terg

ok here a better question i have macros and i suck at making them and the other hunter in my guild keep telling me not to worrie about getting any is this bad advice on thear part ?

if it is bad i will go and find some macro

 

Kaelyth

Macro's are not necessary in Wrath, they can however simplify things. You will see many Steady Shot macro's that incorporate Kill Command so you will never "forget" to cast it for your pet.

One main thing to note about macro's is that the commands are executed all at once and any ability that shares a global cooldown will cause the macro to fail. Kill Shot, while on the global cooldown does not trigger one so thats why you will see Kill Shot at the start of many shot macro's.

This I believe is changing in 3.1, Kill Shot will trigger a global cooldown.

 

Ambika

I've read this thread twice so I went home today to give myself a shot at trying to create a macro to simplify Call of the Wild, heart of the Phoenix type abilities.

I came up with this gem:

/cast [target=pettarget, exists] Call of the Wild

and

/cast [target=pettarget, exists] Heart of the Phoenix

finally from the front page a copy and paste:

#showtooltip Rapid Fire
/cast Bestial Wrath
/cast [target=pettarget, exists] Call of the Wild


perfectly simple I thought. Targets the pet, casts a pet spell. Easy peasy.

I can't get it to work for the life of me. It won't target the pet nor cast the ability. I cast it off the spell book just fine. The last one starts BW but won't do Call of the Wild.

Am I doing something wrong? I'm not a macro person, I usually play with button mashing and key mapping with the n52 but I wanted to try this out as it looks like something that can help me play my hunter better.

 

• Tsook

That macro doesn't target the pet, it checks whether the pet has a target. "pettarget exists"

The last macro should cast Bestial Wrath regardless when you press the button, but only cast Call of the Wild if the pet is currently attacking something.

I don't think the Heart of the Phoenix macro will work at all because if you're using it the pet is dead and therefore has no target. This simpler macro will do it:
/cast Heart of the Phoenix

 

Ambika

Can you propose a solution for it to work? Is there some post here I'm missing?

It kicks off rapid fire then dies. It doesn't cast anything after the first one

I was hoping it to say "Your pet isn't dead dummy" or some other error msg. Sadly it didn't do anything.

thanks for your help.

 

• Tsook

If you just use "/cast Heart of the Phoenix", it will give some kind of error message if you can't cast it. It might not call you a dummy, though.

I'm not sure exactly what you're hoping the other macro will do. It won't cast Rapid Fire at all as written (though it will show the tooltip for Rapid Fire when you hover your mouse over it).

If you simply want a macro to blow all your cooldowns, something like this is all you need:
/cast Bestial Wrath
/cast Rapid Fire
/cast Kill Command
/cast Call of the Wild
/use 13
/use 14

(the last two lines activate any trinkets you have equipped).

Because Rapid Fire cannot be started while you're in a GCD (though it doesn't cause one itself), you'll probably have to hit the macro twice to get everything to go off.

 

Fierra

Alternatively, change the order:

/cast Rapid Fire
/cast Kill Command
/cast Call of the Wild
/use 13
/use 14
/cast Bestial Wrath

Since BW is the only one of those that causes a GCD, I believe, then that should proc those in that order, only causing the GCD once at the end, once everything has procced and leaving you with a one-push macro.

Additionally, I didn't see Tsook address this for you, but CotW does not need you targetting your pet to activate it; it just goes off.

 

crispyb

wasnt there a post on a macro to change tracking type to your target type, to take advantage of improved tracking? am i mistaken or is this even possible?
im a total newb at making macros but i think this would be a great one for running alot of dungeon and raid instances where you have a mixture of mob types. just looking for some help. ive been searching for this for awhile now and cant seem to find it. thanks

 

Har

No longer needed- improved tracking now works on all mob types listed in the ability as long as you're tracking one of them.

OutDPS

 

crispyb

thank you har, i just came back to edit since i found what i was looking for in another thread. i must have missed the change. too much info not enough time.
thanks

 

Manren

I am having a quick question now I am new on the Hunter and by now I got all my gear from heroics etc. etc. I am just planning to start using macros but however as I can see in some postings there are not really macros for SV Hunters as it is priority based. My Priority order is KS/ ES/ Multi/ Steady and ofcourse keeping the Viper up all time. However are there any good macros to use for SV besides of the ones including KS? Before someone posts I have read the previous pages as well.

 

DeathSniper

Is there a way to make a tooltip separate for regular & shift-click?

I have the current macro:
#showtooltip Explosive Shot(Rank 4)
/cast [modifier:shift] Scatter Shot
/cast Kill Shot(Rank 3)
/cast Kill Command
/cast Explosive Shot(Rank 4)

However, when I hold down shift it doesn't switch to the Scatter tooltip. If I leave showtooltip blank, it'll default to KillShot since that's priority. It's not anything important but just for aesthetic purposes :p Thanks if anyone has any info!

 

Fendryl

You can use the conditionals in #showtooltip as well, so #showtooltip [mod:shift] Scatter Shot; Explosive Shot will work. Note this macro won't work in 3.1, as Kill Shot now triggers a GCD.

 

Har

Nope. The only macros survival needs are firing instants before shots. You'll do fine, just practice for a while on how to squeeze as many explosives into a 5 minute fight as you can, and the rest comes naturally.

