Comments on: The Zero-Button Phase

By: Killed in a Smiling Accident. » Blog Archive » And we’ll fly and we’ll fall and we’ll burn

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 23:32:09 +0000

[...] is a more damaging attack that requires a certain amount of energy. This avoids falling down into The Zero-Button Phase (the City of Heroes tutorial as a Controller was quite painful back in the old days, when you could [...]

By: Gx1080

Gx1080 — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 23:25:12 +0000

Besides “level as ret”, download a music player add-on. It makes it so much better.

By: JdJdJd

JdJdJd — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:09:32 +0000

If you level up as Ret the dps gets a lot better and things die alot quicker. You can pull multiple mobs with no problems. I love my pally. She’s practically indestructible.

By: Zubon

Zubon — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:01:24 +0000

I do recall comments about low damage, high survivability Paladins, as well as the PvP strategy of “bubble-hearth!” I was still surprised to start a character and see no attacks.

OTOH, if my wife ever plays, this is totally her class. She liked her City of Heroes Scrapper because she could hit things without other people depending on her to know the finer points of healing, tanking, support, etc. She could survive pretty well and did not care about dying. Same plan here: simple game play, high survivability, the damage has not been too bad so far, and there are buffs and such to make them welcome on teams.

By: p@tsh@t

p@tsh@t — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:53:17 +0000

Back in the day, the saying was “My Pally never dies, but neither does his target.”

Fighting in the WPL used to be attack judge light, make a sandwich, put laundry in the dryer, loot, repeat– which I might add was a welcome departure for a squishy holy priest…

By: Yeebo

Yeebo — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:23:24 +0000

Wow, that sounds exactly like my experience the last time I tried to start a melee guy in EQ. Hit autoatack and wait. When you use auto attack on a pally, does music with loud trombones start playing?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 16:20:22 +0000

OMG, I’m surprised you haven’t seen old posts about how Paladin’s were for the people that wanted to play & surf pr0n. Walk up to Mob, attack, go surf… come back later, you might be done killing the mob. I know there are many posts out there about this – esp. back in beta, where a Pally was the ultimate class to play.

By: BitterCupOJoe

BitterCupOJoe — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:25:16 +0000

I love my paladin, but, man, I tried to go back and play a low level one and it was like watching paint dry. Even the BE that I had tucked away on another server in his mid-40s has almost no additional buttons to press. I got to add exorcism into it, and consecration (both once per enemy) and that was about it. I’m really hoping in Cataclysm they’ll make more of the paladin talents baseline abilities that only work in certain circumstances, i.e., you can only use Crusader Strike if you have a 2H weapon, etc.

That said, at high levels, they’re easily one of the most fun classes to play, and very easy to get into. If I ever need to show a friend how awesome the game can get at high level, I let him play my paladin for half an hour.

By: SmakenDahed

SmakenDahed — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:23:40 +0000

Welcome to the club! :D

By: Green Armadillo

Green Armadillo — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 11:56:37 +0000

Heh, I hadn’t thought about that aspect of the longer seal durations (30 seconds back in 2004). I’m actually relatively happy with the number of buttons to push as a high level Ret Pally, but it is arguably a problem that you need to be level 60 to get all of them.