How do we feel about the tank changes?

[Novak_04]

In the burning crusade tanks still needed a few seconds to apply (forgot the exact skill name) an armor reduction skill 2 times which also ment big aggro lead, if you didnt wait it out you would steal aggro much easier and probably kill yourself or the party.

Sunder Armor. Warriors had to stack it up to optimally use Devastate, which had a threat multiplier on it also.

I'm curious now if Warriors in FFXIV will still be the super-hp tanks now that all tanks get the 20% damage reduction via the Tank Mastery trait. I did see that their abilities were rather boring (animation wise).

I'm looking forward to AoE Holy Spirit and lolbigsword.

Will PLD still have like 100x more skills to use and we'll still be in exactly the same situation as now (Where DRK has TBN to support the MT but PLD has Cover + Intervention + Clemency + Passage of Arms + Divine Veil which can all be used to support the MT)

This is something that has concerned me. Paladins have a substantial amount of utility and I fear it will get gutted. The fact that Sheltron is now an interval of time makes me wonder if it is still a gauge cost or a short cooldown. Right now, I block 30% damage. When this change goes live, with proportional gear, will it be the same? That's Vengeance level mitigation on demand if so.... It's basically Inner Beast, but better. How about the other defensives we have? Are they culling Bulwark? Sentinel? Are they making their way toward more "active mitigation" usage instead of cooldowns themselves? I know... I'm way over thinking this, but I'm worried that all the reasons I love Paladin are going to be axed to make the other tanks more of an option.