In light of the increased attention being paid to SV these days, this post offers tips on how to launch Explosive Traps quickly and effectively.
Posts Tagged ‘macro’
Launching Explosive Traps
Posted in Hunter, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged explosive trap, macro, trap launcher on December 15, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Auto-targeting for AOE
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged 4.1, aoe, arcane shot, auto-attack, auto-targeting, macro, multi shot, patch 4.1, startattack on May 3, 2011 | 12 Comments »
The WHU has a pretty good post today about something that had been bothering me in my last 5 man: that targeting bug fix in 4.1 made it so that pressing a button wouldn’t select a target. While this sounds good for actual raid DPS (nobody likes accidentally pulling), it’s pretty bad for AOE packs. The problem with AOE is that while you are mashing multi-shot and your focus regen, some mobs are dying faster than others. If one that you’re selecting dies in the middle of, say, a steady shot, that shot is wasted.
I had developed a particular set of habits based on the old system of targeting.
- Every time we had stopped pulling, I would target myself, and if any mobs were in range, face away from them. The only time I pulled, it wasn’t an “accident”. Also, completely unrelated pro tip: if the hunter misdirected to the rogue, it’s never an accident.
- When my AOE target died, I’d hit multishot to select a new target. It had the same function as tab targeting, and this feature saw a lot of use in heroics.
As Frost pointed out in his WHU post, you can macro “/startattack” before anything you want and it will tab-target for you, just like it used to. Instead of aimed shot, however, I’d probably use multi-shot.
Quick note on aimed shot macros
Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged /cast, aimed shot, bug, fire, keybind, macro on February 23, 2011 | 6 Comments »
Just discovered that a particular annoying bug reported in beta is still affecting aimed shot. If you get a “Fire!” proc from casting a bunch of steady shots, and you type or macro “/cast aimed shot”, it will always use the hard cast. That is to say, it will stop your autoshots, perform the aimed shot cast, and then reset your autoshot timer. This means that while you can macro getting out of aspect of the fox for any other instant shot, you shouldn’t use this on aimed. That or you’ll have to create a new keybind for instant aimed shots.
Macros for Aspect Dancing
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged aspect dancing, aspect of the fox, Aspect of the Hawk, hunter macros, macro, macros on February 20, 2011 | 15 Comments »
Aspect dancing is the practice of switching aspects in between shots to gain access to different benefits, much like druids shift forms and warriors switch stances. (Frostheim has an excellent guide on the merits of aspect dancing here.) Once the announced changes to Aspect of the Hawk take effect, aspect dancing will become all the more crucial to pay attention to because any extended period of time spent in Aspect of the Fox will be a very substantial dps loss. At the same time, skipping Steady or Cobra Shots due to movement remains a huge loss as well. We’ll be left in a position, then, where we will want to spend as little time as possible in AotF but will still want to have it up before any Steady or Cobra cast during which we will have to move. How can we go about making these snap transitions as smooth and fast as possible? One general approach is to use macros, and that will be the focus of this post, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t other good ways to change aspects.
Edit: Some commenters, as you can read below, are reporting issues with macros that combine aspect switching with shots. If you’re having such issues yourself, remember that a separate macro for switching aspects does work just fine. (more…)
How To Use The New Cower!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged awesome, cower, macro, mend pet, patch 3.3, pet, pve, pvp, raiding on December 16, 2009 | 12 Comments »
An Obedient Pet: Pet Attack Macros!
Posted in Hunter, World of Warcraft, tagged auto track, autocast, cower bug, macro, macros, pet management, pve, raiding, soloing on November 19, 2009 | 11 Comments »
In raids and dungeons a pet can have to avoid several things: “standing in fire”, the cower bug, generating threat, pulling adds. Why not avoid more than one of those things at the same time? I use pet attack macros for that, and cram them full of commands (well, so long as the macro remains intuitive, useful and does not conflict with itself functionally).
Do You Auction in Stormwind?
Posted in economics, Spotlight, World of Warcraft, tagged AH, auction, hit the cap, macro, mailbox, Spotlight on November 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
If so, you should check out this tip I found at Hit The Cap, one of my new favorite places to read about warcraft auctioneering. You can use it to stand right next to the mailbox in stormwind and be able to use the AH without having to run in. Now I know that this sounds even lazier than usual for me, but when you make that mailbox-AH-mailbox run for the 200th time in a day, little things like this are what helps keep one sane.
Mana Saving Macros!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged aspect dancing, aspect of the dragonhawk, aspect of the viper, dragonhawk, efficiency, explosive shot, kill shot, macro, macros, mana, oom, pve, raiding, regen, steady shot, viper on November 4, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Mana management is not tricky. We all do it, and we’re all good at it. This post is going to go over a new macro that I believe could increase your damage throughput! (more…)
Hunter PvP 101!
