Originally Posted by
Ninotchka
It really depends on how the encounters in the next tier play out. Right now there's at least one that lets you single tank it if you have a paladin in the raid, unless they fix BoP/bubble resetting stacks. If you can single tank something with a paladin, you get amazing vengeance, amazing healing and amazing dps, plus you can bring another dps or healer and make the encounter quicker or safer.
If they nerf the paladin ability to easily single tank encounters by designing the encounters properly, then the decision is less clear cut.
But they're not done with buffs and nerfs yet, and pvp will screw all our class abilities up in the end anyhow.