I was able to add the Lock and Load trigger to MSBT . You can enlarge the font quite a bit, change the color and add a sound.

Edit: for those who need help with adding a custom trigger to MSBT:

type /msbt to open the config window, go to the "Triggers" tab and press "Add New Trigger". Give it a name, like LnL. Scroll all the way down, your new trigger is at the bottom. Click on the yellow square in the front to change the color.
Then click on the white gear click "Add Event", the default Aura Application is what we need. Click on the icon before "Skill Name" and write in the parameter box: "Lock and Load". Press Save three times.
Now click on the blue "A", here you can change the font settings to your liking (fex increase the font size). And with the 3rd icon you can set the area it should place the message, the message text, a sound and an icon. I don't use icons myself, so I don't know how that works.
Your LnL trigger should work now.

The sound only works if your turn "Enable Sounds" in the general tab. This will also enable other sounds you might not like, you can turn them off by going to the low mana & low health triggers.

I use Power Auras for keeping Serpent up as well as LnL procs. I've heard good things about KHT (Kharthus hunter timers as well) I just can't get used to how small it is.

PowerAura link...

PowerAuraClassic

*Thanks Fierra.

Yea, I wrote what I meant poorly. I mean that I don't like the box/chunk of timers, I prefer one simple animation for key procs I appreciate you trying to help though.

Kharthus's Hunter Timers.

I use it myself; the font, location, and what is displayed is entirely customizable. Don't like the size? Increase it.

How did you get power auras to work with serpent sting? I have it setup for everything else, but it won't detect when my serpent sting isn't on the boss.

I've always found screenshots of the settings to be helpful, so forgive me :P

Serpent Sting Screenshot

A simple way is to go into MSBT, take like the Clearcasting alert and just change it to Lock and Load and switch the class to hunter. Then you can change what it displays too.

You're incorrect on both counts, I believe, Kluian. Both talents have 2 clauses, the first is conditional, the second is not.
1 - 6% dmg if you're more than 30 yds away
2 - 15% crit on your KS

if there were a range component on the crit, the talent would read something more like "Increases the damage done by your Steady Shot, Aimed Shot and Explosive Shots by 6% and the critical strike chance of your Kill Shot ability by 15% when you are more than 30 yards from your target."

Hope that helped!

But that is the point of projecting dps: how much dps will it represent in a raid, under raid conditions. Dont forget that many buffs are combat based buffs such as abomination's might. Take that 10% out, and SV will have very similar numbers to MM, which carries their own 10% buff. the point of the spread sheet is not to simulate dummy dps, but to try to simulate raid dps, with all of it's buffs and debuffs.

Patch is an easy way to gauge since it provides the least mobility (like a test dummy), and the raid needs to go as hard as possible. I have read this argument before, how you can only compare dps between the builds on a dummy, and frankly, what is the point?

Trinkets, certain talents, skills, racials have timer to add dynamic to game. To time every thing correctly is also a skill, trust me.

Players that truly shine at what they do, spend hours researching their class, figuring out what gear to get, what skills to have, which enchants to use, which gems works best, what and how to macro, what will represent the best usage of my timers, how to best interact with other classes, how it all comes together in a simulator of sorts. If you don't think it doesn't represent a player's skill, it is my opinion that you are wrong.

W.W.S. reports as a whole are underutilized. Most just take a peek at their total DPS, and the relation to the raid, and then boss DPS, and again, their relation to the raid. I have been top 5 every single time out, and every report would show me where I improved (was my rotation tight, did I use my CD effectively, etc), and where I still needed to improve. All of this should be done regardless of total DPS, since an increase could just mean better gear.

If there was a skill or talent that increased my AP by 25000 and dropped my HP to 1, trust me, not only would I take it, but I guarantee my entire guild would do what it took to support the usage of such skill, as would many others. Look at how some guilds use Tricks of the Trade and frost fire mages and the list goes on.

Thanks Noth. I also wanted to state, not sure if someone else already has in this thread, but it appears you gain 4 ticks of viper from each cast of explosive shot. It seems you receive a tick for each explosive shot it, and a fourth one when the debuff fades from the target oddly enough. Not sure if it is a bug, but it's there.

Sorry for the question here but with the release of the patch I am changing from Bm to survival spec. My question is how should I be gemming for the spec.

