Nicely made thread

I find that for AoE tanking, Gladiator is a much better use.
Say for example Cutters Cry, I can charge up 1k TP with Invigorate, rush in and use my usual hate skills but I can Keen Flurry my War Drum allowing me to use it twice in the time of its original cooldown and I use sentinel with Leg Sweep for the extra punch with hate.

When I get to Princess, I will swap to Paladin and tank both the Princess and Marshall at the same time with no emnity issues.

The only issue with the Princess fight is that I sometimes pull too many ant adds to me while tanking both bosses and can cause a nasty death if WHM's aren't prepared.

I use HP, MND and STR with a bit of VIT in my gear build. I almost always use my AF body and sometimes Crown if I don't need the extra HP (or 32 MND melded onto helm).

I agree that Paladin has been insignificant to Warrior lately but since cyclone got nerfed, it hits 500 damage crits on 53 enemies for me and I feel that AoE hate can be sketchy since 1.22a hotfix.