Why all the whining?

[Leonus]

Pld will still going to mitigate more damage overtime than War. People just like to complain, most Plds don't give a fuck now that war can't tank as well as them. As soon as that position is threatened, they scream OP all over the place. When right now, it is PLDs who are OP and the only reason they didn't get the nerf bat is because all of them would have cried if they were brought down to War's level. As soon as Wars are brought up to Plds level in a slightly different way, there is a problem. I wonder why...

[fuzz]

Whiners are usually losers in every aspect of the game. Usually in life too.

-fuzz

[Rochetm]

Tank damage is a joke. Two warriors in a raid combined are just reaching the bad dps you are carrying... Pld has silence and War doesn't... Pld still has a tone of defensive cooldowns, including one that makes them immune to all damage... No reasons to take a pld... clearly.

Then there is the fact that Warriors are really really bad right now yet people are still bringing them into Coil. If people are going to take trash tanks into coil they will certainly take a great tank that maybe deals a tiny bit less damage.

[Vonericson]

I just don't understand the hate between the 2 classes I guess, I'm currently leveling both Marauder and Gladiator and I love them both equally even though they both shine in specific situations. Since this is a game that allows us to switch classes so easily on the same character why not have both? it's not like you have to start a new character and deal with acquiring everything you've worked hard for all over again.

[Obreck]

When its all said and done paladins are still going to be desirable for their superior damage mitigation. Those that are complaining underestimate what a powerful asset % based damage mitigation is. Its bland and unimpressive at a glance, but the math doesn't lie. And that math says Paladins will at worst have to share space in the same way White Mages and Scholars have to share.

Personally I'm switching to Warrior, but I preferred that class anyways. Only settled for Pally because it was more pug friendly.

[Starvald]

Whining is the natural response of the "gamer" to anything he doesn't understand....for example his class or other classes in a game and the specific game mechanics associated with it. Why put any effort into actually reading and correctly using your skills if you could just whine, cry for changes and then faceroll!

[Raminax]

People like changes.

They don't like being changed themselves, however. Silly, but important distinction.

[ReiszRie]

Actually, you do more damage than the Warrior if a Warrior has applied SE.
Evenw ithout SE, the amount of damage a Warrior does compared to a Paladin is only greater by an insignificant amount and is nothing to be worrying over.
Paladin mitigation is also more consistent.

parsed DPS report on training dummies shows a WAR dealing approximately 18-20% more DPS.

With the 2.1 WAR buff, effective HP for both PLD and WAR is roughly equal, the only advantage for a PLD will be its utility skills and the block from shields

[Githiun]

OP:

Stay off the forums......end of discussion.

[Leiron]

parsed DPS report on training dummies shows a WAR dealing approximately 18-20% more DPS.

False, the parse that I have seen has shown that the difference is in the single digit percentile.
Roughly 220 to approximately 210 DPS.
I will need to find it for you but the DPS reports on training dummies have not shown anything close to such a disparity.

This assumes, however, that people understand how to play a class and not consume invisible GCD's poorly.

I.e. Not using SW and CoS before RoH.

Furthermore, mathematical data provided by Kitru has also further illustrated that the DPS advantage a WAR possesses is around 6%, which is about 10 to 20 more DPS in the current BIS slots.
In Tank stance, a Paladin tends to do slightly more due to the fact that a WAR has a larger damage debuff (25% which lowers their DPS by 33% which cannot be made up for), vs a Paladins 20% (losing 25% of their DPS by STorm's edge means their damage will be igher thana WAR in defiance.)

The myth of WAR doing significantly more damage than a PLD is false.

With the 2.1 WAR buff, effective HP for both PLD and WAR is roughly equal, the only advantage for a PLD will be its utility skills and the block from shields

False, the current eHP looking at purely the amount of health is equal for a WAR in Defiance and a PLD in Shield Oath.
PLD still receives a 25% heal buff due to 20% mitigation vs a WAR's current 15%; and 20% in the patch. So they will still be less squishy.
The patch will bring thee eHP of a WAR to be much more equal with a PLD when cooldown's are utilized.