I try not to get into the DPS tank meta and I don't really know anything about dork knight but I really feel for them, from what I've read its like what happened to bard almost in terms of the amount of change (since the start of 4.0 anyway).

My paladin bro is happy with his changes and I'm happy with the war changes but agree with the OP that shake it off needs something... I really do think warrior could use at least 1 utility skill even if somewhat minor but I'm afraid we wont see one till next expansion.

I'm not a hardcore raider so I guess I'm not worried about balance as much as others. Something you need to understand about balancing is that if you sink into the "bring the best with the most" meta, you may never truly enjoy your favorite class in the game because there's always going to be a class that is better than you at something. I think thats what Yoshida was trying to say in that every class would be the same if they maintained a perfect balance.

I remember back in FFXI people came as whatever they wanted to play at the current time for whatever raid tier boss they were doing and no one threw a fuss about anything and just enjoyed each others company and the challenge. I don't think anyone ever even remotely thought about balance in any of the endgame groups I was in... but I wasn't a part of the ffxi forums at any point of time either.