My Paladin Respec

[Kevin]

Endgame, post instances and into raid territory, we're healers. That's it. Spec doesn't matter, much, as our talents to improve healing don't improve it significantly.
Protection is our best utility in a small group situation. Anything that amps up our durability and that of our party is a Good Thing. Holy shield offers an OK area taunt, iBoP is honestly invaluble, and redemption is a second interrupt.

Granted, heavy investment only really shines in PvP, but that's with all our trees.
Besides iBoM, that's the route into Retribution I've taken. It will, randomly, increase your damage significantly. But to really get returns off Command, you need some heavy +crit gear and a big, slow weapon. Big, slow weapons aren't great for any kind of control-centric tanking. Also, your dps is neither dependable nor going to ever match that of a warrior, rogue, or any motivated class.

Dependability is the real issue, though.
Mana regeneration is king for a class with such a limited mana pool. I never have and never will use BoK on myself. However, those points would certainly be wasted unless you could afford full investment in DW.

I think investing at all in iSoR when you've got Command and such a heavy investment into Retribution is throwing away points. It's redundant. I say drop both iSoR and iFoL and pick up iDevotion
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Yeah, the dependable damage is always a big worry. iFoL was just a filler point. I've thought more about BoK and can see not putting the point there. iSoR and Commad was a flexibility choice. I use weapon swap macros all the time on my warrior to switch to a one hander/shield and a two hander or in some cases dual wield even (in def stance when you want to up your DPS and aren't taking heavy hits but want your def stance talents for other mob control options it works well). So I was think of similar things with the paladin. And while command is OK with a one hander, it really is the big 2 hander you want with it. I've seen pallies go as the MA, they tank the focus fire target, in that case I would think I would be glad for the extra DPS that iSoR gives me but, yeah, that was a debated spend as well.

More to think about. I've still got plent of time at L37 to tweak it too. :)