Shadow wall needs an additional effect.

[carbonx]

This is flat out not true, but it's widely perpetuated because hey, anything to make War look even better than it is and justify further buffs for pld, right?

I don't believe I referred to buffing PLD at all in this thread. Please quote me if I somehow posted it unknowingly in a fit of insanity.

Let's math for a second. All tanks have gear which puts them at 18k HP. Defiance puts the War at 22.5k HP, but increases healing by 25% to make up for the discrepancy in HP. Shield Oath/Grit keeps them at 18k HP, but grants them the additional boon of 20% mitigation. They take a hit of 8k. WAR will drop to 14.5k, or 64% of their HP. DRK/PLD will take 6.4k, dropping them to 11.6k, 64% of their HP.

The only real difference is that WARs don't instantly max their HP until they are healed, which you stated. But they have tools like Equilibrium and the ability to preplan Defiance use to counter this.