I like Empowered Seals. As soon as I logged on and read what the options were I knew this would be the power talent. The Holy Shield talent is pretty spiffy as an extra 15% block is nothing to sneeze at for prot spec. Secondary procs and cooldown resets rely on block and it acts as a damage shield as well. I've read the elitist jerks and icy-veins on ESeals and they don't even consider it. God forbid one less Consecration gets cast over 100% uptime of +15% haste, atk power and 1% heals that scale.

Ret gets the move speed seal and that's pretty op as well. You can zip around all over the place with 150% move speed.

Seraphim.... Bursty or pvp in my opinion. You're gonna lose out on a lot trying to bank up 5 holy power for a 15s buff. Unless you get lucky with cooldown reset procs, it's only going to give you a handfull of hits before it's gone. Yeah, I've seen the Seraphim, Holy Avenger, Avenging Wrath crits of Hammer of Wrath and it's sick. But Seraphim isn't something that fits into my playstyle and I don't have a realistic way to passively manage it through macros. Skipping SotR for 5hp to get Seraphim off as a Tank isn't viable. You need that damage absorb buff as much as you can.

Paladins are simply silly sauce right now. They just throw out DPS like it's nothing and spray healing all over as well, and that's while tanking.

I was full raid geared back in LK and got my arse handed to me when Cataclysm opened. I think the second or third quest in I died several times to normal mobs. Pandaland was a little better, but I didn't play my paladin much. Feral druids were king in Pandaland. Paladin is back with a vengeance in WoD. I feel sorry for my ele-shamans, they still suck.