Quote Originally Posted by Vyndree
My comment was that there were no stats that paladins use that benefit both damage mitigation as well as threat generation.
I should have pointed out that I was talking about end game. You're right in that a paladin will be tanking in warrior gear until Outland, and probably until level 70 when you start to gather Righteous Armor. Block is an incredible threat stat, with Holy Shield, Blessing of Sanctuary and shield spike, your threat will really spike when blocking.

As for running oom. I almost exclusively use seal of wisdom, this allows me to keep up holy shield all the time, and also consecrate alot. On bosses I will maybe judge wisdom and use seal of righteousness, but this seal isnt as useful in the lower levels. Also remember that you can judge wisdom on multiple enemies and have consecrate ticks return mana to you. This requires some effort in the micro department, but can be valuable when having a small mana pool. I also use [Fist of Stone] which sometimes procs 50 mana (quite low procrate). Another thing is that the weapon in the mainhand needs to be quite fast. Around 1.8 is nice, this will allow you to make use of all the reckoning procs, which all can return mana from seal of wisdom. Oom should not be a problem even with little int.