Hunter Question

[Multibocks]

thanks for the advice, i wansnt aware of the "null" pointer in a macro.

I rewrote my MM macros compleatly

/console Sound_EnableSFX 0
/assist "tankname"
/petattack
/startattack
/cast !Auto-Shot
/castrandom Chimera Shot,
/castsequence reset=target Hunter's Mark, Serpent Sting, null,
/castsequence reset=9 Chimera Shot,
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Kill Command
/console Sound_EnableSFX 1
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

This is now an awesome MM macro that is also very viable for Single play MM hunters also, it will MARK, STING before CS but not recast HM or SS before i switch targets.

Love this forum!!! (and the ppl in it)
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Sorry for the hijack and i realise it became a Marco theme, but the macros and class viability is very closely knitted together in this discussion

I believe the null in your castsequence will stop this macro from completing. You need to visit the /click macro thread to see how to get null in there. I could be wrong though!

[Owltoid]

I know nothing about hunters, but I'm guessing Chimera Shot has a cooldown. If so, then I believe the macro posted will hang on "/castrandom Chimera Shot, " if the random chooses Chimera Shot while on cooldown. It will only resume when the cooldown is up and can successfully execute the option. They changed the /castrandom functionality months ago (back then it would have worked).

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Well the leveling goes REALLY fast in dungeons, one of mine is already 79, I believe they also lowered the xp per level for pets. The other cool thing compared to when I leveled pets before is that they automatically level the pet to 75 from it's original level before you trained them.

Per the latest patch notes:

Pet Leveling: Hunter pets now need only 5% of the experience a player needs to level, down from 10%.

[mmmbox]

I believe the null in your castsequence will stop this macro from completing. You need to visit the /click macro thread to see how to get null in there. I could be wrong though!

No thats the beauty of it, don't know if its a bug or if blizzard didnt think of that combo but once i learned to use a combo of castsequence and castrandom my macros became very powerfull

I personally dont like the klickmacros hence i use the combo i mentioned for all my hunter macros.

[mmmbox]

I know nothing about hunters, but I'm guessing Chimera Shot has a cooldown. If so, then I believe the macro posted will hang on "/castrandom Chimera Shot, " if the random chooses Chimera Shot while on cooldown. It will only resume when the cooldown is up and can successfully execute the option. They changed the /castrandom functionality months ago (back then it would have worked).

the "comma" after chimera shot in the /castrandom is critical if its not there then the macro will hang.

as I said the combo is very veird but if you write it as I have it works.

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Edit

As a side note, i was running some tests to verify its functionality and it ALWAYS Casts hunter mark, serpent sting BEFORE it ever fires of Chimera Shot which is what you want as a MM hunter.

there is no delay in CS it fires the instant the CD is down.

[thinus]

Macro with all non-abilities deleted:

/cast !Auto-Shot
/castrandom Chimera Shot,
/castsequence reset=target Hunter's Mark, Serpent Sting, null,
/castsequence reset=9 Chimera Shot,
/cast Kill Command

So you turn on Auto-Shot, pop a Hunter's Mark and Serpent Sting and then just Chimera Shot? This is good dps? What about Kill Shot, Aimed Shot, Arcane Shot, Steady Shot? You just Auto-Shot during the 10s cooldown?

[mmmbox]

Macro with all non-abilities deleted:



So you turn on Auto-Shot, pop a Hunter's Mark and Serpent Sting and then just Chimera Shot? This is good dps? What about Kill Shot, Aimed Shot, Arcane Shot, Steady Shot? You just Auto-Shot during the 10s cooldown?

No, it was merly a sollution to a problem i have had with MM macros and a problem you have when boxing hunters as per the ORIGINAL posters question hence my recomendation to go BM since its way easier to Macro a BM hunter then a MM hunter.

It feels a bit like you jumped into the discussion without reading all posts

anyway, my macro had atm nothing really to do with MM dps but for the moment it was a test to solve how to weave serpent sting into a MM macro without recasting it since CS refreshes it when it is cast.

I use a variant of my previously posted BM macro for Aimed and Steady, Arcane is left out.

basically i use Q E R T and F mapped to different macros depending on situation (with keyclone)

[thinus]

No, it was merly a sollution to a problem i have had with MM macros and a problem you have when boxing hunters as per the ORIGINAL posters question hence my recomendation to go BM since its way easier to Macro a BM hunter then a MM hunter.

It feels a bit like you jumped into the discussion without reading all posts

anyway, my macro had atm nothing really to do with MM dps but for the moment it was a test to solve how to weave serpent sting into a MM macro without recasting it since CS refreshes it when it is cast.

I use a variant of my previously posted BM macro for Aimed and Steady, Arcane is left out.

basically i use Q E R T and F mapped to different macros depending on situation (with keyclone)

Are you running a mixed group? How are you pressing multiple buttons for dps and monitoring cooldowns? The whole beauty of the /click approach is a 1-button priority system that overcomes cooldown hell.

[Saithe]

With /click Macros, MM should always be the top DPS. BM just doesn't have what it takes to keep up in terms of raw DPS output. With /click Macros, I wasn't doing my max DPS against a Target Dummy, but it wasn't so far off that I'd go spec something else.

[crowdx]

So I ran both hunters as BM with their lvl 80 pets and I took a BM click macro from here and I am still not too sure which to stay with.
So as a follow up question, if I go back to MM should I respec my pets in any way or does the spec not matter unless you wanted to tank with the pets? Currently I turn off all the taunts for my pets so that they do not create any aggro except from pute dps.