Who do you prefer at the moment?

Personally, it’s the priest for me. Why? In short, the skills are better, in my opinion. As a fan of metamorphisizing to get rejuvenating steps, Hallowed Ground is my jam. Holy Lance looks spiffy as well. I haven’t even used it yet because I’ve spent more time playing the paladin—to try and understand how to leverage their skills, since I expected this to be the worse counterpart at the moment.

I’ll outline my beef with paladin talents. Lay on Hands is redundant because Bless+2 mostly outclasses it. And I presume many already invested 2 in to Bless, so why spend 2 or 3 on LoH? Yes, you can stack LoH up to 3 times for major shielding but alternatively, those 1 or 2 charges over a Bless could be used to help finish the boss/champion. LoH also doesn’t give the bless buff which increases accuracy and evasion.

Aura of Protection is nice but again, I tend to defer to Bless; when fighting with a guardian or ghost. You should be avoiding situations where you’re engaging more than one mob at a time and once your companion has the enemy’s attention, you typically don’t need a buff at the same time. You probably have Bless at +2 already and it only costs 1 charge, limiting AoP’s attractiveness.

My main problem with Wall of Light is its cost. It should be buffed to 2. I would opt to use WoL when I can knock a mob down a chasm, but why would I when 2 Sunrays typically do the job for 2 charge? Yes, you can also use the wall to block off an escape but the skill is still very situational—you also can’t control its placement—that I think the charge should be reduced to 2.

And lastly, Smite. I kinda feel like if this was rebalanced to a 1 charge skill, paladin would be much more competitive with the priest. It’s often a 1HKO with heavier weapons, but I find it’s more consistent with Sunrays, or Bless for weaker mobs. Smite shines if you have something like a lucky or projecting weapon, but those are few and far in between.

As a priest, Holy Weapon and Holy Armor are pretty much obsolete, but they’re retained and fairly useful as a paladin. Nevertheless, I’m still squarely team priest, presently.

EDIT: Forgot to mention the challenges I play with, which plays a role in my valuation of different aspects. Hostile champions, badder bosses, on diet, swarm intelligence, forbidden runes.