Paladin

## Available Races

Dark Myr

Dwarf

Elf

 Human

**Paladin** is a class available to the Dwarf and Human races. The Paladin's primary group role is Tank, making it is their priority to maintain the attention of hostile non-player characters, directing damage away from their allies. They specialize in fighting against undead and supporting their allies with their various healing abilities.

## Description

At its core, the Paladin is a plate-armored, melee specialist imbued with celestial power. This enables them to wield spoken rebukes with awesome effect. In addition, by shedding the dogma of the cleric Order, they have devoted themselves to the study of arms and armor, giving paladins renowned ability in defensive combat. Perhaps most iconically, the Paladin is driven by an unquenchable hatred of Undeath, a flame they have stoked into a ceaseless pursuit. Thus, a Paladin is never more fierce than when they stand face to face with Undeath.

## Gameplay Information

### Group Role

The Paladin's official role is  **Tank** . Classes in the tank role focus on gaining and maintaining the agro of mobs. To be able to properly tank, it is important to understand the *Hate* mechanic. Mobs have a hidden "hate list" which contains every PC and pet that is in active combat with it ("on aggro"). Whoever is at the top of the list is the target the mob will attack. Every ability that is equipped to the Action hot bar innately generate hate. Abilities which are specifically designed to generate hate are referred to as taunts.

While each of the tank classes are capable of performing their role in a variety of adventuring situations, each has their own specialties that help them excel in specific areas. The Paladin's specialty is fighting undead. Their Lightful Avenger passive makes them deal additional divine damage, have a higher crit chance and generate more wrath if they are fighting an undead and their Venger's Vow makes them immune to stuns originating from an undead foe.

Paladins retain some of the restorative magics from their time as a cleric. They can heal allies with abilities such as  Oathflame and themselves with  Arcing Light and  Golden Strike. They can also resurrect fallen allies with  Atone, at the cost of half of the Paladin's current HP.

Paladins have multiple stun abilities, such as  Edict of Celestial Authority and  Fiery Aegis, which enables them to easily interrupt enemy casting.

### Combat Resource

Wrath
Paladins gain wrath as they take damage from enemies. They also gain wrath based on their Constitution every time their group slays an enemy. Certain abilities will increase a Paladin's wrath by a certain amount when used.
Reckoning Points
Some of the Paladin's abilities provide them with Reckoning Points. This resource is by some of the Paladin's most powerful abilities.

### Weapons & Techniques

Paladins can use one-handed and two-handed Blunt and Edged class weapons.

### Race

Paladins can choose between two races: Dark Myr, Dwarf, Elf and Human.

## Player Guides

* For an in-depth look at the Paladin, please see the guides available on the Paladin Guides page.

## FAQ / Q&A

Will there be enough Undead content to justify the Paladin's forte, “vs. Undeath?”
Chris
Yes. I’ll go so far to say that at launch and beyond, one of the main NPC groups in the Terminus storyline (making up one of our end-game raid areas) is entirely corrupted with Undeath. Paladins will be excellent, competitive main tanks that will have plenty of opportunities to flex their vs. Undeath prowess. | Question
What will Paladin's cast times mean for their mitigation and avoidance? Will they be able to dodge/parry/block while casting? What about spell pushback?
Chris

## Trivia

* During the June 9th, 2022 “Monk Combat Updates and Gameplay” stream it was announced that, as part of updates to the class-race matrix, Dark Myr and Elf would now be able to pick the Paladin class.

## Gallery

* Image of the Paladin class page following the website update in 2020. [Click for Larger Preview]
* Image of the Paladin class page following the class reveal in June, 2018 (Archival Purposes Only) [Click for Larger Preview]

## References

1. ↑ Official Website
2. ↑ 2019 Newsletter (Archived. Retrieved 4/22)
3. ↑ Paladin Burning Question 2 (Retrieved 6/22)

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