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xiron
If you're talking just about leveling, I'd say to go for all the block rating and defense that you can get your hands on. Block = tons of damage with holy shield and BoS up, plus you take next to no damage. I basically ignored stam and didn't have an issue. Note that this is for leveling...once you get to 70 you're going to want stam :). Helps for instances, but while leveling up Defense is a HUGE stat, especially since you get a great return on each point pre-60. Most of my stuff was ... of Defense. Even had some leather in there for awhile. Stam is just a buffer to stay alive. You can either have 9000 HP and end the fight with 5k since your defense stinks, or start with 7k HP and end with 5k since your defense is great. That gets even more exaggerated with more mobs on you, which you want since paly tanking is all about melee-aoe tanking. Get a good shield with +def. on it and a shield spike and you're set.
Once you hit 58 and go to the outlands things change a bit as you can find plate with +damage on it. That helps as well, but your bread and butter is going to be aoe-tanking things and letting themselves beat themselves to death on you while you use BoW and SoW. +damage helps with consecrate, +block or defense helps with holy shield.
And to Mrmunkles - it's possible to sheep pull. As soon as the poly goes off (or a second later), have the paly tank toss his shield out. 2 seconds should pass between poly and the shield getting there, which is more than enough time for the mobs to get far enough away from the target that's been poly'd. Could also just throw down a consecrate and have the mage run through it. Then again you can shield-pull and the mage can sheep one of the targets since they'll be slowed.
I also target/melee the last thing to go down, this way I don't have to judge wisdom on multipe targets :).
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myomer
IMO the key to Pally tanking is a mix between what mrmunkles said and what xiron said: tank threat from a Pally comes with their holy damage not physical damage, and most of it coming from righteous fury/shield (holy shield)/consecrate.
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Angryhealbot
Try getting Reflective Damage gear
For big pulls you may want to judge and seal light incase the healer can't keep up.
The following list is good for Aoe but it should lend itself to tanking nicely.
Put the Fiery Blaze Enchantment on your Weapon (Badlands Quest)
Get yourself a reflective damage shield (Green Tower, Ect...)
Have a good Shield Spike
Retrabution Aura
Righteous Fury
Thorns (if you have a Druid in the party)
Blessing of Sanctuary
Avengers Shield
Holy Shield
Auto Attack
Consecration, Consecration, Consecration
The heals you get from your healer will keep your mana up so you can spam your holy spells.
Aggro Heaven.
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blademeld
make sure all mobs are in front of you when you do AoE grind them, parry is only effected by attacks from the front, that reduces a lot of damage.
i leveled as prot 62~70 and found that our recently
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sugarzombie
spec 5/5 reckoning and use a weapon speed 2.00 or faster
/enjoy
weapon choices:
http://www.wowhead.com/?items=2&filter=minrl=40;maxrl=50;ub=2;cr=36;crs=4;crv=2#0+2+1
gear: stam > int > strength (while leveling)
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