WAR 2.1 Patch Notes

[Garnatian]

That would be incorrect. You are comparing tools with different uses. Defiance directly compares to Shield Oath as follows:

Shield Oath
+25% effective HP
+25% effective healing

Defiance
+25% effective HP
+20% effective healing

What you want to compare with Inner Beast is Rampart, which is more like 4.44% to 4.48% (neglecting Infuriate). That comparison is not really that valuable either, though. There's a lot that goes into it which I'm not going to discuss here -- need to run more math and all.

I've always wondered why people say 25%, when the tooltip says 20%, is the tooltip incorrect? Though I have seen on some sites that it says 25%, but not entirely sure.

I don't think it's quite fair comparing Rampart to IB/Storm's Path mostly because you aren't going to use the ability guaranteed as soon as it comes off CD, while there is no reason not to use IB/Storm's Path whenever available. That and it's use will not differ from fight to fight, while things like Block/Parry will depending on what abilities the mob uses.

[Vmage]

I've always wondered why people say 25%, when the tooltip says 20%, is the tooltip incorrect? Though I have seen on some sites that it says 25%, but not entirely sure.

taking 20% less damage is the same thing as having 25% more hp

paladin has 100 HP with shield oath on, warrior has 125 HP with defiance on

they both take a 100 damage hit

paladin mitigates it to 80, survives with 20 HP, 20% of his total

warrior takes the full 100, survives with 25 HP, 20% of his total

the passive mitigation has always been balanced, it's the fact that 5x wrath only gave 15% that caused the gap, coupled with paladin cooldowns...

[Garnatian]

taking 20% less damage is the same thing as having 25% more hp

paladin has 100 HP with shield oath on, warrior has 125 HP with defiance on

they both take a 100 damage hit

paladin mitigates it to 80, survives with 20 HP, 20% of his total

warrior takes the full 100, survives with 25 HP, 20% of his total

the passive mitigation has always been balanced, it's the fact that 5x wrath only gave 15% that caused the gap, coupled with paladin cooldowns...

Yeah, I get it now.

PLD has 100 HP, WAR has 125HP and the lowest hit that can kill a PLD is a 125 damage hit, same as a WAR.

All right thanks.