Bad paladin, good paladin, and great paladin, which group do you belong to, and if you wanna be a better paladin, here are some tips for you.

1. Know your class

Know what spec is the best for your role and why.

Know what rotation of spells will give you the best output (heals,threat/mitigation,dps).

Know what to judge on a boss. Ret=Light Prot=P. Justice Holy=Wisdom

2. Buff Well

Get Pallypower which makes it easier, not required but don¡¯t give the resto druid might because there¡¯s 3 feral druids in the group. When in doubt give kings¡­

Don¡¯t buff might or wisdom unless you have the improved version.

3. The more you know the better

Use a mod so you can view the entire raid such as grid or configure Xpearl/Pitbull for the same purpose and activate aggro warnings (red dot or frame turns to red when someone has aggro).

4. Save your team members specially healers

Know where the healers are in the raid frames and if you see a mob going for them use your Hand of Protection on them. A macro for this is great and if you can add a whisper of ¡°you owe me a cookie¡± when you apply it to them it¡¯s even better (I have to find this last part to include it in my macro).

You wear plate so you might survive but guess what you have a guaranteed survival mechanic it¡¯s your bubble. Use this with caution¡­ Mob is loose and it¡¯s going to kill a healer or is going around killing people¡­taunt it! Use hand of reckoning on the mob but try to be far away from it before hand and hopefully the tank would have had time to realize he needs to pick it up and before it gets to you bubble.

Hand of Sacrifice and divine sacrifice can also be used in certain situations so keep those in mind; your raid leader may want to use them in certain events.

5. You can save your self and others II

Salvation is great for retribution use it if you know you will pull from the tank as dead dps=no dps.

Salvation others; are you holy or prot? Want someone to squeeze out more dps or perhaps not have to heal them or rez them once they pull aggro? Apply salvation liberally.

Have healing spells key bound such as flash of light for that instant heal when your ret. You never know when you can stop and save someone this usually only happens on razor thing boss killing battles. Or a healer goes down and you just want to top off some people because there¡¯s only one healer left and he¡¯s busy keeping the tank alive just use good judgement.

Save the tank or give mana to a healer by using lay on hands. Again it helps if you have this key bound instead of searching for it on your bars and when you finally find it the tank is probably dead.
All in all it¡¯s about making the best use of your class to benefit the raid and your self while still being able to dps.