so much truth here...
its true as a weaker player supporting / harassing is a good way to go
it is true that as a bard you can also do great things eventhough your pure power isnt that great
it is true that everyone should coose his "style" free and enjoy it
...and its true that many players are either busy or lazy
the other ones answered your thread already
btw one more thing coming to my mind when thinking about paladin (a little warstory)
1st: you can make pretty durable 2handed assaultbuilds... i had situations where i faced equally strong paladin players (ok they outgeared me a bit, but really just a bit like 3 items or something) and when i played psi in full dps mode (so max PVP damage, "glasscannon") i still did not manage to kill them although i was standing off sight and DPSed with all my power
there was the absorption-skill, the lightshield, the dragontearshield, some other shield, 2 kinds of healingpotion and whatsoever, result was after like 10 seconds the paladin has killed everything around him targeted me and started attacking which almost killed me (thats the downside as playing in DPSmode in PVP
) and i had to retreat
not lying, the paladin killed like 2 or 3 other players after that also
so he did pretty well, it felt like playing vs a fulltank but actually it was a 2handed offensive build
- and when this happened, i was like almost max geared which meant i normally could kill almost every player before he even realized i was attacking him, even most and uncautious "fullheal"
so this is a thing to keep in mind
2handed warriortank which is beloved by me can NOT do this although its still awesome
2nd: next patch supposedly will strenghten paladin a lot making it one of the "best" classes
so it might be valuable to spend time learning about paladin now to profit when patch is installed