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go with DA end of story

I dont know if its true, but I think paladins are the only class that can survive 100% hp attacks (like vellums blast and i am almost positive that most recent bosses that nexon makes have hp% attacks so in that sense we do have a good advantage in survivability compared to DA). I havent done high lvl bosses with drk, so my opinion is kinda biased but i find that paladin at bossing are more efficient (especially with auto pot and Bind skill). Places such as magnus u can use your 150 hyper and bind.. etc.
Imo the only thing i find annoying about pallies is that i have to keep rebuffing Blast buff. Tbh, i was surprised that even after quite major nerf we didnt get any buffs to the duration of blast.

Why on earth pick DA? They are incredibly boring. Only class that's worse are Jetts.

[quote=nonamedasian]Take away the demon avenger option since its jank
And now voila, the thread is the same as the "paladin vs drk" thread reposted here every day[/quote]

I think he added the demon avenger just to spice it up.

Paladin is an incredibly godly class and apparently it's underrated by most people still. It's way better than the other warriors though.

Take away the demon avenger option since its jank
And now voila, the thread is the same as the "paladin vs drk" thread reposted here every day

considering nerfs to both DrK and Paladin are a year away,

Paladin > Dark Knight > Demon Avenger

Paladin has supreme survival and supreme damage, there are very few classes better than Paladin at bossing atm.
Dark Knights are cool, high damage, drain, conditional revive
Demon Avengers are pretty fun to play, and have good steroid buffs, but their damage just doesn't match up to the above 2.

[quote=strenling]High survivability + fine damage = Paladin
Fine survivability + decent damage = Dark Knight
Great survivability + great damage = Demon Avenger

High > Great > Decent > Fine

(Haven't been active for awhile, but I believe that's around how they'd go.)[/quote]

[quote=strenling]great damage = Demon Avenger[/quote]
Mustve been a long time since you played. DAs has a lower dps than both pally and drk. Not that DPS matters too much, since you have other abilities besides your attack. In terms of your total damage and usefulness, its about

Pally > Drk >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> DA

Many people can argue that drk is better, but most pro people that you ask will tell you that pallies are much better than DrKs for bossing (besides dojo)

id say be a da

In the latest KMS patch Paladins lose pretty much half of their dps against bosses. Because Void Elementals ability to ignore physical resistance(or w/e it did) gets taken away.

It depends on what you want, Paladins "OP/impossible to kill survivability" is pretty useless against most bosses because of 1hko attacks and %hp attacks, but you can afk pretty much wherever the heck you want(besides some boss maps) and never die. Dark Knights got a pretty insignificant nerf in KMS, so they are probably still pretty high in overall DPS, plus they can revive themselves. I don't know jack about demon avengers.

If you want almost impossible to kill surviability, go DA or paladin. If you're concerned over damage, Drks and paladins both received nerfs in the latest kms patch although I think they're still rather good.

High survivability + fine damage = Paladin
Fine survivability + decent damage = Dark Knight
Great survivability + great damage = Demon Avenger

High > Great > Decent > Fine

(Haven't been active for awhile, but I believe that's around how they'd go.)