Quote Originally Posted by kate View Post
I'll throw my 2 cents in -

I just got to 80 and am trying to gear up my 5 paladin team - 1 prot, 4 ret. I have reasonably "OK" starter gear - I mean, other than most of the crafted epics I have the recommended minimum gear to begin doing heroics.

I'm getting my ass kicked in a most brutal fashion. My gear simply is NOT sufficient to do more than handle trash and - if I get lucky - a couple of bosses in the earliest heroics.
If trash is giving you a problem, I would suggest that you set up some sort of CC method, then right before each pull you hit your CC button and mass repentance 4 of the mobs.

For bosses, learn to rotate Divine Shield / Divine Sacrifice into your casts and you should have a good solid 40 seconds of huge damage reduction making healing a lot easier.