I'm going to echo the "The OP hasn't played WAR nearly enough" thing.

Seriously, take an ego hit and go level WAR to 50...then come back and say that WAR doesn't need some of these buffs. You get 15% boost to healing amount at 5 Wrath only and Defiance's 25% HP boost, PLD gets a flat 20% damage resistance with Shield Oath, no stack management required, as well as all the mitigation from blocking. I'll take the DR over an HP boost any day; its better in theory and in practice.