First of all grats!

And after reading your post I remember my mixed feelings after dinging 80 for the first time ... happy, but also the what now feeling. For me the most important thing was to get my tank geared, followed by my healer. I'd say you have 2 options:

- be stubborn like me and do every dungeon first with your team, this is the lengthy process.
- queue up a few hours with your tank as dps (even if he does like 1.5k) in the lfd group. Drops + emblems will get you really fast to an acceptable level. Do the same with the healer. And eventually with a dps. This will give you a headstart.

3 tips that worked for me.

- Do as much daily quests as you can. After a few days you can do them blindly and its fast and easy money.
- Don't spend any gold when you don't need to. Gemming & enchanting a piece you will upgrade soon is a waste as a boxer (unless you are grouping with others for a raid). If you get a few k extra, boost up a tradeskill.
- The argent tournament route to do quests became obsolete: it's tedious and boring imo. Many better weaps can be found in the hc dungeons.

gl