Does my HP look big in this?

Managed to get some more questing done last night. As well as a normal Azjol-Nerub run with Bolle, DM, a PUG'd DPS, and my old freind Skullz (now known as Volkan).
Turns out that Bolle, and Volkan are now in the same raid guild together... Small world eh?

Random Violence must have a pretty decent raid team, since they left both Bolle, and Volkan out last night. But their loss is my gain. And AN went down without a hitch. Apart from a bugged boss that totally regen'd once he reached 20% HP. The fight lasted about 5 minutes, and we could have kept it up, but we realised it was definitely a no-go'er and a quick Divine Intervention on Bolles preist, meant a quick wipe, and a quick recover. The same boss went down within about 30 seconds on the next go... Pussy.

My Tanking felt a little smoother this time. At least to me.
Marking macros worked well. Remembered to keep Divine Plea up most of the time. And chain pulled whenever possible. Now that I've got my rotation set-up things don't seem quite as hectic during fights.

Since we couldn't find a big enough group to do any other runs, we broke the party up and went off to do our individual things. Personally I went back to the Grizzly Hills, and cleared every single quest in the zone. Giving me a Ding, and I'm already 60% of the way to the next level.

So Smythadin is now officially Level 76, and a half. At no point, in any of the quests in Grizzly hills, have I struggled. I don't think I've even seen a graveyard there. And that includes solo'ing all of the 'group' quests. Prot-Pallies are just too powerful.

The nearest I ever got to death was solo'ing an Elite with over 100k HP, plus 4 adds, plus the 8 worgen he summons during the fight. He got me down to about 10% HP, and he was only at 20%. But even then, all I had to do was click Lay-on-Hands and down he went.
After the fight I even realised that I'd forgotten to pop my trinkets and uber-buff. So more fool me, I could have saved myself the shame of using my 'oh shit' button.
The quest was 'Hour of the Worg', in case you're interested.

Then it was off to defeat Ursoc the bear-god. And luckily enough she was already lying there dead. The quest didn't require me to kill her, just to sprinkle some ashes on her corpse. So bingo, another quest done, and some nice blue plate legs, and a blue shield as a quest reward. Excellent.

I also made the nooby mistake of not reading quest text, so went to the area where you have to set fire to some trolls, and started killing them. Only thing is, they respawn very very fast. So I ended up in a continous fight for about 10 minutes. But at no point did my HP drop below 50% or my Mana below 90%. I was even able to re-read the quest text during the fight and /facepalm myself for being an idiot. Without focusing on the fight.

So I've now cleared Borean Tundra, Howling Fjord, DragonBlight, and Grizzly Hills. So next it's off to Zul'Drak, where the armies of the undead and demons have no idea what they're in for.
If bears and trolls stood no chance against the uber-pally, the ghosts and ghoulies had better take a few days off.

It's taking me about 5 hours per level, but that includes travelling time, and time spent at the AH, and waiting for groups etc.. I think the actually levelling time would be about 4 hours per level if I quested non-stop. So if I can get some time online tonight, then I'll ding 77, and should be looking to hit the level cap probably just after the weekend. Then it's rep grinding time.

I've also sussed why Blizz is only adding 5 levels to the next expansion... They don't need any more.
At level 76, for both my Prot and Holy specs, I'm now wondering where to place those last few talent points. In neither spec wil they actually add to my main jobs of tanking or healing. So they're getting placed into extra DPS, which is always a bit of a bonus.

With Blizz only adding 5 levels to the expansion, that means only 5 extra talent points to play with. And probably only 1 more link in each talent tree. The points are probably going to be pretty uneccesary though.
Unless Blizz change the whole dynamics of combat, my Paladin at level 85, will still be just as unkillable even if he didn't have the extra 5 points.

Damn... that turned into quite a long post. I was only planning to do a quick 2 minute update on my Pally's progress. I think I'll go for a lie-down now.