How do these changes fix the issues with Paladin?

[Shining_Tiger_Excalibur]

Since shield swiping will likely still require a successful block (reprisal is drk's equivalent with parry and is also an "Ability"), it'll be a small upgrade for a main tank paladin on a boss that uses physical damage. As offtank, it won't do anything. Person that said it was a 70dps increase is assuming you can use it immediately every 15 seconds, but they didn't say it won't require a successful block to trigger it.

10 tp off goring blade is not going to be noticed. The shield bash change is nice for people doing A4S probably?

If this change to Shield Swipe still requires an activator this is a direct downgrade to dps, enmity and utility. As soon as the expansion came out Shield Swipe became useless for anything other than crowd control as its damage and enmity multiplier weren't bumped up high enough to compete with the new skills given to DPS and Healer roles. I started noticing its lackluster performance while leveling and now in A2s I have since been tempted to remove it from my hotbar. Goring Blade and Royal Authority more than made up for trying to use Shield Swipe like it was in 2.X. It's the same case for Fracture as well, Goring Blade pretty much single handedly rendered Fracture worthless on Paladin. Especially since it costs 80 TP as well. Mercy Stroke actually took the place for me since it's free damage and I **might** get some HP back if I somehow time it absolutely perfectly.....Mercy Stroke should have been Sole Survivor all along.