Defiance still lacking in comparison to Shield Oath

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The CD suites are roughly equal, with PLD having the better spike CDs whereas the WAR has better average contribution CDs (longer durations and shorter CDs with weaker effects), which is fine.

This is completely untrue.

Warrior cooldowns are Thrill of Battle which is very good, Foresight which Paladin can use, Bloodbath which is entirely inconsequential (and paladin can also use it), and Featherfoot which is pulled from monk. Other cooldowns are mostly damage based, aside from Infuriate which can be used to give you another snap heal. These aren't even remotely up to par with the 3 paladin mitigation cooldowns. Hell, Covalescense? Crappy 5th string Gladiator cooldown, while for us, it's one of our best. Says a lot.