I have been playing a hunter recently and I have experienced the ups & downs of that wonderful class... But there is a disease plaguing this class.. It creeps in silently and quickly puts an end to any attempts at having fun: DoTs.
Nothing saps the will to live quicker out of a hunter than several instant cast DoT's popping up on their debuff bar and no healer in sight. You know that feeling you get when you pop wings and it's immediately spell-stolen? It's pretty much like that except all the time, every other bg at least... multiple times each.
Warmane adds insult to injury by bugging food so that if you try to feign death and eat... you watch yourself repeatedly teabag the ground until you die. Also roar of sac does not give crit immunity to dots that are already applied... Even more fun!
But there is hope, healers may be scarce, but retri paladins are plentiful!
You have the means to assuage the laments of every hunter on this server if you take to spare a Sacred Shield and/or a handful of off-heals and Cleanses. For just a few gcds a bg you can keep this hunter happy & strong. So what do you say? Stop divine storming for just a little while... stop and help the hunters.
Even if it's just Sacred Shield, it helps so much. Be a good person. I don't know of anything else that feels more hopeless when no healers are around than a hunter that has been thoroughly dotted up. At least other pure dps classes have ways to mitigate, remove, or absorb them. ice block, ice/mana shield, cloak of shadows, shield wall/enraged regen... hunters are simply left out in the cold to die.
As paladins, we consider dots, on their own, to be at worst a nuisance (wandering plague grrrr) and at best something to trigger our sacred shield for free sheath of light procs. We have no idea how good we have it. So share the love this christmas eve, live up the classes Mythos, make Uther proud.