Macros for the BM Hunter:

First, let’s get some macro basics:

TO CREATE A MACRO:

1. In the chat-box, type /m to open the Macro Interface
2. Click the “______ Specific Macros” (the ____ will be your name)
3. Click the “NEW” button
4. Name your macro. This can be anything, but something descriptive might be better than naming it “Fred”.
5. Choose an icon (NOTE: For any macro with the “#showtooltip” line, you need to choose the “?” Icon.)
6. Enter in the text of the macro.(NOTE: You can copy a macro off a website, and use Ctrl+V to paste it into the text field.)
7. Drag and drop your macro icon onto your hotkeys.

TO EDIT A MACRO:

1. Use /m to open the macro interface.
2. Click the macro you wish to edit
3. Edit any text necessary in the text box

IMPORTANT TERMS:

1. [target=target] Tells the macro that the target for this action is your target.
2. [target=pettarget] Tells the macro that the target for this action is your pet’s target
3. [target=NAME] Tells the macro that the target for this action is the person who is named.
4. [target=focus] Tells the macro that the target for this action is your Focus (more on this below)
5. #showtooltip Used in conjunction with the “?” icon, this will show the tooltip of whatever ability is up. (If you list a spellname after this, it will always show that spell’s tooltip)
6. [mod:ctrl] The spell following this can be accessed by holding Ctrl while pressing the hotkey
7. [mod:alt] The spell following this can be accessed by holding Alt while pressing the hotkey

Now that you know how to write a macro, let’s go into some of the macros that are important to hunters.

Steady-Auto Macro

3:2 Shot Rotation

This has overtaken the 1:1 rotation macro because it works with any speed bow. It helps up DPS on slow speeds, and faster speeds will eventually align into a 1:1 rotation anyways.

/cast !Auto shot
/cast [target=pettarget, exists] Kill command
/castrandom [target=pettarget,exists] Lightning Breath
/castrandom [target=pettarget,exists] Claw
/cast Steady Shot

Arcane/Multi Macro

This puts your Arcane and Multi-Shot on one button that you can use to fire these off between your Steady/Auto. Arcane will fire on the first key-press, and Multi will follow on the next key-press.
(NOTE: It will only read the second key-press after the Global CoolDown. You can push the button as much as you want, but nothing will happen until the GCD is off.)
(NOTE: Remember to only push this ONCE when there are CCed mobs around, and ONLY when the Arcane tooltip is showing. Don’t Multi the CC.)

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=4 Arcane Shot, Multi-Shot

Melee Macro

#showtooltip Attack
/castsequence Wing Clip, !Attack, Raptor Strike
/castrandom [target=target, exists] Mongoose Bite
/castrandom [target=pettarget] Kill Command

We all know that hunters should avoid Melee, but sometimes you just gotta. This will put all your melee abilities on one-button so you don’t eat up space on your bar.

Target the Tank’s Target and cast Hunter’s Mark

/assist [target=TANKNAME. help][help]
/cast Hunter’s Mark

(NOTE: You will have to hand-type the name of your group’s tank every time you group. Annoying, but it only takes a second)

Misdirect on the Tank

#showtooltip
/cast [target=TANKNAME] Misdirection

(NOTE: You will have to hand-type the name of your group’s tank every time you group. Annoying, but it only takes a second)

Focus Macro

/focus

Easy, huh? But this is a very important macro. Setting a Focus is like having 2 targets at once. Setting your Focus is important, as all macros that have the [target=focus] will require that it’s set.

Distracting for Trapping

#showtooltip
/cast [target=focus] Distracting Shot

This requires that you use your /focus macro on the target you want to trap. Once the focus is set, you can go back to the main target for the group. When the tank pulls, you can start pounding your DPS into the right target, and push this macro to fire a DS to pull your trap target.

An additional benefit to this is that DS does NOT deal damage. This means that as long as you are an appropriate distance away from your trapped target, you can continuously use this macro to keep your threat up on it, without risking breaking your trap, and without changing targets.

BM Hunter Uber-Macro

#showtooltip Bestial Wrath
/use __________
/stopcasting
/cast Bestial Wrath
/stopcasting
/cast Rapid Fire

Just replace the _______ with your trinket of choice. Be sure that the tank has quite a bit of aggro. You will want to Feign Death immediately after the effects of your trinket/TBW are expired.

If you swap out several trinkets, you can put your “Use” trinkets in one slot, and use this:

/use 13 (top trinket slot)
/use 14 (bottom trinket slot)

All-In-One Pet macro

#showtooltip
/cast [nopet,mod:alt] Revive Pet; [target=pet,dead] Revive Pet; [nopet] Call Pet; [combat][mod:alt]Mend Pet; [mod:ctrl]Dismiss Pet
/stopmacro [combat]
/cast Feed Pet
/use ______

Just replace ______ with the food you want to feed your pet with.

Just hold Ctrl to dismiss your pet, and Alt when not in combat to Revive or Mend your pet.

Or you can use a specific bag slot. Bags are numbered left to right 0-4, with bag slots numbered from top left, and going from left to right down each row.

/use X Y (X is your bag’s number, Y is the slot number)

Stings

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:ctrl] Serpent Sting; [mod:alt] Viper Sting; Scorpid Sting

All your stings, one button. Just hold down the modifiers to access the appropriate one, and just press the button without holding a modifier to fire Scorpid.

5 traps, 2 Hotkeys

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:ctrl] Immolation Trap; [mod:alt] Frost Trap; Freezing Trap

#showtooltip
/cast [mod:alt] Explosive Trap; Snake Trap

Aspects

#showtooltip
/cast [modifier:ctrl] Aspect of the Monkey; [modifier:alt] Aspect of the Cheetah; Aspect of the Hawk

#showtooltip
/cast [modifier:ctrl] Aspect of the Wild; Aspect of the Beast; Aspect of the Viper

Cheetah and Pack

#showtooltip
/cast [group] Aspect of the Pack; Aspect of the Cheetah

One-Button Stop and Drop

#showtooltip
/stopattack
/Feign Death

Toggle Pet Attack

/petfollow [target=pettarget,exists]
/petattack [target=pettarget,noexists]

Good for pulling pet out of AoE

NON-HUNTER SPECIFIC MACROS:

One-Button Mount

#showtooltip
/use [outdoors, nomounted, nomodifier:ctrl, flyable] Snowy Gryphon; [outdoors, nomounted] Reins of the Swift Stormsaber;
/dismount [mounted]

Just hold ctrl to use your ground mount in Outlands.

One-Button Eat/Drink

#showtooltip
/castsequence reset=20 Telaari G#%#*ss; Purified Draenic Water

Just replace the names with the food/drink you use.