Warrior "buff" in 2.1: not what we are expecting?

[Maelwys]

Defiance has a 5% health advantage over Shield Oath in 2.1. (25% health, 20% healing vs 20% mitigation)

You're neglecting the fact that that 20% Healing needs to be applied to a 25% bigger Health pool.

+20% damage resistance:
Starts at 5000 HP.
Receives a 2000 damage hit, takes 1600 damage.
= 3400 HP (68% of max)
Receives a 1000 HP heal. Gains 1000 HP.
= 4400 HP (88% of max)


+25% HP and +20% healing:
Starts at 6250 HP.
Receives a 2000 damage hit, takes 2000 damage.
4250 HP (68% of max)
Receives a 1000 HP heal. Gains 1200 HP.
= 5450 HP (87.2% of max)

PLD actually still have a slight edge because the +Healing is only 20%, not 25%
But realistically the performance is now so close as to be effectively equal in normal gameplay.

Compared to 2.0 it is additional. (20% is more than 15%)

Granted.

(My point was they were stripping the +Healing from additional Wrath Stacks and adding it to Baseline Defiance!)