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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 4375202" data-attributes="member: 12332">To be honest, your way lies madness.Essentially, and you see this in PVP, there's absolutely no reason not to play a Striker if that's the methodology that is being employed by the DM.  Otherwise you have to overpower the tanks as they overpowered Clerics in the last edition and then, being people, you'll find nobody plays a Striker, they all play a Paladin, who is now a SUPER-Striker, because you've beefed him up to the point where the incentives are so strong you create a whole new issue.  (In 3E they pumped the clerics, to try and let them heal AND play, to the point that my last campaign was entirely multi-classed clerics.)So, sure, you can find a 'magic number' that the GM decides means the monsters focus on the paladin, but then everybody is going to want to play a paladin so that the uber-damage falls to them.  Because the 'magic number' is, "The Paladin Can DPS Better Than The DPS".WoW handles this with itemization, talents, and alternate abilities.  The PVE Tank Warrior is, essentially, a whole other class than the PVP DPS Warrior.  They use different gear, different talents, different stances and hotbars of abilities.  D&D is ALL PVE, though.  But your GM is making it PVP.  And the Paladin is a PVE Tank.  Every class is one thing, and if you make the PVE Tank into PVE Tank + PVP DPS, then he's suddenly got two suites of output compared to everybody else.  The best way would be to pin even more damage on the Challenge, such that the UBERDAMAGE only triggers on the enemy hitting somebody else, but then you'll already be into the realm of being so attractive it's worth it to try and get multiple paladins in the party such that they play round-robin Markathalons with the enemy to force that DPS spike.  --fje</blockquote>

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