Quote Originally Posted by Shining_Tiger_Excalibur View Post
In raids Paladin will be just a little better; in dungeons, we'll be just a little worse now.
I actually still think it'll be a buff to 4mans. You're looking at a 5-8% dps/threat buff on single targets and you can now weave that Shield Swipe in between Flashes and other moves when AOE tanking. Shield Swipe spam from Bulwark/Sheltron use was always a DPS loss over just rotating your regular combos between mobs, the only benefit was the Pacification and there were a VERY limited number of mobs that actually cast moves that pacification is affected by and it had diminishing returns.

You'll see a decent DPS buff in instances, and whilst you wont be able to Spam Pacify you can more easily spam -STUN- with the lower cooldown shield bash. Also with Shield Swipe off the GCD you'll be able to much more easily use it reactively when you see an enemy cast bar and not worry about being locked out by the 2.5 second global cooldown.

These changes are all 100% positive in my mind.