Hunter+Pally how?

[Queshank]

Going for ret pally as main and hunter tank pet as dps - Now im struggling a bit to set it up, so a few follow up questions:

1) I use 1-5/6 to dps on the ret, putting the same /castsequence macro on all those keys for hunter is working poorly (as i start with mark and dot, those keep getting recast) - should I remap in isboxer so that 1-7 all cast 1 for the hunter?

I am far, far, FAR from a macro master. I still after years of boxing come here first looking for macro ideas as well. So I'll just tell you what I'd do in this situation.

Make a DPS macro for your ret pally. Questing you're not really gonna have much of a rotation. With the hunter's dps mobs will die pretty fast (some before your ret pally can get to em depending on how far away you start attacking). So just put together a cheap ret pally macro on 1 with a few abilities in rotation.

Alternatively, use a /castsequence reset=target so you're not spamming hunters mark. I only level doing instance runs, and that's what I do with my warlocks to drop curses so each curse winds up on each mob. If you drop a copy of that same macro on 1,2,3,4,5,6 that might work.

2) Any suggestions on a BM hunter dps macro?

As suggested above look for a BM hunter dps macro on lazymacros or somewhere. I find while just tweaking my team and getting started it sometimes works to just construct a cheap and easy macro. It's not going to be max efficiency dps by any stretch of the imagination, but it's more than adequate for quest mobs. And over time you'll tweak it as you notice inconsistencies in it or cooldowns causing problems. That kinda stuff.

3) When I take them to raids, I heal on pally, would you map a separate dps spam key for that situation? How do I best manage that?

Hopefully before you raid with both you'll have tweaked your BM hunter macro so you have only a couple keys. I haven't boxed hunters but my warlocks (and mages...and shamans...and...and hehe) I just have my main dps on 1, and then spells to cast in certain situations (like chaos bolt) I have on 2, 3, and 4.

On the healer ...I'd actually probably heal with a slave and main the hunter as grid/clique with repeater windows is pretty damn efficient and it'd allow you more control over the hunter dps in a raid setting you'd just leave 1 thru 6 blank.

Just a few ideas from my perspective. There's an amazing number of ways to set up even a 2 box team. Which is probably why I'm still so addicted to boxing Oh and as Khatovar said...jamba ftw. If I'm not gonna box for awhile I turn it off. But if I'm just playing 1 toon for awhile I leave it on for all the extra perks it has.