Quote Originally Posted by Hachiko View Post
It's a common refrain but this is wrong. The effective throughput of a healer is going to be higher with a paladin than it is with a warrior every day of the week. 20% damage reduction functions as both 25% more EHP and 25% more healing received. WAR tanks only get 15% more healing received with 5 stacks up, which means either when Infuriate is on Cooldown or when they haven't used inner beast.

And that's not even counting shield block, which also doesn't seem to be counted in the OP's post.
WAR's infuriate is a 60s cooldown so 5 wrath stacks is pretty much always up. Common strategy is to pop infuriate right after using inner beast to maintain the 15% heal buff. Against bursts, the calculation for warrior's 'mitigation' should be Burst damage - Inner Beast. For a 5000 damage attack, pally would take 4000 damage, while a warrior takes 3500. (5000 - ~1500)

Most damage bursts are magic based so block doesn't do anything.