I don't see the value though, the !auto shot command is to force an auto shot to be released during a cast when starting combat, in almost all logical situations you will be opening with an instant. I personally cannot think of a situation where you would want to cast any spell with a cast time while in combat with your auto not already started. To clarify I believe you do the exact same thing as that command just by opening with a serpent sting but I'm just going off what I've seen from using both macros, I could be wrong.

Im having a problem with that. With adding /cast bite into my shot macros, I am unable to have my pet attack one target while I attack another. This is only really meaningful on bosses like Deathwhisper where the raid puts all pets on the shield, but still I would like to know if theres a way to macro Bite on the pets current target without just adding '/cast bite' into the macro forcing a target switch for your pet.

Edit: Found a solution to my problem:

/use [@pettarget,harm] Bite

This is supposed to achieve what I was looking for.

Tried this macro on dummy - its havent worked.
Every time i spam it - pet start to attack my current target.
Second thing - if pet will be in passive mode - he starts attack my target too (on bosses like mimiron 25 hard he can die because of this).

Anyway to make macro working with this 2 things solved?

/use [@pettarget,harm,exists] Bite works. Just tested and adding the 'exists' part fixes the two problems you were having.

I got this crazy long macro I'm trying to use to condense some of my shots and it's giving me a little bit of trouble as I can't really test it on dummies because they have no mana. I'm also not very good at making macros. The macro is as follows:

#showicon
/cast silencing shot
/cast !auto shot
/use 10
/cast [@mouseover, modifer:alt, harm, exists][] ; Viper Sting; [@mouseover, harm, exists][] Serpent Sting


It should cast silencing shot, start auto, use my hyperspeed accelerators, and if the alt key is down cast viper at my mouseover, or my target if I have no mouseover, or serpent sting the same way if I don't have alt down, or if I have another mod key down. Somethings not right about it though.

Offhand, I would try changing the last line to:

/cast [@mouseover,mod:alt,harm][mod:alt,harm] Viper Sting; [@mouseover,harm][] Serpent Sting

Also, the /cast !Auto Shot line is not necessary.

I did get the pet's bite to work but now I get the UI Error Messages such as "Not Enough Focus" and "Ability Not Ready Yet" to pop up. I also use the clear error frame scripts in my macros but it only seems to hide and clear my abilities. Is there a line of script I can add to clear the pet's error messages?


Here is an example of my macro

ive done this and tried it out on festergut and it seemed to lower my dps by quite a bit and my pet seemed to be biting even less. All i can think of why this isnt working for me is because i spam my abilities alot and way before there up is just sending to many commands at once or something? its macroed into my steady with kill command/silence shot/ and rocket gloves too.

I've been trying to get a macro that will test the following conditions.

Kill Shot on my target, kill shot on my pet's target or kill shot on my focus target. However, I have had absolutely no luck getting it to work as a single button macro.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Current macro that doesn't work.

#showtooltip
/cast Kill Shot
/cast [@focus] Kill Shot
/cast [@focustarget[ Kill Shot
/cast [@pettarget] Kill Shot

Haven't tested it but it should look more like

So, I tested this using Steady Shot, and this macro does in fact work the way it logically should. It flows down the list, and first line in which the conditions are met, it will use that line. So, if you are targeting Mob A, and your pet is targetting Mob B, and you're focused on Mob C, it will Kill Shot Mob C. If you focus your tank and he's tanking mob A, while your pet is on Mob B, but you're targetting Mob C, it will Kill Shot Mob A. And, if you have no focus, and you are targetting Mob A while your pet is targetting Mob B, it will Kill Shot Mob B.

Seems like it's a lot to think about though in the middle of a fight when you're already worried about a lot of other things though. Say you're targeting Prince Valanar and he's <20%, and you're trying to use Kill Shot on him, while your pet is on Kinetic Orb duty...your Kill Shot will never go off because your pet target isn't under Kill Shot range, nor is it the one you actually want to use Kill Shot on. I'd suggest a macro more along the lines of:
Using something like this you can actually control exactly where the Kill Shot is going to go at all times.

should be something like

One of those should work i believe.

If you are having trouble keeping your pet on a bomb you sent it after, then you probably do not have your pet set to passive. If it is on the standard defensive, damage you take from a prince can send your pet to that prince instead.

Hi all, I am looking for a macro command to print the name of my mouseover in the same way as %t and %f prints my targets name and my focus' name respectively. Is this even possible?

