Quote Originally Posted by waldo View Post
My point is to ace, I do have a decent grasp of what I'm talking about here. Now for you, read the post closer, you'll see the healer said I tanked 'as good as a war'... It doesn't say paladins are on par, if 95% of warriors can do the job well, and only 10% of the paladins, it underscores the problem.

Not every paladin has +1 rings, melded +1 gear, and some double melded gear. For the most part warriors can do just as well as I do, and I will admit, many times better than I can do at tanking wearing NQ items And AF armor.
If you tanked as good as a war you tanked on par with a war. And according to the healer, the tank in question was not wearing anything "that would be out of the question for the avg paladin to obtain". Course if you disagree thats another thing, but if you can do the job well without crazy out-of-your-mind gear than its obvious that "PLD" is not the problem. The fact that only 10% of Paladins do well is more of a function of the playerbase..not the class. Some jobs are harder to play properly than others, it doesn't mean that job is inferior to another one. All it means is that you actually have to have a brain to play it successfully. Difficult to play well =/= subpar in any universe.