Heroic Healz? It Happened.

This was truly a tremendous night of playing. I wanted to knock out the other three instances that I hadn't completed, Halls of Stone, Utgarde Pinnacle and Occulus but couldn't find any interested players. This truly was a strange night of playing. Nobody that I knew was logged on and nobody it seemed was wanting to do an instance. My tank Branard and druid Paganstix and I were all on twiddling our little toon thumbs when we managed to put a group together for Utgarde Pinnacle. Domination doesn't cover what we did to the instance and I received my Utgarde Pinnacle achievement. Cool beans I thought. Then our tank got antsy. He's been wanting to really start doing heroics as a guild ever since he joined up a week or so ago. I wasn't sure that I was ready for a heroic but sometimes you need to step out of your comfort zone. He talked me into it; I was about to enter my first heroic as a healer. We pug'ed another Tauren warrior and an Undead shadow priest. The instance of choice was Violet Hold in Dalaran. A good a place as any to start my heroic pursuits. This definitely kept me on my toes as a healer since the mobs hit harder and had more health. We got down to the last boss, the dragon. It went okay but I couldn't keep them all up. Paganstix and the other warrior went down but Branard our main tank kept going. The shadow priest managed to hang in there as I went down. I healed as fast and often as possible in 'spirit' form and we came within a fingernail of taking the boss down but we wiped. I was in such good spirits because as a first heroic that went very well. With any wipe in Violet Hold you get the extreme pleasure of doing it over again. This time we got down to the that silly dragon and I was ready to go. During the fight I was pulled under the dragon's belly but instead of just running away I would throw a quick renew on Branard and hit a circle of healing and then run! That dragon hit the ground as my Heroic Violet Hold achievement flashed on the screen. I got a nice ring in for my nightly effort but more importantly I held my own in a heroic instance. I'm two instances away from my dungeonmaster achievement. I hit revered rep with Wyrmrest so I get a nice head enchant, new bracers, a 32-slot enchant bag recipe for tailoring and a mace which I think will work for my dps gear. Naxxramus here I come!