Using Drums triggers the GCD, therefore not allowing BW in the same macro without hitting it twice. I suggest you make separate macros for Drums of Battle, and BW + Trinkets, or just spamming the macro more than once (although this will also spam party chat).

I'm able to use both at the same time with the same macro with a single button press.

After just testing it, it's definetly possible, I've just always had them seperate. As long as you have Drums of Battle as the last command, you can cast all three at the same time.

For example, my macro that casts BW + BC + Drums with a single press:

#showtooltip
/cast Bestial Wrath
/use Berserker's Call
/use Drums of Battle
/p --- Drums used, 30 seconds ---
/in 30 /p --- Next Drums NOW ---
/in 115 /p --- Drums up in 5 ---

Thanks guys, i'll try it out tonight in our BT run.


I had another question, quite an obvious one: I just joined a guild that's 4/6 in BT, and although, for my gear, my dps was nice on our last brutallus kill (2400dps), I was wondering what items I should try to get first.

Tier 6 parts shouldn't be a problem really, since most guys inthat guild even have full t6 for their offspec, but I'm talking more about things like trinkets, rings, etc....


What if I get madness of the betrayer trinket (the one with arp), what trinket should I switch it with?


Thanks for your help!

Hi everyone. I play in a more casual guild than most of you guys, and I think I do fairly ok, for my gear level. However I'm not very good at analyzing WWS logs and similar stuff, so I though I'd ask here if there is anything that seems blatantly wrong with my shot rotation, or other things.

Here is a WWS from my first full ZA clear. I'm the only hunter, Io. I think it went fairly well on this run, dps wise, but I wonder if I could do better. It's the first run where I've experimented with haste potions, since I normally need the cooldowns for mana pots. Hence I only had a total of five haste pots with me.

Armory

Also, I'm sitting at 25% crit, at the moment. Would that mean I should start looking at a windserpent instead of my ravager?

Thanks for any input.

I am a bit perplexed as to why Cheeky's shows me as getting better dps with a 1:1 macro rather than a 3:2. I do have a bit of haste but is 64 haste enough to make me clip that bad on my auto shots?

Does haste effect 1:1 at all?

Just as a reference i have 7k manna 1908 ap and 27.88 crit.




Any light you could shed on the subject would be appreciatedl

My spreadsheet deals with question. [Hunter] Shot Rotation Spreadsheet

As long as the action that triggers the GCD is the last action in the macro it can be done, however, it's better to activate drums and BW/RF separately (Drums before the other 2) due to the fact that if you activate all 3 with drums last, you have an entire GCD with BW/RF up where you can't do anything.

Also, having them separate makes drum rotations within a group simpler. Your turn to drum may not always end up lining up with when you want to be using your cooldowns.

You shouldn't really use RF when drums are up, unless you've got a 4 drum group. It's also much easier to manage cooldowns when you synch tbw/bc/drums together. This is especially true if you are the only drum user in the group.

I just tested this macro out(except without the /cast BW since I'm Survival), but I don't think the last 2 lines work

I remember grouping with a rogue that had a similar macro, however his announced when his drums were over. Can anyone post a macro that does that or is there something wrong with the one I quoted?

There are mods that announce Drum cooldowns (as well as other cooldowns). The rogue may have used one of these mods.

/use Drums of Battle
/p {star} [Drums of Battle] up {star}
/in 28 /p {triangle} [Drums of Battle] down in 2 seconds, next person get ready! {triangle}

The messages can be changed, but everyone in the hunter group (we typically have 4-5 drummers) uses either a mod or macro similar to the above to announce drum use and when it will be going down.

I've never had a problem with the macro, always displayed in party. May be a dumb question, but you were grouped right?

The mod ORA2 allows the /in X "chat command".

There may be other mods that accommodate this function, but this is the one I use.

Not sure if this is the best place to post this, but I'll give it a shot:

I'm in a 2v2 team with a holy pally right now, pretty much just for getting points. We want to get out of the late 1400 bracket, but we seem to lose against a LOT of combos. Most of the teams we lose against are double DPS combos, such as mage/rogue. My question is: is hunter + pally a very bad combo, and it's right that we are losing vs. these teams, or are we doing something wrong?

