Quote Originally Posted by Gamemako View Post
That would be incorrect. You are comparing tools with different uses. Defiance directly compares to Shield Oath as follows:

Shield Oath
+25% effective HP
+25% effective healing

Defiance
+25% effective HP
+20% effective healing

What you want to compare with Inner Beast is Rampart, which is more like 4.44% to 4.48% (neglecting Infuriate). That comparison is not really that valuable either, though. There's a lot that goes into it which I'm not going to discuss here -- need to run more math and all.
thank christ for people like you.

pure passives alone paladin is still ahead, mitigation timers on paper put paladin ahead... but inner beast is going to be available a lot more often than any paladin cd, it's completely feasible for warriors to have IB and/or vengeance up for every single death sentence, whereas paladin do not have rampart and/or sentinel available every time.