So yesterday I hit the coveted "80". It felt good to finally reach that goal. I actually wasn't rushing towards it. I spent quite a bit of time leveling mining, blacksmithing, fishing, cooking, and first aid. I also went back and did the quests in the other starter zone just for fun. I even started trying to do some rep quests, dailies, and instances.

Not long after I hit 80, I got some whispers asking me to tank some heroics. I said "sure, why not, but be forewarned...

Well, I am one of those crazy paladins that has been protection spec'd since the day I was able to put in talent points. I started way back in the day when a point in Improved Blessing of Salvation made the duration go from 5 minutes to 10 minutes, and another point boosted you to a whopping 15 minutes (but I stopped at 10 since the other blessings were still all 5 minutes anyways). I have always leveled as protection and I think that Wrath will be no exception.

I have been playing...