Half the time we're fighting, my teammate claims he can't heal me because he gets spell locked constantly, so how come other healers don't get spell locked like that?

Thanks in advance.

Greetings,

This is my first Post, But I have been trolling here for awhile. I am having an unknown issue with my DPS/Shot rotation Macro.

Here is my Armory: The World of Warcraft Armory
Here is a WWS report for a TK run: Wow Web Stats
And here is the macro I am currently using:
#showtooltip Steady Shot
/castsequence reset=3 Steady Shot, !Auto Shot
/castrandom [target=pettarget, exists] Kill Command
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

My computer recently had to be restored so I lost all of my macros and I remade this one. My DPS seems to be suffering for some reason. I used to be in the top 1-2 DPS for a boss fight and now I am in the 5-10 range normally. I have tweaked the macro, tried ading in Arcane/Aimed etc and still can't make a noticeable imporvement in my raid dps and I am at my wits end. If anyone can find what I am doing wrong I would most appreciate it Lately I have been the only hunter in the raid so I have been using Scorpid sting instead of serpent sting (Don't see where that would make such a huge difference)

First, start using the following macro.
Second, make sure you are still hit capped and not missing a piece of gear somewhere. Do not use serpent sting for damage, it's damage per mana is not as high as a steady auto macro. If you could post a WWS log of some fights like Rage Winterchill or Teron Gorefiend it would greatly assist in finding the problem.

Anyone know if Hourglass of the unraveller has a hidden CD, and if so what it is.

Yes, 45 seconds.

Procs with/without internal cooldowns

Hi All,

I came back after being gone for awhile and had some questions:

Armory Link:
The World of Warcraft Armory

1st question - My primary ranged weapon was the "Sunfury Bow" from Kara. Recently I purchased the Season 2 x-bow (Merciless Gladiator's Crossbow) for pvping. Now I am wondering which one would be better for me to use as a SV hunter for pve. Which would you recommend and why? I am thinking the speed might hurt my DPS pve wise. Am I wrong?


2nd question - Previously scorpids were all the rage. Now I hardly see anyone using them. Was there a change to how their poison works so now they are less desireable?

Thanks!

Ok, so I'm having a bit of a dilemma.

All of a sudden, I've had this urge to get as much hit as possible. I've just picked up [Halberd of Desolation] and [Choker of Endless Nightmares]. Together with the rest of my gear I'm reaching a hit total of 140, which increases my chance to hit by 8.88%. After changing the gem in my [Gronnstalker's Gloves] to +5 hit and +5 agi, that will go up to 141. Oh, and I'm a BM hunter.

However, I've also picked up the Signet of Primal Wrath from the ZA run I went on a couple days back. Coupled with Angelista's Revenge, these makes for a lovely DPS set.

Stats inc.

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OPTION A

[Garona's Signet Ring] + [Angelista's Revenge]

2132 ATP (with AoTH +155 atp)
140 Hit
30.37% crit

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OPTION B

[Signet of Primal Wrath] + [Angelista's Revenge]

2158 ATP (with AoTH +155 atp)
122 Hit
30.57% Crit

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As you can see, Option A is the hit option, whereas Option B increases RAP and Crit.

So my question to you is this;

Is the 26 attack power increase and the 0.20% increased crit together enough to make up for the -18 hit? I keep hearing mixed things from a lot of hunters about how 'anything over 130+ is fine', but on the other hand I'm being told that hit > all.

I would LOVE to be hit-capped; it would be wonderful. However, I'm loving this relatively high crit chance at the moment and would like to keep it as high as possible. I know compromise needs to come into play at some point, but I don't know which stats to keep and which to get rid of, hence my dilemma with Hit, Crit and RAP.

The official WoW forums have proved (yet again) to be of no help whatsoever, so a friend of mine put me onto you guys. After trudging through your forums for quite some time, I am yet to find something that truly answers my question. Maybe I'm not looking in the right place. Apologies if this has been answered a billion times already.

EDIT: As of writing, Armoury has still not been updated to show new items.

Even if you can use every bit of hit rating on [Garona's Signet Ring], the [Signet of Primal Wrath] still comes out better. Despite what people say hit% isn't the be all and end all of everything, if an item gives say 100 DPS but leaves you under the hit cap, it's still better than an item that gives you 80 DPS but makes you hit capped.