All these posts are TL;DR for me (8 pages), but I kinda think that this might end up being good for paladin tanks in general. Here is why:
Death Knights and Druids both tank with nothing but avoidance, health, and armor. They get a lot of it. As such, they are currently higher up than us on the "survivability meters."
Warriors are considered to be the "avoidance tanks" apparently, but whether they are or not, they still get quite a good amount more avoidance than us, and a good amount less block.
And even though it may affect paladins, it should (key word here) not affect us as much as it does warriors, druids, and death knights. Thus, shifting everyone's survivability down some, but ours somewhat less, maybe finally closing the gap in our ability to survive. While they're still stacking huge amounts of dodge/parry/miss, we're well on our way to being "uncrushable" (I know, don't mention it), and going for more block value.
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