If you can do Strat HoL is a joke, esp once your geared up > 1500sp and you have a resto shaman. I wiped 10+ times when I first when into HoL, but when I went in a few days ago I 1-shotted everything including Loken - killed him in like 70 seconds too, so got that achievement.

I am b-o-r-e-d of heroics, I basically only run maybe 1 a day. Instead I am joining 25 man pugs on each of my guys and just getting gear that way (or at least badges), it makes you want to claw your eyes out after running naxx for the 3d time in a week (4-6 hour clears) but if you are lucky with drops you can get geared out CRAZY, since there is a ton of leather/mail spell power drops and most raids have hardly anyone who can use them. And yeah, same as you, I detest VH, the two spider instances, HoS (first 2 bosses ez, the waves-with-bronn is NUTS), UP, etc so only try one of them once a week to improve a bit. Got Anub down to 20% in two tries last nite but just stopped, if I gear up a bit more and with next patch I think a LOT of it is going to be a lot easier.

Also don't forget next week (assuming patch) that you will be able to buy a very nice helm for 40 wg tokens, and I think legs (or trinket?) or 30 tokens. I am jumping into WG every chance I get, its an easy 3-10k honor per battle and more importantly I'm saving up tokens.

Afterwards plan on leveling a DK to try him out as a tank, although at this point my pally is soooo well geared and nearly exalted with everyone, I really don't plan on repeating all that grinding again.