I also enjoy being able to tank a caster (I.E. after pulling a group with avengers, and being able to toss a judgement over, the new HoR, or even a single shield slam) at ranged and still be able to control the rest of the mobs. Kel'thuzad on 10 man for example, I will have enough threat built up so that I can tank one of the adds that comes out, and still maintain primary aggro.

Something I do find somewhat troublesome is the lack of ability to get specific mobs, and by this I mean HoTr/Avengers shield. I'm not sure how it "picks" targets, but for something like 25 man gothik It can get seemingly overwhelming when you have 10 mobs, and every burst threat ability is on cooldown, but that ONE mob decides to stick to a healer. (Or 25 man noth, even with spell detail on its minimal, my macbook pro even struggled with the obscene AOE detail, and grabbing mobs with holy wrath and consecrate spam was still difficult at 3fps.)

Would be cool if HoTR would "autohit" the 2 other targets in melee range, with lowest threat. In turn giving them all a hit, and a stack of SoV. But this would probably also make tanking pretty mindless. I've just found that when SoR is on CD, HoTr is on cd, and judgement are all down, I can't really do much if anything, because SOV does not leave an instant damage threat.. I've missed the initial SoR on a boss, and seen it run over to the healer, all the while I'm auto attacking trying to get aggro.

While rare, it kinda sucks sometimes. Is HoTR completely random? (Similar for avengers shield?)

Also, has anyone run into an evading gluth? I have run in from the tube, avengers shield, and see a nice big EVADE pop up, so I pop exorcism ASAP, and autoattack, and watched him run over to our paladin healer and one shot him.

I would probably take the T7 Gloves. Expertise only helps Hammer of the Righteous and auto-attacks, but Hit Rating covers everything we do, Consecration, Holy Shield, SHOR and all. The stat loss can be made up for by the blue socket.

Here's a question for you experienced tankadins out there.

What sort of sets are you actively planning and collecting as you run through Naxx, OS, and Malygos?

At first look, it seems logical to plan to collect a full mitigation set and a full avoidance set, as those appear to be the two extremes.

By mitigation I am meaning BV, armor, BR, and stamina (so AD kicks in sooner) to smooth out the incoming damage curve and minimize damage taken AOE tanking or against fast hitting bosses.

By Avoidance I am meaning, of course, dodge, parry, miss, to avoid getting hit as much overall.

Perhaps collecting for extremes isn't terribly valuable, however. Perhaps the mitigation extreme is useful, for true AOE trash tanking or heroics, but would we really want to run a set that gives up a ton of BV for higher avoidance? On what boss would relying more on lucky miss streaks and less on smoothing out incoming damage really be valuable?

I ask because in going through all potential remaining upgrades, there is often one great avoidance upgrade and one great mitigation upgrade, and several that are in-between. It is useful to have goals in mind and know when to use the collected sets, rather than haphazardly bidding on every upgrade in your path, regardless of whether it fits into one of the ideal sets you are looking for.