As you may or may not be aware, I’ve been levelling my druid with my brother (and his hunter) and my buddy Majik (and his DK). I’m a bear/tree depending on my spec, but because Majik’s been tanking damn near everything, I’m usually healing (and using my innervate on my brother, haha!).
Last week, before I got seriously sick with the plague, Majik and I ran a Drak’Tharon Keep.
In the group: the two of us plus a mage, a shadow priest and a retribution paladin.
I don’t normally do this, because it’s just plain mean, but the fail is on-going even a week later, so I’m going to name the paladin who is the failest pally in all the world.
His name is Furtor. I’ll link his armory in a sec. But first, I took some screenshots of Furtor’s gear and such.
He was, at the time, level 75.
Way to not place your talents, buddy. That he has 59 points in ret is probably the least bad thing about him. How is that possible? Check out some of his gear.
“Wait, Kurn!” you say. “Those aren’t terrible bracers. Those are actually okay.”
Yes. You’re right. Too bad he REPLACED THEM with the Darkweb Bindings he won on the run.
And, for the grand finale…
Just inspecting him made me want to cry. And then I armoried him. 1 each in Mining and JC. 2 major glyphs that suck and 0 minor glyphs. The dude was pulling 700 DPS at most at any point in time, compared to the mage and the shadow priest, who were around his level, pulling 1200-1400 DPS. Not that numbers are everything, but in this case? They were a GREAT indication of the level of nubness going on with Furtor. He is, in all respects, an amazing example of how NOT to be a paladin… particularly because his armory now shows him in much the same gear but he’s exchanged his crappy 2H of Intellect for a 1H melee sword and a spellpower shield.
Anyways, I hope to have another Holy How-To post coming up this weekend or Monday and I definitely have another tale of what I consider to be paladin failure, which I’ll share Saturday or Sunday.