The Paladin has moved beyond the yellow shouldered healbot of vanilla WoW. Looking back, the Paladin has had a bit of a rough road, but the class has blossomed into one of the premier classes (who's biased?). Looking back at the armor can still bring a tear of pain to the eye like looking back at embarrassing photos of people from the 70s. Looking beyond the armor is a completely new class from when the game launched five and half years ago. Read some of the hightlights of the changes that have brought the class to where it is today.

• This week we look back at a brief History of the Paladin in World of Warcraft.