12:15Z")

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> [@Snarky\_Kong](#):
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> Also, is it possible that that encounter/dungeon just favors paladins, or are they actually overpowered?

SoTA is a battleground you might not be familiar with if you haven’t played for like a year or so. Paladins are more overpowered now than you probably remember, too. Their invulnerable spell now allows them to attack while invulnerable.