In short: The Paladin is a human knight built to take punishment and protect the group. If you want to be the front line that holds the monsters while your allies attack safely, this is your class.

Imagine putting on heavy armor, raising a huge shield and planting your feet while everything collapses around you. That's exactly what playing a Paladin feels like. He isn't the one who kills fastest, but he's the one who stays standing when everyone else has fallen.

The Paladin combines very high defense with a touch of healing and protective magic. For beginners he's generous: he misses less, dies less and forgives bad decisions while you learn the game.

Overview

Profile
Race	Human
Archetype	Melee combat
Playstyle	Defensive tank
Difficulty	Easy
Main weapon	Blades/fists (with shield)
Position in the line	2nd Class

The Paladin is the second step of the human knight path: Human Fighter (Starter) → Human Knight (1st Class) → Paladin (2nd Class). Each step raises your defense and adds stronger protective abilities.

Strengths

Very high physical defense — With Constitution (CON) at the top of the chart (83%), the Paladin has huge effective health and holds packs of monsters without worry. In practice, you die far less than other classes.
Excellent front-line holder — His mix of shield, defense and strength (STR 74%) makes enemies hit you instead of your fragile allies. That keeps your party's mages and archers alive.
Self-sufficient — He learns his own healing and regeneration, so he can farm solo for a long time without a support beside him. That's perfect for auto-hunt.
Powerful protective buffs — Skills that raise defense and reflect magic turn the Paladin into a moving wall at critical moments, like against bosses.
Easy to learn — Being so tough, he forgives positioning and potion-management mistakes while you're still learning the basics.

Weaknesses

Low damage — The Paladin kills slowly compared to offensive classes. Tip: focus on equipping a better weapon and keeping it always updated to speed up farming.
Among the lowest total HP at high level — Despite the huge defense, the raw HP number sits in the 20th percentile. Tip: make up for it with heavy armor and the defense buffs, which multiply your real toughness.
Weak Intelligence and Mentality — His healing and protective spells don't scale well because of low INT and MEN. Tip: use the abilities to support your melee, not as your main source of damage or heavy healing.
Depends on a party to truly shine — Solo he farms fine, but the Paladin's peak is protecting others. Tip: join a group for raids and bosses, where tanking is worth its weight in gold.

Class-defining skills

Power Strike — A strong single physical hit. It's your basic attack to take a big chunk out of an enemy's health.
Mortal Blow — A precise strike that deals high damage at once. Good for finishing off low-health targets.
Quick Heal — A fast self-heal. You learn it early (level 20) and it's what keeps you alive during auto-hunt without relying on expensive potions.
Majesty — A buff that reinforces your defenses and presence. Activate it in tough fights to take more punishment.
Ultimate Defense — Drastically raises your defense for a short time. It's the panic button for surviving a damage burst.
Shield Mastery — Strengthens your shield use, raising your chance to block hits. It's the foundation of what makes the Paladin a tank.
Recover HP — Health regeneration over time (continuous healing). Set it and forget it: you heal gradually while you fight.
Shield Deflect Magic — Reflects part of the magic that hits you back at the enemy. Excellent against magical monsters and bosses.
Wind Walk / Haste — Movement-speed and attack-speed buffs. They make the Paladin (who is naturally slow to kill) more agile day to day.

Attributes: what to prioritize

The Paladin is a melee tank, so anything that boosts survivability and physical strength comes first. Magic and cast speed are secondary.

CON (Constitution) — Your number-one priority. It raises health and defense, which is the Paladin's whole reason to exist.
STR (Strength) — Boosts physical damage so you don't farm too slowly.
DEX (Dexterity) — Improves critical and hit chance, making your blows more reliable.
INT / WIT / MEN — Leave them aside; your spells are support, not your main damage source.

Recommended gear

Use heavy armor — it matches the Paladin's natural defense and maximizes your toughness. Always carry a shield, because half of your tanking skills depend on it.

For a weapon, use one-handed melee blades/strike so you can keep the shield in the other hand. What to upgrade first: the weapon (so farming doesn't stall) and right after that the heavy armor and shield, always raising quality as you gain levels.

Beginner step-by-step

Create the character — Pick the Human race and follow the Fighter path. You start weak, but that changes fast.
Do the first quests of the starting area — They give basic gear, Adena and teach the controls. Don't skip this part.
Turn on auto-hunt — The character farms by itself in zones of your level, hitting monsters automatically. This is how you level up most of the time.
Follow the professions: Starter → 1st → 2nd → 3rd — At each class change you gain new skills and more defense. The Paladin is the 2nd; keep evolving after it.
Prioritize defense and healing skills — Learn and use Quick Heal, Recover HP, Shield Mastery and the defense buffs first; they keep you alive on autopilot.
Turn on the speed buffs — Wind Walk and Haste offset the Paladin's natural slowness and speed up farming a lot.
Gather Adena and L-Coin — Use farming and daily missions to stack currency and buy upgrades. L-Coin is for special store items.
Keep weapon and armor updated — Whenever you can, raise the tier of your gear. For the Paladin, good gear matters more than any flashy skill.

Where to farm

Auto-hunt monsters of your level — Let the character farm by itself in zones suited to your level to gain XP and Adena safely.
Move up to harder zones as you grow — As you gain levels and gear, switch to areas with stronger monsters and better rewards.
Join a party for raids and bosses — That's where the Paladin shines: tanking bosses in a group yields the best items.
Use the Season Pass and daily missions — They give constant extra rewards just for playing what you'd already play.

Common beginner mistakes

Trying to play as a pure attacker — The Paladin wasn't made to kill fast; embrace the tank role and use a party for big objectives.
Ignoring the shield — Without a shield equipped, half of your defense kit doesn't work. Always have one.
Neglecting the weapon — Since damage is already low, a weak weapon makes farming painfully slow. Always upgrade it.
Forgetting to turn on buffs — Defense, speed and continuous healing make a huge difference; keep them active at all times.

It's for you if…

You like being the front line that holds the danger while the group works safely.
You prefer to survive and not die rather than deal giant damage numbers.
You want a class that's easy to learn and forgives mistakes while you discover the game.

Quick summary

Attribute	Value
Archetype	Melee combat
HP at level 85	3435
MP at level 85	1385
Base physical attack	4
Base magic attack	6
Attack type	FIST

Paladin class guide (Human) — strengths, skills and step-by-step