"My church is the field of battle." — Uther Lightbringer.[1]
The paladin's only baseline AoE spell without a target requirement ([Holy Wrath]), Consecrate temporarily infuses the ground with holy power, damaging all hostile creatures who tread upon it.
[Touched by the Light] increases your spell power by an amount equal to 10/20/30% of your Strength and increases the amount healed by your critical heals by 10/20/30%.
Retribution
[Benediction] reduces the mana cost of instant spells by 1/2/3/4/5%.
Crusade increases the damage of all your spells by 1/2/3% and an additional 1/2/3% against Humanoids, Demons, Undead and Elementals.
Consecration used to be a talent in Holy tree. It has since become a baseline skill. [Aura Mastery] has taken its place in the talent tree.
Spell hitdoes affect this spell meaningfully. This is a reversal of consecrates independence from spell hit Pre-3.0. New tests from Elitist Jerks shows that Consecrate ticks can miss. If the first tick misses, it will show up as a Miss in the floating combat text, but subsequent misses will not show up in the combat log. In the event of a miss or misses you will see fewer than 8 ticks during the time consecrate is active.