tanking spec...

[Air]

I just started  leveling a paladin for tanking.  I've been trying to read up on the viability of it.  I've been reading this thread http://elitistjerks.com/showthread.php?t=10440 which talks about
paladin tanking.  Its stated so far that 5man and heroics are easily possible.  And then there's pali's that are MTing in kara to now.  MTing in the 25man is not quite possible yet, but off-tanking mobs there is possible.

The gist of it is, a pali tank needs 10k health unbuffed, 12k armor, and 490 defense.  490 defense is so that the person is uncrushable, so it avoids the really big hits that get pali's killed in 1 or 2 hits.

[Air]

I found some videos of a paladin tanking.  I think my jaw dropped a few times 

1) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9-gg3zKMS0 - Pali tanking all the mobs in Black Morass in a single pull.

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ6tCDY9oVU - Tanking Curator in Karazhan.

3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s7vJpiyLZk  -Tanking both Romulo, and Julianne at the same time...Yeah...Wow...

There's a few more tanking video's there at http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=Atraira&p=r

The player's name is Invisusira and there profile can be found at: http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/#character-sheet.xml?r=Smolderthorn&n=Invisusira

[Buzan]

O_O Wow the Khara double tanking is just ... well wow. I'm speccing prot!

[un4]

A pally I was with in the Shattered Halls tanked the hallway of death in one pull... yesterday, he also healed the Shadow Lab for us without respeccing.

http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Alexstrasza&n=Etarnol

[Air]

http://elitistjerks.com/f31/t17089-paladin_protection_you/

This is a new thread at EJ that has been created with currently understood information about paladin tanking.  Alot of good info in one place.

[Darkstar]

Aye, that is it.  Thanks for the info