Well it finally happened.  Had about 4 1/2 days played to get from 70-80.  I dinged 80 on 11/24/08 and my guildies pretty much said go respec and lets run some heroics.  Did heroic Violet hold and even got the special accivement for 100% on the gate and not using any of the drops to make her easier.  That instance is alot of fun but sucks on heroic if you wipe on a boss you have to beat the prior bosses again but dont get any loot.   So if you need something from there good luck.  I am personally only going to do it once unless some begging is done.  That place is FTL big time.   Next up we ran heroic utgarde keep.  Had some troubles in there our tank just didn’t have the HP to survive the second boss if i got repetedly knocked down.

So far being 80 feels alot like being 70 with just new stuf to do lol.

Just for my own personal reference my stats when dinging 80 are as follows.  (this is resto spec my primary spec,and self buffed with totems)

Bonus healing 1568
Crit Chance 11.34%
Haste 47
Mana Regen 456/358 MP5

I pretty much bought every BOE on my list they were surprisingly cheap I had a few of my leather working buddies craft me up some pieces as well.

At first running the heroics this just didnt feel like enough.  Once we got the strats down my second time in alot of the heroics it was much much better.