Defiance still lacking in comparison to Shield Oath

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substantial advantage.

This is such an amazingly hyperbolic statement that it deserved its own quote.

WARs don't have the same *spike* CD functionality that PALs get, but they don't *need* to have the same spike functionality to have an equally valuable CD suite. The fact that they can maintain survivability CDs on a near constant basis is a substantial advantage.

Let's play a game: ask anyone who's ever tanked in any game if they'd prefer an immunity cooldown, a 20% damage reduction cooldown and a 40% damage reduction cooldown to healing for 25% of your damage dealt, last stand, and having a 30 second lower cooldown on a percentage based buff to a stat with diminishing returns. Don't forget to tell them that said buff is Warriors only true mitigation cooldown and that it's competing with a flat 20% damage reduction on the exact same timer.

You're vastly overvaluing warrior cooldowns and simultaneously undervaluing paladins but that's only natural when you're playing forum theorykings and pretending that Bloodbath is a significant defensive cooldown that is going to make a difference in anything ever.