The Hunter Macro thread

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another thing that kinda bugs me is if I have to pull multiple targets at once.. my pets will all run for the one I tell it to with my macro but the others will go straight for the healer. Haven't figured out a way around that yet , other than to mash it on them all until they eventually get agro; trouble ends up being they are all in melee range then. I think focus can solve this problem, but thats way over my head right now lol.. one step at a time.. level 28 now on all 4 and my dad priest is 27.

Here is what I do on my 5 hunters.

Each hunter has one key mapped to hunter pet attack:

/clearfocus [target=focus, dead] 
/assist party1 
/tar focus 
/petattack 

I then have another macro to return pet:

/petfollow 

This is just a personal preference to have 2 different macros. You could combine them by using a modifier (shift, alt, ctrl) for the follow.


Each of the slaves gets the following macro for attacking:

/clearfocus [target=focus, dead] 
/assist party1 
/tar focus 
/cast !auto shot 

The main char uses just

/cast !auto shot 

On my main, I have set 5 keybindings for 5 raid icons. I use F1-F5, becuase I think the default bindings are garbage for boxing. I use F1 for star, F2 for diamond, etc. This way each char gets thier own icon.

F6 is skull. Skull means everyone who doesn't have a focus will be dpsing this target.

F7 on my main removes a raid icon and clears focus.

(I don't remember the code exactly for this one.) I think its

/script SetRaidIcon(9)
/clearfocus 

On Party2 - Party5 F7 clears focus.

/clearfocus 

On my second char I then map F2 to a macro that assists my main, then sets the focus

/clearfocus 
/assist Party1 
/focus 

The F6 key uses the same macro.

I then do F3 and F6 mapping to macro on character 3, F4 and F6 on character 4, and F5 and F6 on character 5.

What does this allow me to do? From my main, I can target a mob and hit F6. This puts the skull icon on that mob, clears any focus my other chars have, and they all focus on that mob.

Lets say I have to pull 4 mobs. I will target the one I want to dps first and hit F6. All chars are now focused on that mob and have it targeted. I then target mob 2, and hit F5. Party member 5 then targets that mob, focuses it, and a raid icon of Orange circle appears. I then just target mob 2 and hit F4, target mob 3 and hit F3, etc.

So when I am ready to go I use my pet attack macro. It first assists my main, then if that char has a focus, it will then set target to the focus. I then send pet in. So on big pulls I can have each hunter "tank" an add, dps the add, and heal thier pet. If my main char's mob goes down I can target another mob, and any char who doesn't have a focus, will immediately assist the main (one key press to send all available pets on the mob, another key turns on the hunter dps).

If I need to tank a new mob (like an unexpected add), my main can just change targets, and the pet will go attack the new mob, and the other hunters aren't affected or I could target that mob and hit f5 for party member 5 to now start tanking/dpsing the add.

I hope this helps. If you want any of the macros I don't have listed let me know.