Defiance still lacking in comparison to Shield Oath

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use beserk with inner beast. your crappy 800 heal is not cracking 2000 NON crit. oh look we can get an ability to make your crit higher..weird :P

If you pop 2 damage cooldowns, waiting through 2 seconds of animation time, you can then use inner beast to heal yourself for 2000 instead of 800, IF it crits. Then you need to pop infuriate to get your stacks back, or build them up again. During this time you're being healed for 15% less.

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Yeah, that's still completely insignificant compared to gladiator cooldowns.

plus maim and the combo after that that heals you (forget its name)

You should never be using Storm's Path, the heal does next to nothing. Storm's Eye is way better. Higher potency and an actual useful combo effect.

granted there are going to be fights where you want a pally for whatever reason, but i highly doubt the reasonw ill be survivablity or because they take less damage.

That's exactly the reason why you want a paladin main tanking... and this is already happening. The first time we did HM Garuda with a paladin main tanking the very first thing the healers said was "oh my god this is so much easier to heal." But you haven't even done fucken Ampador yet so what do I know?

This is an old interview, but I'm pretty sure they have kept this in mind moving forward.

"JPGAMES.DE: The marauder is a very good damage dealer and also, for example in the Ifrit fights, a really good tank, even a better one than the gladiator. What are your plans for the marauder and its job warrior? How can the paladin/gladiator keep up?

Yoshida Naoki: We are going to make sure to do everything to get the balance right and then we are going to make adjustments to that. For example, the marauder is going to be a really strong attacker, but we don’t want to spoil all the gladiator’s tank positional skills.

http://www.bluegartr.com/archive/ind.../t-107491.html

the marauder is going to be a really strong attacker, but we don’t want to spoil all the gladiator’s tank positional skills.

Literally nothing in this quote implies either "paladins will be main tanks" or "warriors will be off tanks"