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Greeting to all Hunstman's Lodge members. 

My name is Agra (Derek). I am new here, having only just found this site. First I want to give HL staff cudos on the website. I love the site background image and think the site is well done. Makes me jealous. ;-)

About Me:

I just turned 40 this past July, and have been playing video games since the Commodore 64 days. For the younglings thats been a long time ago, you veterans should remember those days. Gaming has come a long long way since the days of Zork. ;-).

I have been playing online games for the last several years now, including FPS, Military games, MMORPGS, and have dedicated most of my online game play these days to World Of Warcraft. 

At present I play Wow mainly on Moonguard (Alliance toons) and Shadow Council (Horde toons). I have a couple toons that have leveled to 85, including Priest, Mage, and Death Knight. I would have more 85's but play time has been much more limited of recent then I had hoped.

I look forward to reading all the hunter related information. While I have been playing Wow for a few years now, I recently created and am up to lvl 62 for my first hunter. I am having a blast with him. 

I am not a WoW elite by any stretch, but hope to learn as much as I can from those who are. I do well with most WoW theorycraft except for the math. hehe My brain just doesn't want to do math while having fun it seems. Who knew?

Well, thats about it for now. I wouldn't want to bore everyone with all the rest of my life details. ;-) 

Thanks for stopping by.

Agra (Derek)

Substance20,

hehe. quite alright. I remember what it was like to be a full-fledged newbie. Shcok and horror. But I also remember playing other online games when they all first came out and you could not walk two steps from a safety zone without being ganked all day long. 

all part of the learning curve. ;-) ya do what ya gotta do to survive. 

So who wants a quest? Free quests here! Get your free quest to glory! oh well. ;-)

Darrwyn said:

Hi Agra, welcome to the Lodge.

 

I hope you don't consider yourself old… I'm over 50 and have been playing games since I pushed lead and plastic figures over a tabletop! In the early 90's I was playing games by snail mail, and then the days of the microchip arrived and I've been playing games since… my motter is too old for games, too young to care!

 

There are a few of us here also on Moon Guard, but we are Horde! And proud of it!

 

Enjoy your stay, you'll always be welcome, despite your faction.

 

Cheers,

D

 

Hello Darrwyn, 

Nice to meet you too.

Hehe Darrwyn, nope not saying I am old. Yet anyways. Glad to see someone older then myself enjoys playing wow. All too often it feels like a bunch of young punks (no offense meant to younglings, just punks). ;-) really no hard there either. To each their own.

I still have some old D&D modules in the house. hehe was just considering getting rid of them. I still have painted figurines that I had done many years ago. Its kind of funny to look at them and realize I have many of those lead figures now as toons on Wow. 

I remember the snail and /email games. I gave up on the email ones once people started to hack the packets. BRE was one of my favs to play on BBS's during the 90's. How to world of gaming has changed though. 

Ozolin said:

Niika, he's Alliance, if he's met any of us it's been at the wrong end of a flaming arrow or glowing blade!

Nonetheless, welcome to the Lodge Agra! Enjoy your stay, and unless you come to your senses and faction change your MG toon to Horde, I'll be looking for you on the battlefield, and I promise you, no quarter will be shown!

Seriously though, I'll probably just /wave and /salute a fellow Lodge member

It's great to see another player in our age group!

Ozolin,

Thanks for the warning ;-).

Actually my main toon was a holy priest named Agradros. He was on MG as a human. I switched factions to become a Blood Elf, but also moved him to SC to be with my cousin over there. Long story. hehe 

I tried to separate my alliance and horde toons simply because I have a different frame of mind when I play either side. I tend to RP more on alliance, but as horde I tend to do more pvp stuff. There are aspects I like about both sides. Besides I still get lost in Orgrimar. ;-)

Niika said:

Bite me, Ozzie.  I was so excited to greet a fellow MG-deean that I didn't notice.  :-p

 

Darwyyn, that is so cool!  Plus, i"m sure you probably made Drach feel MUCH better that he's not the oldest player in Bees.

 

Agra, it's hard to run a large guild (Screaming Bees is one of the largest on the server) but LOADS of fun.  Haven't gone anywhere in almost 5 years, can't see myself leaving now.  If you would like a laid back home to level and PVP in, you are welcome to our home.  We'll even ask Zeftie/Tokii to lead you in a trike parade around Orgrimmar!  hehehee

 

OK seriously, i'm into minimalistic graphics and Garwulf, Proprietor and Main Porer at the Lodge here, has designed this sweet looking interface and instructions at:

 

http://huntsmanslodge.com/gar-ui/

 

That said, i have YET to install it… too busy wrangling these critters.  /raises a warning glare at her Bees

Wow that is a ton of stuff in that ui pack. Not sure why, but I always forget that we can "code" addons and stuff for WoW. Must stem from my UO days when addons of any sort would get you banned. 

I will have to take a look at some of those. I primarily only use a few addons, most notably, questhubber, auctioneer and healbot, and ahandful others that don't come to mind atm. 

What I really want is that nice WOW mouse system. Still using a two button mouse and function keys. kinda hard to pv when you have to stop fighting to move backwards ouch hehehe

If time allows, I would even consider learning how to make the addons. What language does the wow system utilize for that stuff? Anyone know a quick link to find the info?

Seems you all are horde on MG, so I might have to come intro all my alliance toons to ya. ;-) so you can all laugh and kick sand at me. I think my highest lvl ally toon is about 72. Since my priest went horde. ;-) 

I have some open slots over there so I could always create a couple more toons. Nothing wrong with having 20 toons to play ;-)

"sorry dear, no fun, no work, I am playing wow, until the sun comes up" ;-) oh wait I do that now. 

Darrwyn said:

Agra, I'm levelling a few toons on Moon Guard and would welcome a levelling partner now and then. I can even show you around Orgrimar. I was very confused myself after The Shattering when the place changed quite dramatically. I have recently started a Shadow Priest (now lvl 12 I think) and a Rogue (lvl 4?) so you would have some company in the trenches. I don't level very fast as I mainly pvp and don't bother with instances until I can solo them for the fun of it. By the time I can do that, the gear isn't worth much except to sell.

 

Niika, is that you constantly putting that pole up in front of me? I keep running into the dam thing, I'm so focussed on my target! And there's a dancer on it? 

Darrwyn,

I would level with ya. I am always up for company. I will be honest though I do level pretty fast now when I solo. I am sure I am not the fastest, but if I have boas, and depending on class, I average 10 or or levels a day up til about 60-ish, then 5 or 6 per day until . 

Priest was my first toon ever leveled to 85. I leveled as a holy all teh way to learn exactly what I could and could not do or handle. I have a shadow spec now, but only afterwards. I wanted him to be a damm good healer and know his limits. 

My mage however, I leveled him to 85 in under 2 weeks. He had all boas outside of guild rep ones. He just blew through everything. I don't even remember doing any dungeons with him. Also once I figured out he got xp from mining and herbalism, I was stoked. In fact I leveled 77- without actually killing anything or questing. Just gathered mats at like 5k xp per item. 

I have been dungeoning with my hunter and the gear seems to be pacing better then the gear for questing. But not sure if that is common across all classes. I know my mage never dungeoned until lvl and I never dungeoned with my priest while leveling. hehe was to weary of dungeons back then. hahaha