http://www.wowhead.com/?talent#sZA0xA0uMusIufdxf0×0c:L0pmz
That’s the build i’m referring to… some people switch divinity out for reckoning but that’s just stupid to do as your avoidance gets higher, less damage hits you thus you don’t get procs.
The glyphs are the ones I have on my tank. I go for Reduced Incoming Damage and heightened outbound damage.

-Zmack-

As one who has been responsible for keeping you alive on many occasions I can vouch that we indeed suffered per your growing pains

All kidding aside you have become a very good tank and this is great advice for all tanks especially new tanks.

Haydenc

Melee is a smaller portion of my DPS (and threat)
Melee swings don’t get Righteous Fury Bonus (no threat)
If you do have 5 extra points to swing around the paper math tells me Conviction is better (depends on your weapon but … )
5% passive crit on everything vs. 1 extra white swing every other time probably on an internal cooldown …

Just my 2 cents

P.S I don’t claim to know everything … I just happen to have an opinion on it

One thing about some of the comments though, I thought that taking the talent Reckoning was a bad idea because if you attack more often then you can reset the boss’s parry chance and thus have more damage applied onto you by doing so? Thus putting not only you, but the whole group in greater danger. That’s just one of the other things I’ve glimpsed upon but it sounds feasible, is that true?

I am in the middle of trying out some variations in this spec. For beginners this is highly recommended but as gear gets better you can afford to move some points around to get more DPS at the expense of something else.

I was never fond of Reckoning because White swings don’t really count for much and they don’t benefit from Righteous Fury (Holy Spells only) but I wanted to put some numbers down so here goes (rough #s)

Reckoning (5/5) gives a 10% chance to generate +4 weapon swings ( = 40% chance of +1 weapon swing)
Avg Damage from white swings ~400 every 1.7 sec (weapon speed) = 235 DPS
Crit = 800 but only 12.5 % of the time (100 damage /1.7 sec) = 58 DPS
235 + 58 = 293 and that only happens 40% of the time (293 *0.4)
=> Reckoning roughly translates to 117 DPS increase. with my current gear.

Let’s take Conviction instead (which is what I’m trying out now)
+5% crit on every spell and ability
I do roughly 1600-1800 DPS with the same gear as the above example.
Crit = 3200-3600 * 5% = 160-180 raw DPS increase. I know that this includes crit and you can’t do math like this and it’s not exact but I want to get a ball park figure …

So without having tried Reckoning in a real scenario the rough paper math tells me that Conviction is 43% better (~160 > 117 ) especially since the 117 doesn’t scale with Righteous Fury for threat where as Conviction does (Most of a paladin’s DPS is Holy … except for melee swings)

If I were to get my hands on a more powerful weapon however this might change and tip the scales but for now (Unless my math is wrong) I’ll stick with Conviction over Reckoning as an alternative to this spec.

Now time to nitpick a little bit. I like 5/5 Reckoning as it adds a ton of extra damage and threat, and also the new talent Divine Sacrifice and its improved form. Now that only one sacred shield can be in existence per Paladin, it helps in raids if your pally healer can put it on a different tank and you can throw a super one on yourself. Also in raid situations, i have been asked to bubble/Divine sacrifice to help raid damage.