If that's what you can tell us about that class, you have much more to learn.
Side note: pala isn't as imbalanced as you might think. Pala can easily lose versus other beasts. Pala has a good chance to lose vs titans, vs duelists, vs tyrants. I invite you to play paladin some day in oly. Once I thought the same as you and made a pala. In oly I literally sucked because I didn't know its limits and weaknesses. It's not that easy.

Da is not a weak class. You have to know how to play it. But a good player owns more with a paladin or sk than with a DA. That's because the class is weaker on certain aspects.
Stop crapping around with that summon. It dies in a few hits in freya, even enchanted.
Health SA not good? What the fuck are you talking about? ALWAYS start with a health weapon and switch to focus/haste when your hp drops below the bonus from health. One thing I bet you didn't know: on paladin/tk health weapons are incredibly important, since they help tol give more heal. There are many small things that people ignore. But take one small thing here, one small thing there, one from the other there and if you add them up you get a big bonus.
Aq+baium+zaken are obligatory if you wanna go oly farming. And you can't spam aggro too much because you'll end up having no mana. And about enchanting skills: you DONT go oly without your most important skills enchanted. You think in interlude I'm going to oly with my sk w/o my hex and sting +10 chance and my guard stance +1 cost? Hell no. Those are essential.

And don't bring augments into the equation.. If we take it like that, I can get an active solar flare on my sk, get a fucking arcana mace and take down anything that moves.

Btw: wtf are you saying about soul hounds getting overbuffed in oly..? Am I missing smth?

Why would he go focus? Pre-AI means he gets full hp anyway, so why not kick that extra damage while under that extra hp? That's a huge head start. It's like this:

Note: this is a purely theoretical example.
Pala with 10k hp pre-ai kicks in 235 dps (focus)
Pala with 12.5k hp pre-ai kicks in 200 dps (health).

So until the pala with health gets his hp down to 10k he would have already kicked in alot of damage. And from then he basically becomes the first pala from the example, with 10k hp, but alot of damage was already dealt.

I don't know if you understand what I mean. You have a huge advantage margin if you start off with health and switch to focus.

1st not all p-layers can afford 2 x weapon with Sa and jumping with some LOL B blunt+hp sounds rly funny.I believe every normal player would preffer 1 good enchanted weapon than using 2 weapons +3. If U mean FB+health y its good to use alltrough U wont basicly do nothing to your oponent with it.
2nd I didnt spoke only for oly about the soulhounds thing. I ment normal pvp in famr area.Now I believe U get what I mean.
3rd Most ppl play new chronicles where enchanted skills are not something so big but more like normal part of the game (even if the server is x5 its not so LOL big challenge to go to 82-84 lvl and make skills +10+++
4th I didns said I am too pro DA and this is nott I say from this char but I dont think I should say obvious things like "While U are in UD spam drain health or heal yourself etc..."
5th: About palas: I played that class but it turned to be not my type...From my short experience I will agree that pala is not so imba and its true that it has weak sides too.BTW TYR/GLAD pwning tank shouldnt be so surpising to no1(not only oly I mean)


P.S. L2 is game based 60% on gear so all of this spam makes non-sence if U dont have good equiped char (weapon is not the only thing U can make+++)

I know what you mean ;]
but this bit of hp can be easily healed by sacrifice, so you dont need to have very high max hp, and moreover when your on AI you use blunt ;]

i dont know about sk and da, but for tk and pala max hp aint that important since they can heal themselves easily.
Yes, they would heal more with health weapon, but mostly if you lose with these classes its lose by dmg, you prolly won't get killed anyway

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Icarus, ur kinda wrong ^^


as i said, lose as tank is prolly lose by dmg. Using health weapon will lower your dps(greatly), so it means your enemy has to deal less dmg to win by it.
If you wanna rape on oly, you gotta have also oed bow, so it's third weapon to oe, make atrri and add SA. It's ofc possible to do, but it requires cash :> Pala also need blunt...

and hp isn't that important for tanks, the only one problem is some skills eat/require hp, so if you need to be lower than 30% it can be dangerously low amount.

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