>Ugh..
>I just played a shield spec Paladin. I think I know a thing or
>two about how tough it is to seal a kill.

Paladin for taking challenge fights need what? Only powers he can use any time. Do you have an idea what lich needs? How is it easy to get?

>And as a Lich, I can think of MANY classes that would have a
>much tougher time than yourself in doing it. For instance, you
>have a mob that follows you around that causes a several round
>freeze affect.
Ghoul gave me like 10% of kills or even less. It's not a big number.

> You can scourge, poison and (if I'm not
>mistaken) healing curse. You can curse, forget, sick an army
>of zombies and other mobson your enemies, and utilize all
>those crazy ass Emperor powers you have.

Flee/quaff? Do you know how much people died after sleep/full spell up at hero ranks? Or do you know how easy to land these spells if you did not sleep them.

>It isn't as if you're relying on shield bash, after all.
So if you had centurions like power you won't use it, because it's cheap? :)

>There's been plenty of Liches in the past, who got plenty of
>phylacteries and plenty of kills, without relying on cheap
>tactics.

Yea, because there were much more people in hero range, much more noobs, much more people who were trying to raid, reraid, defend and fight lich.