Make Paladins Worth Playing in RVR

Absolutely. I believe this post touches a fundamental philosophical question. Will there be class rebalancing and finetuning at all, or is the prime directive rather to simulate 1.65 patch status ? I am wondering what the devs' long term goals are in this respect.

In my humble opinion, it would be great if the devs would introduce custom changes for classes in order to make every non-stealth class viable in group RvR. This would have many positive implications: Most people know classic DAoC for so many years (due to Uthgard) and official live DAoC is also well known / worn out. Thus, custom rebalancing which leads to new meta setups would be very exciting, even for long-time DAoC experts.

I believe most rebalancing / finetuning can be done without adding extra skills, but simply by adjusting the effectiveness of existing skills and styles.

In the case of paladin, the effectiveness of chanting skills would have to be adjusted to values where it just becomes viable to pick up a paladin --- but not above those values.

For example, everybody would agree that a healchant which heals 2000 HP per tick would be too strong, everyone would run with a paladin. However, I am sure there is a golden value somewhere between the current 37 HP every 8 seconds and 2000 HP every 8 seconds which would just make the paladin a viable option without making paladin overpowered. The adjustable parameters here are the number of HP healed and the frequency.

Let's compare the healchant to the Warden's bladeturn song. The bladeturn song blocks one melee attack every 6 seconds. That melee attack would ideally be a heavy 2h swing and in the worst case a fast one-handed swing. The fast one-handed swing would deal about 200 damage on average, the 2h swing 400 damage. That would be 300 Damage prevented every 6 seconds. Also, Bladeturn can prevent Slam, giving peelers an advantage but also may grant the crucial extra amount of time to finish that quickcast spell. Against magic attacks, bladeturn does nothing. If we assume that half of damage sources are magic, bladeturn prevents 150 damage every 6 seconds on average. Thus, a reasonable value for the Healchant could be near 150 HP healed every 6 seconds instead of 37 HP every 8 seconds. Maybe a bit less, maybe a bit more. While Bladeturn has some extra benefits regarding stun styles, the healchant always has a positive effect on all damaged characters.

This is just an example on how such rebalancing / fine-tuning could look like, maybe the numbers should be totally different. Excuse me if this somehwat hijacked the original post.