Originally Posted by
Tinyknight
Another big change to SoV with wrath was that it procced off special attacks as well as auto attacks. IIRC during TBC SoV granted slightly higher TPS than SoR, however it only procced off your auto attack swings, which meant at the start of fights you were gaining very little threat from SoV for a few seconds, which is obviously the worst time to have bad tps.
In addition, the proc chance was actually quite low, in the days before you could stack expertese and hit up to cap in tank gear, this could actually see you losing all 5 stacks during the middle of a boss fight, leaving you another few seconds of bad threat as you built them back up. Remember that during tbc paladins only had auto attack (plus seal) consecration, judgement and holy shield as threat generators, so bad TPS from a seal really meant a lot, unlike now where I can happily tank heroics with SoW if I start running out of mana.
Back in TBC I usually used SoR, slightly worse TPS but much more reliable and zero "build up time".