My Pally team finally hit 80 last night and now I'm gonna be spending alot of time grinding out BGs for the honor gear. Once a friend of mine hit 80, she'll join my group as a Pally healer and we're gonna hit up the arenas together, but in the mean time, I'm needing tips on specking for survivability here in the BGs. So far my main has been Prot and three slaves as Ret, but I'm thinking of changing up a bit. I've already gotten Dual-Spec on my main and can afford it now on my slaves, but not sure if it would be worth it really. Should I just roll 4xRets, 1xProt w/3xRets, 4xProt for the Ardent Defender talent, or roll 4xHoly and just spam the hell out of Holy Light at Drek in AV? Seems everytime I get to Drek, everyone's always waiting on a tank/healer to show up down there and Alliance looses cause of that reason alone. Right now, I'm no where near geared right to tank Drek. My whole team is still in quest reward gear ranging from Grizzly Hills to Icecrown. Gonna invest in the Saronite Resilience gear for them next time I log in for added protection. I figured once I get enough gear to survive with on my main, I can always respec main back to Prot and have slave as Holy and just have them spam heal myself while tanking and everyone else sit there and dps Drek, but right now, that's not likely to happen.

Another thing, for gear, other than running instances, random dungeon finder says I need better gearscore for ALL lvl 80 dungeons btw, anyone have any good suggestions for some cheap effective armor my Blacksmith can create for my team for their specs? Now he's at 415, but will go up once I make that saronite set, but it's all lvl 78-79 blues. Any Northrend quartermasters worth investing in that'll last me a good while?