Been away a very long time and looking for input

[Boogieman]

Hello all...been away for over a year but I'm back and deleted some lvl 80 toons to start anew
And I must say I'm enjoying most of the new changes
And lvling again is fun

Been running a 3x BM Hunter team and loving it

Just dinged lvl 44 so I get Thunderstomp now and was gonna go with the x3 bear (man I miss that swipe aoe)
I was unaware of the turtle shell thing so now I'm thinking of x3 turtles
If they ping pong aggro with the damage mitigation healing should be a breeze

Also thinking of turtle and cat for the agi buff and some other pet for another random buff (not sure whats available)

But I'm worried that the dps cat will pull aggro form the turtle tank and then whats the point of the damage mitigation

Currently I am running x3 cat they ping pong aggro like crazy and I have a mend pet in my rotation so it all works well
Been dungeon grinding for my lvls no questing
Started SM Cath at lvl 35 no tank or healer just x3 hunters and I find it to be quite easy
Even the bosses are pushovers

macros are

Targeting

/petattack
/cast hunters mark

MultiBarRightButton12

/cast blood fury
/cast focus fire
/cast intimidation
/cast kill shot
cant wait to add bestial wrath to this

For trash I use

/castsequence reset=target hunters mark,auto shot,Kill command,steady shot
/Click MultiBarRightButton12

The short non focus burning macro is because 3 hunters burn trash so fast I would be OOF all the time
So I choose just the kill command as KCx3 is quite enough damage for most trash lol
Now hunters mark stays in even though its already up just incase I'm late to stop spamming so it doesnt auto select a new target when my last target dies (because the auto shot would lead the macro) and auto shot is in there because if I lead with x3 KC and they all crit sometimes i cant get a shot off and the mob is dead(so no xp or loot)

While I'm on that subject (sorta)
tell me please how an actual spell cast in kill command yields no loot or xp
I could understand if it was a pet auto kill but KC should count as a hunter tap it's in my spell book not the pet's

With the /click at the end I stay in some haste at all times (burn the first frenzy for 3% for the first 15 sec while the frenzy stacks to 5 during the CD for the full buff) (I'm pulling at least 5 or 6 at a time to keep this all rolling well) and use all other CDs when available and as long as I'm not casting steady I get x3 killshots as well
I also do some manual slave targeting to keep the intimidations on different cooldown intervals

And then I have my boss macro which is basically the same

/castsequence reset =target mend pet,serpent sting,kill command,arcane shot,steady shot,mend pet,steady shot,steady shot
/Click MultiBarRightButton12

And this macro is why the targeting macro has hunters mark
Now this one burns some focus but since bosses actually live through a rotation you get plenty of regen on that rotation to keep everything firing Also with my latency and talent specs it keeps serpent sting up and only clipped by like 4 or 5 seconds at the end but like i said plenty of focus regen so i dont mind the clipping

Any suggestion for pet combos or macro changes are welcome
also I have not put much thought to what my macros will be when i get cobra shot
I'll need to change the way the boss macro handles serpent sting

[Oatboat]

no suggestions but today i did see a pretty sweet level 70 cat in Terrokar Forest i thought about taming. Hes up near the Skywing faction dailiies...

Black with white striped panther... I'm a cool pet fanatic.

[Boogieman]

no suggestions but today i did see a pretty sweet level 70 cat in Terrokar Forest i thought about taming. Hes up near the Skywing faction dailiies...

Black with white striped panther... I'm a cool pet fanatic.

Humar the Pridelord
New spawn timer FTW
Man I camped this dude forever to get him 3 times back in the day

[Zub]

Humar the Pridelord
New spawn timer FTW
Man I camped this dude forever to get him 3 times back in the day

isn't Humar in the barrens?

In Terrokar it was probably Hawkbane



[Edit] re-reading post, i think you probably meant that you didn't care about this panther because you had Humar. nvm.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

Humar is solid black.

The ones in Terokkar are: http://www.wowhead.com/npc=21723

[Boogieman]

Wow I was Just saying that i like Humar not that he was the same or nothing

[valle2000]

But if putting mend pet inside a castsequence, this will cause macro to stop if pet dies during combat right?
I know this caused trouble for me when a pet died during boss fights doing heroics in Northrend (before cata) so I have mend pet on a seperate button.

Cause there is no way in a castsequence to skip mend pet if no pet is available right?

[Nikita]

What software for boxing are you using?

[Oatboat]

Yeah the black with white and not the white with black.

[Boogieman]

What software for boxing are you using?

I use HKN

But if putting mend pet inside a castsequence, this will cause macro to stop if pet dies during combat right?
I know this caused trouble for me when a pet died during boss fights doing heroics in Northrend (before cata) so I have mend pet on a seperate button.

Cause there is no way in a castsequence to skip mend pet if no pet is available right?

Short answer Yes if the pet is dead then the macro is hung and useless BUT

pets ping pong aggro so well they hardly die

I have lost a pet to trash just a couple times
due to a bad pull i pull more than i wanted and then i select targets so fast that only the main pet taps them(this keeps aggro off the hunters)but then there is no ping pong 1 pet has full aggro and then he dies and all those mobs look for new targets i wiped like 3 times from this
so i just slow down make sure all pets tap each target and worked that out now pets dont die to trash

for bosses
I run aggro very close to tipping point so if a pet gets to 25% health i spam this macro
first you need to turn cower off auto cast so its always up

/castsequence reset=1 mend pet,cower,fervor,arcane shot,arcane shot,arcane shot,arcane shot,arcane shot

so we get an instant mend pet and then a damage mitigation of 40% for 6 sec and just incase your low on focus you get fervor(better a wasted fervor than the macro not doing its job) and then all the arcane shots you can pump out so hopefully by this time you have stolen aggro from the pets for them to have mend time let the boss pick at you for as long as your comfortable with then feign death and aggro goes back to well mended pets If one still manages to die you most likely have 2 (or more if boxing more than 3) good full health pets

and since our dps depends so highly on the pets you stop spamming the dps button just for a sec and hit res pet and back to the dps macro the others will still be on the dps while the one reses pet (the dps macro wont interrupt the channel)

I have won boss fights while cycling through res pet on all toons as long as there is still a pet up you can always res and get others in the fight