Pros and Cons of a Paladin

Pros

• Get clerical chants. These chants are very useful in solo and group combat helping the group. I will talk about each individual chant later on.
• Paladins also get to wear Plate armour the best armour in the game with the highest absorb factor. They also can be proficient in all weapons with the exception of ranged and pole-arms.
• In RvR and normal grouping you will be wanted by groups because of your ability to fight and use chants.
• Paladins get a resurrection spell, reviving dead players. You are the only fighter class in the game who can do this. This makes you popular and also resurrecting people not in your group will get you a nice reputation.
• Paladins are classes that have a nice RPG element to them. People can play in role as these characters very easily and makes the general atmosphere of the game better.

Cons

• No ranged weapons as such. You will always have to get close to a mob to actually fight it unlike the Armsman whom can safely pull them to him or her with the crossbow. There is a special chant that Paladin do get though that dos allow them to pull a mob to some extent. This spell, which is obtainable through the chants line, allows you to pull a mob from the hate list. In other words a Paladin can pull an aggressive mob to him easily. The bad part is it does no direct damage.
• The Paladin will never do as much damage as the Armsman Or Mercenary. As a trade of for less damage they get chants, which you can class as a pro or con. The chants will never give you the ability to do more damage than other classes but they are helpful and liked in groups.
• Paladins will have less hit points than an Armsman therefore will not be able to take as much damage.

Now after reading them hopefully the Paladin profession interests you. If not go read a different guide.