Posted in arena, Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, pvp, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged agility, arena, battleground, Beast Mastery, bg, focused aim, gemming, hit, Hunter, interface, macro, Marksmanship, mouseover macro, pets, pvp, resilience, spell penetration, spider, Survival, UI, wolf on September 18, 2009 | 21 Comments »
Hey everyone. Today we’ll talk about what it is the beginning pvper needs to know as far as gearing and setting up for pvp. I’ll try to cover the most basic things that everyone should know without favoring one type of PvP over another. (more…)
Hunting Northrend Beasts!
Posted in World of Warcraft, tagged acid spew, acidmaw, Acidmaw and Dreadscale, arctic breath, arena, argent coliseum, burning bile, debuff, dreadscale, face chewing bastards, ferocious butt, frothing rage, Gormok the Impaler, impale, macro, massive crash, northrend beasts, paralytic poison, patch 3.2, progression, slime pool, snobolds, staggering stomp, trial of the crusader, whirl on August 6, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Northrend beasts is the first encounter in the new Trial of the Crusader instance. We one-shot it yesterday, and I figured I’d write up what I learned.
First and foremost, the neat thing is that at this point in the game, there’s few easily accessable strats, guides, and videos. This is progression on a boss that nobody’s farming yet. As more concrete guides are written, I’ll update this post with links to wowhead and any new strategies or abilities that come forward. [Edit 11 Aug: we know more about this now, so I'll be updating it soon with any little bits of missing info] (more…)
Silencing shot!
Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, World of Warcraft, tagged dps, focus, keybind, keybinding, macro, marksman, Marksmanship, raiding, silencing shot, utility on July 16, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Nassira’s post got me to thinking about silencing shot. Her point is that it should never be macroed, and always cast manually, and that the utility of the ability is more important to the raid than the DPS.
I agree that its utility is good, but I still macro it to my shots. I just do it in such a way that I can not fire it if I choose, and have it keybound for manual firing should I ever be assigned a part in a silence rotation.
Here’s the line I use to fire it in my MM macro:
/cast [nomod] Silencing Shot
If I hold down any button (alt, ctrl, etc), I no longer fire silencing shots automatically. I have silencing shot keybound, and I have another macro keybound for silencing my focus:
#showtooltip Silencing Shot
/stopcasting
/cast [target=focus] Silencing Shot
Make sure your raid leader knows that marks hunters have a silence, but don’t stop firing this if you don’t have a specific target. It’s 40 DPS for one talent point.
From Survival to Marksman!
Posted in Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged aimed shot, arcane shot, aspect of the viper, build, chimera shot, dps, DPS spreadsheet, dual spec, efficiency, first draft, gcd, global cooldown, glyph of kill shot, glyph of serpent sting, glyph of steady shot, glyph of the hawk, improved hunter's mark, kill shot, macro, mana, marksman, mm, multi shot, raiding, rapid killing, rapid recuperation, serpent sting, silencing shot, spec, steady shot, Survival, sv, talent preview on June 17, 2009 | 17 Comments »
Not going to go into much depth here because I haven’t done anything yet other than annoy a targeting dummy with my new MM rotation, but lets talk about the process of switching to MM. (more…)
How to save a healer!
Posted in Beast Mastery, Hunter, Marksmanship, Survival, World of Warcraft, tagged agro, agro threshold, aoe tanking, arms warriors, disengage, distracting shot, fade, feign death, focus, healers, macro, misdirect, misdirection, misdirection macro, pve, raiding, recount, recount addon, saving healers, tank, tanking, threat, threat generation on June 4, 2009 | 10 Comments »
We’ve all been there- you’re doing a fight with multiple tanking targets, and possibly multiple tanks. Healers can generate a lot of agro. Some of them don’t have clutch agro reducing abilities. Sometimes they get something pounding on them, and like all of the weaker classes, get mulched in short order. Today I’m going to write about something that will make my guild healers prioritize me next raid: how to save a healer, and how to avoid siccing mobs on them. (more…)
Syndication!
Things I Thought You Might Like To Read- Why Can’t We Do Math Anymore? October 27, 2011 Cheezburger Network
- It Must Be Stuck Somewhere October 26, 2011 Cheezburger Network
- Mists of Pandaria Expansion Hunter Talents October 21, 2011 Frostheim
- Planning WAY in Advance October 14, 2011 Cheezburger Network
- Straight A Game Masters October 11, 2011 Cheezburger Network
- Pet Tanking Ideas September 30, 2011 Frostheim
- M thru F: The Workplace Subjectivity Chart August 31, 2011 Lady Justice
- WHU vs the Whale Shark September 20, 2011 Frostheim
- Classic: I Wanted a Bite September 2, 2011 Cheezburger Network
- Grats Arust!!! September 2, 2011 Frostheim
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