Warriors Viable?

[Steady]

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Lets address that one.

If warrior is OTing, more often than not, Storms' Path is gonna be up. If warrior is MTing... it won't necessarily be up. So already, Paladin is get 10% damage reduction over Warrior. And some Paladins are reluctant to keep their STR down enmity combo up, which is further mitigation not shared.

Now, there's solutions, Warrior could just do Path vs. Eye, but then that's 10% slashing resistance gone. You might have a ninja to deal with that, but maybe not. In any case, Warriors will by default, take bigger damage numbers, but they also take in bigger heals. This evens things out. Now a Paladin does have random mitigation, and are more prone to accept Parry as a worthy stat. So I suppose I could forsake my Hyrbid Str accessories and Slashing debuff for the sake of more mitigation in terms of parry and a large HP number... or you can enjoy the extra 150dps I'm doing :P.

As for your Turn 4 Example....

Back when Turn 4 was current, Inner beast was still only a self heal without mitigation.

Turn 5 Warrior is the ideal Main Tank because Inner Beast can be used ever 7-8 swings, so that's instant 20% mitigation for every Death Sentence. That's a 6 second rampart on demand every time you need it. The only time I'd bother using other cooldowns was when I got my timing wrong or was dealing with more than one thing.

[Wintersandman]

If warrior is OTing, more often than not, Storms' Path is gonna be up. If warrior is MTing... it won't necessarily be up. So already, Paladin is get 10% damage reduction over Warrior. And some Paladins are reluctant to keep their STR down enmity combo up, which is further mitigation not shared.

I am surprised why a paladin would be reluctant to do Rage of Halone. It is A the number one damaging ability Paladin's have not including the Strength down. But a good Paladin would go sword oath if they were tanking for any extent.