I feel like paladins look at Warriors HP, and add an imaginary 0 to the end of it. We don't have enough HP to survive hits unless we far surpass the gear level required for it!

Twintania hit me for 7800 with Death Sentence on Sunday when our Paladin died, and I picked it up. I only have a measly 8150 HP in a Full party, so if my healers didn't keep me within 300 HP of my max, we were done for.

I can see us working the way we are if Defiance gave us 75% more HP, instead of 25%. But as it stands, We need to mitigate in order to survive.