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Here’s a Macro, There’s a Macro

All In One Cookie Button

This macro is to use either of the Warlock Healthstones or the crystals from BEM. When clicked it will use the first available only and will start with the Warlock cookies before using a crystal.

/use item:22105
/use item:22104
/use item:22103

Racial: Night Elves with Prowling Cat

# show Prowl
/cast Shadowmeld
/cast Prowl

1:1 Steady Shot

/castrandom [target=pettarget,exists] Kill Command
/castsequence reset=2 Steady Shot, !Auto Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear();

3:2 Steady Shot

#showtooltip Steady Shot
/cast !Auto shot
/console Sound_EnableSFX 0
/cast [target=pettarget,exists] Kill Command
/cast Steady shot
/console Sound_EnableSFX 1
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear()

Raptor Strike/Wing Clip

This macro will cause you to do both because Raptor Strike is a “on next melee” and Wing Clip is instant.

#showtooltip Raptor Strike
/cast Raptor Strike
/cast Wing Clip
/stopcasting

Hunter’s Mark/Pet Attack

This macro will cast Hunter’s Mark and send you pet in to attack when clicked. If you right click the macro it will only cast Hunter’s Mark.
#showtooltip Hunter’s Mark
/cast [button:2] Hunter’s Mark; Hunter’s Mark
/stopmacro [button:2]
/petattack

All In One Pet Button

This will call your pet if not with you, mend your pet, or rez your pet if dead. Your pets body needs to be nearby for it to rez though.

/cast [nopet] Call Pet
/cast [target=pet, dead] Revive Pet
/cast [pet, nomodifier, button:1] Mend Pet
/cast [pet, nomodifier, button:2] Dismiss Pet

Distracting Shot for Trap Pulls

This one will let you cast Distracting Shot to pull a mob to your trap but then turns off attack so you dont accidentally break your trap.

#showtooltip
/cast Distracting Shot
/stopcasting
/stopattack

All In One Sting Button

This macro will free up space by putting your stings and Tranq shot on one button. It will show the tooltip of whichever shot you will be using. Just hitting the button will be Serpent Sting, holding shift will be Viper Sting, Control is Scorpid Sting and Alt is Tranquilizing Shot.

#showtooltip
/cast [nomodifier] Serpent Sting; [modifier:shift] Viper Sting; [modifier:ctrl] Scorpid Sting; [modifier:alt] Tranquilizing Shot

Focus 101

When you target someone and use /focus it will make that person your focus target. Doing this on a tank will help you with assists and Misdirection without having to change macros mid raid when tanks change. You can also make a target button on a mob you are trapping in case it goes after a squishy instead of your traps. These macros are set to /p (party) but you can also set to send a message to raid or a whisper to the person you are focusing on.

Misdirection w/o Focus (Change TANK to the name of your tank)

/target TANK
/cast Misdirection
/p Misdirection cast on %T

Misdirection with Focus

#showtooltip
/focus [help]
/p Casting Misdirection on %f
/cast [target=focus,exists] Misdirection

This Old Stable

When it comes to pets, Hunters get pets randomly based on attributes needed for their playing style.  Some Hunters take it a step further and bond with the set of pixles that are next to them.  I am one of those hunters.  I have to enjoy the pet next to me to have any motivation to get them out of the stable.

I have had Sekhmet, my Springpaw Lynx,  since I was lvl 25.  She is my baby.  I use her for raiding and PvP.  She has helped me sneak up on people in the Arena and has tanked Fel Reavers.  Then there is Baskerville, my Grimtotem Spirit Guide. He is the pet I use when questing and farming.  Sometimes I bring him to raids.

One day we were doing Heroic Shattered Halls and a guildie asked if we have a tank type pet for a pull.  Hmmm, nope.

That last stable slot is one that just cant be filled.  I currently have one of the new tameable Ravens.  Granted it is a nice pet but stat wise it is the same as my wolf but has screech.  Screech is nice to hold argo but it has that annoying little effect of pissing off neutral mobs around us.

I have been thinking about trying out a polar bear but how often will I actually use it?  I am already level 70 so I couldn’t use it leveling up.  How well would it hold argo against me?  Would I be able to tolerate no dash?  If I am going to go against something that will hit harder than I can Mend Pet I will probably have a healer with me who can heal one of my pets or I will be in a raid where a bear wouldn’t be the best choice.  If you have seen BRK’s Moroes Chain Trapping Video you will know, with heals, a cat can tank lower level raid adds.

