Meet Spacehoof

If I’m going to have a blog about the characters I play, I’d better talk about who each character is. So here’s “Meet the Toon.” To start things off, this week is my Shaman, Spacehoof.

My newest character to reach 80 is my Shaman, Spacehoof, and is also currently my most played character day to day.

I started her on a separate server to play with girlfriend and her friend, who had his main there. She made a Ret Pally, and I made an Ele Shaman, linked with Recruit-A-Friend. We managed to get them to level 40 before we simply lost interest in that server (her friend never played with us, and we both had more characters on my home server). Eventually, when I was looking for another alt to level, I transferred her to Destromath and sent her some heirloom items. I originally planned on leveling her strictly in battlegrounds, but the XP was slow and I was feeling to cheap to buy gear as I leveled. So 40-47 were leveled in BGs and the rest by quests. With a combo of rest and heirloom XP bonuses, leveling went super quick. I dual specced her at some point but didn’t really use Resto until Northrend.

I’ll admit that I was nervous to heal dungeons, but it’s easier than you would think if you’ve never played a healer. Northrend leveling after that was essentially questing to fill time looking for a group to heal (this was before 3.3). I finally hit 80 on December 12th, but didn’t play much after that with the business of school finals and the holidays. In between all that, though, I managed to get about 3 marathon random heroic sessions in as well as a single heroic here and there, and really all my gear is from that. I can’t say enough how much patch 3.3 made gearing an alt easier. Not only is there the Dungeon Finder, but Tier 9 gear is easily purchasable, as well as heroic dungeons offering ilvl 232 gear, and rep enchants becoming BoA. I certainly can’t say enough how happy I am that I don’t have to gain reputation with Sons of Hodir again.

With that gear, though, I did manage to jump straight into higher level raids. I healed a VoA 25, a ToC 10, and Deathbringer Saurfang of ICC 10 in that order, which certainly seems crazy for a 2-week-old character to do, at least to me.

Anyways, that’s my healer Shaman, Spacehoof.