Quote Originally Posted by Faytte View Post
A paladin in shield oath is doing .88 damage (-20% + 10% from FoF over time) vs a dark knight is doing .92 (-20% + 15% from dark side). When you equate in oGCDS, a Dark certainly is going to do more damage while MT'ing but per above(especially at the loss of sword oath), but in general -- in progression raiding, no one is going to care about the tanks damage--your job is to survive busters and make the healers job as easy as possible so they can heal the dps that do the *REAL DAMAGE*. That said, I'm glad with the direction of paladins, i think everyone is going to prefer them as an MT and are kind of a mandatory bring along at this point. Take least damage, can heal themselves or others in a pinch, bring the most utility. Dark might compete for farm tanking.
Shield oath is -30% damage, not 20%. Darkside can be kept up indefinitely, FoF cannot.