For now my 3rd stable slot will remain a “testing” slot.  Maybe tame one of those cute hyenas I fell in love with a long time ago.  /le sigh

Aspect of the Coin

So Blizz adds a whole slew of dailys and ups our limit to 25.  Everyone was squeeing with joy saying “I can get my epic mount now.”  There was some bloggers saying the reasoning for doing this is to try to combat gold sellers.  Well now, atleast on our server, we have seen that backfire.  Prices on everything from lowbie items to lvl 70 obsessions have skyrocketed.  Cut gems have double or tripled in price.  Stat food has doubled.  And faction items, pfft!

ZG Coins have gone from 1-2g to 10 each and Bijous from 10-25g.

Stacks of Dark Iron Ore from 5g to 20g.

Coilfang armaments from 9-13g to 20-30g.

It seems like the only factions based item that hasnt gone up is Aldor/Scryer items because of people getting so many from doing dailys.

Before 2.4 Large Prismatic Shards were 20g each and Void Crystals were 30g.  Now Large Pris. are 30-40g and Voids are 40g.  Thank gawd I’m an Enchanter with Void Shatter.

Now the economy has an influx of gold which is making AH sellers think “People have more gold so I will jack up my prices.”  If Blizz was trying to curb the Gold Seller business they have failed.

Pets: Armor vs Stamina

When looking at the pet training window many hunters are puzzled by which to train their pet in, armor or stamina.  Well it depends on what you are going to use that pet for.

When you are leveling up or using the pet for a farming/tanking pet you will want armor.  It will not get hit as hard but it will also have not as much hit points.  This will make using Mend Pet easier.

If you are using the pet for raiding you will want greater stamina.  Spell damage ignores armor so if your pet is in AoEs it will die faster if it has higher armor.  If you have a Shaman in your raid your pet will get a few random Chain Heals which will help with your healing.

In PvP it would probably be better to go with Stamina because you will be dealing with Mages AoEing and Warlocks dotting up your pet if its really being a thorn in their side.

Also keep in mind your pet will get a certain percent of your armor and stamina.  If you are a BM hunter you might want to look into some Armor/STA gear which doesn’t gimp your DPS so your pet has some survivability.

I have talked to a couple of hunters who could care less if their pet dies or not.  Especially MM hunters have this mindset.  Looking at raid stats, using a DPS pet, a BM hunter will get around 26-30% of their DPS from their pet and a MM hunter will get around 18-22% DPS from their pet.  That is a lot to lose just because you don’t want to take the time to hit Mend Pet or call your pet back.

Hunters Duo BM Daily

Black Morass is one of the normal dailys in Shatt.  Sometimes you will find people dont want to do it because they have already done the instance so many times for drops/faction that it is a pain to find a group for it.  Well so long as you have some pretty good DPS and a buddy or 2 you can finish the daily and help alchemists with their quest. Have each person in your mini group get a Chronobeacon and clear out the mobs.  Have someone start the event and have one person drop one for each of the first few dragons.  DPS like mad because most people will not pull argo from the Chronobeacon dragon.  One time we did it we had a pissed off dragon coming at us with about 4k health left. Don’t worry about the adds.  Wash, rinse, repeat.  It took us 4 times to finish the quest (killing 4 Rift Lords) but it only took about a half hour to 45 mins so it was about the same amount of time for a normal group to finish the instance.

You can also use this tactic on Heroic mode in a full group by placing the beacons on the first 5 mobs and killing the boss for a badge and resetting the instance. Have a DPS or 2 on adds for the beacon dragons and everyone on the boss.

HunterDuoBM.avi

Addons: Checklist 2

Do you have a problem remembering which drops you wanted?  What guildies wanted you to make for them?  Which factions you wanted rep with?  Then this is an addon for you. By using the command /cl2 ui you bring up a window that allows you to make various lists and add in things to do.  As you get things done you can either check them off, like when you get exalted with a faction, or you can delete them if it was to make something for a person. You wont be sitting there thinking “Was there an item I needed from Arc?” because if you go through and add the items you need all you need to do is look at the CL2 window and know immediately.  Checklist 2 can be downloaded from Curse.com.