On the discussion on sending pets over "dangerous objects!, burn-down-quickly" during an encounter, I am currently using a "target-all" macro which basically does :
/tar Bomb
/tar ... (any kinds of targets that need to be burnt down ASAP since Ulduar days), and so on
/petattack

However, I find it difficult when an encounter has at least 2 "dangerous objects" and both leave a corpse (Gas Cloud and Volatile Ooze for example), because the macro will keep trying to target the corpse from the first-killed "dangerous object". I found the same problem with Jaraxus heroic (portal's corpse and volcano), and my temporary solution is to create 2 such macros, each targeting one of the "dangerous objects". I even tried using /tar Volatile Ooze [nodead] but seems that it won't work. Is there any way to circumvent this problem? (i.e. making it into 1 macro instead)

I believe if you use /targetexact instead of /target it will only target living things rather than corpses (but you have to have exactly the full name listed).

Otherwise, do something like this:

/petattack [@Bomb1,exists,nodead] [@Bomb2,exists,nodead] [@Bomb3,exists,nodead]

You might need to have that on separate lines for each conditional. I'm not sure whether /petattack will accept multiple.

/petattack [@Bomb1,exists,nodead]
/petattack [@Bomb2,exists,nodead]
/petattack [@Bomb3,exists,nodead]

EDIT: Now that I think about it, I don't think you can use a mob name in a macro conditional, only the name of people in your party/raid. If the above approaches don't work, try this:

/petfollow
/target Bomb1
/petattack [exists,nodead]
/stopmacro [@pettarget,exists,nodead]
/target Bomb2
/petattack [exists,nodead]
/stopmacro [@pettarget,exists,nodead]
/target Bomb3
/petattack [exists,nodead]
/stopmacro [@pettarget,exists,nodead]

Obviously that's very verbose so you probably won't be able to get more than a few different "Bomb" names in there. If you leave your pet on defensive in raids, you can trim it to this:

/target Bomb1
/petattack [exists,nodead]
/target Bomb2
/petattack [exists,nodead]
/target Bomb3
/petattack [exists,nodead]

You can use a mob name in a petattack, just don't do it as a conditional. For Professor I have 2 macro's I use one is:


The first is a no brainer add these 2 lines to the bottom of your steady shot macro:

/petattack Gas Cloud
/petattack Volatile Ooze

If one of these is up your pet will attack it.

The 2nd is if you want to keep targetting professor while you send pet to attack and mark the add. I've been going back and forth with this thing but with limited time on professor I haven't gotten to try my latest iteration but I believe this should work fine. Just hit this between every GCD while the slime is spawning until you cast Mark:

/clearfocus [@focus,dead][@focus,noexists]
/cleartarget
/targetexact Volatile Ooze
/targetexact [dead][noexists] Gas Cloud
/focus
/petattack [@focus,nodead]
/targetexact Professor Putricide
/cast [@focus,nodead] Dash
/cast [@focus,nodead] Hunter's Mark

Has been a long time since i made a macro for my hunter, seeing as i had to change UI today due to the amount of errors i was getting on my last.

It took me 30 sec to make, but i just wondering if anyone had a better version to mine.

Saves me space on my UI bars (not having to add KC) its supposed to use it @ the same time as i use Steady shot so..

IMO, add KC to all your shot macros, including Kill Shot. Those times where you may have 3 instants in a row and KC is back up, you want the highest possible uptime on Kill Command, so getting it up to 3 or 4 GCD's (Serpent, CS, AiS, KS) sooner will be a slight increase in it's uptime. And for those times where you use CS > AiS > Readiness/Rapid Fire > CS > AiS, that's an extra Kill Command you wouldn't have gotten if you only macro it to Steady.

Hey Guys, I'm returning to wow, and I decided to pick up on my hunter. I've been doing icc 25/10 for the past few weeks and I wanted to work on some Macro's to help me out with my surivial and MM builds.

Example of a Surival Shot:

#showtooltip Explosive Shot
/cast [harm] Kill Command
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear();
/cast [harm] !Auto Shot
/cast [harm] Explosive Shot

Example of MM Shot:

#showtooltip Kill Shot
/cast [harm] Kill Command
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear();
/cast [harm] !Auto Shot
/cast [harm] Silencing Shot
/cast [harm] Chimera Shot


Some important things for me as I play are...keep the Icon for Explosive shot...the same Icon as the Macro, as well as have it show the cool down for explosive shot on the button...which it does. It seemed like if I used [target=pettarget,combat] Kill Command it would just show the cooldown for the Kill Command...

Let me know if you guys see any better ways of doing these macros...as I'm far from any type of experts like some of you on here

I'm a macro n00b, but i tweaked your entry a bit to fit my survival spec.

My question is, will this really make my wolf bite and howl more often, or is this some kind of anecdotal thing where people just think it attacks more. Are there numbers to back it up?

Also, I couldn't get it to hide the errors either, is there a separate command to hide uierrors from pets?

This addon will disable the frame if you are in combat (look at the options, you will see) and saves much space in macros. Last time i checked errosrs related to the pet where also hidden.

You don't need a target for Furious Howl or "harm" when you use "pettarget". But you need "pettarget, exists" for Kill Command to prevent wasting it while your pet is doing nothing. The following macro also disables the "click" while you spam it.