I guess the problem is people play Paladin's differently, and not to their full potential.
If you're not CCing/stuning(mitigate damage taking)/dispelling hastes/dishing out top of heals etc. why are you playing a Paladin? All these aspects take mana.
If you have a 1400 ac 2000mana pool Paladin and you're tanking in say, Sebilis at an item camp, there's going to be very little difference between a 1100AC 3000 mana pool paladin if all you do is cast FoL and Divine Strength every 50 odd mins.. while the monk pulls mobs to you.
I think alot of the time people play Paladins because they are just lazy warriors and want to spam FoL while tanking in groups.
The only way to optimally get full potential out of hybrids tanks is to build for mana first then ac/hp, you can argue black and blue about the one time you tanked in velks CE and the named golem was tough: but the other 99.97% of your game time you're wasting high ac/hp on killing trivial mobs.
There is a reason why as a hybrids you have a red, and blue bar and a warriors only has a red bar. That blue bar isnt meant to look pretty sitting at 97% after tanking 50 mobs in a row because all you did was cast FoL over and over.
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