Possible Paladin Rework...

[Alphras]

And you don't know what Defiance does apparently. It's not +25% healing, it's +20%. However, I must thank you for bringing my horrible oversight to my attention, if only inadvertently. Defiance is actually not better. It's worse. +20% healing is not interchangeable with -20% damage taken.

Of course I know that (lol). I just pointed out how the damage reduction effect translates, since you did seem to think that the +25% HP and the 20% DR are somehow different in terms of eHP and that defense buffs scale differently on PLD and WAR.

Edit: But since you already know that, the statement "Defiance being slightly better with the HP pool increase" seems really strange to me.

[Ceodore]

Of course I know that (lol). I just pointed out how the damage reduction effect translates, since you did seem to think that the +25% HP and the 20% DR are somehow different in terms of eHP and that defense buffs scale differently on PLD and WAR.

Edit: But since you already know that, the statement "Defiance being slightly better with the HP pool increase" seems really strange to me.

You're right, and it was strange, and it was actually wrong, and quite the opposite. The buffs are actually unequal though, with Shield Oath being slightly better than Defiance. The +25% hp and the damage reduction were not what I was trying to compare, it was Defiance's +20 healing and Shield Oath's - 20% damage I was comparing, and quite inadequately comparing I might add, with a very wrong outcome in my comparisons.