Kilronis wrote:
Am curious... where were you up to this point that you were able to take the hits?
It's easy to do. My brother took a paladin from 45 to 70 in a couple of days when the fairy monster mission was "working as intended" (gotta love those first few weeks of an expac and the bait & switch... but I digress). He was quite useless having no AA once the mm wasn't what everyone was doing and he needed level 70 group content to gear up with...
You could easily do the same today with TSS hotzones. A couple of the hotzones last round were pretty old zones too. I will concede that the OP getting to 77 is a tad high to have not felt the pinch earlier, but it is what it is.
To the OP: catching up some AA is worth it. Even if you just find a camp to login and lesson burn every time you play then log the pally and play something else.