Hey Oldmanrivers I can help you out with your gearing a little if you hear me out. You mentioned you were getting rolled as Ret in the 60's Roll Call thread.
To put it bluntly if you use the right enchants and spec you will do just fine. Though I cant say how effective you will be once the new patch comes out nerfing WOG but meh thats what healers are for. Kinda wish I logged off in my classic ret gear.
For a spec just follow mine on my armory (second link)
Divine storm outside of PVE is absolutely worthless.
For gear try to avoid stacking agility as much as possible with the exception of getting the 22 agility enchant on your cloak. The scaling for agility is so poor that it is not worth getting. Takes 18 Agility for 1% crit. 14 crit rating for 1% crit. Most strength gear from raids comes with crit rating.
Enchanting:
As you may know any sort of opportunity to get class specific enchants on your helm or good shoulder enchants that are not armor kits is gone with ZG no longer available. So I will only account for what you can get.
1. Farm the mats and have
Nethercleft Leg Armor - Game - World of Warcraft made for your legs or if you are lucky buy it off the AH. Most likely will cost 150-300g.
2.
Formula: Enchant Bracer - Major Stamina - Game - World of Warcraft from the AH
3.
Scroll of Enchant Chest - Super Health - Game - World of Warcraft From the AH
4. For your boots you have 3 choices depending on what matters more to you. You can get
Formula: Enchant Boots - Greater Assault - Game - World of Warcraft ,
Scroll of Enchant Boots - Greater Fortitude - Game - World of Warcraft or
Scroll of Enchant Boots - Icewalker - Game - World of Warcraft (tuskar's Vitality does no stack with Pursuit of Justice)
5.
Scroll of Enchant Gloves - Crusher - Game - World of Warcraft or a stamina armor kit for your gloves.
As for professions finish up engineering and pick up mining for an additional 60 stamina from it's bonus once you hit 450 with it.
If you get all the classic pieces you need then add these enchants you should be fine and sitting around 7.5-8k health while hitting like a truck. With the patch coming up all paladins will be relying on a healer and taking time to use potions and casting self heals rather than relying on WOG and that is if the nerf goes through.
As for my Ret gear with classic pieces I am missing 3 trinkets and the gauntlets off C'thun but I am still hitting liek a truck and I am able to survive for quite a while until I get focused on by everyone who just watched me 2 shot their buddy with a lucky AOW proc.
When I feel like going all out I throw on my Arena set up. If you want to know what it is send me a PM.