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So I played up until about 8 months ago when my laptop was stolen. I recently got my laptop back and started playing again. I have almost forgotten how to play so I went to my guild forum boards and cut/copied an old post of mine about Hunter macros.


It worked pretty well to level and some PvP. I'm going to paste it and I want you guys to rip it apart and tell me what won't work anymore! Please don't let me be a Huntard!

here it is:



I've been working on some nice macros for my Hunter, some from other sites, some I worked out myself. I thought I'd share them here. Any ideas are welcomed.

Ok, on my number keys I have 1-4 with the macros I use most and I have 2 rows of hot-keys, one for PvP and one for groups/PvE.

For those who don't know anything about macros, to make a new one type /macro. You can cut from here and use Control+V to paste it into the target field. I always put the Icon as a ? because it will display the Icon for the next ability to be cast.

Key 1 PvE:

/petattack
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/castsequence reset=8/combat Steady Shot, Serpent Sting, Arcane Shot, Steady Shot, Multi-Shot, Steady Shot, Serpent Sting, Arcane Shot, Steady Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/script

Sends pet in and casts Steady Shot on the first click. I went with Steady Shot because in PvE it's long enough for your pet to get aggro and also if you want to send in your pet without attacking yourself you can by moving. Second click casts Serpent Sting(get the dots going right away), third click is Arcane Shot ect until all shots are cast, then starts all over again.

It resets if you change targets or don't hit it for 8 seconds. Also it sends your pet in on every click so if a Hunter FDs, you have to passive him out of AOE range on a Dungeon Boss(Hello Stairs Fight in Mech??) or your pet gets distracted it will always be on target.

Remember /petattack also targets your nearest hostile target too, so in dungeons I always click my target before hitting this.


Key 1 PvP:

/petattack
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/castsequence reset=8/combat Serpent Sting, Arcane Shot, Steady Shot, Multi-Shot, Steady Shot, Serpent Sting, Arcane Shot, Steady Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()
/script

Open with a shot you can cast on the run. Less Steady Shots to be interrupted.

Key 2 (the oh SHlT! button):

/cast wing clip
/cast raptor strike

Seems really simple, but mash this thing when you get in a face to face. I usually pair this with an Explosive or a Freezing trap. Wing Clip is an instant and will slow them as you strife away and you can do some damage with Raptor Strike, especially with a nice 1100+ crit + Kill Command


Key 3:

/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/stopcasting
/cast [target=pettarget] Kill Command
/stopcasting
/cast Steady Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear(); UIErrorsFrame:Show()

This is one of my favorites. Every time Kill Command is available it will light up from grayed out and when you hit it it will cast Kill command and add some damage with Steady Shot. This is the button I mash in long boss fights because as you can see HERE the Mana vs. DPS really makes sense to cycle your Auto-Shot with Steady Shot in my opinion.

Key 4:

/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/stopcasting
/cast [target=pettarget] Bestial wrath
/stopcasting
/cast Intimidation
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear(); UIErrorsFrame:Show()

Fairly simple. Hit this and you and your pet get all big and red and damage kill-tastic. I call this my anti-casters button, especially Warlocks.

Hope this helps.


What's changed?

We use a shot priority system now, check out the Tellmewhen thread

Edited, May 28th 2009 8:09am by zebug

There are no shot sequence macros. Macros in general are still very useful and can often be used with shots.

Mouseover scatter comes to mind.

Also I've had some problems with the script clear/hide commands. Not sure if it's wow or just some addon, but they throw errors for me.

Edited, May 28th 2009 12:46pm by Xsarus

WOW.. What a n00b I have become...lol! I was out playing around with stuff and was doing pretty well, killing stuff my level pretty quickly for about an hour doing random quests. I was thinking about specs and what you guys were saying here. I opened my specs and guess what? Unspecced. That's right, I was killing stuff for an hour with ZERO points in any spec. Oh the n00bness...

At least I don't take myself too seriously...

Yeah, don't feel bad. I played for a month as SV using rank 1 explosive shot. Felt like such an idiot when I realized what I'd done.

OTOH, I found out right when it was getting nerfed. So everyone else got nerfed... after training, I got buffed. ;)