Some background

Hi and welcome to my first post about my life as a fury warrior! Today I'm going to start off with some background, just to get things started.


I'm actually a roleplayer so I'll begin by explaining why I won't go into RP on this blog.


I started playing World of Warcraft early 2005, a month or so after it was launched in Europe. In my extreme innocence back then, I thought that RP realms would be SO hardcore, and combined with me being nervous about my first MMORPG experience, I foolishly chose to go to a Normal realm.

After a long time I finally dared to try Earthen Ring, and realised that it was the other way around. Blizzard stopped supporting RP in WoW once they had invented the realm type. Putting the letters "RP" in front of the server name was the first and last effort they made.
This has led to most RP:ers fleeing into isolated groups, leaving newcomers on the server to fight all alone to try and find one of these secretive groups and then fight even more to get included.


Still, PvE makes time go by and the game is now only a distraction, like TV. So I stay.


Now, I'm one of those annoying people who want's to do everything in WoW. At random I RP (albeit bitterly), I raid regularly and do some heroics.

I PvP. And I have altitis (addiction to making new chars). This has led to me having two mains (which is very unpractical but I wouldn't want it any other way): a druid and a warrior. Having a druid before patch 1.8 was masochistical as some people might remember, so when warriors started to get slowly shunted to the side lines (and now we have "Warrior 2.0", aka Death Knights) it was nothing new to me.
I also have a level 80 hunter, for fun.


Oh, and I play Horde only. I want Warcraft, not Lord of the Rings - no offence meant but there it is.


Right, with all that boring stuff out of the way I'm just going to finish off by introducing Schneekuh to you. She's a tauren warrior of the Ragetotem tribe, and her real name is Arabella. Schneekuh is her nickname from the army days, and most people call her "Schnee", short and sweet.
I leveled her to 60 as a tank on the Shadowsong realm, and moved her and my druid to Earthen Ring just before The Burning Crusade expansion. My hunter was already there as my first RP character, but she wouldn't see max level until half a year into WotLK.

It was in TBC that I finally tried the fury tree for the first time, and I didn't look back after that. I was spellbound by the feeling of sitting at the controls of a steaming locomotive of rage and fury, pumping out corporeal punishment and leaving a wake of destruction behind me. Warriors are one of the few classes that can keep up a sustained dps indefinately, and the only class that starts kinda slow but then builds up to a frenzy of activity. Sometimes i forgot what I was doing and just stared, mesmerised, at Schneekuh as her skin started to glow red, her face locked in fury and her weapons becoming a blur around her as her enemies fell before the massive onslaught.

I love taurens. And Schneekuh is not only the fiercest tauren warrior out there - she looks awesome in plate too! Hence the blog name :)

At some point my druid stopped being feral and went resto. I now had the perfect duo of my two favourite activities in WoW - healing and dps. Even so, now that dual-spec is here feral came back (for grinding) and I specced Schneekuh as prot in case my raid force will encounter fights that requires more than the usual amounts of tanks.


So, this is where to stop for now, having put some ground work in.

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