OutDPS

 

vian.driscol

I am Marksmanship, and I used to use a macro that went something like this:

/castsequence Serpent Sting, null
/castsequence , Steady Shot
/castsequence Chimera Shot
/castrandom Kill Shot
/castrandom Kill Command

It worked just fine, but I was on the low end of DPS for our Naxx 25.

So I decided to throw Arcane Shot into the rotation whenever the CD is up. I am having trouble coming up with a macro that will cast Chimera Shot whenever the CD is up, cast Arcane whenever the CD is up, and cast Steady Shot inbetween.

Obviously, I could do it manually, but the problem I run into is that I sit there staring at my hotbar to see when the CD's and GCD's are up, and am not paying attention to where and when I need to move during a fight.

Is this a macro problem, or a UI mod problem? I've heard that macros don't seem to work very well in wrath, and I'd be up for just binding a couple shots together and using 2 macros to simplify it, but I do not really know how to code macros.

Or maybe I just need a UI mod that puts all my CD's in the center of my screen, but the problem I find there is that they don't include GCD too.

So ultimately, my question is, does a macro, or combination of separate macros exist that will allow me to do a priority rotation with Chimera, Arcane, Steady in that order?

 

Har

You do need to watch your cooldowns while doing everything else on your plate. There is no legal way to write a macro that will play for you. You can indeed set up your UI to make the job easier by displaying global cooldowns and shot timers. i suggest you start with bartender addon, quartz swing timer, and powerauras.

OutDPS

 

Kaelyth

In reguard to #showtooltip, you can save yourself alot of space by simply leaving it as "#showtooltip" when left with no spell name after it will display the tooltip of the first /cast in your macro. Yes this works with modifiers.

eg:
using the ? icon for the macro
#showtooltip
/cast [mod:shift] Arcane Shot; Explosive Shot

Will display Explosive Shot's tooltip untill you press shift

Edit to add, though in a more complex macro like you mentioned, Fendryl's solution is the desireable one.

 

Tolmandary

Is it possible to use the #show or #showtooltip command in some way to show a sequence?

For example while using the '?' icon and the following simple macro:

/castsequence reset=8 Chimera Shot, Aimed Shot

the icon will switch from Chimera to Aimed and back to Chimera once Aimed is used or the reset timer reached.

The basic form of the macro I want to use is:

/cast Kill Shot
/cast Kill Command
/castsequence reset=8 Chimera Shot, Aimed Shot

Without a #show or #showtooltip included it will of course default to Kill Shot. With the following I get to see Chimera Shot instead, but what I really want is it to switch from Chimera > Aimed as it would with a simple /castsequence macro in place, even though now it has the additional 2 commands first.

#showtooltip Chimera Shot
/cast Kill Shot
/cast Kill Command
/castsequence reset=8 Chimera Shot, Aimed Shot

Does anyone know if this is possible? I've tried all the iterations I can think of to make it show the shots as I would like but with no luck. If it's not possible perhaps Blizzard will at some point allow for sequential use of commands within #show and #showtooltip in the same manner as for /castsequence. We can but hope.

 

Klingo

Did anyone else notice that the SteadyShot/KillShot macro doesn't work anymore on PTR?

For me it seems that it always tries to cast KillShot but in fact that the enemy is above 20% the macro stops and restarts again.

On live it works, PTR not.

 

zYx

The reason for that is that KS is now (on 3.1 PTR) triggering GCD and macros with 2 spells both triggering GCD cannot work.
You will have to press KS button manually from 3.1.

 

Xaraphyne

I'm not sure, but I think you can possibly put the #showtooltip line -after- the KC and KS lines in your macro, and then it'll show what follows. I think I have done that in a macro before. Sorry that I can't check it right now for you, but you can try it.

 

Morgasaurus

You guys have already covered the macros I use with the exception of one. This macro fixes your pet in a single click when it changes all of it's autocast settings. It's a workaround for that glitch. I got tired of going into the pet spell-book every time I noticed him prowling or cowering or some other fool thing. When farming I just hit this macro and click growl back on. This macro is cat-specific so you would need to slightly tweak it for other pets.

/petautocaston Rabid
/petautocaston Rake
/petautocaston Claw
/petautocaston Dash
/petautocastoff Prowl
/petautocastoff Growl
/petautocastoff Cower
/petautocastoff Call of the Wild

 

Hamadryad

First post on EJ forums so bare with me...

Ive been using the following macro to try and tighten up my SV rotation:

/cast kill shot
/cast [modifier: alt] Serpent sting
/cast [modifier: shift] Explosive shot
/cast [modifier: shift] kill shot
/cast [modifier:ctrl] multi-shot
/cast steady shot

By binding this to my mousewheel and continuously scolling back and forth I can spam steady shot and by pressing the appropriate modifer, shoot the highest priority shot off CD. Ive also stuck kill shot with ES and steady shot. This effective spamming of shots off CD reduces the time between GCD and shots and hopefully yield higher DPS. I seem to have had moderate succcess with this macro by staying above the other 2 hunters in my guild with similar gear and talents.

Are there any thoughts on this macro or any way to improve it?

 

judger

I am having a problem with my cat he keeps turning on his growl and prowl every time i enter an instance or he dies could someone help me out getting a macro to automatically turn off growl and prowl.

 

• Nagisamuro

The one posted two posts up from yours doesn't suit your needs?