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Surprisingly, Paladins do decent damage unfunded. I only use equips I pick up from training, and I have 5% str. He does more than my Cannoneer who has a higher range, and my Battle Mage who is 20+ levels higher than it also with a higher range.

Dark knights and paladins getting nerfed soon, heroes are just bad. I'd say zero is the best of the 5.
(Not biased at all)

@xstarmage, Paladins do not have insane damage. They have good damage when it comes to bosses with elemental resist and not even good damage when it comes to bosses without elemental resist. Also, heroes attack quicker which helps with more than just DPS. The quicker you can attack, the better control your character has at avoiding attacks at bosses such as Gollux and Magnus.

[quote=Amit1553]are heros have a good defense?[/quote]
Heroes have okay defense but compared to paladins, obviously they do not fare well. Even if a job has good defense, at bosses like Hard Magnus and Gollux, if you have bad control with your character, you will even die on a Paladin.

Someone is probably reading this and thinking Paladins have that Godmode and bind. Those are great skills but one cannot rely on those alone to kill certain bosses.

@ValorsHero had something nice to say for once.

I don't know how a paladin fares with this, but I am really enjoying my non-endgame geared Hero. 1h sword + RB time perfectly with every jump I do, so training is very simple: jump-forward + swing, jump-forward+swing... Although I run through Honsters like a mad man.

[quote=xstarmage]No, Paladins are the ones with good Defense and insane damage.[/quote]

Pallys in no way have "insane damage". They can just ignore physical resist on bosses, which cuts damage in half to all other classes. And in KMS that was taken away from them recently, so they wont even have that in a few months. I turned my paladin into a Hero like 2 days ago(because of said nerf in KMS), against bosses that have physical resist I do generaly the same amount of damage per line(though paladins do ~2x as many lines per attack, heros attack faster so it evens out pretty well) and i do like 2x as much damage per line against bosses that don't have physical resistance on my hero than I did as a pally.

OT: Why does someone have to make another of these threads pretty much like every other day...?
Dark Knights have the most dps of the three classes. Paladins have the most defense of the three classes, Heros are the most underrated of the three classes(with 1mil range you can hit cap/line...yet people insist on saying heros are the worst of the three...)

No, Paladins are the ones with good Defense and insane damage.

are heros have a good defense?

Ignore what other people will tell you, and pick a class that you like, not because of it's performance. I personally like Hero over all the others because it's an all-around type at particularly everything and much easier to manage (Again, opinionated). You'll see you will have more fun once you do something for the enjoyment, rather than for the outcome/reward