Got to agree with Reynhart.

A good testing ground for a player's mindset is their reaction to getting the various new skills. Most aggressive WARs I know were just jumping for joy when they got Fell Cleave, and couldnt resist running around and bragging about how big a crit they just got against a gaelicat or something. Whereas I was like... meh.. just does damage, whatever.

On the contrary, when I got Sheltron I was over the moon - here was a cool active mitigation button I could press regularly when tanking to mitigate big hits, it felt turtly and awesome. I was 100 times more excited for Sheltron on my PLD than I was for Fell Cleave on my WAR.

Not going to be hanging up my sword and shield anytime soon, regardless of balance.