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Seal of Righteousness frontloads more threat without requiring you to build up to a full stack. You can use this on trash with low life or start off a pull to generate as much threat as possible then quickly switch to Seal of Vengeance or Corruption. Other seals simply aren't ideal for tanking, although Seal of Blood / the Martyr generates recoil damage which can situational help generate mana through Spiritual Attunement, soon to become a Protection talent.
You'll have three Judgments to choose from, but you're really only looking at Judgment of Wisdom and Light. If you have a Retribution Paladin in the raid, have her judge Light because it will scale better because they will generally have higher Spell Power + AP. Wisdom grants standard returns so this will be your primary Judgment. Some Paladin tanks won't give Judgments much importance because it doesn't deal much damage, but picking up one point in Improved Judgments will make it fit nicely into your rotation. It's a pretty good rotation; we'll get to that in a while.
Probably your main pulling ability is Avenger's Shield, hitting three mobs at the same time and dazing them as well. Maybe you say this is not always a good thing. This makes it difficult to pull single mobs and the slowing effect also makes it hard for us to start hitting the mobs right away to generate more threat. It's a good idea for ranged DPS to hold off on unloading nukes until mobs get within melee or Consecration range. Avenger's Shield is left out of a tank's normal rotation.
Your biggest single target damage attack is Shield of Righteousness, generating the most burst threat of any spell in Protection's arsenal. This makes it part of your rotation and is a great way to even out threat on a particular mob you might not have built up enough threat on. This spell scales off block value and deal armor-bypassing Holy damage. It is the tank spell to use.
Your multi-target spell is Hammer of the Righteous, working well in conjunction with your other spells. It deals more damage and generates more threat overall when dealing with up to three mobs, even it doesn't deal as much damage on a single target as Shield of Righteousness. This spell works off a weapon's DPS, so top-end damage or speed doesn't matter. Only marginally depending on your seal, but the idea is to get the highest DPS weapon you can find and whack with it. Hammer of the Righteous' secondary bounces do not break CC.
Holy Shield isn't something you use to hit things, but it's solidly part of your rotation. With the introduction of new abilities in Wrath, Paladin tanking is no longer as reactive as it used to be, so Holy Shield isn't quite as important. You will still need to have it up constantly as it provides solid mitigation. These are your basic tools for tanking.
The cool thing about a Paladin tank's rotation is that it's incredibly neat. As above, you'll need to pick up a point in Improved Judgments to make Judgments have a 9 second cooldown to make it all fit, but since you'll pick up Deflection from the Retribution tree, it's easily the next point. We'll talk about the talent tree next time, but for now you can familiarize yourself with the 9696 Rotation, which will squeeze the most out of your abilities with virtually no idle time.
