Congrats, Nobby, I too dinged 65 with Tahoe, my rogue, this weekend. Also my first level 65 toon. As I've been playing since the summer of 2000, you can probably tell I'm not much of a powerleveler. Some RL friends and I decided we needed to grind out wins in North Ro LDoN missions, and that is how it happened. Since we were doing hard missions anyhow (our avg. group level was just under 63 - so hard was the 50 pts/win mission, and easy was the 30pts/win mission) we just started doing normal difficulty mission once we reached the appropriate point.
I was actually had one orange to go in level 63 when the weekend began, and ended with about half a blue into 65. We did lots and lots of missions.
Also, we discovered the armor that is available at any LDoN vendor for 1492 pts and a couple of my frugal guild members bought some (they had the points saved up). We're currently really glad they haven't taken that armor away yet. Who knows, maybe they will do it later in time.