Last night I was playing 5v5 arena with two paladin teammates. Both of them may eventually become members of Akatsuki about WOW power leveling, my arena team in the distant future. Their gears are not top tier at the moment, neither is mine. Of course, gear is not an issue as by the time we hit level 70 gear advantage will be pretty much reset to get WOW power leveling. I have to say this, I almost forgot how disgustingly effective paladins are as support.

I have been giving improved priest/druid/shaman too much credit, but I really do not think they are on the same tier. With amazing PUG partners like hunter with icebarb spear wearing carrot on a stick in arena, warrior dual-wielding hanzo swords, we managed to beat a lot of full teams, even ones with T2.5/T3s about WOW power leveling. Two holy paladins provide incredible healing and disgusting damage if they chain nuke. The biggest advantage of holy paladin over retrib in group PVP is that holy paladins do not sacrifice damage for healing/defense. They can go pure +spell damage and wear a shield; it is perfect synergy to get WOW power leveling.

What really made me think about the level 70 arena team was when we took on a balanced team of R14/T2.5 gear. We had all sorts of pug partners for the final two slots. We got slapped three times in a row with hunter/mage/warlock PUG partners then something happened. We had a valor TUF warrior + warrior with two hanzo swords as PUGs, and we beat that team losing just the hanzo sword guy about WOW power leveling. What is the difference? You guessed it. MS debuff! For starters, I really can not imagine a top team without a MS warrior.