Alt Appreciation Week - Hunter

It's time to appreciate the hunters!

Awoi from Drak'Tharon

My level 90 hunter Awoi. And what's a hunter without a hunter pet? So here's Blitz, Awoi's lightening-worg. Awoi started as my pandaren character and I really enjoyed her. And I started out leveling her causally but then I got the idea in my head that she needed to be level 90 before the patch. I have no idea if the worg will still be there or not. It probably will but I'm glad to have the wolf that I really wanted. My hunter goal of the week belongs to Awoi. I'm going to try and accomplish three things with her. The first is to start hunting Loque'nahak for her. I'm fairly certain that I won't be successful in finding it for her. At least not in one week so I have another goal for her as well. I'm going to try and also get her the ability to tame direhorns. That means I'm going to have to find the Isle of Giants. The last goal is to get to work on Awoi's professions. She doesn't have any right now. I'd like to make her an engineer and skinner. I'm starting her with mining and engineering but will switch her to skinning when engineering is maxed. 

Sitroh from Korgath

My level 69 worgen hunter Sitroh. Her name is my paladin's name spelled backwards. At least it means that the name is pretty unique. Sitroh's main pet is a ghost saber. I was trying to be original with the name and funny which is how I ended up with Catspian instead of Prince Caspian from Narnia. She's also the hunter that I got the giant green worm pet on. I haven't seen it since but I've heard it's no longer giant. 

Sitroh from Cho'gall

This Sitroh is only level 46 but she's my oldest surviving hunter. I've had a few night elf ones before her on Aegwynn but they've been deleted at some time or other. This hunter was created as a toon to hide away from everyone back in the day before battle-net. I just wanted to level without any of my friends or guildies being able to find me and get me to run stuff with them. She's wearing three items that can no longer be gotten in game. The chestpiece points to her being older than the Catacylsm! Her pet is a nightsaber I found in the starting zone. I named it Radar after my own grey tabby cat.

Lailda from Dunemaul

I did not make Lailda with the intention of being an undead hunter. I just wanted to see the new undead zone. I'd heard it was really good and you could experience more of the worgen story if you finished the undead zones. So I made an undead character and figured I'd make a hunter since they can handle things pretty well on there on. I used the random name generator and it gave me the name Lailda. I really enjoyed the leveling though the zones and picking up pets that felt appropriate for au undead and giving them wildly inapproitate names. Like my pet dog Fuzzy. She's also has a diseased bear named Teddy. She's too much of a character to ever delete.

Alt Appreciation Week - Druid

Another week showing off my naming creativity. All 4 of my druids are named Arita. Two are spelled Arita and two are spelled Aritâ because my original spelling was already taken.

1. Aritâ of Korgath

This is my very first toon. And she was my main until I realized just how much I had messed her up while leveling around level 40. Then  I created and played several new toons before settling on a rogue as my new main. There were times I was very tempted to delete Arita. But she was still very special to me and I held onto her. It worked well when my rogue reached level 40 because I realized if I wanted to run dungeons the best way was as a healer. So I would quest on my rogue and keep an eye out for groups forming and would let them know I would come heal on my druid but I wanted to keep questing until they got the rest of the group. It was though this way that Arita managed to keep pretty close in level to Ursa, my rogue. This continued until I reached Outlands where it dawned on me that I would level much faster if I would focus on one toon. Since my rogue was actually able to hold onto gold and had managed the purchase of a mount and riding training she seemed like the best bet to focus on. Ursa hit level 70 the week before Wrath was released. There wasn't much to do as a fresh level 70 at that time so I spent a week leveling Arita. She was able to get to level 68 when the new expansion was released. So I was back on my main and leveling. Ursa quickly hit 80 and I started doing dungeons with my guild. But the guild really needed more healers rather than dps. So I volunteered to make the switch and somehow leveled poor Arita to 80. She did not have any mount training and I spent a lot of time running to cities to respec her to heals for dungeons and then feral for questing. I soon gave that up and started questing as a resto druid. I was really relieved when she managed to hit 80. When I first heard about dual-spec I was really excited. I made Arita save gold until she had the thousand gold needed to purchase it when the patch came. She still didn't have flying but she had two specs! I knew I wanted Arita to be a feral druid but quickly realized I had no idea how to play as a feral. But I had a friend who was leveling a healer and she got me to come tank the normal versions of all the Northrend dungeons. It was pretty fun. And how I got introduced to tanking. I soon became a bear/tree which worked alright for a bit. I was in a great guild with good friends but soon our main tank decided to quit the game and the guild disbanded without him. I quickly realized that not having a dps spec made me unsellable. So I changed to feral/feral and learned how to be a kitty. I really enjoyed those specs and that's what Arita was until the end of Cata. When the pre-Mists patch hit I was unimpressed with the changes to bear tanking. I liked that it was moved out of the feral spec but felt like I was left with nothing to do for quite a lot of time. So I decided to switch her spec to feral/resto. I tried boomkin for a bit but I was really awful at it. I went back to feral. But I was starting to feel pretty unsatisfied with my druid. I was just tired of playing feral. So I decided I would admit defeat and made my death knight my main. But I knew Arita would be my second 90. I wasn't feeling much like leveling again so I took her out to look for herbs and archaeology. And dungeons. This lasted until level 83 when I finally decided to start questing again. As a resto druid. It was slow but I had fun. She's still spending an awful lot of time in her resto spec. It feels both familiar and odd for her to be a resto druid. She's been pretty much retired recently. I take her out for screenshots and an occasional dungeon and she's pretty happy with that. I briefly considered moving her to my new server but throughout all the years and a server change her appearance has always been the same. So I realized she was happiest left to putter about as her night elf self then if I was to change her into a tauren or troll.

