how do you remeber your paladin vanilla days

[oramac]

ok i have to reply. i LOVE my pally. leveled it up on a pvp server as ret. even managed to emergency heal an correct level group in Uldaman after pulling WAY too many groups. then i hit 60. sad times. i loved raiding, but hated healing. i mean HATED healing. i spent hours pressing the number 7 over and over and over. (God bless Quickheal! kudos if you remember that mod. R.I.P.) anyhow, i respecced ret about every 2-3 days for a while there and managed to get a pretty decent ret gear set. as soon as TBC came out i got relegated to healbot again, until my guild disbanded, thank God! app'd to a guild that was WAAAAY out of my league as a prot pally and amazingly got accepted in! turns out they were just starting hyjal and desperately needed an AOE tank. thank God again! basically went through TBC as prot up to killing illidan as a flame tank. then came sunwell. probably a good thing the guild broke up after brutallus went down since they would have been having me respec literally EVERY SINGLE FIGHT. prot on kalecgos, ret on brutallus, prot on felmyst, ret on twins, prot on the next guy whos name escapes me, and ret on Kiljaeden. whichever genius came up with dual spec did it one expansion too late dammit!

alas i've moved on with life and no longer raid hardcore, but i do fondly keep the memories, and screenshots.

[Jaerd]

Being a clothadin, and having extreme fun in 40 man raids like AQ40. (Especially AQ40)
And for the people talking about OOM problems, the day that I could spam my flash of light on a rank that I could keep up anyone in PvP CONSTANTLY with my mp/5 high enough that it replenished my mana forever.
Oh, those were the days.

[Simca]

What we were viable at in Vanilla?

Not tanking. At least at high-end, you had to have T3 Warriors. Nothing else mattered.
Not DPS. After they moved BoK, there was no point in a Retribution Paladin besides to laugh at.
Not healing. Why heal when you could...
Cleanse, buff, and out of combat rez!

AND since there were addons to automate all three of those actions COMPLETELY, most paladins basically just left their mouse hovering over Decursive and watched TV, at least from what I saw. Oh, playing a paladin in Vanilla raiding was such a bundle of fun and excitement. I remember this one time where I cast Blessing of Might, and then this other time, I cast Blessing of Wisdom. It was amazing.

Yeah, memories best left forgotten.

[Agalor]

I loved my Paladin in classic. But I was a clueless idiot basically brand new to MMOs who was astonished by such amazing features as bright colors, each new piece of gear looking different than the last, and reaching level 30 solo! So my glee should probably be interpreted appropriately.

I thought it was the coolest thing in the entire world that I selected a Seal first, and then unleashed it with Judgment. Somehow this was very complex and exciting to me and I looked forward to logging in every time so I could run around Judging things. I constantly changed my Seal to try to adapt to every new situation, feeling very clever.

I also thought being able to Bless everyone with a wide variety of buffs was just too cool for words and would ensure that anyone and everyone within a 100 yard radius had a blessing from me at all times.

I would frequently stop and reapply my Aura just to see the little ground animation and sound again, because, of course, Auras were the coolest thing in the world.

When I conquered a group of four murlocs at one time by healing myself, I felt like some sort of incredible Machiavellian mastermind. I think I spent a good 45 minutes carefully deciding where to put my first talent point, settling on Holy so I could perform even bigger murloc-defying miracles with my imagined thermonuclear super-heals.

I loved those days, being new to the game and being a paladin. I remember also doing the quest for Verdin's Fist, the 2H mace. Doing the actual quests to get an epic mount, OMG. Pallys and warlocks get free mounts, it's so unfair, QQ. Changing seals, using different judgements, it was so much fun.

[Caradinist]

I may not have played "vanilla", but aspiring to be one damn good paladin in a horribly underdeveloped server in the beginning of Burning Crusade was one of the worst MMO experiences i've had, and i've played plenty.

[Fatabbot]

-Running around in an abomination of "holy" gear, IE Dreadmist Robe, various other cloth/leather/mail pieces.
-Buffing and Decursing, what do you mean there's healing involved in MC? What's that?
-Getting my charger the old school way, epic back then. Loved the fight to get it.
-TUF+SoComm proc = dead clotihie.
-RECK BOMB!
-Verigan's Fist
-Finkle's Lava Dredger
-And of course Banana Shoulders t1 and still the best looking set in game imo, Judgement Set.

[Zoogii]

Retreckoning bomb on duelers outside IF and inside when the pillar bug was in.
Bananna set
Judge seal of the crusader, apply seal of command, pray to every god under the sun for a proc
The birth of shockadin
5 minute blessings, having to keep track mid-fight (Thank you inventor of pallypower)
Giving the naughty dps blessing of salvation >
Trying to find gear you could actually use that wasn't cloth.
Having flash of light like 5 times on your cast bar (downranks)
Can't remember the name of the talent but the one that gave you 100% of the cost of the spell back if you crit a heal... then applying every piece of crit gear ever made.

Some good times, some bad times, good memories that should always stay as just memories.

[Deleted]

Autohit and hoping for SoC procs, mostly. And don't forget the porn, it was awesome. I could watch porn and play WoW at once without the progress/pleasure of either being impaired (joke intended).

[Deleted]

I hardly remember my days, but I do remember one of our guildies soloing the last few percent on Majordomos in MC. It was epic. Looking back, I can't remember all the changes the class went though.

[Deleted]

Palla was my fist toon bk in Vanilla i remember quitting it at level 30ish was just so boring, equip a big hammer right click and wait (or hope) for mob to die, i never got in a guild till 4 months into my wow career so never had and help, i re rolled to a warlock ws so much more fun than the paladin back then

[diagas]

I'll keep it brief:

out of combat resser in Molten Bore

[AlamarAtMMOC]

I have a very specific memory of questing in SW Feralas, while watching TV in another window... And this is when I decided to go dual monitor (and never looked back - just to the side).

Can't recall what spec I was, but holy hell combat was boring.

-Alamar

[Deleted]

I remember being afraid of only one class through vanilla, on my hunter. And that were those god damned paladins and their BoF! Always ruined my kiting!

[Venoch]

My memories of vanilla as a paladin:
Leveling was just slowwwwww and I mean gouge my eyes out with spoons because my hands had nothing else to do since we had...Judgement..Seal...Judgement...Seal. Yea that was atrocious.
Raiding wise I fell asleep once on Chromag in BWL, it was a 15 minute long fight when we were progressing through it and with college at the time I was exhausted by that point in the raid. Anyways this one time I feel asleep while on cleanse duty but apparently I managed to not only keep cleansing through muscle reflex but topped the charts while asleep. After the fight my girlfriend woke me up because the raid leader was yelling at me to get my attention and ask me a question but I was snoozing. He freaked out at the rest of the raid because I decimated the cleansing meter while asleep and the other paladins were just slacking. It was definately my most amusing moment from vanilla.

Sadly other than that I hated that we only had one 'universally' viable raiding spec which was holy. It was pretty much unheard of for paladins to do ANYTHING but heal. Glad we're past that now though.

[Deleted]

The day crusader strike came i was so happy. Finally a new epic pwn all spell. Surely it was good in pvp, but it was still hard to dps with so little spells.

[Typhron]

I beat a twinked Warrior out of pure grit once. For awhile, I was happy being a human Paladin, doing things I wasn't supposed to do. Nobody cared because at the time personal enjoyment > everything else in the game. It was a simpler, humbler time when being Ret was like being Dan. Ineffective, but oh-so-cool.

tBC fixed that.

Just check out Zalgradis pvp movies for all your vanilla paladin pleasures.

You and I are BEST FRIENDS NOW.