Help with a Beast Master Macro

[winkly]

Good Morning!

I am trying to compile a Priority based macro for my Beast Master Hunter and keep getting nowhere, things don't fire, it gets locked, all kinds of strange happenings.

Does anyone have a working BM Priority based macro and, if so, would you be so kind as to share it. If not can anyone point me in the right direction to get going?

Thank you very much and MULTI BOXING RULES!!

Wink

[honeypot2011]

I would say i have some macros for you,but mine are a bit unconventional,need bindpad addon as they exceed the 225 limit,there not pretty to look at :),

they are more pvp based,not high dps,they may lock still,but switching to another target and then back ususally works for me,its not an ideal solution but its something i have been trying to sort out too.

I DID have a working macro that 100 percent worked on the dummies,and did not lock out,but when i tried on galv in av battleground,it kept locking out..

So i retried a new macro on mobs over and over until that did not lock out,but then try the same macro on a dummie and after 3-4 mins it locks out,kind of frustrating.

but then again,for me personally i am trying to do loads of things all in 1 macro..

If you want too have a look go here..this will always have my most uptodate versions i am using and will prevent me from making endless posts with updates if i just re-edit this one...

http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/47416-quot-BADBREATH-quot-Hunter-pet-macros/page2?highlight=badbreath

or just put badbreath in the search box

:)

[MiRai]

http://youtu.be/op9Cj7Nr7Os


EDIT: The macro is in the description of the video, but in case it's removed:

/petattack
/cast Rapid Fire
/cast blood fury(racial)
/use Malevolent Gladiator's Badge of Conquest
/cast Bestial Wrath
/cast Silencing Shot
/castsequence intimidation, stampede, lynx rush, readiness, lynx rush, kill command, arcane shot, arcane shot

The beginning of your macro will obviously vary depending on your race/gear.

[tanknspanker]

http://youtu.be/op9Cj7Nr7Os


EDIT: The macro is in the description of the video, but in case it's removed:

/petattack
/cast Rapid Fire
/cast blood fury(racial)
/use Malevolent Gladiator's Badge of Conquest
/cast Bestial Wrath
/cast Silencing Shot
/castsequence intimidation, stampede, lynx rush, readiness, lynx rush, kill command, arcane shot, arcane shot

The beginning of your macro will obviously vary depending on your race/gear.
who doesnt think of going bm hunter comp in arena now?? :O

[Lyonheart]

I tried that macro.. locks up. Anyone try it with good results?

[tanknspanker]

I tried that macro.. locks up. Anyone try it with good results?
have you adjusted your macro to your raciall and so?
unless you can use blood fury, you need to remove it from the macro, and if you aint got Malevolent gladiators badge of conquest, you need to change it into ur macro

grtz!

[Lyonheart]

have you adjusted your macro to your raciall and so?
unless you can use blood fury, you need to remove it from the macro, and if you aint got Malevolent gladiators badge of conquest, you need to change it into ur macro

grtz!

My guys are just high enough to have all the skills/talents in the macro.. but have no racial or trinkets yet, so i removed those from the macro.

[honeypot2011]

Its a nice little macro,im adapting it to use as my extra arcane shot macro..



/petattack
/cast rabid
/cast Rapid Fire
/use 14
/cast Bestial Wrath
/castsequence arcane shot,intimidation,glaive toss,stampede,a murder of crows,dire beast,readiness,a murder of crows,dire beast,kill command,glaive toss,arcane shot,arcane shot,kill shot
/cast tranquilizing shot
/cast glaive toss
/cast kill shot
/cast silencing shot


needs bindpad addon ..

[winkly]

Thank you all very much for your help. I'll give these a try and see where I am. Again THANK YOU!!

Wink

[Multibocks]

I tried that macro.. locks up. Anyone try it with good results?
It is locking up because some of the skills have long cooldowns. I assume you were trying it on a dummy for a while?

[Lyonheart]

It is locking up because some of the skills have long cooldowns. I assume you were trying it on a dummy for a while?

Yea.. just dummies. It just looks so smooth and simple in his video.. could not get anything near that to happen for me. Is it working for you?

