What is the General Consensus?

[Chrono_Rising]

You cant use equilibrium in deliverance, you are left with the thrill of battle and storm paths combo and shake it off, with 90 and 120 cd and a GCD little heal, when DRK has still TBN. :P

TBN is not healing, it is mitigation. It shields your for 20% of your HP but unless we want to really muddy the waters with whether or not all mitigation is a form of self healing then I don't think this is a road we want to go down. Warrior might not have access to some of these things out of its tank stance, but it can switch into its tank stance for access to something like equilibrium for nearly free every 90 seconds. Of course Inner beast is still a dps loss so spending gauge on that might not be the best idea unless you need it.

Comparing DRK in grit stance to warrior in defiance, DRK does more dps, where war has more mitigation, and the similar healing power as DRK it may be a little higher but not by too much, soul eater still is the thing.

This is just plain false. Warrior's have numerous moves which ignore their stance penalty, which is exactly the same penalty than dark knight has. If you have proof otherwise please share it because right now this just seems false. Warrior is losing access to Fell Cleaves, but dark knight is losing access to blood weapon, which means less blood and less mana for enhancing attacks. In general tanks are hit with a 25% penalty for being in tank stance.