New Inner Beast DR.. the end all be all skill

[Remmadar]

I'm just going to throw this out there.. but if memory serves me correctly

Shield Oath gives a 20% DR just by using it

Inner Beast will give a 20% DR ever so often whenever we have 5 stacks (with a smaller heal)

I see people talking about how they are changing to warrior because they will have this up at every burst of damage in the game

Wars will mitagate the same damage as if a paladin basically just stood there and did nothing.. and even less if he blocked it

I know Defiance should be compared to Shield Oath but for these ~Burst~ damage situations... Paladins will still be king imo

[Fallstrider]

Did you forget about Defiance?

[Soulburn32]

If I read the notes correctly warriors have a constant 20% heal increase and then you can trigger a 20% damage mitigation with a small heal its gonna be sweet I think

[Menta]

I think PLD will still be the optimal main tank after patch , but now WAR is still more desirable for offtanking now with the -damage path combo.

[Shinkyo]

PLD still has much better and numerous cool downs, more eHP and healing bonus from Shield Oath, ability to block, STR debuff, Blind and Hallowed Ground.

They'll still be the better tank but by a rather small margin which is how it should be.
Aside from WAR catching up in term of DR, the key change is that PLD/WAR will have much more synergy in a group due to WAR's Storm Path damage debuff which will stack with RoH STR debuff.

PLD/PLD will still be just as good, WAR/WAR will be viable in 2.1 but PLD/WAR will soon be the better option :-)

[KokuRyuha]

PLD/PLD will still be just as good, WAR/WAR will be viable in 2.1 but PLD/WAR will soon be the better option :-)

This. We can now choose the setup we want, but the better one will surely be a combination of the two tanking classes

[Leonus]

I think PLD will still be the optimal main tank after patch , but now WAR is still more desirable for offtanking now with the -damage path combo.

Don't know now. War may turn out to be the better single target tank while Plds numerous cool downs and damage checks I.e. blocking and parrying may make Pld a better off tank for multiple mobs. If it's single mobs for off tanking, war and pld will be interchangeable.

[Soulburn32]

There is no healing bonus from shield oath

[Bayman]

So we get to be a little bursty to keep up with a PLD using NO CD's. A pld keeps this up all the time for free. if a PLD uses one cd and they get 20% or 40% more on top of that. We get the constant healing thing to help out. I don't think its that unbalanced.

[Zoomie]

There is no healing bonus from shield oath

Not this again...