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Care to explain why you think Holmgang isn't balanced against Hallowed Ground? They're both "don't kill me" abilities. One is gained at 42 (and isn't even exclusive to WAR), the other at 50. One grants immunity to death for six seconds, the other for 10. You can use Holmgang 2.3 times per Hallowed Ground. Which of these screams unbalanced to you?
Because healer really needs to be on the ball to heal Warriors after Holmgang while they don't have to for Paladin?
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So there's a ~5% advantage in PLD's favour against physical damage (Shield + Parry vs just Parry is ~7%, minus the difference between Rampart and Inner Beast Buff), and puts WAR's effective mitigation ahead by over 3% on enemies that exclusively use magic. The net difference here being ~2% in PLD's favor before considering WAR's self-heals.
How many mobs only use magic exclusively???
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"So what? They're about equal like they should be." Not quite. None of the above considers offensive potential, where WAR now clearly has the advantage. They're able to bypass the damage penalty on Defiance ~17% of the time, whereas PLD cannot. Maim is an effective 20% damage increase because it can be kept up at all times, compared to an average increase in damage of 10% from Fight or Flight. The debuff from Storm's Eye reduces slashing resistance by 15% which PLD does not have access to on its own. It also does significantly more AoE damage than PLD is capable of, and has the added bonus of generating substantially more enmity while doing so. This is why I would like to see Shield Swipe turned into a normal ability with the Combo effect of being conal with increased enmity generation (at the cost of much more TP), or have increased enmity added to Circle of Scorn.
Storm's Eyes decreases slashing resistance by 10% and only up 66% of the time currently (1 SE, 2 BB is the combo, noone ever does 1 SE, 1 BB as that renders Maim's trait useless and not as much enmity). I'm confused by what you meant when you say it also does significantly more aoe damage, Storm's Eye is single target and you need the combo bonus for the slashing resistance so it's not like you can just tab and use Storm's Eye on multiple target.
Tell me more about how much a lv14 marauder knows about a warrior's problem.