LOLSE, We're not wearing 270 STR to hold hate, c'mon now...

[Reynhart]

Yeah but I think what they are getting at it mitigation is better then having more health.

Pure mitigation vs pure more health, yes. Be we don't have a "main mitigation stat" to chose instead of Vitality.

It's harder to heal warriors then paladin. Warriors tank stance is weaker then then other tanks.

The difference is so small it's barely relevant. WARs don't only have more HP, they get healed for more, wich is pretty much the same as receiving less damage. If you take the same base hit against PLD and WAR, they'll end with the same %HP remaining in the end.