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Can someone give me a rundown on steady shot macros for BM spec or just explain macros in general. I'm a month and a half into the game at lvl 63 and I never learned this.

Dunno myself, but a good hunter site run by a friend of mine is: http://www.tkasomething.com/

Check there and I'm sure you can find info.

-Arlos

Do a search for "useful hunter macros", it will bring up a link to wowwiki. They have everything there that you'll need.

macros aren't really required.

They are if you're eating some chow mein while quest grinding!

#showtooltip Steady Shot
/script UIErrorsFrame:Hide()
/castsequence reset=3 Steady Shot, Auto Shot
/cast [exists,target=pettarget] Kill Command
/script UIErrorsFrame:Clear(); UIErrorsFrame:Show()

This will allow you to not clip shots and also will use Kill Command if/when it's up. It's the basic raid BM hunter macro. If your still grinding though you wont need it. Keep it handy though for when you start the 5/10 mans etc.

Ladies and gentlemen we have another Huntard!

no one that plays WoW gets to disparage any other WoW class

all the classes are retardedly simple to play, and all have cheesy macros to make life simple

I forget most of the macros I used, but as a hunter I remember them being VERY important.

The first stopped my pet and then fired scattershot. This made sure the pet never broke the confusion effect. Probably the most used macro I ever created as a hunter.

I also had one that would FD, lay ice trap, then get back up immediately. This prevented me from re entering combat before I had time to lay the trap. Although, I don't think FD works the same anymore so probably won't help ya.

you can lay traps while in battle mode now

and pets automatically stop when a mob gets cc'ed. Even if it's someone else in their parties CC i think. Pretty sure my blinds will get a hunter pet off the target unless they resend it in after

If I recall hunters who don't use a shot rotation macro are extremely gimping themselves because it helps cut down how much lag and human error negatively effect raid dps.

Macros aren't really useful until maybe the MM rotation...

But this is what I do for a BM rotation:

Start off with auto shot, immediately after steady shot, let an auto shot run, then immediately after steady shot, rise and repeat. Very simple.

What you should see is that every steady should should be immediately following by an autoshot, since your autoshot timer will run while your casting steady shot, if your more of a visual person this is what it will look it:

auto>steady, auto> auto> steady, auto> auto> steady, auto> ect ect.

Notes:
-Make sure you start your steady shot immediately after your lone auto shot, or it might stop your 2nd 4th 6th ect auto shot from casting on time, which will gimp your dps in raiding situations.
- When you get better at this rotation (should take you all of 5 mins), you can throw in arcane shots and multi shots with your lone autoshots, so it might look something like this:
auto> steady, auto> multi, auto> steady, auto> arcane, auto> steady, auto> auto> steady, auto> multi, auto> steady, auto> arcane, auto> rinse and repeat. Note that I left an auto in the middle by itself due to multi shot cooldown. I wouldn't suggest using this kind of rotation for a long boss fight, as you will run out of mana half way through, but its great for when you need burst dps, or in a timed fight. For long boss fights i would throw in an arcane and multi shot every three or so rotations, and have aspect of the viper on.
-I find when I pop rapid fire that pairing every autoshot with a steady shot is better than every other...so something like this Rapid Shot>steady,auto>steady,auto>steady,auto>ect, ect>End Rapid Shot> Back to normal BM shot rotation
-If you don't already, download and addon that gives you your autoshot timer, and casting timer for steady shot, this will help a lot for learning the timing, and how you can twink it to suite you best.

Hope this helps.
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