The problem is that unless the spreadsheet simulates each encounter separately, it won't tell you your 'raid DPS'... just your maximum DPS under the (overly?) ideal circumstances modeled by the spreadsheet itself... which is one of the reasons Patchwerk WWS reports need to be taken with a grain of salt. I think there's an argument to be made that your DPS under sub-optimal conditions is more important. The meta-game of maximising spreadsheet (or Patchwerk) DPS shouldn't be taken out of the context of the actual game, where mobility, forced downtime, mana-drains and all sorts of other factors come into play.

In short, although I think the spreadsheet is a good way to predict large differences in DPS, I don't think its resolution is sufficient to be useful in tuning DPS down to single-digit precision.

The wowhead data supports this: Sniper Training - Spell - World of Warcraft

Effect #1 Apply Aura: Dummy (14)
Value: 6
Server-side script

Effect #2 Apply Aura: Add Flat Modifier (7)
Value: 15

Kill Shot's +15% crit is definitely not dependent on range like the +6% damage is.

I've been using Power Auras for a long while now and I spent about an hour trying to configure it to notify me when Serpent Sting falls off (I have DoTimer but I'd rather not constantly watch it) without any luck.

I used the exact same settings you have in your screenshot before I came looking for help and it doesn't work for me. Whenever I enter combat, the pop up graphic appears, but won't disappear when I apply my Serpent Sting as it should.

My only guess would be that since I have Glyph of Serpent Sting that it uses a different Aura ID? I'll try uninstalling the mod and starting over, which would mean losing quite a few of my pop ups :/

Only other option is re-arranging DoTimer and having a fat bar that's more visible and more annoying.

As has been stated multiple times in this thread, Serpent Sting should be prioritized after Explosive Shot and Aimed Shot but before Steady Shot. You don't want to delay Explosive Shot because you're trying to put up Serpent Sting and you're not losing huge amounts of DPS by letting it drop off the mob while you're doing instants.

I understand the damage increase, and also the mana issue as well. I guess what is needed is to get back to my guild, run some raids, and see how the mana is. If I can stay up an entire fight without Viper, then I'll go back and take Aimed and weave that in. But if the Ret pally stays on vacation, and we don't get a SPriest, then I might not use Aimed...

Oh many thanks! I have noticed that I have let Serpent drop now and then because I was focusing on other stuff. Silly really since I had no problem when I was BM. This should really help. Even added the Raidwarning sound to make sure this distracted Hunter does his job.

But I was wondering... would it be helpful to add the Explosive DoT to Powerauras to make sure when you get LnL procs that you don't waste ticks. I have found I'm a little too impatient for interleaving, and I think I have done a pretty good job at guestimating the 0.5 seconds I need after the GCD for the next Explosive. But it is a bit of a fear of mine to waste the last tick, but still not shoot at the GCD (quite possibly the worst option of spending LnL procs).
The only real issue I can see from this is the flighttime. Not much of an issue if you are a Trapdancer, but if you have gone the way of the Sniper and stand at 30 yards+ it is not a moot point.

@KraxisSingular
I've added the Explosive Shot dot to ClassTimer's target dots to watch for. The dot is actually labelled "Explosive Shot" as well and thats the string you should add.

Ahhh... great! Will have to try that. Even got ClassTimer installed for my old BM Serpent Sting control. So it should be easy. Thanks.

I think it complicates a standing-still rotation overly much, but I've taken in for use on the move (and pvp, but that's very much by-the-by). I don't do 25 mans, so mana is usually some form of an issue which is going to bias me on this, admitedly.

For lnl cooldown tracking, DoTimer works (when the buff appears, custom 30s CD timer). However, I'd like a more, well, visible countdown. Also, KHT is a great mod but unless I'm missing something can't track internal cooldowns which don't have a "visible" timer like LnL's.

Screechbythebell Mind posting a Screenshot of the setting for Lock and load ?

Ya im having trouble getting it to work with lock and load too.

Sure thing.

Oh boy, you guys are in for a treat. I forgot to hearth and I'm in AQ. :o

http://i39.tinypic.com/28aoz2b.jpg

There ya go.

PS. I'm by no means an expert with Power Auras so I'm sure there is a better way to configure them.