[Multibocks]

haven't had a chance to try since my hunters are still leveling. takes a while to get two groups to 90 :(

[Oatboat]

in 5.1 i'm using

/castrandom arcane shot, arcane shot, arcane shot
/cast bestial wrath
/cast kill shot

Seems to be working pretty well, I've not gotten /castsequence to work since 5.1

[ebony]

i use a spam bar seems to be working kinda well with a do not move to next step for 0.5 secs in it (might need to change it on your gear)

then just put all the spells i need on the bar its something like this

1) SS
<0.5>
2) kill command
<0.5>
3)direbest
4)spare or Other fast cool down spells from talents
5>6>7>8> AS & CS % KS sometimes talents. (the system fights over what it wont to cast)


give me about 80k dps on live,

[halabar]

i use a spam bar seems to be working kinda well with a do not move to next step for 0.5 secs in it (might need to change it on your gear)

then just put all the spells i need on the bar its something like this

1) SS
<0.5>
2) kill command
<0.5>
3)direbest
4)spare or Other fast cool down spells from talents
5>6>7>8> AS & CS % KS sometimes talents. (the system fights over what it wont to cast)


give me about 80k dps on live,

What is this spam bar you speak of?

I've given up on my hunter because I hate manually managing all those cooldowns. If there was a solution, I might actually play him again.

[halabar]

Ok, the new fangled castsequence tools have me intrigued, so I tried variations of the following...



#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=combat Arcane Shot,Arcane Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Arcane Shot,Arcane Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Arcane Shot,Arcane Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,
/castsequence reset=0.5 7,Stampede
/castsequence reset=0.5 6,A Murder of Crows
/castsequence reset=0.5 5,Fervor
/castsequence reset=0.5 4,,Bestial Wrath
/castsequence reset=0.5 3,Rapid Fire
/castsequence reset=0.5 2,Focus Fire
/castsequence reset=0.5 1,Glaive Toss
/castsequence reset=0.5 Kill Command

This doesn't quite work. Depending how how stuff is swapped around, some spells don't fire, others do. Is this an inherit limit in this system (or I could be hitting focus problems as well).

Any ideas on how to improve?

In the sample above, Glaive Toss never fires, but if I swap it around, it will fire off, but then something else is limited or cut off. Perhaps hunters have too damn many cooldowns to make this work correctly.

[halabar]

Also trying this adapted from the lazymacro site, but dps seems a bit low, but everything appears to be firing.



/startattack
/castsequence reset=target/3 Serpent Sting,null
/castsequence reset=5 Kill Command,Arcane Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Kill Command,Glaive Toss,Arcane Shot,Arcane Shot,Cobra Shot,Kill Command,Arcane Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Kill Command,Glaive Toss,Arcane Shot,Fervor,Focus Fire
/cast Blink Strike
/cast [combat]Rapid Fire
/cast [combat]Bestial Wrath

Any ideas? (Stampede and readiness are manual)

[ebony]

What is this spam bar you speak of?

I've given up on my hunter because I hate manually managing all those cooldowns. If there was a solution, I might actually play him again.


if your using isboxer then look up how deathkights do there dps a spam bar is send a random buch off keys at the same time and see what happens but hunters don't like that so i just steps in isboxer when i press a key it do this

all my dps is done with key 3 when i press key 3 it does this

step> shift+f10
step>alt+f10
step>ctrl+f10
step>ctrl+shift+atl>f10
all three keys at the same time
crtl+alt+f10
alt+shift+f10
shift+alt+f10

you have to look up the deathkight post about how its all setup to get it a 100% right but more off less thats what am doing.

if any off the spell are on cooldown it skip the key and move on i do put a small do not move to next step for xsecs to stop GCD getting in the way of spaming keys fast

[halabar]

Sadly not using ISboxer.. (on a Mac).

[shadewalker]

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=combat Arcane Shot,Arcane Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Arcane Shot,Arcane Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,Arcane Shot,Arcane Shot,Cobra Shot,Cobra Shot,
/castsequence reset=0.5 7,Stampede
/castsequence reset=0.5 6,A Murder of Crows
/castsequence reset=0.5 5,Fervor
/castsequence reset=0.5 4,,Bestial Wrath
/castsequence reset=0.5 3,Rapid Fire
/castsequence reset=0.5 2,Focus Fire
/castsequence reset=0.5 1,Glaive Toss
/castsequence reset=0.5 Kill Command


I think this needs to be more like

/castsequence reset=0.5 5,4,3,2,1,Fervor
/castsequence reset=0.5 4,3,2,1,Bestial Wrath
/castsequence reset=0.5 3,2,1,Rapid Fire
/castsequence reset=0.5 2,1,Focus Fire
/castsequence reset=0.5 1,Glaive Toss
/castsequence reset=0.5 Kill Command

But I could be wrong.

You should probably look into the /swapactionbar command to allow you do do multi step macros on the Mac / without isboxer.

