Pally Overpowered?

Here is my mini rant. It seems like just about every pubby duel game I join is filled to the brim with everyone's fave holy warrior. It could be my noobsauce and lack of skill with my lvl 80 WW barb but I have seen my fair share of disgustingly powerful pallys. In particular, a lvl 59 smiter had his way last night and served me a new one. My build seems like it is solid with max block, max mastery, max WW and max B.O. but I still stood little chance. I'm using Grief with SS for most melee duels. Are they just godly? Do I just suck? School me please.

EDIT: I'm axe mastery FYI...not sure if that is useful or not.|||Honestly, I don't think an 80 barb should be dying to a 59 Smiter.

He might have had some amazingly godly gear or you may have to rethink some stuff.|||yah, if a lvl80 barb is losing to a lvl59 smiter, it's because the barb is doing silly things like whirling directly at the smiter.



but yes, as a general rule of thumb: pallys are overpowered.|||You could bot a smiter and beat melee chars. The only pally that's not OP is an auradin and that's only because they're completely gimp. You can think Blizzard for never coming close to figuring out how to balance things in pvp even after all this time.|||Quote:








You could bot a smiter and beat melee chars.




except for WW, you're largly correct.




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You can think Blizzard for never coming close to figuring out how to balance things in pvp even after all this time.




Blizzard has never even attempted to balance D2 for PvP. afaik: they have specifically avoided doing so.

which is why PvP balance is one of the things i hope they'll be spending a lot of time on with D3.

once you've beaten the game, the only thing left to beat is other players |||lvl59 has access to end game rw with high runes like grief, fort, cta and the fact that smiter only needs to max 3 skills, the level difference and your gear maybe not as good is not surprising he could win.

also i think blizz has a thing with pallys cuz pallys in WoW are absurdly op as well|||Look at it this way, at least you didn't have to dodge invisible hammer fields.|||Paladins are not overpowered. That is all.|||Ok i have beaten many a smiter with just an IK build

here is the tip to always beating them.

when they attack you. ww away from them. this way you will hit them continiously

while they will hit nothing

I could kill just about anything apart from a hammerdin (ok and light javs were hard as well). for that you need a ranged character.

Personally i think that a WW barb is the best PvP character in the game for melee

for Casters go with a charger/smiter



I ran through other characters using just a IK maul. think about dual EBOTD zerkers. nothing lives.|||gg WW barb>gg smiter

I think you should listen to some advice on to use u r range as deciding how to win the duel.