Well, it's been a bit of time since I gave an update, and I'm pretty psyched at how things are going.

First, I got IS/Boxer & Jamba and those have been HUGE - way more convenient to do a lot of things, and just a lot more effective at sharing commands than AutoHotkey was. Maybe 15% of my keystrokes with AHK were not being transmitted, but with IS/Boxer it seems like they all are. Further, I'm able to make my slaves move out of fire and such now much more quickly and handle other extremely important survival deals. I want to say, if you box you really should pay the 36 bucks for a year's subscription - the time savings alone in not having to fuss as much with multiboxing has made it pay for itself.

Seriously - buy it. The time it takes me just to do my dailies has dropped from about 2.5 hours to a little over an hour and I can do some of the dailies that I couldn't do before because they required vehicles etc. If your time is worth anything it's a no brainer.

Second, I took the advice given here and spent a little time getting some basic 200 crafted gear. All of my retadins are using titansteel destroyers, everyone is wearing the crafted boots and helmets, and the tank has the shield. This has made a HUGE difference in survivability and DPS.

Third, I started using my head and taking advantage of some of the neat tricks that are viable with an all paladin team - DS/DS and the like. Not really making great strides here as I'm kind of still getting my feet wet, but I'm getting there.

What has all this yielded? Well, today I did my first clear of Heroic Utgarde Keep - an instance that just a week ago wound up killing me a dozen times before even getting to the final boss and then another dozen times on him - and it was easy. I also now have the first boss of the Forge of Souls down as an easy fight - he might heal once or twice during it, but I can burn him down so quick it's crazy (well, crazy quick for me )

From a numbers standpoint, my retadins have increased their dps from an average of 1000-1100 with a peak (burning cooldowns, going crazy with DPS and not healing at all) of 1650 to doing an average of 1500-1650, with the peak output being a little over 2200, so that's pretty huge.

Now that I can farm the first FoS boss I can hopefully get an epic tanking weapon on the main - Lucky old Sun - and maybe some DPS plate or a tank belt from the trash if I get crazy lucky. In any case, I can get a guaranteed emblem each run, so I can slowly but surely gear everyone up with that stuff, too.

So, while I couldn't really see how I was going to get to the good stuff, now it looks like it'll take a while, but I'll be getting there! Woo woo! Thanks to all!