How do these changes fix the issues with Paladin?

[Shining_Tiger_Excalibur]

Ready for a sick segueway?

For similar reasons to why a DRK Gritless MT DRK's DPS is so high, now a SwO PLD MTing may now be able to do some very competitive DPS now with both benefits from SwO on top of Shield Swipe procs. I dunno if it'll come close to their WAR or DRK OT but it'll still be pretty good I'll wager.

It won't be anything even remotely near a noticeable difference. If it is indeed going to work like Reprisal for DRK with a tad more potency....we're looking at **maybe** double digit improvement and that's it. Paladins, based off the numbers to measure dick sizes being provided in this thread, are anywhere from 150 to about 350 DPS behind depending on the encounter design and uptime on boss......

For Oppressor max DPS Paladin is close to a flat 1000. Warrior is clocked at about 1300-ish. Dark Knight is near Warrior with about 1220-ish DPS.
When the encounter design is around tank swaps and peeling away from the boss for a tether like during Living Liquid the gap closes, but that's ONLY because the Warrior needs to build himself back up to do massive damage via stacks and debuff while a Paladin just keeps doing what they're doing. Even then Dark Knight isn't far behind Warrior in numbers while Paladin still sits 150 DPS behind.

Basically, this change to Shield Swipe isn't enough to even begin attaining balance.

EDIT: Another basically thing is, the longer Warrior and Dark Knight are on a boss with no need to swap or grab tethers compared to Paladin, the more they stomp the ever living hell out of Paladin. It's only when their focus is taken away and their stacks drop that we're even close to being on level ground at 100-125ish DPS behind. Which in an encounter that lasts for more than five minutes will show a divide of TENS of THOUSANDS of damage on the LOW end of us being 125 DPS behind. When we get into the encounters where the other two tanks are 300+ DPS ahead of us that gap is magnified exponentially.