With Warrior being so squishy..

[Shinkyo]

I'm assuming you read him wrong: Shield Oath makes the paladin take 20% less damage, while also dealing out 15% less damage. Defiance gives the warrior +25% hp and +25% healing received, while also dealing out 20% less damage: it doesn't reduce his damage taken at all, it gives him more hp/healing instead.

Or whatever the exact % are, I'm not at my home computer to check right now.

Haha, I read the post wrong... I though he meant outgoing damage penalty. Just confused with all the other tank dps related thread...
My bad.