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[TheDragoon]

Paladins are perfectly able to become uncrushable, and depending on the proc rate (which is supposedly 10%, though I have heard different accounts), they might do it more reliably than warriors.

And paladins have the most fun "oh shi-" buttons on tauntable bosses, even if only for ~3 seconds.;)Divine Shield + Righteous Defense.

Actually, raiding Paladin tanks usually do not rely on procs to push crushing blows off the hit table. Most of raid tanking is currently tuned to deal huge spikes of damage when *no* crits or crushing blows are landing. When those are allowed to land at all, they are usually the death knell to the tank. Sure, you might survive some of those big hits if you can't get rid of them all, but at some point there will be a burst of damage that will knock out the tank without any possible way for the tank or healers to compensate. Any non-zero random element like that usually means a wipe given the long duration boss fights that the game has, currently, thus it become imperative that you completely mitigate all chance of being crit or crushed. Therefore, paladins end up having to grab all of the block/dodge/parry/miss that they can (they need a combined ~68% plus the +5% shield block libram) to make sure they don't have to rely on procs (hence why many feel Redoubt is pretty close to useless as a talent for raid tanking). That's what you should compare to the Warrior's ~28% requirement to negate crushing blows. :)

Also throw in the fact that there will basically always be a period of time when Paladins are crushable as they go to refresh holy shield (its duration is equal to its cooldown whereas a Warrior's shield block has a longer duration than cooldown) and I think it's safe to say that Warriors are the class that has the best capability for dealing with crushing blows. Even if they do get hit by it, Last Stand and Shield Wall are viable options for them to survive. The Paladin shield pales in comparison since it basically means the boss is going to turn and insta-gib whoever has secondary aggro.