World of Warcraft

One of my friends has a level 60 paladin. There’s lots of talk among my WoW-playing friends about how awesome the paladin class is. One friend, who has fought against paladins, calls them “screws.”

This paladin friend challenged my level 68 boar pet to a duel—just the pet, no assistance from my level 68 hunter. Okay, I accepted the challenge on behalf of my pet. I expected my boar to win, but only barely. If the paladin used her engineering gimmicks in the fight, I figured my boar might lose.

Well, we met in front of the Dark Portal, on the Outland side. The paladin is a human and my hunter is an orc. So we couldn’t talk in the game.

We both turned on our PvP, but neither of us could attack. We both kept getting the, “You cannot attack that target,” message. We moved the duel to the Azeroth side of the Dark Portal, and off the portal steps. We could engage each other there. Hmm. There must be some kind of non-PvP effect on the Dark Portal platform.

The first fight, the paladin pulled out a battle chicken and a mechanical dragon. She killed my boar pet easily.

The second fight, the paladin left her engineering gimmicks out of the duel, and still beat my pet easily. She healed herself from half health to full at one point, but that’s part of being a paladin.

I was shocked how easy it was for the paladin—eight levels difference, and still she totally dominated that fight.

Paladins are screws!

Bullgrit
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