Possible Paladin Rework...

[SwordCoheir]

I don't really understand why getting less str is a problem.

Ummm, what? STR has significant value to damage which in turn increases the base value which the enmity potency modifiers will multiply. My own damage goes up 200-300 damage average in full STR gear, which is why I can pull hate off equally geared fending, Shield Oath/Defiance tanks, good lord if I go Shield Oath nobody is gonna hold hate off me.

Anyways, by your own math the DPS went from +66 STR over tanks too +116 over tanks that's pretty significant in the long run, and that's +116 STR now, what's gonna happen when the next gear patch hits +176 over tanks? That's kind of pushing it.

[Menae]

Ummm, what? STR has significant value to damage which in turn increases the base value which the enmity potency modifiers will multiply. My own damage goes up 200-300 damage average in full STR gear, which is why I can pull hate off equally geared fending, Shield Oath/Defiance tanks, good lord if I go Shield Oath nobody is gonna hold hate off me.

Anyways, by your own math the DPS went from +66 STR over tanks too +116 over tanks that's pretty significant in the long run, and that's +116 STR now, what's gonna happen when the next gear patch hits +176 over tanks? That's kind of pushing it.

Of course it does. My point is this: assume an optimal paladin rotation does x enmity per STR, and an optimal dps rotation does y enmity per STR (or INT/DEX/MND, whatever), including all multipliers for shield oath, sword oath, etc. If tanks are consistently getting the same ratio of STR to dps (current ratio is about .7 for tanks), then as long as .7x > y, how much actual strength you have is irrelevant. You could have 7,000 STR to a monk's 10,000 STR, and as long as .7x>y, you'll still hold hate.