Whats with the cooldown removal?

[Kaozurei]

I personally feel Paladin feel much less squishier than before, losing out on so many defensive cooldowns with no real new ones to compensate. The baking of Bulwark into Sheltron doesn't really feel like a buff to me due to losing a skill when you had both, as well as having anywhere between 5-10% less blocking/parrying with the block/parry nerf. This is coming from someone that cares more about tanking damage rather than personal dps, so anyone wishing to comment on how Paladins are better only mean it from a damage-dealing standpoint need not apply.

DPS is in a good spot for paladin, it's mitigation is weaker than before.

I actually forgot about Bulwark being removed from PLD. They're by no means in a bad spot defensively speaking, but those who played PLD back in SB will definitely feel the reduced mitigation ability. Sheltron's at least better than it was before, though! Silver lining?

I know those abilities (probably) won't affect Savage Raids, but that is a good chunk of mitigation gone from dungeons and other 'casual' content (e.g. maps) and it is very noticeable. It also makes playing a Tank feel less impactful, and less like a Tank (whose #1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 job should be holding aggro and mitigating damage, not dealing it).

I do believe that removing them resulted in less mitigation, which is why I mentioned them individually. OP was expressing concern over how adequate tank mitigation was (other than WAR) and truth is, while losing those skills did impact tank mitigation, all four can mitigate just fine with the skills they have left. I do agree the tank "feel" is diminished somewhat with the loss of these mitigation skills, but it's not like tanks actually need them to survive even when doing large pulls or map runs.