2. Arita of Aegwynn

Aritâ of Korgath started out on the server Aegwynn. When I transfered servers I made another Arita to hold my name. In case I went back or tried to contact old friends or something. I didn't really expect to level her. But I spent Cata doing a lot of leveling. I wasn't raiding and there's only so much you can do at end game if you're not raiding. So I leveled. And I decided I would level my Aegwynn Arita and level her properly. As a feral druid. I wasn't messing around with other specs and I didn't want to do dungeons. I just wanted to hide out and quest. I did a quick look and Arita has done one dungeon but she's also got a lot of quest zones complete. She's level 42. I don't feel much like leveling her now that everyone who's on my battle tag can find me. She's a toon that I used to like to hide on. Now I can't really hide. And I have Hordies to level. But she's patiently waiting for the day when she can go back to her quests.

3. Arita of Dunemaul

My tauren Arita was made so I could play with some old friends who were Horde and on the Dunemaul server. It was just before the announcement that trolls would get to become druids. I was very tempted to reroll Arita as a troll but I wanted a druid now not months later. So I kept leveling her. My friends eventually quit the game so I was left with a horde druid on a server with no one that I knew. I eventually pushed her to level 85 but neglected her until I needed a horde toon for laid-back raids. Arita has had to suffer my many attempts to try different specs. She's spent time leveling in all four specs. She's currently feral/resto and sits quietly in Orgrimmar just in case her friends come back. 

4. Aritâ of Drak'Tharon

My newest druid. She's only level 12. There's a bunch of toons that I would like to get leveled before her. She's pretty far down my list. But it is druid week so I think I'm going to push to get her to level 15. Then she'll be at just the right level for dungeon finder when it's finally her turn to be leveled.

Alt Appreciation Week - Death Knight

Something that's been going around is Laeleiweyen's alt appreciation weeks and that the first week is death knights. So it's time to slide this in right under the finish line. XD I had an argument with Tyle about whether she should be featured. She claimed that since she's a death knight she counts but I told her she's not an alt. She's a main. She went off in a snit so I assume I won. Anyway, counting Tyle I have 4 death knights. 3 of them named Tyledres... I'm starting to understand why I'm not allowed to name things in my family. I had a fish I named Mr. Beta because he was a beta fish and a goat named Goat-Goat. I've also been trying to convince my family to name a calf It.... I figure Radar, my cat, managed to get lucky with his name.

Anyway, on to my Tyledreses.

1.

My first death knight. Tyledres is very special to me. It was with her that I first fell in love with being a death knight. It was also through her that I finally became interested in raids again. I had raided with my druid during all of Wrath but when Cata came out I lost interest in raiding. The places weren't interesting to me. But Tyledres insisted on seeing all of Dragon Soul. And she tanked it. And cheesed though a lot of mechanics. Anti-magic shell! I swear Dragon Soul was built with the death knight in mind. One of my favorite accomplishments was killing Deathwing on normal mode. As a tank. In a pug run. I very much knew that I was going to have to find a new guild in Mists because I was going to be raiding. I expected that raiding to be done on Tyledres. I really didn't expect it to be on a brand new Tyle. I'm really happy that at least I left her looking good. I loved the first death knight tier in Mists and I'm happy to leave her wearing it. But if I didn't have to worry about how I was going to track down the items this is what I'd like to leave her in:

I'm not too certain about the sword though. I love that sword and was really excited when she got it but the color is too bright. But the rest looks pretty good.

2.

My undead Tyledres. She's sitting at level 88. I don't plan on leveling her. At least not at this point. I had originally created her for some horde side laid back raids. When I switched from Alliance to Horde the server I moved to wasn't the one with this death knight so I needed to create a brand new one. I thought about creating another undead death knight but knew that I wasn't very happy with the one I already had. So I made Tyle a blood elf. When I made this Tyledres I thought an undead death knight would be pretty cool and she does have awesome animations... but... those knees! And those toes! I probably place too much emphasis on looks but... well, these are my ingame mes and I want to look good! I think the fact that I think of them as both myself and not myself is a weird contradiction but there you have it. I just don't want to be an undead death knight. 

3. 

This is my death knight not named Tyledres. I had already used the name on that server for a human paladin and rather then delete her I just changed the name a little. Tyledras. I made her because I wanted a pink haired night elf. She hasn't been started. She's been sitting on the loading screen for some time. Looking lonely and forgotten. Someday little Tyla, someday... But first I need to level a server full of Hordies!