I would link some more info on it but it is hard to search the forums on my phone ;)

[ebony]

I think this needs to be more like

/castsequence reset=0.5 5,4,3,2,1,Fervor
/castsequence reset=0.5 4,3,2,1,Bestial Wrath
/castsequence reset=0.5 3,2,1,Rapid Fire
/castsequence reset=0.5 2,1,Focus Fire
/castsequence reset=0.5 1,Glaive Toss
/castsequence reset=0.5 Kill Command

But I could be wrong.

You should probably look into the /swapactionbar command to allow you do do multi step macros on the Mac / without isboxer.

I would link some more info on it but it is hard to search the forums on my phone ;)


ya /swapactionbar command would do the same,


the prob with the reset commands is they olny reset after 0.5 secs there not spammed so if u pressing the key nostop there nerver going to reset 2nd your marcio is nerver going to stop as u not NULLED the end off it.


/castsequence reset=0.5 Kill Command,null

that would null the the marcio to stop moving after and olny going on after the reset but the way the wow uses reset in the game mario system is not really a trimmer more of a reset.

[halabar]

I think this needs to be more like

/castsequence reset=0.5 5,4,3,2,1,Fervor
/castsequence reset=0.5 4,3,2,1,Bestial Wrath
/castsequence reset=0.5 3,2,1,Rapid Fire
/castsequence reset=0.5 2,1,Focus Fire
/castsequence reset=0.5 1,Glaive Toss
/castsequence reset=0.5 Kill Command

But I could be wrong.

You should probably look into the /swapactionbar command to allow you do do multi step macros on the Mac / without isboxer.

I would link some more info on it but it is hard to search the forums on my phone ;)

I tried variants of that, but some of the abilities were still always missing. (Might be that other abilities were using the queue spots first, or it might be that some are being focus starved...) Another issue is the wierd state that Focus Fire is, with it not behaving like a normal spellcast.

I can get variations of the macros going for about 40k dps or so in my gear, so enough to pass in LFR, but not beyond that.


ya /swapactionbar command would do the same

I might experiment with that, but I still think there's going to be a problem with hunters due to the number of cooldowns that can't be paired in a normal macro.

[blast3r]

Yea.. just dummies. It just looks so smooth and simple in his video.. could not get anything near that to happen for me. Is it working for you?

The video was pre 5.1 patch. I wish blizz didn't frack with the macros!!!!

[blast3r]

in 5.1 i'm using

/castrandom arcane shot, arcane shot, arcane shot
/cast bestial wrath
/cast kill shot

Seems to be working pretty well, I've not gotten /castsequence to work since 5.1

castrandom works again?

[Khatovar]

Castrandom always "worked" but as far as I know it still choses from any spell listed, not any available spell listed, so it doesn't skip spells on cooldown or that can't be cast. Oatboat's castrandom is all Arcane Shot, so I don't really know how that's different from /castsequence Arcane Shot, Arcane Shot. Unless it's just another attempt to get around Blizzards MoP macro changes.

[Oatboat]

/castsequence never allows the secondary spell to fire off /castrandom does... thats all i know. I'm not really trying to get around anything.. I'm just trying to make my stuff work :)

[halabar]

/castsequence never allows the secondary spell to fire off /castrandom does... thats all i know. I'm not really trying to get around anything.. I'm just trying to make my stuff work :)

/castsequence will still work (i use a quite lengthy one on my spriest)

BUT... there are certain spells that it will not work with. ones off the GCD I think. Focus Fire is a good example.

To build a sequence simply requires some testing on the target dummies, and gradually building the macro.

But again, the problem with BM in particular is the number of cooldowns that make a full castsequence near impossible, due to the length it would be. People forget variable haste in raid situations, and how that effects cast times, which can then bork your /castsequence

[JohnGabriel]

If any spell in the /castrandom list is on CD then none of the spells will cast.

[halabar]

I think the real problem is that BM simply has too many things to line up that can't be in a standard castsequence. Using the other methods, you aren't getting anywhere close to priority or on-cooldown casts. The new focus-fire is the real deal-breaker.

[shadewalker]

I think the real problem is that BM simply has too many things to line up that can't be in a standard castsequence. Using the other methods, you aren't getting anywhere close to priority or on-cooldown casts. The new focus-fire is the real deal-breaker.

Using the /changeactionbar command should give you up to 5 "steps" or separate macros that can all be rotated through to cover all the cool downs. I think I spelled the command wrong on my earlier post.

More info here

http://www.dual-boxing.com/threads/34310-Holy-crap!-Switch-Action-Bars