Whack-a-mole

Ulduar, for me, again last night. And I got to bring my Pally.

To be honest I thought I'd be sitting it out last night, because I've been the last few times in a row. But we were mysteriously short of healers, so my Pally was drafted in that role.

Fine by Me. That's what dual-spec is for, and it's not like I'm a total noob at healing.
However, this was my first time raid-healing since Karazahn. And while Prince Malchezzar didn't stand a chance against my leet Healing skills, Ulduar is still a bit of a learning curve for me.

A quick check on my healing gear shows that I'm un-enchanted on most things, so 200g on the AH and rep-vendors soon sorts that out.
I'm still using a few blues, which would hinder me a bit, but generally speaking I should be at least able to hold my own. I don't mind being the lowest healer, as long as I can still contribute to keeping the raid up.

Bronze was our RL last night, and I warned him in advance that I was a little out of practice and undergeared. But since there was no one else anyway, I don't think it really mattered.
Tins and Manda were the other two healers.

So how did it go?

Flame Leviathan - 1 Shotted.
     I took a tanking role in the vehicles for this, since I knew the encounter and Arg was the second tank, and he was an Ulduar Virgin. I died right at the end of the fight, but generally the boss stood no chance.

Deconstructor - 1 Shotted.
     My first taste of real Raid healing, and if I recall correctly, we only lost a couple of squishies. I was on MT healing, and there wasn't really a problem.

Kologarn - 1 Shotted
     Again I was on MT healing, which in these first 2 fights is pretty straight forward, as there's very little unpredictable spike damage. No problems here either, and apart from the laser beams frequently picking on me, it went very smoothly.

Iron Council - Failed
     I think it was Iron Council 4 - Munquis Nil by the time we moved on. We tried a few different healing rotations, but the tactics just weren't falling in to place. Damn.. but "Oh Well".

Auriaya - 1 Shotted
     No problems with this at all. Don't think we lost anybody, and I even got to throw a few Consecrates down for the random adds.

The healing went much better than I expected it to. The meters aren't as straightforward as they are for DPS, but showed me as the top healer overall. I think there was only a few thousand HP between all of the healers though. So generally it was a well balanced healing team.
But I was on roughly 45% Overhealing, Tins on 65%, and Manda on 35%. So Manda was probably the most effective healer overall.

I didn't get any new drops, but there's still quite a few emblem pieces I can pick up, so with a bit of time and money, my healing could be massively improved.
I'll be sticking to the tanking mainly, but at least I'm now confident that, if needed, I can switch roles and perform well enough.

I also finally decided on my Pitbull layout, and I'm fully happy with it. It's not the simplest addon to configure, but I got there in the end. Fingers crossed that the transition to my new laptop goes well, or I'll be back at square one with my Ui.