PLD any better than WAR?

[Shougun]

Imo, SE did a great job capturing their themes.

As a Paladin you can really feel like a team player (bit of the "safe bet"), I've on many occasions saved wipes by giving that healer that extra few hundred hp (stoneskin generally > cure) or even stopping DD from weakness stacking. Cover making you feel like a real best friend's tank, placing it on your lala healer and then knowing they see you 'covering' them so they start to hug your leg - it also makes prioritizing weird aggro really calm as you can cover a threat generator and organize your pile. Hallowedground also makes you feel boss - 0 damage.. 0 - and your healers can drop healing for 10 seconds and pump out a few holys (or gasp for breath). Shields procing many times a fight and then bulwark and lol everything is reduced by a bit, while giving you an incredibly cheap attack it also allows you to shutdown most generic skills. Stun locking monsters and mechanics like no one else can. Need an emergency silence? The combos are easier imo, but it lets you think of other things like being a support or of course very importantly when to schedule that defense cooldown during more important fights.

As I haven't played Warrior as much (is 50) I'll just leave it that it felt and appears that they're the mad man(woman) who laughs and kills at the same time, while yelling nope right when someone thought they had the uppperhand (many self cures and things like vengeance + blood bath). It is appealing and I had a lot of fun, but when I wanted to put myself in the mindset as the protector rather than the berzerker I wanted to play Paladin (but both can tank!).

If I were to min max and everyone was doing their job very well I might start to lean more towards Warrior, but /imo/ running DF as Paladin feels like playing Sam right before Frodo tries to rage quit.