Alaphrei, Night Elf Druid

Alaphrei was my fifth character to 60 and my second to 70. I have explored pretty much every spec with her - started leveling restoration (back when feral... really sucked - I basically solo'd as restoration but wearing feral gear, in feral forms).

Around 35 or so, the feral tree was reworked so I went to feral. I still ended up healing most instances, but I love healing so I didn't mind it too much. My most challenging instance to heal was Uldaman - I was level 48 but most of the group was 40, and this is back when the last boss was level 46. It was very tough going because our DPS was all missing / glancing blows / etc and frustrating, and after a few 1-2% wipes, our paladin got on his 60 hunter and got him. (Which was funny - it wasn't that much easier because he was forced into melee pretty often... but we got the boss!) I stayed feral until the Scourge Invasion (a server-wide event before Naxx came out) where I went resto to level while healing some AoEing mage friends. I gained a couple of levels like that and then went back to feral to hit 60. I was a mix of feral or restoration at 60, but went with a healing build for MC, ZG, AQ-20 and Onyxia (which I did a few times, but nothing really beyond that - this was mostly just alt/weekend runs).

2.0 came out and introduced a happily not-sucking Balance tree, so I decided to try that out and stayed that way after Burning Crusade came out, up to level 70. Nowadays I carry multiple sets of gear with me (my restoration gear is the best, followed by my balance gear, then bear gear, then cat gear - and of course I have some extra PvP or high stam pieces that I carry with me too) - most of it is in the bank at any given moment, though.

Alaphrei was transferred over to Bronzebeard around level 64 or so, and now at 70 she has become my primary raiding character since my warrior, as a not-tank and as melee dps, isn't really needed that much. Yes, I'm a lifebloom-stacking tree and proud of it ;) Alaphrei is also my only character to really explore arena, but my team was only just beginning to start to learn how to get past 1500 rating when my two team members quit the game. Arena is definitely fun though and I'm looking forward to giving it a try again in the future.