TBC Ret Paladin here.
One fun fact no one remembers is Ret was the only spec in the game which didn’t have Resilience added on their PVP sets until Season 3.
During Season two I purchased warrior gear (boots, gloves, etc) in order to obtain some. Used the core Ret pieces for Set bonuses.
Absurd really. Ret wasn’t remotely close to being considered “good” but Blizzard for some reason felt resilience added with their survivability wasn’t fair. Yet Holy Palaidns got it…